Ms Chew Gek Khim is among the very few women in Singapore heading a public-listed company, and for another, there’s her family background. She is Executive Chairman of The Straits Trading Company, which is part of the Tecity Group founded by her late grandfather Tan Chin Tuan, one of Singapore’s pioneer bankers and chairman of OCBC Bank from 1966 to 1983. Tecity, which she heads, also has an investment arm and oversees the philanthropic Tan Chin Tuan Foundation.