Chua Sock Koong is the Group Chief Executive Officer

Chief executive officer

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 (CEO) of Singapore Telecommunications

Singapore Telecommunications

Singapore Telecommunications Limited , commonly abbreviated as SingTel, is a Singaporean telecommunications company, with a combined mobile subscriber base of 416 million customers from its own operations and regional associates in 25 countries at end of June 2011 increased by 19 percent from a...

. She was the company's Deputy Group CEO and Chief Financial Officer

Chief financial officer

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 (CFO), a position she assumed in February 2006, before she took over Lee Hsien Yang

Lee Hsien Yang

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's CEO post in April 2007.

Previously as a CFO, Chua was responsible for all financial functions at SingTel, including treasury

Treasury

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 and risk management

Risk management

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. Her assumption of this role was covered by The Business Times

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of Singapore, which applauded her broad exposure across all areas of the business," and noted her "significant role in SingTel's major acquisitions, divestments and partnerships." Fortune Magazine

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named her in their 2005 list of the Most Powerful Woman Leaders in Business.