Harold Woo is Emeritus Adviser for Corporate Access & Investor Relations at SGListCos, an association of Singapore listed companies.
He was ex-Senior Advisor for Investor & Partner Relations in CapitaLand Limited. He joined CapitaLand in 2003 and relinquished his position as Senior Vice President, Investor Relations in June 2015.
Post retirement from CapitaLand in May 2017, he assumed a senior advisory role at WeR1 Consultants Pte Ltd, a boutique investor relations, corporate strategy and media communications company, from September 2017 till October 2018. During the 13 months tenure, he was responsible for account management of a few mid-cap companies. Besides performing the mainstream investor relations activities as an agency, he was actively involved in assignments relating to strategic transformation, crisis management, pre-IPO preparation, M&A and corporate restructuring.
He took on a senior advisor contract with Sasseur Asset Management Pte Ltd from February 2019 till January 2020. In addition to mentoring the in-house IRO, he helped to widen coverage of the stock by sell-side analysts, raised media coverage of the company and enlarged its pool of investors. Sasseur REIT was one of the top performing S-Reits in 2019, with a total return of 53%.
He has almost 20 years of stockbroking experience in institutional sales, securities trading and investment research. From 1990 to 1999, he was with Vickers Ballas & Co Pte Ltd, progressing from Director of Institutional Sales to Global Head of Institutional Sales. He opened an equity sales office for Vickers Ballas in the City of London in 1995 and was its CEO until 1998. Prior to 1990, he was Associate Director at James Capel Far East Limited, an international stockbroker. From 1981 to 1985, he was research manager at Ong & Co Pte Ltd.
Harold garnered the Best IRO award in IR Magazine – South East Asia Awards in 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2011. In 2012, he was named as one of 25 Best IROs of last 25 years by IR Magazine. In December 2015, he was bestowed a Lifetime Achievement Award by IR Magazine. He was on the judging panels for IR Magazine Awards 2017 to 2021 – South East Asia and Greater China self-nomination categories.
He was the President of Investor Relations Professionals Association (Singapore) (“IRPAS”) from 2012 to 2021. He served as the Honorary Secretary of the Securities Investors Association (Singapore) (“SIAS”) from 2015 – 2017 and remains as a consultant. Harold is on the faculty for the Listed Entity Director Programme conducted by the Singapore Institute of Directors (“SID”).
