NKF appoints new CEO six months after former chief sacked
The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) has appointed Tim Oei as its new chief executive, six months after former CEO Edmund Kwok was sacked for a “personal indiscretion”.
In a press statement on Wednesday (31 May), the NKF said that Oei, 58, will take up his post with effect from 4 September. He is currently the CEO of voluntary welfare group AWWA.
Trained as a lawyer, Oei was previously the general counsel at Jurong Port. According to NKF, a five-member committee reviewed more than 50 candidates over a five-month period before Oei was selected.
NKF chairman Koh Poh Tiong added that Oei’s vast experience in the voluntary welfare sector will help “bring the NKF into a new phase of development”.
Former NKF chief Eunice Tay has been acting as interim CEO in the wake of Kwok’s sacking in November 2016. The NKF said at the time that Kwok had committed a personal indiscretion with a male staff member and that a police report had been lodged.
In 2005, the NKF was rocked by the T.T. Durai scandal, amid revelations of financial mismanagement. Durai, a former NKF CEO, was later jailed.
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