DBS Bank

2023 Best of Best(BOB) Team Manager Award

2023 Brilliant Star Award Best Team Manager and Best Team Award - Q1, Q2, 1st Half, Q3, 2nd Half and Full year award

2022 Full-year Bancassurance Team award

2022 Brilliant Star Award - 2nd Half, Top Desk Head  

Spearheaded an offshore Greater China Team

DBS Treasures Desk Head North Asia 星展银行丰盛理财北亚团队主管 

#1 Offshore Wealth Manager in Revenue 
#1 Offshore Wealth Manager in Bancassurance

Grow and strengthen the wealth of high net-worth individuals and their families in the specific market

Provide a differentiated suite of financial analysis and advise to meet the investment needs and objectives of this group of sophisticated clients

Treasures Relationship Manager (North Asia, China) 

• Oversee and manage SME Digital Channels  to ensure uplift in acquisition & revenue 

• Define and strategize digital channel roadmap across both onboarding and lending (API with fintech) 

• Building online(digital marketing/contents) & offline ecosystem/leads generation infrastructure to digitally acquire SME owners to offline events for acquisition of corporate accounts/loans

• Relationship lead for managing Indonesia's business association, collaborate together to host events for Indonesia's businesses alongside other Indonesia's largest fintechs

Innovation Lead

Award winning Branch Manager, led a bottom team to top position within 6 months and maintained top 3 position all the while 

Managing the branch business and actively drive revenue growth through focusing on sales within the branch whilst also acting as the single point of accountability for end to end customer to maintain branch profitability and customer satisfaction

Ensure needs-based selling in accordance with FA Act and service compliance with both internal audit/security and external regulatory requirements

Ensure effective use of resources at the branch; Create a high performance culture through motivation, training, development of all branch staff (including the operations staff in the branch)

Branch Manager

DBS Treasures Team lead 

Assistant Branch Manager

Senior Relationship Manager

Singapore Association in Indonesia

Executive Committee

Standard Chartered Bank

Personal Financial Consultant

Growing up, Melvin wanted to be an e-sport professional, supports Arsenal football club and now often playing tennis

Seeing how his mentor bought time with his family through investments, motivated him into the finance industry. 

Currently, Melvin leads a team of North Asia Relationship Managers and Acquisition Managers. 

Focusing on creating a sustainable and fun culture that people wish to be part of, he has build teams to #1 ranking within less than a year. 

He believes Happy Staffs = Happy Clients. 

In Indonesia, he was the project manager for the bank's SME key strategic digital initiatives, formed partnerships with large tech companies and Indonesia's biggest business associations to drive new business. 

White hair started appearing in recent years as he had to master 2 new languages without formal education - Mandarin and Bahasa Indonesia. 

Tony Robbins taught him to count his blessing as everyday is a gift and to see problems as a learning opportunity. 

Off work, Melvin tries to be a solid dad to his 8 year old son who trains him to exercise patience and simplify explanation on complex matters. 

Let's link up for partnerships if you are in EAM, Private banking or Family office space or simply looking forward to join my team whether now or in the future.

Melvin Ooi 黄百胜

Frazer Jones

FJ successfully completed over 1650 HR searches internationally last year.

Frazer Jones is the global leader in executive search and recruitment dedicated to the HR profession.

Driven by the work ethic and passion of our people, we help HR professionals thrive and empower HR leaders to put people and culture at the heart of their business –creating a more progressive future, for everyone.

Frazer Jones is the global leader in executive search dedicated to the HR profession and we recruit across the entire HR spectrum consisting of both generalist and specialists across all levels of seniority. These includes but not limited to HR Business Partners, Generalist HR, Learning, Development, Talent, OD, Recruitment, Employee/Industrial Relations, HR Systems, Change and Reward, Payroll and Mobility. Frazer Jones has 14 offices globally and a combined headcount of over 140 HR search specialists in all regions, Asia Pacific, Europe, America, and Middle East.

Our team has a strong track record of delivering the highest calibre of HR professionals to a significant number of leading top tier Global MNCs and leading domestic organisations across different industries.

Working on retained search assignments, we have built a strong reputation of delivering excellent service and tailoring solutions specifically to match the needs and expectations of our clients.

FJ successfully completed over 1650 HR searches internationally last year.

If you are interested in having a market update, personally exploring new HR opportunities or you wish to make a new key hire in to your HR team across Asia or other locations globally please do get in touch directly.

Managing Director & Head of Asia

Executive Director - Head of Asia

Various Companies

Seed stage 🌱, Real Estate, Tech and HRTech

Excited to be actively involved at the seed stage across the intersection of Real Estate, Technology, and HRTech.

At this stage, it’s not just about funding, it’s about shaping ideas, building teams, and finding product–market fit. Being a board observer provides a front-row seat to the challenges and opportunities founders face in scaling their businesses.

A few reflections from my journey so far:
🔹 In Real Estate Tech, innovation is redefining how spaces are built, managed, and experienced.
🔹 In HRTech, the focus is on empowering people and organizations, transforming the way talent is attracted, developed, and retained.
🔹 At the seed stage, every decision matters, culture, go-to-market strategy, and technology choices can make or break a startup’s trajectory.

I’m constantly inspired by founders who dare to dream big and execute with grit. Thrilled to keep learning, contributing, and supporting innovative companies at this early but critical point in their growth.

Angel Investor | NED | Board Member

The SR Group

Currently, as the Managing Director and Head of Asia for Frazer Jones, I also co-lead the SR Group offices across all specialist brands in one of the fastest-growing and most dynamic regions of the world across Asia.

The SR Group is a global executive search and recruitment group comprising specialist search and recruitment consultancies Brewer Morris, Carter Murray, Frazer Jones and Taylor Root, with 14 international offices. 

Over the last five years alone, our brands have successfully placed more than 22,000 professionals into some of the biggest and brightest businesses across more than 55 markets. 

Each of our consultancies have a deep understanding of their specialisms, locations and sectors – and, along with our people, that’s what drives our continued success. 

By combining that expertise with our global footprint, we put your future within reach – whether you’re an employee, candidate or client. 

From consumer and technology businesses to law firms, accountancy practices and financial services institutions, we help start-ups to grow, scale-ups to make their mark on the world stage and multinationals to consistently attract the very best talent. 

With a culture built on collaboration, we form long-term partnerships with everyone we work with, investing the time that’s needed to create mutual success. 

Our vision is to create a world where your future, as an employee, candidate or client, is always within reach. It’s a vision that underpins everything we do.

Managing Director & Head of Frazer Jones, Asia

Advisory Singapore

Mentor to support the work of Advisory Singapore to empower the youth to make informed decisions about their careers. https://mentorship.advisory.sg/#

Advisory is a youth development initiative endorsed and supported by Youth Corps Singapore and the National Youth Council Singapore. It seeks to support students in making informed career choices - particularly in this time of COVID-19 disruptions to their studies, graduation, and even employment prospects.

Mentor

Michael Page

Singapore Senior Leadership Team

2016
- HR Practice achieved 32% YOY growth
- IT Practice achieved 17% YOY growth

2015
- HR & IT Practice in excess of $4.5m revenue
- 3rd Fee Earner in Singapore, 7th in Asia Pacific with 1000+ consultants
- HR & IT Practice ranked top teams in Michael Page
- Record year for HR Practice

2014
- HR Practice ranked top team in Michael Page
- 2nd Fee Earner in Singapore, 5th in Asia Pacific with 1000+ consultants
- Page Group APAC Platinum Club 2014 recipient

2013
- 2nd Fee Earner in Singapore with >$1m personal revenue, 4th in Asia Pacific amongst 1000+ consultants 
- Page Group APAC Platinum Club 2013 recipient

2012
- 2nd Fee Earner in Asia Pacific with $1.21m personal revenue
- Page Group APAC Platinum Club 2012 recipient

Head of HR Practice & Technology Practice

Nexia International (2008-2011)

M&A-IPO Projects.
Countries: China, Japan, Thailand and Hong Kong.

Assurance & Corporate Advisory

Singapore Armed Forces (SAF)

Singapore Artillery

My direct dial is +65 9663 1185 or email me at seantong@frazerjones.com

I grew up in Singapore and started my career with PwC & Nexia International in Assurance & Corporate Advisory (M&A - IPO), and has lived and worked in China, Japan and Hong Kong over the last two decades in consulting.

Currently, as the Managing Director and Head of Asia, I am an executive member of the global ExCo team and I lead the Frazer Jones’ HR Executive Search and Recruitment business in one of the fastest-growing and most dynamic regions of the world across South East Asia, Greater China, Japan and Korea.

I joined Frazer Jones in 2016 with the dream of building a world-class team of talented HR search consultants and delivering a superior customer & candidate experience. Several years later I am proud to say that we have been able to make a difference by being the global leader in HR Executive Search & Recruitment and the market leader for HR Executive Search in Asia. 

With two decades of consulting experience, I take a research-centric approach and have an extensive HR network as a brand extension for clients in securing the best HR talent. I partner the Asia HR community specialising in senior HR appointments, actively executing HR retained searches, working alongside CEOs and Boards, to appoint their Chief HR Officers, regional Heads of HR and assisting them in building high performance regional and country HR teams.

I’ve spent my career doing a few things – building meaningful relationships with people, working with amazing talented people, bringing to market simple innovative solutions that make a difference and most importantly solving customer problems to the best of my ability.

At Frazer Jones, we collaborate and partner with the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), sharing insights on Singapore’s talent landscape and latest HR development. Externally, I actively mentor aspiring entrepreneurs with a particular focus on HR & HR Tech sectors. 

Husband, Father, Son, Brother, Uncle, Soldier, Singaporean.
Outside of work, like a true Singaporean, I love food (a real gastronaut), a keen traveller and spend quality time with my wife and two lovely daughters.

If you would like any further information about how we could support you in making a move or if you are looking to hire or would simply like an initial conversation about the HR market, I'd love to hear from you.

莫忘初衷

Specialties: Senior & Executive HR Appointments in Asia across all HR verticals

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