ComfortDelGro Corporation Limited announced that it will promote the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of its Singapore Taxi Business, Mr. Tommy Tan Ah Han, to Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of ComfortDelGro Taxi with effect from 1 September 2023, as part of its planned succession programme. He will take over from Mr. Jackson Chia, 53, who will continue as the CEO of ComfortDelGro's Private Mobility Group (PMG), which is the umbrella division that oversees its local taxi, private bus and car leasing businesses. Mr. Tan, 51, has been with the Group since September 2019; cutting his teeth in the taxi business just two months after he joined.

As the COO for some three-and-a-half years now, he oversees and manages the entire operations of the nearly 10,000-strong vehicle fleets, including growing its electric taxi and private-hire fleets. He also had a six-month stint at Swan Taxi - the Group's taxi business in Perth, Western Australia - where he turned around the business and grew the number of taxis within the network by more than 20%. During the pandemic, he played an integral role in deploying safe management measures such as distributing masks and disinfectants to cabbies, as well as trialling cabin shields to keep drivers safe.

He was also involved in disbursing the COVID-19 Relief Fund and the Company's rental waivers and subsidies to help cabbies cope financially. Mr. Tan also served as a member of the Tripartite Work Group on Representation for Platform Workers where the Government accepted all its eight recommendations last month. Prior to joining the Group, he had spent 28 years with the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) as a veteran fighter pilot and was its Chief of Staff - Air Staff (COS-AS).