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Judges
Tony Cheng
Chief Executive Officer, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, &
Executive Advisor, China and Taiwan, RGA Reinsurance Company
Mr Cheng joined RGA in 1997 and was named Chief
Executive Officer for the Hong Kong office in 2004,
overseeing business in Hong Kong as well as in Southeast
Asia. In May 2007, his role expanded to include overseeing
RGA’s Taiwan Branch and, in July 2008, his role further
expanded to include oversight of RGA’s business in China.
Mr Cheng has more than 15 years of experience in the
life insurance industry.
Prior to his current position, he served in various senior
actuarial and management roles in Australia, Malaysia, the
US, and Hong Kong.
Mr Cheng has been an active participant in the life
insurance industry. In 2005, he was
elected as Council Member, in 2008 as
President and in 2010 as Chairperson
of the Experience Committee of the
Actuarial Society of Hong Kong.
Mr Cheng received a Bachelor of
Economics degree from Macquarie
University in Sydney, Australia, and an
MBA degree from the Olin School of
Business at Washington University in St
Louis, Missouri. He became a Fellow of
the Institute of Actuaries of Australia in 1997.
Teddy Hailamsah
Secretary-General, Asean Insurance Council &
Chairman, 25th EAIC Organizing Committee
Mr Hailamsah started his insurance career in PT Asuransi
Central Asia (ACA), right after completing his studies at the
South East Asian Union College in Singapore in 1976. He
has been President Director of ACA for 24 years.
Mr Hailamsah has been active in the Indonesian
Insurance Council (IIC) since the 1990s. He has been
involved in various IIC milestone projects, among them:
founding the Indonesia Rendezvous, being a member of
the General Insurance Architecture Team in 2005, and
promoting Indonesian Insurance Day since 2006.
He has been the Secretary General of the Asean
Insurance Council since 1999. Together with the Asean
countries’ insurance industry chairmen, including the
Asean countries insurance institutes, he established
the Asean Insurance Education Committee (AIEC) that
reactivated the Young Asean Manager Awards (YAMA) and
formed the Asean School for Young
Insurance Managers (AYIM). He also
formed the ASEAN Natural Disasters
Research Works Sharing (ANDREWS) to
initiate collaboration between insurance
practitioners, academics/ researchers
and mitigation agencies on natural
disasters within the Asean region.
Mr Hailamsah has been an Executive
Board Member of the EAIC since
2004, and this year, he is the Chairman of the 25th EAIC
Organising Committee/ Vice Chairman. He has also been a
judge of the Young Asean Manager Awards for many years.
In his leisure time, he loves to listen to high-end audio.
Photography has been his hobby since childhood.
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Asia Insurance Industry Awards 2010