Mr Eric Teo is Adjunct Associate Professor of the School of Business, Singapore University of Social Sciences. He has over 25 years of work experience and is currently a Consultant to organisations and also serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor/Faculty at various universities, both local and overseas. He was an Executive Director with Ernst & Young (EY) Transaction Advisory Services Group and has worked in both the Singapore and Australia practices. He was a founding member of EY Global Valuation & Business Modelling (VBM) Network’s Technical Standards Group (TSG), has served in the Steering Committee and led the EY Asia Pacific VBM TSG from 2012 to 2015. He was also a member of the EY Global VBM Learning & Development committee and was involved in the development of learning curriculum and training materials for the global valuation practice. His professional experience includes providing advice in relation to corporate strategy, investments and divestitures, fairness opinions and business valuation. He has led in transactions relating to litigation support, tax planning, restructuring and compliance, capital raising, mergers and acquisitions, shareholder disputes and financial reporting. Eric has worked with companies from various industries and his clients include SMEs, GLCs, MNCs and public listed groups. Prior to working in EY, Eric has worked for DBS bank in corporate banking and held a senior management position in a subsidiary of a listed entity, in the private education industry.
In addition to the above, Eric is also actively involved in the professional development and education arena and is a regular speaker to regulators and professional organizations. Since 2000, he has been involved in both the postgraduate and undergraduate programmes of international institutions & universities over a wide range of areas relating to Accounting, Business Valuation, Economics, Finance, Management, Marketing and Strategy. Given his broad experience, he has helped to develop and deliver many courses from an applied learning perspective.
Eric is the Founding Chairman of the Council of the Institute of Valuers and Appraisers of Singapore (IVAS). The IVAS is an institute set up to advance the business valuation profession under the auspice of the Singapore Accountancy Commission. He is also the Chairman of the International Valuation Standards Council (IVSC) membership and Standards Recognition Board. The IVSC is the global organisation which produces the International Valuation Standards (IVS) for the valuation profession. Eric is a Chartered Accountant (Singapore), Chartered Accountant (Australia and New Zealand), CPA (Australia), Chartered Valuer and Appraiser (Singapore), Senior Fellow of Financial Services Institute of Australasia (Finsia) and Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).