24 October 2019
Food industry veteran Jean Ang recently graduated from the Singapore University of Social Sciences with a bachelor’s degree with honours in business.
Ms Ang, who is currently, in her early 50s, attained her bachelor’s degree back in 2017 when SUSS was still known as SIM University or UniSIM.
She said that she had always wanted to get a university education, but the career exposure and opportunities that came her way early in life had been too good to pass up.
She joined Chop Hup Chong Food Industries, known for its “bak kwa” or barbecued meat brand Bee Cheng Hiang, in 1992 as a management trainee, shortly after graduating from Singapore Polytechnic with a diploma in chemical process technology and a major in food science. Today, she leads about 1,200 people and oversees 100 or so Bee Cheng Hiang stores in China.
Ms Ang is one of some 2,000 SUSS graduands to receive bachelor’s and higher degrees at SUSS this year.