Our Board of Directors, Steering Committee and team of Advisors
BEN BIRKS
Mr Birks was appointed Chairman of MINDSET Care Limited on 1st October 2019. He is also the Group Managing Director of Jardine Cycle & Carriage.
He joined Jardine Matheson in 2000 and has held senior positions within the retail, automotive, business outsourcing and IT businesses of the Jardine Matheson Group. Prior to his current appointment, he was the Chief Executive of Jardine International Motors, Zung Fu Group and Jardine Pacific between 2012 to 2019.
Mr Birks is a commissioner of Astra and United Tractors, a director of Siam City Cement and the Vice Chairman of Refrigeration Electrical Engineering Corporation.
He graduated from the University of St Andrews in Scotland with a Master of Arts (Honours) and has completed the General Management Programme at Harvard Business School.

JEFFERY TAN
Mr Tan was appointed Chief Executive Officer of MINDSET Care Limited on 14th March 2019. He has also been the Charity’s Company Secretary since 2016.
Mr Tan is the Group General Counsel; Director, Legal & Corporate Affairs; and Company Secretary since April 2016. He is responsible for legal, compliance, company secretarial, sustainability matters, communications and public affairs at the Group level. He is concurrently the Chief Executive Officer and Company Secretary of MINDSET, a registered charity of Jardine Matheson in Singapore. He also serves as a Board Member of the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce.
Before joining Jardine Cycle & Carriage, he was the Group General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Board Secretary for UTAC Holdings Ltd. Prior to that, he has had over 20 years of private practice and in-house legal experience with international law firms and multinational companies such as Allen & Gledhill, DLA Piper, Siemens and Motorola. He also served in a business capacity as President of Motorola Singapore for five years.
Mr Tan has an LLB (HONS) from the National University of Singapore. He is a senior Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Singapore, and a senior Solicitor of England & Wales. He also completed the Senior Executive Management Program, at Northwestern University – Kellogg School of Management; and the Driving Strategic Innovation Program jointly conducted by MIT’s Sloan School of Management and IMD.

Governance
It is important for MINDSET to uphold high standards of governance and transparency; this allows the charity to gain donors’ confidence and trust in donating to our cause. MINDSET has been awarded the Charity Transparency Award for exemplary standards of transparency and governance for five consecutive years and the Charity Governance Award in 2018 and 2022.
Board of Directors
- Ben Birks (Chairman), Appointed 1st October 2019
- Robert Garman, Appointed 13th May 2011
- Patrick Kwok, Appointed 11th November 2022
Steering Committee
- Ben Birks (Chairman), Appointed 1st October 2019
- Robert Garman (Vice-Chairman), Appointed 12th June 2012
- Derek Chan, Appointed 2nd March 2023
- Wilfrid Foo, Appointed 15th June 2023
- Patrick Kwok, Appointed 14th March 2019
- Michael Li, Appointed 1st September 2022
- Yanice Mak, Appointed 26th September 2023
- Ben Robinson, Appointed 14th March 2019
- Colin Tan, Appointed 15th June 2023
Audit Committee
- Ben Birks (Chairman)
- Ng Yang Yen
Fund Allocation Sub-Committee
- Ben Birks (Chairman)
- Robert Garman
- Patrick Kwok
- Jeffery Tan
- Dr Ken Ung
Jardine Ambassadors Sub-Committee
- Ben Birks (Chairman)
MINDSET
- Jeffery Tan - Chief Executive Officer
- Samuel Tan - Programme Head
- Matthew Koh - Manager
Internal Advisors
- Ben Robinson - Fund Raising Team
- Joey Ho - Communications Advisor
External Advisors
- Dr Daniel Fung, Chief Executive Officer, Institute of Mental Health
- Dr Ken Ung, Psychiatrist & Psychotherapist Pacific Healthcare Holdings & Adam Road Medical Centre
Company Secretary
- Jeffery Tan
Honorary Treasurer
- Alfredo Chandra
Honorary Auditors
- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Honorary Legal Advisors
- Allen & Gledhill LLP
Partners
- Caregivers Alliance
- Caregivers' Association of the Mentally Ill
- Clarity
- Club HEAL
- Institute of Mental Health
- National Council of Social Service
- National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre
- REACH Community Services
- Silver Ribbon Singapore
- Singapore Anglican Community Services
- Singapore Association for Mental Health
- Singapore Management University
- TOUCH Community Services