William Tay

Mr. William Tay is a Chief Executive Officer at Ascendas Funds Management (S) Ltd.
(AFM).
He was appointed as Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of AFM and Manager of Ascendas REIT on February 1, 2018.
He has over 25 years of wide-ranging experience in real estate, straddling both the public and private sectors as well as Singapore and overseas.
Prior to his appointment with AFM, Mr. Tay was the Deputy CEO of Singapore and South East Asia (“SSEA”) of the Ascendas-Singbridge Group (“ASB”).
In addition to leading the Group’s SSEA regional teams in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam, he was concurrently ASB’s CEO for South Korea, overseeing the Group’s real estate private equity funds business and investments in South Korea.
Since joining ASB in 2007, he held various leadership positions in investment, business development, asset and fund management as well as country operations.
He started his career with JTC Corporation where he spent 12 years involved in the development and marketing of Ready-Built Factories, Wafer Fabrication Parks and Logistics Parks, as well as strategic and corporate planning.
Mr. Tay holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Estate Management (Honours) from the National University of Singapore.