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The Peak Singapore: At Timah Partners, its CEO is betting that culture and long-term training, not quick deals, will secure the elusive SME succession

In a wide-ranging cover feature for The Peak's October 2025 issue titled People & Culture, Dennis Chua shares the deeper thinking behind Timah’s mission: succession as not just transactions, but trust, continuity, and cultural fit. The article explores how Timah’s CEO Succession Program (CSP) is designed to produce long-term stewards, not short-term operators, and why the firm’s focus on followership, humility, and grit is critical for preserving legacy in founder-run businesses.  The piece also spotlights Timah’s first CSP candidate, Kelvin Ho, and the broader ambition to make SMEs aspirational again for top talent in the region.

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The Peak Singapore: In boardrooms and family firms, culture proves itself not in ease but in strain, say these business leaders

If global organisations wrestle with consistency across distance, family businesses face the most intimate test of all: whether culture can survive the founder. For Dennis Chua, founder of Timah Partners, succession represents the ultimate measure of whether culture was built into the organisation or remained dependent on a single person. The difficulty is not simply financial. “The difference between a transaction and a succession is that the outgoing owner is willing to lend his reputation to you as the new owner,” Chua explains. That act of lending is personal and perilous. It involves staff who have been with the company for decades, customers who have traded on trust, and friends who have invested not for profit but for loyalty. This reveals succession as fundamentally a cultural act. A founder who has spent forty years building a business discovers that the business’s future depends not on its balance sheet but on its capacity to inspire continued faith. Chua’s solution is to cultivate leaders capable of earning that faith: “Followership is followership, is followership. It’s not a real word — but it is. It means what it sounds like. Can you get people from all walks of life to want to follow you?” Here, culture proves whether it was ever more than the founder’s personality projected outward. A business sold without trust is merely a transaction. A business entrusted to someone who can earn followership is a true succession — culture passing from one generation to the next, tested and proven transferable.

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Yahoo News Singapore: Timah Partners taps ex-EDB exec Kelvin Ho to champion SME succession

Yahoo News featured Timah Partners’ appointment of Kelvin Ho as the inaugural candidate in Southeast Asia’s first CEO Succession Program (CSP). The story underscores how Timah’s structured CSP track—covering M&A immersion, on-the-ground operational leadership, and full P&L responsibility—is designed to address the SME succession crisis by building future-ready business leaders.

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The Peak Singapore: Timah Partners CEO programme tackles SME succession gap in Southeast Asia

Timah Partners’ efforts to address Southeast Asia’s SME succession crisis were recently featured in The Peak Singapore. The article highlights the firm’s CEO Succession Programme (CSP) — the first of its kind in the region — and its inaugural candidate, Kelvin Ho.

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Straits Times: S’pore firm looks to buy SMEs lacking successors, launches CEO training programme to foster renewal

Timah Partners was recently featured in The Straits Times for its work addressing Southeast Asia’s SME succession gap. The article spotlighted the launch of Timah’s CEO Succession Program (CSP)—a first-of-its-kind initiative training experienced operators to take over enduring SMEs.

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Timah Partners makes inaugural hire in Southeast Asia’s first CEO Succession Program, tapping former EDB exec and veteran operator

Timah Partners, Singapore’s first permanent holding company built to address Southeast Asia’s SME succession crisis, today announced the appointment of Kelvin Ho as the inaugural candidate in its CEO Succession Program (CSP).

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NUS EMBA News: Timah Partners leads transformation of SME succession in Southeast Asia with innovative model (Mandarin)

NUS EMBA student and Vice President of Neptune, David Clark, reflects on Timah Partners' unique permanent holding company model and its potential to transform SME succession and the culture of business in Southeast Asia, after hearing Timah's founder and CEO Dennis Chua give a talk at the NUS EMBA program.

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Timah Partners introduces Southeast Asia’s first CEO Succession Program to 300+ students at the NUS Enterprise Summer Programme in Entrepreneurship

Timah Partners was recently invited to speak at the NUS Enterprise Summer Programme in Entrepreneurship, where CEO and founder Dennis Chua addressed a room of over 300 students and aspiring entrepreneurs from more than 30 countries.

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Mergermarket: Timah Partners in talks with three SMEs for possible acquisitions after US$50 million Series A

Timah Partners is in talks with three companies for possible acquisitions as the newly launched firm doubles down on supporting Singapore's small and medium-sized enterprises, said founder and CEO Dennis Chua.

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Timah Partners Closes US$50M Series A to Address Southeast Asia’s SME Succession Crisis

Timah Partners (“Timah”), a Singapore-based permanent holding company focused on acquiring and operating essential, recurring B2B SMEs in Southeast Asia—and developing the next generation of SME leaders through its CEO-in-Training program, announced the close of its US$50 million Series A.

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