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.
As the story explains, the CSP is central to Timah’s mission to preserve and grow enduring SMEs in the region. Designed for seasoned operator-entrepreneurs, the three-year programme combines M&A exposure, operational apprenticeship, and eventual full CEO leadership of a Timah portfolio company. It was created to solve what Timah views as the next major constraint on SME resilience: not capital, but leadership.
