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In 1977, our founding Principal Mr Wee Heng Tin and the pioneer batch of teachers crafted TJC’s motto – ‘For College, For Nation’ – to be the clarion call for all TJCians to contribute to the college, the community and our nation. As the College continues to groom and nurture the thinkers, leaders and trailblazers of tomorrow, it takes pride in celebrating its rich and illustrious past, as well as reinventing itself to continue providing quality learning experiences for its students through Temasek Excellence.
Over the years, scores of TJCians have proudly flown the Temasek flag high, whether they are in public service, healthcare, the arts, the mathematical and scientific field, entrepreneurship … the list goes on. And many of these alumni have returned and contributed to their beloved alma mater, from giving talks, sharing their experiences, providing internships to mentoring their juniors.
Let’s meet some of these distinguished alumni who are truly trailblazers with a heart!
Our Distinguished TJC Alumni
Our Distinguished TJC Alumni
Prof Inderjit Singh Dhaliwal
Prof Inderjit Singh Dhaliwal has a rare combination of experiences as a multi-national company leader, a serial entrepreneur, a policy maker, and educator. He is an engineer by training and has worked for Texas Instruments Singapore for 13 years, holding the post of Director of Operations from 1996 to 1998 before he started his entrepreneurship journey at age 37, founding his first Unicorn company, United Test and Assembly Center, a large semiconductor company. Prof Inderjit currently runs a multinational company, Solstar International, doing business in 38 countries in Africa, Middle East and Asia.
Prof Inderjit was Member of Parliament, Ang Mo Kio GRC from 1996 to 2015 and was a Deputy Government Whip, Chairman GPC for Finance and Trade & Industry Ministries and was instrumental in shaping policies in Support of entrepreneurship, start-ups and for SMEs.
Prof Inderjit has actively started and ran companies around the world, including in the Silicon Valley. He has invested in start-ups, helped to create a good ecosystem through policy changes and educated rising entrepreneurs on building their business. He was the Deputy Chairman for Action Community of Entrepreneurship (ACE) in the initial years.
He is currently the Co-President of the World Entrepreneurship Forum and a Board Member of the World Business Angel Forum (WBAF). He is also a Board Member of the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Chairman of NTUitive, the Innovation Company of NTU. As a Prof, he teaches Strategy at the NTU Masters of Science (Technopreneurship and Innovation Programme).
Prof Inderjit was a pioneer student of Temasek Junior College, Class of 1978.
Assoc. Prof Dr Tan Lai Yong
Assoc. Prof Dr Tan Lai Yong is the Director of Outreach and Community Engagement at the College of Alice & Peter Tan (CAPT), National University of Singapore.
Upon returning to Singapore in 2010 after 15 years of rural medical service in Yunnan, China, Dr Tan is still going strong with his out-of-the-ordinary ideas to better society. To balance parental emphasis on education instead of relationship-building, Dr Tan started father-and-son football games. Another of his projects is the organisation of a fully foreign worker-starred concert featuring a Bangladeshi band, a PRC (People's Republic of China) choir and migrant worker Bollywood dancers with Singaporean teenagers helming the planning and administration.
Dr Tan was awarded the Friendship Award for Foreign Experts in Beijing, the Singapore International Foundation (SIF) Award presented by Mr Lee Hsien Loong and the 2005 Singapore MILK Fund (Mainly I Love Kids) Award for Outstanding Youth and Children’s Worker by President Nathan.
At 60, Dr Tan continues to work to better the communities he is blessed to be part of. With his students from CAPT, they have recently pioneered a small project to support female dependents of Bangladeshi workers in Singapore. The programme sends a bursary to female dependents who are back home in a university in Bangladesh – supporting the axiom that “if you educate a woman, you educate a family and a village”.
Dr Tan is a Temasek Junior College alumnus, Class of 1979.
Melissa Seet
Melissa is currently based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. She is involved in entrepreneurship, community development projects, and living life to the fullest. She spent more than seventeen years building her career in Marketing and Communications, both in Singapore and in Cambodia, and specialises in branding, strategic marketing and copywriting. Her Cambodian journey started in 2012, at Poipet, the Thai-Cambodian border, when she was challenged to stand up for victims of human trafficking and disadvantaged communities. Her vision is for children to have access and equal opportunities to education and be equipped with skills and competency for the global marketplace. She loves cross-cultural and multi-cultural environments, is excited by the ever-growing opportunities in a developing nation and is constantly learning about culture, business practices, and exploring the mountains and beaches of Cambodia.
Melissa is founder and director of Creative Hydro Solutions, a company that promotes clean water and filtration. She recently took on the role as Group Marketing Head for Swan and Maclaren Group, a real estate solution company with regional offices in eight countries, and is Ambassador of Hope for Hope For the Nations, a non-governmental organisation based in Canada.
Melissa is an alumnus of Temasek Junior College, Class of 1997.
Clarence Chan
Clarence is the founder of Bandwagon, which started as a live music search engine and expanded to become Southeast Asia’s leading independent music media company. His vision is to champion and spotlight music in Asia, and make Singapore a music nation. Bandwagon reaches over 600,000 readers a month across countries like the Philippines, the United States, India and Singapore, and has produced content with artists like Dua Lipa, 5 Seconds of Summer, Troy Sivan, Imagine Dragons etc. Clarence was recognised as 1 of 20 Future Shapers by PEAK Magazine in 2019 and has served as a judge for the Singapore Tourism Awards from 2017 – 2019, which recognised the top nightspots in the country. Most recently in November 2021, Clarence was the creative director of Shaping Hearts 2021, the 1st inclusive Arts & Creative festival this year in SG with over 21 Social Services Agencies, 150 artists and Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat as the guest of honour. He also serves as Treasurer of Singapore Music Society, a charity for music people.
In the education sector, Clarence also developed Bandwagon Campus Tour, as a means to develop interest in creating original music amongst students, and support tertiary bands and aspiring musicians. It has toured SUTD, NUS, SMU, Temasek Poly and more. Clarence is an alumnus of Temasek Junior College, Class of 2004.
Sim Yan Liang
Yan Liang has launched multiple venture-backed e-commerce startups, ran Warby Parker's $300M supply chain network, and led cyber-wargaming operations at the Singapore Armed Forces. Currently, he runs strategy and operations at Weee!, the largest ethnic e-grocer in the US.
He spent many evenings on the track at Temasek Junior College (TJC), training for the 400m hurdles, and thoroughly enjoyed his time as a member of the House Committee and the Science Council. He graduated from TJC in 2006 and attended Brown University, studying Biomedical Engineering and Economics. Since then, he has lived and worked in New York and San Francisco.
His passions include building communities, architecture, travel (50+ countries so far), and doing duathlons.
Rohan Batra
Rohan was an SIA scholar and an alumnus of Temasek Junior College, Class of 2003. His passion for flying led him to becoming a Senior Commander (one of the youngest) with Jet Airways on the Boeing 737 for 8+ years. He then quit at the top to start his own real estate development business in Mumbai, India, which is now actively pursuing redevelopment projects in Mumbai city. Rohan has been expanding at a time when most other developers are struggling in these tumultuous times. He is also an active investor and trader in the equity markets both in India and the US.
He is actively involved in various ventures along with his wife Dr. Diksha Batra, who is a prosthodontist & implantologist based in Mumbai and is fondly known as the PainFree Dentist (@thepainfreedentist)
Together they run the PainFree Dental Clinic in Bandra, a posh suburb of Mumbai and also an education venture for young dentists called RYS University (Raise Your Standards). In an effort to give back to the community, they also run India's first all dental NGO - Angel Dentists' Network. (ADN).
Veerappan Swaminathan
Veera is the Founder & Director of Sustainable Living Lab, a sustainability consultancy. Through his organisation, he is currently working on corporate sustainability transition, closing the digital divide, and reducing electronic waste. He holds advanced degrees in Intellectual Property Management and Mechanical Engineering from the National University of Singapore.
He is a recipient of the NEA Eco-Friend Award 2016, was a representative of Singapore at the UN High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in 2018. He was also awarded the Joseph Jaworski Next-Gen Foresight Asia Special Award by the UK based School of International Futures in 2018. He volunteers as an executive member of the Climate Action SG Alliance and sits on the Lotus-NUS Funding Panel for social entrepreneurs. He has founded several startups in Singapore, India and Indonesia.
Veera is an alumnus of Temasek Junior College, Class of 2003. While at school, he also served as a member of the TJC 26th Students’ Council, the Vice-Captain of the Hockey Team and co-founded an on-campus LAN Gaming Centre.
Malathi Das
Malathi Das is a dispute resolution lawyer of 25 years’ experience with Singapore boutique law firm, Joyce A Tan & Partners LLC. She is an accredited Associate Mediator and Family Mediator with the Singapore Mediation Centre and on the Panel of Child Representatives with the Family Justice Courts. She is a Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers and Adjunct Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore Law School.
She served as international law organisation LAWASIA’s first woman and Singaporean President in LAWASIA’s 46-year history. LAWASIA has a strong Asia-Pacific focus on issues concerning the legal profession, human rights, access to justice and capacity-building. She was the only Asian panelist on the role of lawyers at the United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights held in Geneva in December 2012. She has also addressed international audiences at APEC Manila and the United Nations Commission on Status of Women 59 in New York in 2015.
She is a Past President of the Singapore Council of Women’s Organisations (SCWO) and Past President of the Zonta Club of Singapore, the Singapore Chapter of Zonta International, whose mission is the empowerment of women through advocacy and service. Her areas of interest include gender, elder and children issues, and advocacy for the disadvantaged.
Her Board appointments include the Board of Governors of Institute of Technical Education (ITE), the Board of Advisors of Diverse Abilities Dance Collective (DADC) and the Temasek Junior College Advisory Committee.
Malathi is an alumnus of Temasek Junior College, Class of 1987, and President of the 10th Students’ Council.
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