The 2023 cohort of Gen.T honourees from Singapore during the Leaders of Tomorrow event at The Grande Whisky Museum with MD of Tatler Singapore, Stephanie Tay, regional head of Gen.T, Lee Williamson and senior regional editor, Chong Seow Wei (Photo: Max Chan)
Cover The 2023 cohort of Gen.T honourees from Singapore with Tatler Singapore managing director Stephanie Tay, Tatler Gen.T’s regional head Lee Williamson and senior regional editor Chong Seow Wei (Photo: Max Chan)

On June 22, the country’s Gen.T community gathered to welcome the 40 young leaders on the Gen.T List 2023 at The Grande Whisky Museum

Throughout the entire month of June, Tatler Gen.T hosted its annual Leaders of Tomorrow events to celebrate the new honourees who made it onto the Tatler Gen.T List.

We organised cocktail events and dinners in five markets this year: Manila and Taipei in the first week of June, followed by Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong in the second week, and finally Singapore in the third week.

Read more: The Gen.T List 2023 is out. Here’s who made it

Aside from the newly inducted honourees, the guest lists of these events include past years’ honourees, Gen.T Tribe members—prominent industry experts who helped vet and select the honourees for the list—as well as Tatler friends and business partners.

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Photo 1 of 20 Sabrina Ho, Shaun Hon, Joshua Wong, Felix Lee, Koh Kai Xin, Grace Ann Chua, Lim Wei Jie (Photo: Max Chan)
Photo 2 of 20 Cheryl Koh, Stephanie Tay, Matilda D'Silva (Photo: Adrian Lee)
Photo 3 of 20 Leong Pui Yee, Tan Si En, Carol Hong, Amanda Lee Koe, Woo Qiyun (Photo: Max Chan)
Photo 4 of 20 Mohamed Al-Matin, Lim Wei Jie (Photo: Max Chan)
Photo 5 of 20 Vivian Lee, Lynsey Lim, Johnson Lim
Photo 6 of 20 2020 honouree Jo Tan reprises her role as the emcee for the Singapore Leaders of Tomorrow event (Photo: Max Chan)
Photo 7 of 20 Michael Chen
Photo 8 of 20 Caecilia Chu, Jeffrey Ma, Shaun Hon, Anthony Chua, Anna Vanessa Haotanto (Photo: Max Chan)
Photo 9 of 20 Stephanie Tay, managing director of Tatler Singapore (Photo: Max Chan)
Photo 10 of 20 Chong Seow Wei, regional senior editor of Gen.T (Photo: Max Chan)
Photo 11 of 20 Lee Williamson, regional head of Gen.T (Photo: Max Chan)
Photo 12 of 20 Cocktails courtesy of Beam Suntory (Photo: Max Chan)
Photo 13 of 20 Lim Wei Jie, Grace Ann Chua (Photo: Adrian Lee)
Photo 14 of 20 The crowd moves in for chance to take a photo of the 2023 honourees on stage during their official introduction (Photo: Adrian Lee)
Photo 15 of 20 Dean Ho, who stars on the cover of Tatler Singapore’s June 2023 issue, obliging when asked for his autograph by other honourees (Photo: Max Chan)
Photo 16 of 20 Hunn Wai, Olivia Lee (Photo: Max Chan)
Photo 17 of 20 Jonathan Chua, Dixie Sng (Photo: Max Chan)
Photo 18 of 20 Nigel Lee (Photo: Max Chan)
Photo 19 of 20 Jackie Tan, Tan Jiale (Photo: Max Chan)
Photo 20 of 20 From top left: Alex Fenby, Lee Williamson, Valerie Chen, Yew Zhi Heng, Benoit Badufle, Marcus Ang, Anna Vanessa Haotanto, Choy Teh, Dean Ho (Photo: Max Chan)

Singapore’s celebration was held on June 22 at the Grande Whisky Museum, with the support of our partners Lenovo Singapore and Beam Suntory, who provided Haku Vodka, Roku Gin and The Chita Suntory Whisky for the cocktails.

Jo Tan, a 2020 Gen.T honouree, reprised her role as emcee. Opening addresses were made by Stephanie Tay, the managing director of Tatler Singapore, and Chong Seow Wei, Gen.T’s senior regional editor, followed by a presentation by Gen.T regional head Lee Williamson, who flew in from Hong Kong to share about the brand’s mission and values. Williamson also introduced to guests two upcoming initiatives from Gen.T: the Tatler Gen.T Summit taking place on November 9 and 10, and the launch of the brand’s first charitable NFT collection, Phoenixes of Tomorrow.

Read more: If a phoenix and an NFT had a baby, this would be it

Above Highlights of Gen.T Leaders of Tomorrow event in Singapore

The Phoenixes of Tomorrow NFT collection was designed in collaboration with Singaporean artist and 2022 Gen.T honouree Dawn Ang, who is known professionally as Aeropalmics.

These NFTs are created exclusively for the 2023 cohort of Gen.T honourees, and cannot be sold or transferred. They, however, come with a Friend of Phoenix NFT, which can be bought by an honouree’s friends or the wider Gen.T community on OpenSea in order to raise funds for a good cause. 

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Above Nurul Jihadah Hussain, founder of The Codette Project, shares about the three pillars of her organisation and how she hopes to redefine the narrative of success (Photo: Max Chan)

Proceeds from the Friends of Phoenixes NFTs will go towards The Codette Project in Singapore, as well as other charities and non-profits around the region: The Hong Kong Down Syndrome AssociationKids’ Bookhouse, which helps children in Taiwan get a lifelong education; Angat Buhay, a non-profit implementing community centred and sustainable development initiatives focused on areas such as education and health in the Philippines; and Yayasan Chow Kit, a 24-hour crisis centre for at-risk and displaced children in Malaysia.

Nurul Jihadah Hussain, the founder of The Codette Project, a non-profit organisation that empowers and upskills women from minority groups with employable skills, was present at Singapore’s event and gave an inspiring speech about her organisation and the work that it does.

Read more: Nurul Jihadah Hussain is giving Muslim and minority women in tech a seat at the table

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Photo 1 of 15 Sabrina Ho, Choy Teh, Dean Ho, Anna Vanessa Haotanto, Marcus Ang (Photo: Adrian Lee)
Photo 2 of 15 Li Churen, Michael Chen (Photo: Adrian Lee)
Photo 3 of 15 Jo Tan (Photo: Adrian Lee)
Photo 4 of 15 Vanessa Paranjothy (Photo: Adrian Lee)
Photo 5 of 15 Jeffrey Ma (Photo: Adrian Lee)
Photo 6 of 15 Caecilia Chu (Photo: Adrian Lee)
Photo 7 of 15 Tan Szue Hann (Photo: Adrian Lee)
Photo 8 of 15 Yeoh Wan Qing (Photo: Adrian Lee)
Photo 9 of 15 Vikna Rajah (Photo: Adrian Lee)
Photo 10 of 15 Grace Ann Chua (Photo: Adrian Lee)
Photo 11 of 15 Vivian Lee (Photo: Adrian Lee)
Photo 12 of 15 Chia Yee Hui (Photo: Adrian Lee)
Photo 13 of 15 Shaun Hon (Photo: Adrian Lee)
Photo 14 of 15 Jane Wang (Photo: Adrian Lee)
Photo 15 of 15 Sonia and Vikas Garg (Photo: Adrian Lee)

The evening culminated in the official introduction of the 2023 honourees, who were individually called on stage to receive their personalised magazine covers printed with their Gen.T profile picture. 

The evening’s programme concluded with a sharing segment featuring past years’ honourees Dean Ho, Tan Szue Hann and Anna Vanessa Haotanto, who each candidly recounted how they have enjoyed being part of the Gen.T community and forged meaningful friendships and partnerships through it.


See all honourees from Singapore on the Tatler Gen.T List 2023.

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