Jackson Tai

Jackson Tai is the non-executive Chairman of Urban Land Development and serves as a non-executive director of HSBC Holding PLC, Eli Lilly and Company, and Mastercard Incorporated.

He was Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of DBS Group Holdings Ltd. and DBS Bank Ltd. from June 2002 to December 2007. He joined DBS as a chief financial officer in July 1999 and was appointed president and chief operating officer in 2001. Prior to joining DBS in Singapore, he served 25 years with J.P. Morgan & Co. Incorporated, including as managing director and member of the Investment Banking Division management committee. While at J.P. Morgan, Jackson established the Japan capital markets business based in Tokyo; founded the global real estate investment banking based in New York; was the senior officer for the Asia Pacific based in Tokyo; and served as a senior officer for the Western United States based in San Francisco.

Previously, he was a member of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, a non-executive director of Bank of China Limited, Singapore Airlines, NYSE Euronext, ING Groep NV, CapitaLand, Singapore Telecommunications Ltd., and Jones Lang LaSalle.

In his commitment to supporting non‐profits, Jackson is a director of the Metropolitan Opera, a trustee of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a member of both the Harvard Business School Asia-Pacific Advisory Board and the Harvard China Advisory Group. He has also served as a director of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and the San Francisco Symphony.

Jackson received a Bachelor of Science degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1972 and an MBA degree from Harvard University in 1974.