Dr Donald Ee, is currently a business / management consultant and trainer, operating his own company known as JM EE Consultants. He counsels a diverse spectrum of clientele, including those in the medical, education, social service, leisure, events management and communications businesses. His area of interest are in entrepreneurship, managing start-ups, corporate development, product innovations, corporate re-engineering and crisis management.

Besides joint and co-ownership of several businesses, he is the managing partner of an executive training company, Centre for Enterprise Development & Entrepreneurship in Singapore and hopes to major in bringing high-level executive education into Singaporean companies in the near future. This will serve as a platform for future growth into neighbouring countries within Asia.

He completed the Fellows program on “Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators” at Babson College, Massachusetts in May 2001 and holds a Ph.D in Administration and Management from Columbia Pacific University as well as a teaching qualification from Singapore Teachers’ Training College. He currently serves as Adjunct Professor at the Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship in Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne.

Donald’s early work background was in the communication field, which peaked with his appointment, at the age of 33, as Managing Director of Ted Bates, an American based advertising agency and being the first Asian to be appointed to this high office in Singapore, within the worldwide network.

His stints with academia was a teaching assignment at Nanyang Technological University’s inaugural program on Promotional Communications in 1995, initiating a research program with National University of Singapore on the Delphi Study for future Singaporean lifestyles and consumption patterns in 1993, and as a guest speaker for MBA alumni programs, Singapore Civil Service College, Curtin University’s keynote series for small-medium businesses, Coopers & Lybrand, Singapore Broadcasting Corporation, and 3AI World Conferences held in Sydney, London and New York.

As a active social worker, Donald was past acting Chairman of the Singapore Red Cross Society and also chaired the National Day Celebrations for two years. He sat o the advisory committees of Ngee Ann Polytechnic and Gan Eng Seng Secondary School in the past. He currently serves as Vice Chairman of the Publications Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Information and The Arts. His involvement with several other national voluntary projects also led to his award of the Public Service Medal (PBM) presented by the President of the Republic of Singapore in the 1997 National Day Honors List.