SINGAPORE Post’s (SingPost) local operations chief executive Shahrin Abdol Salam has resigned.
Shahrin, who turns 52 this year, left the national postal service provider “to pursue opportunities outside the company”, said SingPost on Monday (Feb 3).
A transition timeline is being worked out with SingPost’s group chief operating officer Neo Su Yin.
Neo, who assumed the group COO role in January, will take on additional responsibility as Singapore CEO following Shahrin’s departure.
“Su Yin is familiar with the Singapore business unit having run the business from November 2021 till May 2024,” said SingPost. “We thank Shahrin for his contribution to SingPost during his time and wish him well in his future endeavours.”
Shahrin was appointed the CEO of SingPost’s local operations in May 2024. During his term, he led the development and growth of the Singapore business, as well as the integration of postal and e-commerce logistics solutions for sustainable long-term growth.
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He has more than 25 years of experience in operations management strategic planning, asset management, business development, engineering and customer service.
Prior to joining SingPost, he held senior leadership roles in the transport sector. He was managing director of SMRT’s Thomson-East Coast Line and senior vice-president of strategic relations at SMRT.
Shahrin also played a key role in “driving the anchor network” of MRT lines in Singapore, and contributed to the development of the Rapid Transit System, which will increase connectivity between Singapore and Malaysia.
He graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Masters of Science in Management of Technology. He also holds a bachelor degree in electrical engineering from RMIT University in Australia.
Parcelgate
Shahrin’s resignation comes months after SingPost fired three of its senior executives after they were found to be negligent in the handling of internal investigations over a whistle-blower’s report that it received earlier in 2024.
The executives are the former group CEO Vincent Phang, group chief financial officer Vincent Yik and CEO of the company’s international business unit Li Yu.
Phang on Jan 13 also resigned from his role as non-executive, non-independent director. All three executives are contesting their terminations.
However, Phang and Yik had said in early January that they are prepared to abandon their litigation option if an independent professional inquiry is carried out.
The whistle-blower’s report was related to its non-regulated international e-commerce logistics parcels business.
Investigations by SingPost into the report found that three managers in the international business unit had “committed serious breaches of the company’s code of conduct” for deliveries for “one of its largest” customers.
They had performed or approved manual updates of the “delivery failure” (DF) status code for parcels SingPost had agreed to deliver – without supporting documents and even though no delivery attempt had been made.
Shares of SingPost were trading 0.9 per cent or S$0.005 higher at S$0.56 as at 3.40 pm on Monday.
