Alumni Stories

Ten years ago, as an SMU undergraduate, Aloysius Sng (BBM 2014) was already earning his stripes in the fashion industry. Between classes and group projects, Aloysius ran multiple businesses which supplied wholesale clothes to well-known blogshops, provided consignment services, and organised large-scale flea markets. Today, the Lee Kong Chian School of Business alumnus and The Peak Power List 2018 awardee is the founder of Refash, an omni-channel portal which helps women buy and sell secondhand fashion. While Refash might seem like a natural extension of Aloysius’ foray into the fast fashion industry, it boasts a larger cause: to change mindsets against secondhand fashion, and encourage sustainable practices. As we sat down with Aloysius to find out more about his journey with Refash, it became clear that Aloysius was not only an entrepreneur: he was a change-maker.

When Lim Teck Yang (BBM 2015) (left) and Travis Ng (BBM 2016) (right) first started visiting master tailors in Singapore, hoping to learn the skills of tailoring, many of the elderly veterans were skeptical: Why would two young graduates from SMU want to pick up such a niche trade? Nevertheless, the pair persisted by showing up consistently, and the masters were eventually convinced of Teck Yang and Travis' sincereity.

SMU Class of 2019’s SMU Salutatorian Award and CIRCLE Award Winner, Tan Rui Feng (BBM & BSocSc 2019), was a student leader who wore many hats.

For Eugene Tan (BAcc & BBM 2019), life is a journey – in his speech to his peers during Commencement on 30 July 2019, the SMU Class of 2019’s SPH Valedictorian recounted his four years in university as

The travel and hospitality industry is not a field most people imagine our graduates entering upon graduation. They would not be too far off from the truth; according to the SMU Dato' Kho Hui Meng Career Centre, less than 1% of our graduates actually do. It is thusly admirable that pioneer-batch alumna, Ho Shyn Yee (BBM, 2004), bucked the trend and impressively built a lifelong career in travel and hospitality, growing from strength to strength with each step.

(A snapshot of the couple in Maldives, their most memorable place on Earth) 

Meet Natasha Toh (BBM 2013), one-half of the dynamic duo behind The Fun Empire.

As an international university student living alone at Prinsep Street Residences back in 2009, Jay Lim Jae Won (BBM 2012) would rely on fast food as his staple. Never considering himself a ‘foodie’, he appreciated the accessibility and affordability of the local McDonald’s in between his studies and his internship.

Since his undergraduate days at SMU, Kenny Lim (BSc(Econ) 2017) had demonstrated a keen interest in the maritime sector. As the President of the SMU Maritime Club in 2016, and the recipient of the Maritime Economics Excellence Award, these accolades testified to his dedication in the sector. Starting his career in the maritime industry upon graduation seemed an obvious choice.