Prior to joining ST Engineering in July 2021, Cheryl was Head of APAC Clean Hydrogen in Linde, a leading global industrial gases and engineering company. In her 14 years with the company, she had held various global and APAC management positions in corporate strategy, product portfolio management and marketing, supply chain operations, project integration and business development. She also led the merger and integration of Praxair and Linde for the APAC Management Office. Chan is currently the Group Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer and President New Ventures of ST Engineering, a global technology, defence and engineering group with a diverse portfolio of businesses across the aerospace, smart city, defence and public security segments.
Political career On 27 August 2015, PAP announced that Chan would contest in the revived
Fengshan SMC in the
2015 general election. Chan was elected into Parliament when she defeated
Dennis Tan of the
Workers' Party and clinched 57.5% of the electorate valid votes. Leading up to the
2020 general election, the Electoral Boundaries Review Committee updated Singapore's electoral boundaries, in which Fengshan SMC would be absorbed into
East Coast GRC. Chan would contest in the 2020 general election under the PAP's ticket in East Coast GRC against the
Workers' Party, alongside
Heng Swee Keat,
Maliki Osman,
Jessica Tan, and
Tan Kiat How. On 11 July 2020, Chan and the PAP team were declared elected Members of Parliament for East Coast GRC after garnering 53.41% of the valid votes. She was then appointed Chairperson of National Development Government Parliamentary Committee (GPC) in the
14th Parliament. Chan was appointed as Vice-Chairperson of East Coast Town Council since 2020. Chan retired from politics on 21 April 2025, citing a desire to spend more time with her family. ==Awards==