Sol Awards

Sol Awards

Honouring Industry Achievers & Excellence

Now in its second edition, the Sol Awards is more than just a celebration of individual or corporate success—it is a platform to elevate the entire furniture ecosystem in Singapore and beyond.

The Awards honours the trailblazers—enterprises and individuals whose contributions are shaping the future of the industry through creativity, resilience, and leadership.

Continuing the legacy from the Singapore Furniture Industry Awards (SFIA). Beyond recognising achievement, the Sol Awards serves as a catalyst for industry advancement. It brings together forward-thinking players, celebrates best practices, and raises the profile of Singaporeʼs furniture sector on a regional and international scale.

By spotlighting excellence, the Awards aims to foster greater collaboration, inspire continuous improvement, and set new benchmarks for quality and innovation. In doing so, the Sol Awards contributes to the long-term vitality and global competitiveness of the industry.

Award Disciplines

The six sun rays in the logo represent the six categories under the Sol Awards. Award categories include:

Sol Awards Jury

An independent jury panel comprising prominent government, trade agencies as well as consulting firms will be invited to review the submissions, shortlist the applicants and select the winners for the respective categories. Interviews will be conducted as part of the judging process.

Our Distinguished Panel of Judges

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Andrew Sng
Founder & Managing Director
DPI Asia

Andrew Sng is Founder of DPI Asia (the Asian operations of a global consulting network, Decision Processes International). Since 1982, Andrew has led strategy-related assignments for over 300 organisations in Asia Pacific. He has also personally trained over 30,000 executives in DPI’s suite of critical thinking processes.

In both training & consulting, he has extensive experience working in both the for-profit as well as non-profit sectors. He has been associated with the Singapore Furniture Industry since 1992.

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Chew Mok Lee
Enterprise Fellow, Human Capital Group
Enterprise Singapore

Ms Chew Mok Lee is currently an Enterprise Fellow with Enterprise Singapore and the Advisor to the Federation of Merchants Association and Singapore Furniture Industries Council (SFIC) and the SFIC Institute under SFIC since 1 April 2021.

Ms Chew has over 35 years of experience in various aspects of capability development, productivity promotion and support for local enterprises and industrial partners. Prior to this, Ms Chew was the Assistant Chief Executive in charge of ICM & Digitalisation, Enterprise Services & New Industries in Enterprise Singapore. She has also held key leadership positions in various other organisations such Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE), Asian Productivity Organisation (APO), National Productivity Board (NPB), Productivity & Standards Board (PSB) and SPRING Singapore.

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Sarah Ler
Director, Retail
Enterprise Singapore

Ms Sarah Ler is Director (Retail) of Enterprise Singapore, the government agency championing enterprise development. Her division works with committed Singapore-based companies in the Retail sector to build capabilities, innovate and internationalise.

Prior to her current appointment, Sarah held various positions in Enterprise Singapore and IE Singapore (the predecessor government agency to Enterprise Singapore). Her previous portfolios included overseeing enterprise development policies and programmes, strategic planning, and the facilitation of commercial interests of Singapore-based enterprises in overseas markets such as China, North America and Latin America.

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Tan Szue Hann
Director, ESG & Sustainability Strategy
Head of Sustainability, Real Estate
Fund Management & Investment
Keppel Ltd

Tan Szue Hann, MBA, MArch, is an award-winning sustainability professional and architect. Hann is Director, ESG Strategy & Sustainability, Fund Management, and Head of Sustainability (Real Estate) at Keppel, Singapore. He is also co-chair of the NEXT Council at the Urban Land Institute. Hann graduated with an M Arch and BA Arch (First Class Honours) from NUS, with a visiting fellowship to UCLA in 2007, and obtained an MBA with Distinction in 2022.

 

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Rita Soh
Managing Director
RDC Architects Pte Ltd

Beyond breaking gender leadership stereotype, Rita advanced the causes of professional ethics and collaborative partnership in Singapore as well as on the Asian fronts.

The first woman President of Singapore Institute of Architects, Rita standardized Singapore’s architectural nomenclature by creating Singapore’s own Code of Practice and pushed towards digitalization of its professional services. Subsequently, as President, Singapore Board of Architects, she championed ethical architectural practice both regionally and globally. In her role as President & Advisor, Architects Regional Council Asia (ARCASIA), Rita strives to foster closer collaborations amongst architects across Asia and leading the drive to collectively define global benchmarks from an Asian perspective.

While a Nominated Member of Singapore’s largely-male Parliament, Rita advocated reducing Singapore’s carbon footprint by embracing environmentally-friendly approaches for design and urged for expansion of healthcare infrastructure to meet the needs of an fast aging population.

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Tiah Nan Chyuan
President
Singapore Institute of Architects

Nan Chyuan is the President of the Singapore Institute of Architects (65th Council) and has served on the Council since 2019. He graduated from the National University of Singapore and the Architectural Association in London on a scholarship from Urban Redevelopment Authority.

He is a Director at FARM, a cross disciplinary design practice that won the President’s Design Award Design of the Year in 2010 and was featured in Wallpaper’s Architects’ Directory 2018. Nan Chyuan was also recognised as one of Singapore’s emerging architects in URA’s third edition of “20 Under 45” exhibition in 2017.

 

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Kenneth Wong
Director, Trade & Lifestyle Division
Workforce Singapore (WSG)

Kenneth has served in various divisions in the Singapore Workforce Singapore Agency and accumulated diverse experience in conceptualising and implementing workforce develop strategies for industries ranging from Tourism to Business Services. He also spearheaded the nationwide lifelong learning campaign to inspire individuals to embark on their learning journey from 2011 to 2014.

He is now the Director of Trade & Lifestyle Division in Workforce Singapore, where he oversees the workforce development strategies for sectors such as Wholesale Trade, Retail, Food & Beverage, Hotel and MICE.

 
 

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Sol Awards 2023 Winners