Mr Francis was appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director of Etiqa Insurance Pte. Ltd. on 27 December 2022. He is also a member of the Investment Oversight Committee and Audit Committee of the Board of Etiqa Insurance Pte. Ltd.
He has a Master of Business Administration from Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada and recently completed his Master of Technology in Intelligent Systems, Institute of Systems Science from National University of Singapore.
Mr Francis has more than 20 years of IT experience and has consulted for and provided strategic IT leadership to several life and general insurance companies. His began his career in biomedical research at the Ontario Cancer Institute, Princess Marget Hospital in Canada in 1995 to 1997. Thereafter he held IT related positions in several companies in Canada before moving back to Asia. He joined Great Eastern Life Assurance Co Ltd in 2005 to 2009, AXA Life Insurance Singapore Pte Ltd from 2009 to 2010 as the Head of IT and Project Management Office. He then joined Kelly Services (Singapore) Pte Ltd as Senior Director and Regional Head of IT (Asia Pacific) in 2011 to 2013, after which he was the Vice President and Regional Chief Information Officer, Asia Pacific Zone of Chubb Pacific Underwriting Management Services Pte Ltd. He was then in several positions involving providing information technology consultancy and advisory before he ventured into the mental healthcare section in 2018.
Mr Francis is currently a Director of Weezard Pte Ltd and the Managing Director of Neubio Medial Pte Ltd.