Sub-committee Members of SOPA Awards

Ho Kay Tat

Ho Kay Tat, has been in journalism for 23 years. He spent 6 years with the New Straits Times group, Malaysia's biggest newspaper company. In the NST, he reported extensively on Malaysian politics. In 1990, he joined the Kuala Lumpur Bureau of Reuters just as Malaysia's economic boom was starting to take place and covered mainly economic, corporate and money market news. He left Reuters to be the KL correspondent for the Singapore Business Times in 1994 where apart from reporting, he had a weekly column on Malaysia called "Market Matters".

From Singapore BT, he joined The Edge, a business and investment weekly in Malaysia, first as Editor in August, 1996 and now as its Group Editor-in-Chief for Nexnews Bhd which publishes The Edge and The Sun. He assumed the role of Editor for Asia Inc, a regional business publication from 2003 until May 2005. In early May 2005, Ho was appointed as the Group Managing Director. He also sits on the Board of Nexnews Bhd as its Executive Director.

Ho majored in political science while studying at the Science University in Penang, Malaysia. He also took a minor programme in mass communications.