Our Facilitators
Pamela Chng, Chairperson of Bettr Lives
Pamela has over 20 years of start-up and business experience, and is the co-founder of The Bettr Group, a for-profit social business and vertically integrated specialty coffee company in Singapore that aims to change lives through coffee.
Bettr empowers lives through holistic vocational programmes for marginalised women and youth, nurtures direct and sustainable trade across their supply chain, and encourages socially and environmentally conscious consumption.
Prior to founding Bettr, Pamela co-founded, ran and grew a successful web consultancy, Digital Boomerang. She was also part of the pioneer team in the web division of Singapore Press Holdings as Head of International Online Advertising Sales and Business Development.
Pamela is the first Singaporean on the Board of Directors of the global Specialty Coffee Association and a World Barista Championship Certified Sensory Judge, World Coffee in Good Spirits Sensory Judge, Licensed Q Arabica Grader.
She is also a Six Seconds Certified EQ Assessor and started Bettr Lives to attempt to address one of our greatest collective challenges in the 21st century – the mental and emotional health of people.
Suyin Tay, Head of Social Programmes
Suyin Tay is an educator, curriculum developer and social impact advocate. She currently drives social initiatives as Head of Social Programmes at the Bettr Group- a social enterprise dedicated to changing lives through coffee. Suyin is deeply passionate about the human condition and how interdisciplinary solutions can drive sustained transformations.
Her work in the APAC region includes being a curriculum designer at McKinsey’s Social Initiative: Generation, a non-profit that seeks to connect education to sustainable livelihoods. She is also a certified EQ Practitioner, Educator and Network Leader as part of the Six Seconds Emotional Intelligence Network.
She was formerly a Subject Head (Ag.) and Assistant Year Head at the Ministry of Education. Suyin graduated from the University Scholars Programme (USP) with a BA in Political Science from the National University of Singapore. She was awarded a minor in China Studies as part of the USP-PKU Joint Cultural Immersion Programme at Yale-Yuanpei College, Peking University. She also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) from Nanyang Technological University.