Jardine Matheson Holdings appoints ex-PAG Lincoln Pan as new CEO

John Witt has announced his resignation by the end of November.

Jardine Matheson Holdings Limited has appointed Lincoln Pan as its new CEO, effective 1 December 2025.

Pan takes over from John Witt, the Group Managing Director, who will retire from the company at the end of November.

Lincoln will join from PAG, the largest fully diversified alternative investment business in the Asia Pacific region, where he is a Partner and co-head of Private Equity and a member of the Group Executive Committee. He previously held the role of Chief Executive Officer, Greater China at Willis Towers Watson, served in executive roles at Advantage Partners and GE Capital, and worked at McKinsey & Company.

Meanwhile, Witt will continue to serve as Chairman of Hongkong Land. He will retire from his positions at Jardine Matheson Holdings Limited, including his positions at Jardine Matheson Limited and Jardine Pacific,, DFI Retail, Jardine Cycle & Carriage and Astra.

Follow the link for more news on

Jardine Matheson

Reaching the people who run Asia's businesses is harder than it used to be.

Inboxes are crowded. Attention is short. The executives you most want to reach — the founders, CFOs, and operators who actually move budgets — are the hardest to find through the usual channels. If you're building a company, a category, or a reputation, you already know this.

We've spent twenty years building the room they read. Singapore Business Review is where senior decision makers in Singapore and across Southeast Asia come for business coverage they can't get elsewhere — in print, online, and in person at the summits and roundtables we host across seven markets.

If you have something these readers should know about — a point of view worth publishing, a product worth their attention, an event worth their time — we'd like to hear what you're trying to do.

Book a meeting

| Or download the media kit (PDF)

240,000 senior readers quarterly in print Top 1,700 Singapore companies reached

7 markets across Southeast Asia