OPHTHALMOLOGIST Julian Theng seems to have it all: a flourishing private practice called Eagle Eye Centre, comprising a chain of seven clinics, and a close knit family with three kids whom he describes as "amazing" and loving. Yet he has also taken on the challenge of a lifestyle business. At the core of the lifestyle EagleWings Group - where his sister and lawyer Lisa Theng is his partner - is a yacht charter business, which grew out of a passion for the sun, sea and fishing. And there is also retail, cinema, and food & beverage businesses which emerged out of his commitment to revitalise the King Albert Park (KAP) Mall, a strata mixed development on 9 King Albert Park.
"So many procedures were life changing for patients. Cataract surgery and they can see; with Lasik they can do without glasses. I saw the joy in patients and I thought this was probably it," Dr Theng shares regarding his epiphany as a medical officer. He became a cornea specialist, with particular expertise in Lasik and refractive surgery and cornea transplants. He worked at the Singapore National Eye Centre for around 13 years before he ventured out to set up a private practice in 2006 with his colleague and co-founder Lim Wee Kiak....

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