Board of Directors
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Mr Peter Seah Lim Huat
Chairman
Chairman, Executive Resource & Compensation Committee
Mr Peter Seah Lim Huat, 61, was appointed nonexecutive Chairman of the Board on 1 January 2005, and was last re-elected on 24 April 2007.
He is currently a member of the Temasek Advisory Panel. In addition, Mr Seah is Chairman of SembCorp Industries Ltd and Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd and Deputy Chairman of Singapore Technologies Telemedia Pte Ltd, and Global Crossing Limited. He is also President Commissioner of PT Indosat Tbk.
Mr Seah sits on the Boards of CapitaLand Limited, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd, Fullerton Financial Holdings Pte Ltd, Asia Mobile Holdings Pte Ltd, GIC Special Investments Private Limited, Government of Singapore Investment Corporation Pte Ltd, StarHub Ltd, Singapore Technologies Holdings Pte Ltd, STATS ChipPAC Ltd, Alliance Bank Malaysia Berhad, Bank of China Limited and Siam Commercial Bank Public Company Limited.
Mr Seah is also the Deputy Co-Chairman of the Singapore-British Business Council, and a member of the Defence Science and Technology Agency, S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce & Industry, and Singapore Business Federation Council. He also chairs the LaSalle Foundation.
Mr Seah was a banker for 33 years, before retiring as Vice-Chairman and CEO of the former Overseas Union Bank in 2001 and joining Singapore Technologies Pte Ltd as President & CEO, a position he held until 31 December 2004.
Mr Seah graduated from the former University of Singapore in 1968 with an honours degree in Business Administration.
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Mr Boon Swan Foo
Deputy Chairman
Chairman, Executive Committee and Nomination Committee
Mr Boon Swan Foo, 52, was appointed as the Deputy Chairman of
the Singapore Computer System Board as well as Chairman of the Executive
Committee on 1 January 2005. He is also a non-executive and independent Director
of the Board, and was last re-elected to the Board on 24 April 2007.
Mr Boon is the Executive Chairman of Exploit Technologies Pte Ltd (ETPL), the strategic marketing and commercialisation arm of Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). He is also a board member of the Science and Engineering Research Council and the Biomedical Research Council of A*STAR. He served as the Managing Director of A*STAR from October 2001 and relinquished this position on 31 December 2006.
Mr Boon is currently the Chairman of Nothacker Pte Ltd, a spin-off company under ETPL. He is also the Deputy Chairman of Orangestar Investment Holdings Pte Ltd and Merlion Pharmaceuticals Pte Ltd. He serves on the Boards of Singapore Utilities International Pte Ltd and Keppel Amfels Inc. Mr Boon is also a director of the Thai companies Aspen and Cypress, and sits on the board of Shin Corp Thailand as shareholder’s representative. He is a Fellow at the Singapore Institute of Directors and Member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore, the INSEAD Singapore National Council, the Motorola Inc Research Visionary Board and Imperial College (UK)’s Commercialisation Advisory Board.
Prior to joining A*STAR, Mr Boon was CEO and Deputy Chairman of ST Engineering Pte Ltd, and concurrently the Chief Financial Officer of Singapore Technologies. Mr Boon continues to serve as Advisor to Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd, and is Special Advisor for Mindef Brunei.
He was awarded the Singapore Business Award for Outstanding CEO, one of Singapore’s prestigious business awards in 2000.
Mr Boon graduated with a Bachelor of Science (First Class Honours) Degree from the University of Newcastle in 1977, a Diploma in Accounting & Finance in 1984, a Masters of Business Administration in 1988, and the Harvard University’s Advanced Management Program in 1992. He is also a registered Professional Engineer.
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Mr Venkatachalam Krishnakumar
Director
Member, Executive Committee
Mr Venkatachalam Krishnakumar, 58, was appointed to the Board as non-executive Director on 13 August 2005 and was last re-elected on 28 April 2006.
He is a Senior Advisor to Barclays Bank PLC, Global Retail and Commercial Banking. Prior to his present appointment, he was a Senior Advisor to McKinsey and Co. He was the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer for the Asia Pacific Consumer Bank of Citigroup until his retirement on 28 February 2005, after a 31-year career with the company. Mr Krishnakumar is also a Director of Singapore Technologies Engineering Limited and Central Depository (Pte) Ltd.
Mr Krishnakumar holds a Bachelor of Engineering and Master of Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management, India in 1974.
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Mr Donald Albert Ramble
Director
Member, Executive Committee
Mr Donald Albert Ramble, 61, was appointed to the Board on 15 July 2003 as non-executive and independent Director and was last re-elected on 28 April 2006.
Mr Ramble is President, Asia Pacific, of Spectris PLC, a group of technology companies that design and manufacture specialist instrumentation and controls. He is also a Director of Spectris Pte Ltd and Spectris Asia Pacific Pte Ltd.
Prior to joining Spectris, Mr Ramble was the Managing Director (Pacific Rim and Latin America) of Mentor Graphics, a corporation in the area of electronic design automation. Mr Ramble also has extensive experience working in various management capacities in Unisys and Sperry in countries that include ASEAN, India, USA, Turkey, USSR and Western Europe.
Mr Ramble obtained a Masters in Business Administration from the Cranfield Institute of Technology, England in 1975.
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Mr Philip Eng Heng Nee
Director
Chairman, Audit Committee
Mr Philip Eng Heng Nee, 61, was appointed to the Board on 16 May 2005 as a non-executive and independent Director, and was last re-elected on 24 April 2007.
Mr Eng is currently Chairman of mDR Limited and Orchard Energy Pte Ltd. He is Deputy Chairman of MCL Land Limited and is a Director of Sunrise MCL Land Sdn Bhd, MSL Properties Sdn Bhd, Frasers Centrepoint Asset Management Ltd, Chinese Development Assistance Council. Mr Eng is President Commissioner of PT SCS Astragraphia Technologies Tbk and Commissioner of PT Adira Dinamika Multi Finance Tbk. Mr Eng is also Singapore’s Non-resident Ambassador to Greece.
He spent 23 years with the Jardine Cycle & Carriage Group before retiring in February 2005 as Group Managing Director.
Mr Eng graduated from the University of New South Wales with a Bachelor of Commerce in Accountancy, and became an Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia in 1972.
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Professor Tan Cheng Han
Director
Member, Audit Committee
Professor Tan Cheng Han, 44, Dean of the Faculty of Law at the National University of Singapore, joined the Board as non-executive and independent Director on 16 May 2005 and was last re-elected on 28 April 2006.
He also serves on the Boards of Chuan Hup Holdings Limited, Singapore Technologies Marine Limited, Anwell Technologies Limited, Centillion Environment & Recycling Ltd, Exploit Technologies Pte Ltd, Asian Society of International Law Ltd, Yellow Pages (Singapore) Ltd and NTUC Income Insurance Cooperative Ltd.
His other appointments include being a Vice- President of the Singapore Academy of Law, a Senate member of the National University of Singapore, a Governor of the Asian Law Institute, a member of the Competition Commission of Singapore, a member of the Appeal Advisory Panel to the Minister of Finance, a member of the Military Court of Appeal, and a member of the Board of Legal Education.
He was appointed Senior Counsel at the Opening of the Legal Year in 2004 and was named one of three Young Global Leaders from Singapore by the World Economic Forum in January 2005.
Professor Tan graduated from the National University of Singapore with a LLB (Hons) in 1987 and obtained his LLM from the University of Cambridge in 1990.
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Mr William Liu Wei Hai
Director
Member, Audit Committee
Mr William Liu Wei Hai, 60, was appointed a nonexecutive member of the Board and member of the Audit Committee in September 2001, and was last re-elected on 28 April 2006.
He is currently Chairman of W3 Infocomm Group, Stream Global Pte Ltd and IPR Holdings Inc, and a member of the Boards of Century Oasis Pte Ltd, Century Oasis Ltd (BVI), SISTIC.com Pte Ltd, Ensop Pte Ltd, ALP Energy Pte Ltd and the National Library Board. Mr Liu was President of Green Dot Capital Pte Ltd from 2001 to 2006. Before joining Green Dot Capital, he was President & Chief Executive Officer of ABACUS International Pte Ltd from 1993 to 2001, where he was responsible for the company’s profitable growth and spearheaded the company’s expansion program across the Asia-Pacific region covering 20 countries.
Mr Liu obtained a Bachelor of Science Honours Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Manchester, U.K. in 1969; and a Master of Science Degree in Operational Research & Management Studies from the Imperial College of London in 1971.
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Mr Tan Tong Hai
Director
Member, Executive Committee
President & Chief Executive Officer
Mr Tan Tong Hai was appointed President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO) on 11 August 2005, and Executive Director on 12 August 2005. Mr Tan was appointed a member of the Executive Committee on 1 January 2007.
Mr Tan Tong Hai, 45, was appointed President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO) on 11 August 2005, and Executive Director on 12 August 2005. Mr Tan was last re-elected on 28 April 2006.
Mr Tan is an active business leader and serves as a Council Member of Singapore Manufacturers’ Federation, a member of Nanyang Polytechnic’s School of Information Technology Advisory Committee and a member of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce & Industry IT advisory panel. He was previously a Council Member of Singapore Computer Society and Singapore Infocomm Technology Federation, and also a member of the Chinese editorial advisory committee of Singapore Press Holdings.
Prior to joining SCS, Mr Tan was the President & CEO of NASDAQ-listed Pacific Internet (PacNet), where he turned the company around from a loss position within a year of joining and subsequently delivered 14 consecutive quarters of profits. Before PacNet, Mr Tan was CEO of StarHub Internet. Prior to StarHub, he spent 11 years with IBM, where he held many management positions, including General Manager of International Application Solutions Pte Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of IBM, focusing on business applications for SMEs.
Mr Tan graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1988 with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (Honours) Degree.
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