Board of Directors
Edmund Cheng Wai Wing, Chairman
David Zalmon Baffsky
Khaw Kheng Joo
Rajiv Behari Lall
Mak Swee Wah
Ng Kee Choe
Ow Chin Hock
Keith Tay Ah Kee
Yeo Chee Tong
Board Executive Committee
Cheng Wai Wing Edmund, Chairman
Mak Swee Wah
Ng Kee Choe
Audit & Risk Management Committee
Keith Tay Ah Kee, Chairman
David Zalmon Baffsky
Khaw Kheng Joo
Yeo Chee Tong
Nominating Committee
Khaw Kheng Joo, Chairman
Rajiv Behari Lall
Ow Chin Hock
Keith Tay Ah Kee
Remuneration & Human Resource Committee
Cheng Wai Wing Edmund, Chairman
Mak Swee Wah
Ng Kee Choe
Yeo Chee Tong
Company Secretary
Shireena Johan Woon
Executive Officers
Clement Woon Hin Yong
Karmjit Singh
Goh Soo Lim
Leong Kok Hong
Tan Chuan Lye
Andrew Lim Cheng Yueh
Yacoob Piperdi
Board of Directors
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Mr Edmund Cheng Wai Wing, 55 |
Mr Cheng is the Deputy Chairman of Wing Tai Holdings Limited.
Besides his experience as a property developer, Mr Cheng is also active in both the public and private sectors. He is currently the Chairman of Mapletree Investments Pte Ltd, National Arts Council and DesignSingapore Council. Mr Cheng is also a board member of a number of public and private companies, including SNP Corporation Ltd and DNP Holdings Berhad. He also serves as a member of the International Council for Asia Society and on the Nanyang Technological University's Board of Trustees.
Mr Cheng previously chaired the Singapore Tourism Board (STB), The Old Parliament House Limited, and The Esplanade Co Ltd, where he is now a member. He also sat on the boards of the Construction Industry Development Board, the Urban Redevelopment Authority and Singapore Airlines Limited. He was President of the Real Estate Developers' Association of Singapore (REDAS) and now serves as a member of its Presidential Council.
Mr Cheng was conferred the Public Service Star Award (BBM) in 1999 by the Singapore Government. He was also recognised by STB for his Outstanding Contribution to Tourism in the Tourism Awards 2002.
Mr Cheng graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Northwestern University, USA, and holds a Masters in Architecture from Carnegie-Mellon University, USA.
Past principal directorships in the preceding three years: The Old Parliament House Limited; CIH Limited; Leefung Holdings Limited; The Esplanade Co Ltd.
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Mr David Zalmon Baffsky, 66 |
Mr Baffsky is the Honorary Chairman of Accor Asia Pacific, which is part of the Paris-based major global hotel group, Accor, since February 2008. Prior to that, he was Executive Chairman of the company, a position he had held since 1993.
Mr Baffsky is concurrently a director and the founder of Tourism Assets Holdings Limited. From 1986 to 1993, he was Chairman of Citistate Corporation Limited, an Australian public listed company in property development. He was also a director of Club Mediterranee (Australia) Pty Ltd from 1985 to August 2000.
Mr Baffsky has served on the Singapore Tourism Board and other major government and industry bodies in the Asia Pacific region. He continues to be a member of a number of government and industry bodies, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Mr Baffsky was a founding Director and now a Life Member of the Australian Tourism Task Force. He was made an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AO) for his service to tourism and to the community in 2001. In 2003, he was awarded the Centenary Medal for 'Service to Australian Society through Business Indigenous Affairs and the Arts' and was named 'Asia Pacific Hotelier of the Year' by Jones Lang and LaSalle.
Mr Baffsky graduated from the University of Sydney's law school in 1966.
Past principal directorships in the preceding three years: Berimelle Pty Limited; GW Hotel Group Pty Limited; KSW Properties Pty Limited.
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Mr Khaw Kheng Joo, 60 |
Mr Khaw is the Chief Executive Officer of Mediaring Ltd. He is also a Director of Senoko Power Limited.
Mr Khaw started his working career with Hewlett Packard Company (HP) and spent a total of 26 years with the company in various technical and managerial positions. His last assignment there was General Manager of the PDA Division. He left HP in 1999 to become President of Omni Electronics (S) Pte Ltd. Before he assumed his present position in Mediaring Ltd, he was Senior Vice President of Celestica Inc., which acquired Omni Electronics Limited.
Mr Khaw was a former board member of the Economic Development Board. He currently serves on the advisory council of Singapore Polytechnic's Business School.
Mr Khaw holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering from Oregon State University, USA, and a Masters degree in Business Administration from Santa Clara University, USA. Prior to that, he graduated with a Diploma in Electronic and Communication from Singapore Polytechnic.
Past principal directorships in the preceding three years: Amtek Engineering Ltd; Maveric Ltd (formerly known as Total Automation Ltd).
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Dr Rajiv Behari Lall, 50 |
Dr Rajiv Behari Lall is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC). He joined IDFC, a company listed on the National Stock Exchange of India and the Bombay Stock Exchange, in January 2005.
Dr Lall is a director on the boards of the National Stock Exchange of India, National Securities Depositories Ltd., Securities Trading Corporation of India and other companies within the IDFC Group.
Before joining IDFC, Dr Lall was a Partner in Warburg Pincus since 1997. From 1995 to 1997, he was the Executive Director and Head, Asian Economic Research of Morgan Stanley Asia Limited, Hong Kong. Dr Lall was with the World Bank, Washington from 1988 to 1995 and the Manila office of the Asian Development Bank from 1985 to 1987. He was an Assistant Professor with the Florida Atlantic University, USA from 1983 to 1985, teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in macroeconomics, international trade and finance, and development economics.
Dr Lall graduated from University College, Oxford University in 1978 with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University, New York in 1984, specialising in Macroeconomics, International Trade and Econometrics. He has a number of publications to his credit.
Past principal directorships and appointments in the preceding three years: Warburg Pincus (Partnership); Lok Advisory Services Private Limited; Asia Society.
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Mr Mak Swee Wah, 47 |
Mr Mak is the Executive Vice President of Operations and Services of Singapore Airlines Limited (SIA). He has been with the company since August 1983.
Mr Mak is currently a director of SilkAir(Singapore) Private Limited and Singapore Airlines Cargo Pte Ltd.
In his 25-year stint in SIA, he has served in various managerial capacities covering Market Planning and Projects and Country Management. He has also assumed senior executive positions such as General Manager of SilkAir (Singapore) Private Limited, Senior Vice President for South West Pacific, where he was based in Sydney, as well as Senior Vice President for Planning before he was promoted to his current position in January 2008.
An SIA scholar, Mr Mak graduated from the London School of Economics in 1982 with a Bachelor of Science (First Class Honours) degree in Accounting and Finance. He holds a Masters of Science degree in Operational Research from the same university.
Past principal directorship in the preceding three years: LaSalle Foundation Ltd
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Mr Ng Kee Choe, 64 |
Mr Ng is the Chairman of Singapore Power Limited. He is also Chairman of SP Ausnet*.
His other current directorships include Chairman of NTUC Income Insurance Co-Operative Ltd, Director of Singapore Exchange Limited and President Commissioner of PT Bank Danamon Indonesia Tbk. He is also a member of both the Temasek Advisory Panel and the International Advisory Council of China Development Bank as well as Chairman of Tanah Merah Country Club.
Mr Ng was formerly the Vice Chairman of DBS Group Holdings. He retired from his executive position in July 2003, after 33 years of service with DBS.
For his contributions to the public service, Mr Ng was conferred the Public Service Star Award in 2001.
Mr Ng graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree from the University of Singapore.
Past principal directorship and appointment in the preceding three years: Governor of the Singapore International Foundation; Wing Lung Bank Ltd.
* A stapled group comprising SP Australia Networks (Transmission) Ltd, SP Australia Networks (Distribution) Ltd and SP Australia Networks (Finance) Trust, acting through its responsible entity, SP Australia Networks (RE) Ltd. It is dual listed on the Australian Stock Exchange and the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited.
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Dr Ow Chin Hock, 64 |
Dr Ow is a Visiting Professor (National Grade) of Xiamen University (Department of Finance, Faculty of Economics), China.
He is an Independent Director of People's Food Holdings Ltd and Longcheer Holdings Ltd, both being Chinese companies listed on the Singapore Exchange.
Dr Ow is an economist with working experience in politics, academics and business. He first joined the Department of Economics and Statistics of the National University of Singapore as Lecturer in 1972, and stayed on till 1993 where his last-held position was Associate Professor.
Concurrently, he was elected Member of Parliament (MP) from 1976 to 2001. During his six terms as an MP, he held several key public appointments, including Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Culture, and subsequently, Ministry of Education, from 1977 to 1981. He became Executive Chairman of Pan-United Corporation Ltd (PUC), a Singapore listed company in 1993. He left PUC when he rejoined the Singapore Government in 1997 and was appointed Mayor and Minister of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1997 to 2001, and Ambassador-At-Large from 2002 to 2004.
Dr Ow chaired the Audit Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) from 1981 to 1999, and was Vice Chairman of ISEAS Board of Trustees from 1996 to 2002. He was Adjunct Professor of Nanyang Technological University, teaching Master of Public Administration courses for Chinese officials from 2004 to 2007.
Dr Ow graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree from the University of Singapore in 1966. He was awarded the Fulbright Grant and Ford Fellowship to do graduate studies in the USA in 1966. He obtained his Masters of Arts (Economic Development) and Ph.D. (Economics) degrees from Vanderbilt University in 1968 and 1972 respectively.
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Mr Keith Tay Ah Kee, 64 |
Mr Tay is the Chairman of Stirling Coleman Capital Ltd and Aviva Limited.
He was the Chairman and Managing Partner of KPMG Peat Marwick Singapore from 1984 to 1993. He also served as the President of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore (ICPAS) from 1982 to 1992 and was the Singapore Representative to the Council of the International Federation of Accountants from 1987 to 1990.
Mr Tay has been the Vice Chairman of the Singapore Institute of Directors since 1998. A board member of the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce since 1985, he was Chairman of the Chamber from 1995 to 1997. He also holds directorships in various listed companies including Singapore Post Limited, Singapore Reinsurance Corporation Ltd, FJ Benjamin Holdings Ltd and Singapore Power Limited.
Mr Tay was conferred the first International Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Profession by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales in 1988 and the Public Service Star Award (BBM) in 1990 by the President of the Republic of Singapore. In 1993, ICPAS also conferred upon Mr Tay the Gold Medal for distinguished service to the profession and made him an Honorary Fellow in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the profession and the Singapore community.
Mr Tay qualified as a Chartered Accountant in London in 1968. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.
Past principal directorship in the preceding three years: Elec & Eltek International Co Ltd.
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Mr Yeo Chee Tong, 49 |
Mr Yeo is the President and Chief Executive Officer of SNP Corporation Ltd and has been a member of its board since April 2000.
He was formerly with Singapore Computer Systems Ltd and ST Telemedia Pte Ltd before joining SNP Corporation Ltd as its Vice President (Development) and subsequently as its President and Chief Executive Officer in 2000. He also holds directorships in various other companies within the SNP Group.
Mr Yeo holds a Bachelor of Electrical & Electronic Engineering (Honours) degree as well as Masters in Science (Engineering) and Masters in Business Administration degrees from the National University of Singapore. He had also completed the Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Programme in 1999.
Past principal directorship in the preceding three years: TKS Technologies Public Company Limited.
Executive Officers
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Clement Woon Hin Yong, 49 |
Mr Woon is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Singapore Airport Terminal Services Limited (SATS). He joined SATS on 1 November 2007. Prior to his present position, Mr Woon was the President of Geosystems Division of Leica Geosystems AG, a multinational corporation based in Heerbrugg, Switzerland which provides spatial/surveying solutions and is part of the Hexagon Group from Sweden.
Mr Woon joined Leica since 1992, with responsibilities ranging from operations to business development in the early years. He was transferred to Heerbrugg, Switzerland in 1997 and had held senior positions as President of the Surveying & Engineering and Geosystems divisions of Leica Geosystems since 2001. He had oversight of Leica Geosystems' research and development, manufacturing, sales, marketing, finance and human resource functions for five business lines covering five sales regions including the Asia-Pacific, Europe, Americas and the Middle East. Mr Woon was instrumental in growing Leica's business and presence in these regions over the last five years.
Mr Woon serves on the Boards of SATS Airport Services Pte Ltd and SATS Catering Pte Ltd. He is also the Vice Chairman of Beijing Aviation Ground Services Co Ltd and Beijing Airport Inflight Kitchen Ltd as well as Vice President Commissioner of PT Jasa Angkasa Semesta TBK.
Mr Woon holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree and a Masters of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from the National University of Singapore. He also holds a Masters of Business Administration from the Nanyang Technological University.
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Karmjit Singh, 60 |
Mr Singh is the Chief Operating Officer of SATS, overseeing the ground handling and inflight catering operations of the SATS group of companies. Prior to joining SATS in July 1998, he spent 24 years with SIA, serving in a variety of managerial capacities covering Corporate Affairs, Planning, Aviation Fuel, Administrative Services, Purchasing and airline acquisition projects. In SATS, he has held the positions of Chairman and General Manager of SATS Security Services Private Limited, General Manager (SATS Apron) and Chief Executive Officer of SATS Airport Services Pte Ltd.
Mr Singh is a Board member of SATS Airport Services Pte Ltd, SATS Catering Pte Ltd and Taj SATS Air Catering Limited. He also serves as Chairman of the Board of Asia Airfreight Terminal Co Ltd, which provides cargo handling services at Chek Lap Kok Airport in Hong Kong.
In addition, he is the Chairman of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, Singapore and a member of the Singapore Institute of Directors. He also serves on the Public Transport Council and the Board of The Logistics Institute - Asia Pacific.
Mr Singh graduated from the University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree, majoring in Geography.
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Goh Soo Lim, 41 |
Mr Goh is the Chief Financial Officer of SATS, overseeing its Finance and Corporate Services functions. He joined SATS in January 2007. Prior to that, he was with Singapore Telecommunications Ltd in various managerial capacities including as its Regional Director of Strategic Investments, Finance Director, and Chief Operating Officer, ADSB (Belgacom, Belgium). He has more than 17 years of experience in audit, finance and overseas investments.
Mr Goh serves on the Boards of Asia Airfreight Terminal Co Ltd and Aero Laundry and Linen Services Private Limited.
Mr Goh graduated with a Bachelor of Business (Accounting) degree from Curtin University, Australia and had completed the Executive Development Programme at The Wharton School, USA. He is a Certified Practising Accountant (CPA) with CPA Australia.
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Leong Kok Hong, 57 |
Mr Leong is the Senior Vice President (North Asia) of SATS, responsible for the development of its overseas ventures and client relations in North Asia. He joined SATS in July 1976 and was appointed to his present position in July 2006. He previously worked in a variety of managerial capacities covering Catering, Cargo, IT Systems and Corporate Planning.
Mr Leong serves as the Vice Chairman of Tan Son Nhat Cargo services Ltd and is also a Board member of Beijing Aviation Ground Services Co Ltd, Evergreen Air Cargo Services Corporation and Evergreen Airline Services Corporation.
Mr Leong graduated from the University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree in Physics.
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Tan Chuan Lye, 58 |
Mr Tan is the Senior Vice President (Catering) of SATS. He joined SATS in May 1976 and was appointed to his present position in February 2000. He previously held managerial positions in SIA Ground Services and SATS Airport Services Pte Ltd, and was also in charge of managing Changi Airport Terminal 2 for SIA and SATS operations.
Mr Tan is the Chairman of Country Foods Pte. Ltd. He also sits on the Boards of Taj SATS Air Catering Limited, Beijing Airport Inflight Kitchen Ltd, Evergreen Sky Catering Corporation and Aviserv Limited.
Mr Tan graduated from the University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Social Science (Honours) degree, majoring in Economics.
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Andrew Lim Cheng Yueh, 54 |
Mr Lim is the Senior Vice President (Apron and Passenger Services) of SATS. He joined SATS in May 1979 and was appointed to his present position in August 2005. Prior to that, he was the Vice President for Human Resource. Mr Lim previously held managerial positions in SIA Cargo, SATS Cargo, Security, Passenger Services and Training. He was also posted overseas from 1998 to 2000 as Chief Executive Officer of Asia Airfreight Terminal Co Ltd in Hong Kong.
Mr Lim is the Chairman of Aerolog Express Pte Ltd and a member of the Boards of Asia Airfreight Terminal Co Ltd and SATS Security Services Private Limited.
Mr Lim graduated from the University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Social Science (Honours) degree, majoring in Sociology.
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Yacoob Piperdi, 50 |
Mr Piperdi is the Senior Vice President (Cargo Services) of SATS. He joined SATS in 1981 and was appointed to his present position in July 2006. Prior to that, he was the Vice President in charge of SATS Inflight Catering Centre 2. He previously held managerial positions in SATS' Apron and Baggage, Passenger Services, Marketing and SIA Ground Services.
Mr Piperdi serves on the Board of Maldives Inflight Catering Pte Ltd.
Mr Piperdi graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree, majoring in English.
updated 9th October, 2008
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