Lim Chee Onn Executive Chairman, Keppel Corporation Chairman, Executive Committee Member, Board Safety Committee More Details >>

		Tony Chew Leong-Chee Executive Chairman, Asia Resource Corporation Lead Independent Director Member, Executive Committee Member, Audit Committee More Details >>

		Lim Hock San Chief Executive Officer, United Industrial Corporation Chief Executive Officer, Singapore Land Chairman, Audit Committee Member, Executive Committee Member, Board Risk Committee Independent Director More Details >>

		Sven Bang Ullring Chairman, Board of The Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Oslo, Norway Chairman, Nominating Committee Chairman, Remuneration Committee Member, Board Safety Committee Independent Director More Details >>

		Tsao Yuan Mrs Lee Soo Ann Executive Director, SDC Consulting Member, Nominating Committee Member, Remuneration Committee Member, Board Safety Committee Independent Director More Details >>

		Oon Kum Loon (Mrs) Chairperson, Board Risk Committee Member, Audit Committee Member, Executive Committee Member, Nominating Committee Independent Director More Details >>

		Tow Heng Tan Chief Investment Officer, Temasek Holdings Member, Executive Committee Member, Remuneration Committee Member, Board Risk Committee Non-Independent and Non-Executive Director More Details >>

		Yeo Wee Kiong Director, Drew & Napier LLC Chairman, Board Safety Committee Member, Board Risk Committee Independent Director More Details >>

		Choo Chiau Beng Senior Executive Director, Keppel Corporation Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Keppel Offshore & Marine Member, Executive Committee More Details >>

		Teo Soon Hoe Senior Executive Director and Group Finance Director, Keppel Corporation Member, Executive Committee More Details >>
Information on Directors

Lim Chee Onn, 63
Bachelor of Science (First Class Honours) in Naval Architecture, Glasgow University; Masters in Public Administration, Edward S. Mason Fellow, Kennedy School, Harvard University; Member of the Wharton Society of Fellows, University of Pennsylvania; Honorary Doctorate in Engineering, Glasgow University. Conferred the Distinguished Service Order by the President of the Republic of Singapore in 2007.

Executive Chairman of Keppel Corporation Limited since January 2000 (Director since 1983; date of last re-election: 29 April 2005) and Chairman of the Executive Committee and member of the Board Safety Committee. He is also Chairman of Keppel Land Ltd, MobileOne Ltd, and Singapore-Suzhou Township Development Pte Ltd and a Board Member of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, k1 Ventures Ltd and Business China. Mr Lim is also the Honorary Chairman of the National Heritage Board, Deputy Chairman/Advisory Board, Harvard Singapore Foundation and Alternate Member of the Council of Presidential Advisors.

Mr Lim started his career in the Civil Service. He was Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Communications until elected as Member of Parliament in July 1977. He served as Political Secretary, Ministry of Science and Technology from August 1978 to September 1980. Mr Lim was Secretary-General, National Trades Union Congress from May 1979 to June 1983 and concurrently Minister without Portfolio, Prime Minister's Office from September 1980 to July 1983, and remained as Member of Parliament until December 1992.

In addition, Mr Lim is Co-Chairman of the Philippines-Singapore Business Council and Deputy Chairman of the Seoul International Business Advisory Council. He is Economic Advisor to Jiangsu Provincial Government, PRC, and Consultant to the People's Government of Yunnan Province, PRC. He is a Member of the Singapore-US Business Council and a Member of the INSEAD Singapore International Council. Mr Lim is also Member of the Board of Trustees, Asia Business Council, Member of the Board of Trustees of The Conference Board and Counsellor of The Conference Board's Global Advisory Council on Economic Issues.

Tony Chew Leong-Chee, 61
Trained as an agronomist at Ko Plantations Berhad and Serdang Agricultural College in Malaysia from 1966 to 1970.

Appointed to the Board in 2002 (date of last re-election: 29 April 2005). An independent and non-executive Director, he is the Company’s Lead Independent Director and member of the Company's Audit Committee and Executive Committee.

Mr Chew is Executive Chairman of Asia Resource Corporation and Chairman of KFC Vietnam. He also serves on the boards of Macondray Corporation and Orangestar Investment Holdings Pte Ltd, amongst others.

From 1966, he worked at Sri Gading Estates in Malaysia, Guthrie Trading in Singapore, and the Sampoerna Group of Indonesia. In 1975 he ventured out, becoming an entrepreneur, and built a group of companies in the region which became Asia Resource Corporation.

He plays an active role in promoting regional business, having served on the Trade Development Board, Economic Review Sub-Committee for Entrepreneurship and Internationalisation, Regional Business Forum, and the GPC Resource Panel for Finance, Trade and Industry. He is presently council member of the Singapore Business Federation and ASEAN Business Advisory Council, Chairman of Network Indonesia and Chairman of the Governing Board of Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore. He is a Public Service Award recipient.

Lim Hock San, 61
Bachelor of Accountancy, University of Singapore; Master of Science, MIT Sloan School of Management; Advanced Management Program, Harvard Business School; Fellow, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (UK).

Appointed to the Board in 1989 (date of last re-election: 27 April 2007), he is an independent and non-executive Director. Mr Lim is also the Chairman of the Company’s Audit Committee and member of the Executive Committee and Board Risk Committee. Mr Lim is the CEO of United Industrial Corporation Ltd and Singapore Land Ltd. He is also the Chairman of Gallant Ventures Ltd and the National Council Against Problem Gambling, and a board member of Ascendas Pte Ltd and Interra Resources Limited. Mr Lim previously served as the Director-General of Civil Aviation (1980-1992) and was past President of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore.

Sven Bang Ullring, 72
Master of Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich.

Appointed to the Board in 2000 (date of last re-election: 27 April 2007). An independent and non-executive Director and Chairman of the Nominating Committee and the Remuneration Committee and member of the Board Safety Committee.

Mr Ullring is the Chairman of the Board of The Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Oslo, Norway. He was President and Chairman of the Executive board of Det Norske Veritas, Oslo from 1985-2000 and President and CEO of NORCONSULT, Oslo from 1981-1985. He worked for SKANSKA, Malmo, Sweden from 1962-1981 in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas; from 1972-1981 he was Director of the International Department.

In addition, Mr Ullring is Chairman of the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore’s Third Maritime and Research and Development Advisory Panel; Chairman of the Board of Transparency International (Norway), and a Director of Sustainable Forest Management, London and the Institute for Culture and Oriental Languages University of Oslo.

Tsao Yuan Mrs Lee Soo Ann, 52
PhD in Economics, Harvard University; President Scholar with a First Class Honours degree in Economics and Statistics, University of Singapore.

Appointed to the Board in 2002 (date of last re-election: 28 April 2006). An independent and non-executive Director and member of the Nominating Committee, the Remuneration Committee and the Board Safety Committee.

Dr Lee Tsao Yuan is an Executive Director with SDC Consulting, a privately-owned Singapore-based human resources development training, consultancy and coaching company.

An economist by training, Dr Lee has extensive experience in public policy both in Singapore and internationally. She was with the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS), a public policy think-tank for 10 years, as Deputy Director (1990-1997), and Director (1997-November 2000). Prior to her joining IPS, she taught at the Department of Economics and Statistics, National University of Singapore (1982-1989).

She served as a Nominated Member of Parliament in Singapore for two terms (1994-1996 and 1997-1999).

Dr Lee sits on the Boards of various companies and organisations, including Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Ltd.

Oon Kum Loon, 57
Bachelor of Business Administration (Honours) from the University of Singapore.

Appointed to the Board in 2004 (date of last re-election: 27 April 2007). An independent and non-executive Director of the Company and Chairperson of the Company's Board Risk Committee and member of the Company's Audit, Executive and Nominating Committees.

Mrs Oon is a veteran banker with about 30 years of extensive experience, having held a number of management and executive positions with the DBS Group. She was the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the bank until September 2003.

Prior to serving as CFO, she was the Managing Director & Head of Group Risk Management, responsible for the development and implementation of a group-wide integrated risk management framework.

During her career with the bank, Mrs Oon was also involved with treasury and markets, corporate finance and credit management activities.

Her other directorships include PSA International Pte Ltd; SP PowerGrid Ltd; CSMC Technologies Corporation; and Schmidt Electronics Group Ltd. She is also a member of the Board Risk Management Committee of Singapore Power Ltd.

Tow Heng Tan, 52
Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants as well as the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.

Appointed to the Board in 2004 (date of last re-election: 27 April 2007). A non-executive Director and member of the Company's Executive, Remuneration and Board Risk Committees.

Mr Tow has an extensive business career spanning the management consultancy, investment banking and stockbroking industries. He is currently the Chief Investment Officer of Temasek Holdings (Pte) Ltd (Temasek Holdings).

Prior to joining Temasek Holdings in September 2002, he was Senior Director of Business Development at DBS Vickers Securities (Singapore) Pte Ltd. From 1993 to 2001, Mr Tow was Managing Director of Lum Chang Securities Pte Ltd.

Mr Tow also sits on the Board of ComfortDelGro Corporation Limited, among others.

Yeo Wee Kiong, 52
LLB Honours University of London, MBA National University of Singapore, First Class Honours (Mechanical Engineering) University of Singapore.

Appointed to the Board in 2005 (date of last re-election: 28 April 2006). An independent and non-executive Director of the Company, Chairman of the Company's Board Safety Committee, and member of the Company's Board Risk Committee.

Mr Yeo Wee Kiong is a director in Drew & Napier LLC, a leading law corporation in Singapore practising in the areas of corporate law, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, listings on stock exchanges, venture capital, banking and securities.

He started his career in 1980 as a senior industry officer with the Singapore Economic Development Board ("EDB") where he participated in EDB's international drive to promote high technology investments into Singapore. He was an investment banker with NM Rothschild & Sons Singapore between 1984 to 1989 in capital markets and corporate finance advisory services. He started his legal career with Drew & Napier in 1989, subsequently founding his own law firm. He was also previously a senior partner in Rajah & Tann, a leading law firm in Singapore. He rejoined Drew & Napier in 2007.

Mr Yeo is an independent director of two listed companies, namely, Bonvests Holdings Limited and PCA Technology Ltd. He is also a non-executive director and audit chairman of Ascendas Pte Ltd, which is a government group in commercial property development and property trust management.

Choo Chiau Beng, 60
Bachelor of Science (First Class Honours), University of Newcastle upon Tyne (awarded the Colombo Plan Scholarship to study Naval Architecture); Master of Science in Naval Architecture, University of Newcastle upon Tyne; attended the Programme for Management Development in Harvard Business School in 1982 and is a Member of the Wharton Society of Fellows, University of Pennsylvania.

Appointed to the Board in 1983 (date of last re-election: 28 April 2006). A Senior Executive Director and member of the Company's Executive Committee.

Mr Choo is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd and is also the Chairman of Singapore Petroleum Company Limited, Singapore Refining Company Pte Ltd and SMRT Corporation Ltd. Mr Choo sits on the Board of Directors of Keppel Land Ltd, k1 Ventures Ltd, and is a Board Member of Singapore Maritime Foundation and Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore. He is Chairman of the Nanyang Business School’s International Advisory Board.

Mr Choo started his career with Keppel Shipyard as a Ship Repair Management Trainee in 1971 and was appointed Executive Director of Singapore Slipway in 1973. In 1975, when Keppel set up its shipyard in the Philippines, he was posted there to assume the position of Executive Vice President and CEO of the company for a period of four years. He joined Keppel FELS (formerly known as Far East Levingston Shipbuilding Ltd) in 1980 as Assistant General Manager and was appointed as Director to the Board of the company. He was promoted to Deputy Managing Director in November 1981 and to Managing Director in March 1983. In 1994, he was appointed Deputy Chairman and in 1997, Chairman of the company.

He is also Chairman of Det Norske Veritas South East Asia Committee and Council Member of the American Bureau of Shipping and member of the American Bureau of Shipping's Southeast Asia Regional Committee and Special Committee on Mobile Offshore Drilling Units. He is Singapore's Non-Resident Ambassador to Brazil.

Teo Soon Hoe, 58
Bachelor of Business Administration, University of Singapore; Member of the Wharton Society of Fellows, University of Pennsylvania.

Appointed to the Board in 1985 (date of last re-election: 29 April 2005). A Senior Executive Director and the Group Finance Director and member of the Company's Executive Committee.

Mr Teo is the Chairman of Keppel Telecommunications & Transportation Ltd and Keppel Philippines Holding Inc. In addition, he is a director of several other companies within the Keppel Group, including Keppel Land Limited, Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd, k1 Ventures Limited and Singapore Petroleum Company Limited. He is also a director of MobileOne Ltd.

Mr Teo began his career with the Keppel Group in 1975 when he joined Keppel Shipyard. He rose through the ranks and was seconded to various subsidiaries of the Keppel Group before assuming the position of Group Finance Director in 1985.

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