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Our Board is entrusted with the responsibility for the overall management of our Group.
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Position
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Danny Walla
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Non-Executive Director, Chairman of the Board
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Tan Tze Wen
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Managing Director
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Tan Hun Tee
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Executive Director
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Ganapathy Neelakantan
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Executive Director
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Ng Guat Hua
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Executive Director
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Chen Yeow Sin
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Independent Director, Audit Committee Chairman
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Basmadjian Krikor
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Independent Director, Remuneration Committee Chairman
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Lee Thiam Seng
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Independent Director, Nominating Committee Chairman
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The business and working experience of our Directors are set out below:–
Danny Walla was appointed as the Non-Executive Chairman of our Company on 4 January 2006. He
has more than 30 years of experience in the automotive and parts industry. He was a director of P.T.
Federal Motor (then known as P.T. Astra Honda Motor) from 1978 to 1990, where he was responsible
for overseeing the manufacturing and investment functions of the company. Thereafter, he was a
director of P.T. Astra International Tbk from 1990 to 2005, where he was in-charge of the Motorcycle
and Component Automotive Division of the company. As part of his responsibilities whilst working at P.T.
Astra International Tbk, he served as President Director (from 1997 to 1999) and President
Commissioner (from 2001 to 2005) of PT Astra Otoparts Tbk, a public listed company on the Jakarta
Stock Exchange. He was also a Commissioner of P.T. Astra Honda Motor from 2002 to 2005 and the
President Director of P.T. Astra Agro Lestari Tbk from 1999 to 2001. Danny Walla is currently the
President Commissioner of the Indonesian Trading Company (PT PPI, a state-owned corporation),
responsible for supervising the activities of the board of directors as well as providing suggestions and
opinions for the running of the company’s operations. He is also an advisor to P.T. Toyota Tsusho
Indonesia. He obtained a technical degree specialising in Machine and Construction from Bandung
Institute of Technology in 1971.
Tan Tze Wen founded our Company in 1975 and has been our Director since 29 April 1975. He is
currently our Managing Director. He is responsible for the overall management, strategic planning and
business development of our Group. He also oversees the overall administration, finance and
operations of our Group. Tan Tze Wen has been instrumental to our growth. Under his leadership, our
Company has grown from a business undertaking mainly small pump station projects to an
environmental engineering company awarded with multi-million dollar contracts. Tan Tze Wen has
more than 20 years of experience in the water treatment and wastewater treatment business. He
obtained a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Delft University of
Technology, the Netherlands in 1971.
Tan Hun Tee is our Executive Director, responsible for overseeing the implementation of our projects
as well as for our tendering, sales, costing and marketing functions. He joined our Company in 1981
as a project engineer in charge of pump station projects. In 1982, he was promoted to project manager
and was appointed as an Executive Director of our Company on 19 May 1992. Tan Hun Tee obtained
his Bachelor of Science (Economics) degree from the University of London, United Kingdom in 2001.
Prior to that, he also obtained a Diploma in Management Studies from the Singapore Institute of
Management in 1991, a Diploma in Marketing Management from Ngee Ann Polytechnic in 1988 and a
Technical Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from Singapore Polytechnic in 1974. Tan Hun Tee is a
registered member of the Engineering Council in the United Kingdom and is also a member of the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers USA
and the Singapore Institute of Management.
Ganapathy Neelakantan is our Project Director. He has over 30 years of experience in process and
environmental engineering related projects in Singapore and in the region. He joined our Company in
1990 as project manager, handling water treatment and waste water treatment projects in Singapore,
Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines and India. He was appointed as an Executive Director of our Company
on 6 July 1993. Mr Neelakantan is currently responsible for water and wastewater projects in
Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand. He obtained a Bachelor of Technology
degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Madras in 1970.
Ng Guat Hua is our Administrative Director. Ng Guat Hua joined our Company in 1981 and currently
has more than 20 years of experience in finance and administration. She was appointed as Executive
Director of our Company on 19 May 1992. Ng Guat Hua currently oversees the overall finance and
administrative functions of our Group and is responsible for project cost control, analysing accounts for
management review and preparing the forecast and budget for each financial year. She is a member
of The World Red Swastika Society and a director of the Red Swastika School Management
Committee. She obtained her GCE ‘O’ level qualifications in or around 1975.
Chen Yeow Sin was appointed as an Independent Director of our Company on 4 January 2006. He has
about 20 years of experience in audit and financial advisory services. From 1992 to 1996, he was an
audit manager at Deloitte and Touche, responsible for financial audit, due diligence reviews and initial
public offerings. Subsequently, he was the South East Asian internal audit manager at Unocal
Corporation from 1997 to 1999, where he was responsible for risk management, internal audit,
business process evaluations and conflict of interest investigations for the South East Asian
subsidiaries. In 2000, he joined LTC and Associates as an audit partner and has been serving in that
capacity ever since. Chen Yeow Sin obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of
London and is a Certified Public Accountant. He is also a fellow of the Institute of Chartered
Accountants in England and Wales and a fellow of the Certified Public Accountants of Australia.
Basmadjian Krikor was appointed as an Independent Director of our Company on 4 January 2006. He
has about 28 years of experience in the banking sector, having worked at Bank of America from 1974
to 2002. During his career at Bank of America, he held several senior positions including Vice President
and Country Operations Manager for various countries such as Indonesia, Thailand and Indo-China
from 1989 to 1998 as well as Senior Vice President and Country Operations Manager in Japan and
Korea from 1998 to 2001. Between 2001 and 2002, he served as director of BA Forex, a subsidiary of
Bank of America in the Philippines. Since 2002, Basmadjian Krikor has been the trustee and honorary
treasurer of the Armenian Church in Singapore. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in Business
Administration from Cyprus College USA in 1974.
Lee Thiam Seng was appointed as an Independent Director of our Company on 4 January 2006. Lee
Thiam Seng is currently the Executive Chairman, Managing Director and acting Chief Executive Officer
of ecoWise Holdings Limited, responsible for formulating the strategic directions and business
strategies, and management of resources recovery, use of sustainable resources and environmental
solutions. Prior to joining ecoWise Holdings Limited, he was engaged to provide business advisory
services to the company and its subsidiaries from 2000 to 2002. From 1988 to 2002, he was a licensed
financial advisor with American International Assurance Company Ltd and AIG International
(Singapore) Pte Limited where he supervised a team of financial services consultants. Concurrently,
from 1999 to 2002, he was a consultant for EONS Technologies Pte Ltd, a company involved in the
business of wastewater treatment and recycling, and pollution control systems. As a consultant, he was
responsible for advising on business strategies and providing technical knowledge and expertise to the
company. In 2002, Lee Thiam Seng served as a technical consultant in relation to the operations of
Jiangsu Penyao Group Co., Ltd in Jiangsu, the People’s Republic of China, a company involved in the
business of waste management and treatment, and environmental engineering. Lee Thiam Seng
obtained a Technician Diploma (Merit) in Electrical Engineering from the Singapore Polytechnic in
1981. He is also a Chartered Financial Consultant, accredited by The American College, USA.
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