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Our Directors recognise the importance of corporate governance and the offering of high standards of accountability to our Shareholders. Accordingly, our Directors have established a Nominating Committee, a Remuneration Committee and an Audit Committee.
NOMINATING COMMITTEE
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Name
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Position
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Lee Thiam Seng
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Independent Director, Nominating Committee Chairman
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Basmadjian Krikor
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Independent Director
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Ganapathy Neelakantan
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Executive Director
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REMUNERATION COMMITTEE
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Name
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Position
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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
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Danny Walla
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Non-Executive Director, Chairman of the Board
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AUDIT COMMITTEE
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Name
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Position
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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
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Lee Thiam Seng
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Independent Director
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The business and working experience of our Committee Members are set out below:–
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 & 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 & 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.
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.
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.
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