Board of Directors

Mr Kwa Chong Seng is Chairman of the NOL Board and a Director of other Group subsidiary companies. He is Chairman of the Executive Committee and Approval Committee, and a member of the Nominating Committee and Executive Resource & Compensation Committee. He is also the Chairman of Fullerton Fund Management Company Ltd. In addition, Mr Kwa is a non-executive director of Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd, Singapore Exchange Limited, Seatown Holdings Pte. Ltd., Delta Topco Limited and is a member of the Board of Defence Science and Technology Agency. Mr Kwa also serves as the Deputy Chairman of the Public Service Commission in Singapore. Mr Kwa has more than 40 years’ experience in the petroleum industry - he served as Chairman and Managing Director of ExxonMobil Asia Pacific Pte Ltd before retiring in 2011. He was the Deputy Chairman of Temasek Holdings Pte Ltd from 1997 to 2012 and a non-Executive Director of DBS Group Holdings Ltd. and DBS Bank Ltd. from 2003 to 2012. Mr Kwa was conferred the Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award by the National University of Singapore in 1994 and the Honorary Ningbo Citizenship in 1999. In 2005, he was awarded the Singapore Public Service Star for his outstanding contributions and service to Singapore. He is also a Fellow of the Academy of Engineering Singapore.

Mr Ng Yat Chung joined the NOL Board in May 2011 as Executive Director and was appointed Group President and Chief Executive Officer of NOL beginning October 2011. He is a member of the Executive Committee and Approval Committee. Prior to joining NOL, Mr Ng was a Senior Managing Director at Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited. Before joining Temasek Holdings, he was the Chief of Defence Force in the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF). During his career in the SAF, Mr Ng served in various senior command and staff positions in planning, operations and logistics. His major assignments included Chief of Staff (Joint Staff) and Chief of Army. Mr Ng is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Singapore Institute of Technology. He is also a member of the Board of the World Shipping Council, a member of the International Advisory Panel of the Singapore Maritime Institute and the Singapore Advisory Panel of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport.

Mr Timothy Harris joined the NOL Board in 2005 as a member of the Executive Resource & Compensation Committee and Enterprise Risk Management Committee.  He became Chairman of the Executive Resource & Compensation Committee in April 2011 and a member of the Executive Committee in February 2011. Mr Harris was formerly Chairman of James Fisher and Sons plc. Prior to this, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of P&O Nedlloyd Container Line Limited in 1996, following the merger of P&O Containers Limited and Nedlloyd Lines BV. He led the company until 2000. He also served on the P&O Board from 1986, managing the company’s cruise interests as both Chairman and CEO. He was also Chairman of the Box Club, the International Council of Containership Operators, from 1995 to 2000. Mr Harris was created a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in the United Kingdom’s 1996 New Year’s Honours.

Mr Robert Herbold joined the NOL Board in February 2010. He is a member of the Executive Resource & Compensation Committee and Chairman of the Enterprise Risk Management Committee. Mr Herbold is the Managing Director of The Herbold Group, LLC, a consulting business focused on profitability, strategic and operational issues. He is also a Director of Agilent Technologies, a United States-listed company. He previously held the position of Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Microsoft Corporation from 1994 until his retirement in 2001. Prior to joining Microsoft, he spent 26 years at The Procter & Gamble Company. He is Senior Advisor to the President and Visiting Executive at Thunderbird School of Global Management. Mr Herbold is also the President of The Herbold Foundation.

Mr Tan Puay Chiang joined the NOL Board in April 2010 as a member of the Audit Committee and Executive Resource & Compensation Committee. He was formerly Chairman, ExxonMobil (China) Investment Co from 2001 to 2007. During his 37-year career with Mobil and later ExxonMobil, he held executive management roles in Australia, Singapore and the United States. These included the executive positions of Vice-President, Mobil Research & Technology Corp, USA, and as Chairman of Mobil Oil Australia. He was appointed General Manager, Corporate Planning, following the merger of Exxon and Mobil in 1999. Mr Tan has been a member of many business and industry boards including the Australian Institute of Petroleum, the Washington, D.C.-based National Policy Association, and the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong.  He is currently a member of the Board of the Energy Studies Institute at the National University of Singapore, Singapore Power Limited, SP Services Limited and Keppel Corporation Limited.

Ms Jeanette Wong joined the NOL Board in April 2010. She is a member of the Audit Committee and Enterprise Risk Management Committee. Ms Wong is currently DBS Bank’s Group Executive, responsible for overseeing DBS’ Institutional Banking Group which comprises Corporate Banking, SME Banking and Global Transaction Services. Prior to this, she was the Chief Financial Officer of DBS Group. Before joining DBS, Ms Wong spent 16 years with JP Morgan in the Global Markets and Emerging Markets business, and held senior management positions with regional responsibilities in Foreign Exchange and Fixed Income. She is also the Chairperson of DBS Bank (Taiwan) Ltd and a Director of DBS Bank (China) Limited. She is also a member of the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Financial Research Council; Chairperson of the Singapore Management University’s Lee Kong Chian Business School Advisory Board and an advisory member of the Asia Cabinet, Global Advisory Board for the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Mr Low Check Kian joined the NOL Board in April 2011. He is the Chairman of the Nominating Committee and a member of the Enterprise Risk Management Committee. Mr Low is a Director of Cluny Park Capital Pte. Ltd., Cluny Properties Pte. Ltd. and Cluny Capital Limited (BVI). He was one of the founding partners of NewSmith Capital Partners LLP, an independent partnership providing corporate finance advice and investment management services, with its headquarters based in London. Prior to founding NewSmith, he was a Senior Vice-President and Member of the Executive Management Committee of Merrill Lynch & Co., and its Chairman for the Asia Pacific Region. Mr Low sits on the Board of Singapore Telecommunications Limited, Renewfibre Asia Private Limited, Fullerton Fund Management Company Ltd. and is a trustee of the Singapore London School of Economics Trust. He served as an independent director on the Singapore Exchange Board since July 2000 and was appointed Lead Independent Director in May 2006 till his retirement in October 2011. He previously also sat on the Boards of Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore and Singapore Workforce Development Agency and chaired their investment arms.

Mr Wu Yibing joined the NOL Board in April 2011 as a member of the Executive Resource & Compensation Committee and Enterprise Risk Management Committee. Mr Wu is the President of CITIC Private Equity Funds Management Co and oversees more than US$5 billion worth of assets. Before joining CITIC Private Equity, he was Managing Director of Legend Holdings where he was responsible for overall business operations and direct investment. Prior to this, Mr Wu spent three years at Lenovo, leading its acquisition of the Personal Computing Division of IBM. He was previously a Senior Partner of McKinsey & Co and General Manager of McKinsey Beijing. He is a non-executive Director of Lenovo Group and a Board member of the China Social Entrepreneur Foundation.

Mr Olivier Lim Tse Ghow joined the NOL Board in April 2012 and is a member of the Nominating Committee and the Executive Committee. Mr Lim is the Group Deputy Chief Executive Officer at Singapore’s CapitaLand Limited. Prior to his current appointment, he was the Chief Investment Officer and before that the Chief Financial Officer at CapitaLand. Before joining CapitaLand in 2003, he led the Real Estate Unit at Citibank Singapore’s Corporate Bank. Mr Lim is the Chairman of Australand Holdings Limited. He is a Director of CapitaMalls Asia Limited, The Ascott Limited and Raffles Medical Group Ltd. Mr Lim also serves as a Board member of Sentosa Development Corporation, and as the Chairman of its subsidiary, Mount Faber Leisure Group Pte Ltd.

Mr Quek See Tiat joined the NOL Board in September 2012 as a member of the Audit Committee and the Enterprise Risk Management Committee. Mr Quek was formerly the Deputy Chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers Singapore. A partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers from 1987 to 2012, Mr Quek has more than 30 years of experience in senior audit and business advisory roles, most of that with PricewaterhouseCoopers. He was a member of the firm’s Executive Committee in Singapore as well as the Asia Pacific Regional Executive Team. Mr Quek is Chairman of Singapore’s Building & Construction Authority. He is also a Board member of the Energy Market Authority and the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

Mr Alvin Yeo joined the NOL Board in April 2013 as an independent and non-executive director. He serves as a member of the Executive Committee and Nominating Committee. Mr Yeo is a Senior Counsel and the Senior Partner of WongPartnership LLP. His main areas of practice are banking and corporate disputes, restructuring and insolvency, and construction and civil engineering matters. Mr Yeo has extensive experience in arbitration proceedings both in Singapore and in the region, primarily in corporate, commercial and infrastructure disputes. He is a member of the Appeals Advisory Panel of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the Court of the SIAC, the ICC commission on Arbitration, the Court of the LCIA and a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators. Mr Yeo also serves on the boards of various public companies in Singapore, and is an elected Member of Parliament.