Board of Directors - SingTel

PETER ONG BOON KWEENon-executive and non-independent DirectorMember, Audit CommitteeMember, Corporate Governanceand Nominations CommitteeDate of Appointment: 1 Sep 2010Mr Ong, 49, is the Head of Singapore’sCivil Service, Permanent Secretary ofthe Ministry of Finance of Singapore,Permanent Secretary (Special Duties)in the Prime Minister’s Office and thePermanent Secretary for National Securityand Intelligence Co-ordination. He haspreviously held the positions of PermanentSecretary (Ministry of Trade and Industry),Permanent Secretary (Ministry ofTransport) and 2 nd Permanent Secretary(Ministry of Defence). Prior to that, he wasan Executive Vice President of TemasekHoldings (Private) Limited.He currently sits on the Boards of ASEAN+3Macroeconomic Research Office, MonetaryAuthority of Singapore and NationalResearch Foundation. He is also theChairman of Inland Revenue Authorityof Singapore, MND Holdings Pte Ltd andCalvary Community Care. He is the formerChairman of the Accounting and CorporateRegulatory Authority and Maritime andPort Authority of Singapore, and a formerDirector of DBS Group Holdings Limitedand DBS Bank Limited.Mr Ong was conferred the MeritoriousService Medal (Pingat Jasa Gemilang) at theSingapore National Day Awards 2010. Heholds a Bachelor of Economics (Honours)from The University of Adelaide, Australiaand an MBA from Stanford University, US.ONG PENG TSINNon-executive and independent DirectorMember, Finance, Investment and Risk CommitteeMember, Optus Advisory CommitteeDate of Appointment: 1 Jun 2009Last Re-elected: 24 Jul 2009Mr Ong, 48, is the Chairman of InfoCommInvestments Pte Ltd and a venture partnerof GSR Ventures. He is also a memberof the Board of the National ResearchFoundation and a member of the Boardof Trustees of the Singapore Universityof Technology and Design.Mr Ong was the founder and Chairmanof Encentuate, Inc. (Encentuate), whichwas acquired by IBM, Inc. (IBM) in 2008.Prior to Encentuate, Mr Ong was thefounder and Chairman of Interwoven, Inc.(Interwoven) (now Autonomy, Inc.). BeforeInterwoven, Mr Ong was co-founderand chief architect of Electric Classifieds,Inc., and held various engineeringand management roles at IllustraInformation Technologies, Inc. (nowInformix Technologies, Inc., part of IBM),Sybase Inc. (now SAP America, Inc.),and Gensym Corporation. He is a formerDirector of InfoComm DevelopmentAuthority of Singapore and JTCCorporation.Mr Ong holds a Bachelor of Science inElectrical Engineering from The Universityof Texas, US and a Master of Science inComputer Science from the University ofIllinois, US.NICKY TAN NG KUANGNon-executive and independent DirectorChairman, Finance, Investmentand Risk CommitteeMember, Optus Advisory CommitteeDate of Appointment: 12 Mar 2002Last Re-elected: 25 Jul 2008Mr Tan, 52, manages nTan CorporateAdvisory Pte Ltd, a boutique firmspecialising in corporate finance andcorporate restructuring. He is a Directorof Fraser and Neave Limited anda member of its Audit Committee,Nominating Committee and ExecutiveBoard Committee, and he also serveson the Board of National UniversityHealth System Pte Ltd.Mr Tan was a Partner and Head of GlobalCorporate Finance at Arthur Andersen,Singapore and ASEAN region, from1999 to 2001. Prior to that, he was aPartner and Head of Financial AdvisoryServices at Price Waterhouse, Singaporeand Chairman of Financial AdvisoryServices at PricewaterhouseCoopers, AsiaPacific region.Mr Tan is a Chartered Accountant anda member of The Institute of CharteredAccountants in England and Wales. He isalso a Certified Public Accountant and amember of the Institute of Certified PublicAccountants of Singapore.Note:Mr Heng Swee Keat, Mr John Powell Morschel andMr Deepak S Parekh retired from the SingTel Boardfollowing the conclusion of the Annual GeneralMeeting held on 30 July 2010.ANNUAL REPORT 2010/2011 17