Board of Directors

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Tong Chong Heong (唐锺雄), 62
Chairman


Graduate of Management Development Programme, Harvard Business School; Stanford - NUS Executive Programme, Diploma in Management Studies, The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

Mr Tong was appointed to the Board in 2009. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M). Prior to that, Mr Tong was the Managing Director/Chief Operating Officer of Keppel O&M. He is also the Managing Director of Keppel FELS and Keppel Shipyard. He was the Executive Director of Keppel Corporation from 1989-1996. He served for 27 years and was appointed Commander of the Volunteer Special Constabulary (VSC) from 1995-2001 and was honoured with Singapore Public Service Medal at the 1999 National Day Award. He had served as Vice President/President of Association of Singapore Marine Industries (1993-1996), Member/Deputy Chairman of the Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Advisory Committee, Ngee Ann Polytechnic (1986-1995). He is a member of Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (USA), member of Singapore Institute of Directors, member of American Bureau of Shipping and member of Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (Class NK) Singapore Committee and Fellow of the Society of Project Managers as well as Fellow of The Royal Institute of Naval Architects (RINA) UK.

His directorships include Keppel Offshore & Marine Limited, Keppel FELS Limited, Keppel Shipyard Limited, Keppel Integrated Engineering Ltd and Chairman of Keppel AmFELS Inc.

He is the Honorary Consul (Designate) of Trinidad and Tobago in Singapore.


Michael Chia Hock Chye (谢福才), 56
Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Bachelor in Science (First Class Honours), University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne; Masters in Business Administration, National University of Singapore; Graduate Certificate in International Arbitration, National University of Singapore.

Mr Chia was appointed to the Board in 2009. He is currently the Managing Director(Offshore) of Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M). Prior to that, he was the Executive Director of Keppel FELS Limited with overall responsibility of the business management of the company. Mr Chia has more than 15 years of management experience in corporate development, engineering, operations and commercial. He was elected as the President of the Association of Singapore Marines Industries since 2005, a non-profit association formed in 1968 to promote the interests of the marine industry in Singapore.

Mr Chia is also a board member of the Singapore Maritime Foundation, Chairman of the Marine & Offshore Technology Advisory Committee in Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Deputy Chairman, Workplace Safety and Health Shipbuilding and Shiprepairing Advisory Sub-Committee, Ministry Of Manpower, Singapore and member of the Ngee Ann Polytechnic Council, Spring Singapore’s Enterprise Development Advisory Council (EDAC), Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers Singapore, and American Bureau of Shipping and Society of Petroleum Engineers. He is a Fellow with the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators.

His directorships include FELS Crane, Asian Lift Pte Ltd, Keppel FELS Brasil SA (Brazil), Keppel AmFELS Inc (USA), Brightway Property Pte Ltd, Keppel FELS Limited, Tradeone Asia Pte Ltd, Deepwater Technology Group Pte Ltd, Willalpha Ltd, Prismatic Services Ltd, Regency Steel Japan Ltd (Japan), Joy Venture Investments Ltd (BVI), Bintan Offshore Fabricators Pte Ltd, Durward International (BVI), Keppel FELS Engineering Shenzhen Co Ltd, Offshore Technology Development Pte Ltd, Floatec LLC, Offshore Innovative Solutions LLC, Keppel Shipyard Limited and Keppel Offshore & Marine USA (Holdings) LLC.

 

Loh Ah Tuan (罗华端), 62
Director

Bachelor of Science (Chemical Engineering), Queen’s University, Canada, 1972; Diploma of Imperial College in Public Health Engineering, Imperial College of Science and Technology, and Master of Science in Civil Engineering, University of London, 1980.

Mr Loh was appointed to the board in 2007.

Prior to joining Keppel Integrated Engineering, he held various positions in the Ministry of the Environment and was appointed Director-General for Environmental Protection and Deputy CEO in the National Environment Agency.

He was awarded a Public Service Award (Gold) in 2007 and Cleaning up of Singapore River Gold Medal in 1987.

 
Quek Boon Sing (郭文成), 62
Director

Diploma in Mechanical Engineering, Singapore Polytechnic; Diploma in Marketing, Singapore Institute of Management (SIM); Diploma in Business Administration, Singapore Institute of Management (SIM), Certificate in Education,  Teachers’ Training College.

Mr Quek was appointed to the Board in 2009.

He started with the Ministry of Education as an Education Officer in 1964 and went on to hold senior appointments in Chartered Industries, Singapore Ceramics Ltd, Sato Kogyo Pte Ltd, Watt & Akkermans Pte Ltd, Westinghouse Industry Services Asia Pte Ltd and GE Power Systems.

Mr Quek’s past portfolio also includes serving in the Board of seven Joint Venture Shops and two GE Businesses globally. He has had extensive experience in establishing new Service Centers, including successfully negotiating the setting up of joint ventures in different parts of the world.


Ong Tiong Guan (王中元), 51
Director

Bachelor of Engineering (First Class Honours), Monash University; and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) under Monash; Graduate Scholarship, Monash University, Australia.

Dr Ong was appointed to the Board in 2010.

Dr Ong was appointed Keppel Energy Pte Ltd’s Executive Director from November 1999. He became Managing Director of Keppel Energy Pte Ltd with effect from 1 May 2003. He is responsible for Keppel Corporation’s power generation and gas business, which develops, owns and operates power generation projects in Asia and in the Americas.

Dr Ong’s career spans across the energy industry from engineering and contracting to investment and ownership of energy assets. He started with Jurong Engineering as a Design Engineer in 1987 and went on to hold senior management positions in Foster Wheeler Eastern, the Sembawang Group, and CMS Energy Asia. Dr Ong was Chairman of SEPEC (Singapore Electricity Pool Executive Committee) for the FY 2002/2003.

His directorships include Keppel Energy Pte Ltd, Keppel Electric Pte Ltd, Keppel Merlimau Cogen Pte Ltd, Keppel Gas Pte Ltd, Termoguayas Generation S.A. and Corporacion Electrica Nicaraguense, S.A.