BOARD COMMITTEES
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Board Executive Committee |
Mr Peter Seah Lim Huat (Chairman) |
Board Audit Committee |
Mr Yeoh Oon Jin (Chairman) |
Board Compensation and |
Mr Peter Seah Lim Huat (Chairman) |
Board Nominating Committee |
Mr Peter Seah Lim Huat (Chairman) |
Board Safety and Risk Committee |
Mr Dominic Ho Chiu Fai (Chairman) |
Customer Experience, Technology and Sustainability Committee |
Mr Simon Cheong Sae Peng (Chairman) |
CORPORATE DATA
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Company Secretary |
Brenton Wu Ming-Kaye |
Registrar |
Boardroom Corporate & Advisory Services Pte. Ltd |
Auditors |
KPMG LLP |
Registered Office |
Airline House |
Director
Appointed on 1 June 2021
Ms Wong has over 35 years of experience in financial services. Until her retirement from DBS Bank in March 2019, Ms Wong was DBS Bank’s Group Executive responsible for the Institutional Banking Group, which encompassed Corporate Banking, Global Transaction Services, and Strategic Advisory. Prior to that, she served as Chief Financial Officer of DBS Group between 2003 to 2008. Ms Wong’s banking career began in 1982, working at Banque Paribas and Citibank before joining JP Morgan in 1986. She was at JP Morgan for 16 years. During her tenure at JP Morgan, she had regional responsibilities for the Global Markets and Emerging Markets Sales and Trading business in Asia and was also JP Morgan’s head for Singapore between 1997 to 2002. Ms Wong sits on the Boards of several organisations including listed companies, Prudential plc and UBS Group AG. She is also currently the Chairperson of the CareShield Life Council, a Board Director of GIC Private Limited and PSA International Pte Ltd and a member of the Securities Industry Council.
Director
Appointed on 1 September 2016
Mr Lee is a lawyer and a Counsel of Allen & Gledhill LLP, after having retired as one of its Partners. He has been with Allen & Gledhill for more than 30 years, with six years spent as its Managing Partner. Mr Lee was appointed Senior Counsel in January 2015. He is a Director of Epimetheus Limited, Singapore Power Limited, Singapore Institute of Legal Education, and Goh Foundation Limited.
Director
Appointed on 1 May 2017
Mr Ho is the past Chairman of DBS Bank (China) Limited. He began his career as an auditor with KPMG LLP in 1975 in the US city of Houston, covering a wide range of industries. He retired in 2007 as Co-Chairman of KPMG LLP, China, and Hong Kong. During his career with KPMG LLP, Mr Ho was regarded as its China business specialist. He advised on China’s offshore oil industry, participated in the formation of China’s taxation system, was involved in initial public offerings (IPOs) of Chinese companies, and assisted foreign companies with their investments in China. Mr Ho is currently a Director of DBS Bank (Hong Kong) Limited. He is also a past Member of the Corruption Prevention Advisory Committee of Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption, and a past Member of Hong Kong’s Insurance Advisory Committee.
Director
Appointed on 1 January 2019
Ms Goh is the former Chairperson of the Shell group of companies in Singapore. She retired from Shell in January 2019 after 16 years of service. She held senior roles with Shell since 2003 and had worked in Singapore, China and the Netherlands. Prior to joining Shell, Ms Goh was with Procter & Gamble for 14 years and was assigned to Malaysia, Japan, and Singapore, and before that with IBM Australia and USA. A Justice of the Peace, Ms Goh is the Chairperson of the National Arts Council and Nanyang Technological University. She was previously Chairperson of the Institute for Human Resource Professionals Limited and President of Global Compact Network Singapore. She was also a board member of listed companies, CapitaLand Limited (now known as CapitaLand Group Pte. Ltd.) and CapitaLand Investment Limited. Ms Goh was conferred the Chicago Booth Distinguished Alumni Award in 2018 from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Director
Appointed on 1 September 2018
Mr Gledhill was the Group Chief Information Officer as well as Head of Group Technology & Operations at DBS Bank Ltd, before his retirement from the bank in August 2019 after 11 years of service. Prior to joining DBS, he was with JP Morgan for more than 20 years, holding senior regional positions in Technology & Operations in Singapore, Tokyo, and London. Before joining JP Morgan, Mr Gledhill was with British Telecom in the United Kingdom, holding various roles in software and hardware design. Mr Gledhill is a Board Member of the National University of Singapore Institute of Systems Science and Quark Consulting Ltd. He was a Director of Singapore Clearing House Pte Ltd and served as Advisor to a number of organisations in Singapore and overseas. In 2017, Mr Gledhill was the recipient of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan CIO Leadership Award, becoming the first CIO from an Asian company to have won.
Director
Appointed on 1 January 2013
Mr Banerjee is Chairman and a Senior Managing Director of Blackstone Singapore. He joined Blackstone Singapore as Chairman in January 2013 and was appointed a Senior Managing Director in April 2014. He was with professional services firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Singapore from April 1982 to 31 December 2012, including as its Executive Chairman for Singapore, and in various leadership positions within the firm in India and the Asia-Pacific region. Apart from his executive role in Blackstone, he is a Board Member of Singapore Telecommunications Limited and GIC Private Limited. He was the Chairman of Singapore Centre for Social Enterprise Ltd (raiSE) and the Listings Advisory Committee of the Singapore Exchange, and served on the Boards of The Indian Hotels Company Limited, Piramal Enterprises Limited, India, Singapore Business Federation Council, Corporate Governance Council of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, Companies Act Reform Steering Committee, and the Economic Strategies Committee chaired by the Finance Minister of Singapore from 2009 to 2010. Mr Banerjee was a Nominated Member of Parliament in Singapore between 2007 and 2009. In 2014, Mr Banerjee was awarded the Public Service Medal by the Singapore Government and an Honorary Doctor of Laws by the University of Warwick, England.
Chairman
Appointed Chairman on 1 January 2017 and as Director on 1 September 2015.
Mr Seah is the Chairman of DBS Bank Ltd, DBS Group Holdings Ltd and LaSalle College of the Arts Limited. A banker for more than 30 years, Mr Seah was with the former Overseas Union Bank between 1977 and 2001, retiring as Vice-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Prior to that, he was with Citibank N.A. Between December 2001 and December 2004, Mr Seah served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Singapore Technologies Pte Ltd. Mr Seah was awarded the Order of Nila Utama in 2021, the Distinguished Service Order in 2012, and the Public Service Star (Bintang Bakti Masyarakat) in 1999.
Director and Chief Executive Officer
Appointed Director on 1 October 2010 and as CEO on 1 January 2011
Goh Choon Phong, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Singapore Airlines (SIA) since 1st January 2011, joined the Company in 1990. He has held various senior management positions both in Singapore and overseas, and joined the SIA Board on 1st October 2010.
Before his appointment as CEO, Mr Goh served in several senior executive roles, including Executive Vice President Marketing and the Regions, as well as President of SIA Cargo, Senior Vice President Finance, Senior Vice President Information Technology, and Senior Vice President Commercial Technology. His career also includes overseas assignments in China and Scandinavia.
He currently sits on the Boards of SIA Engineering Company, Mastercard Incorporated, and Air India, and chairs Budget Aviation Holdings, which oversees SIA’s low-cost subsidiary, Scoot. He previously served on the Boards of Mount Alvernia Hospital and Virgin Australia.
Mr Goh is a member of the National University of Singapore’s Board of Trustees, where he chaired its Innovation and Enterprise Committee, and is part of its Nominating Committee and Executive Committee. Mr Goh is part of the MIT Presidential CEO Advisory Board, which comprises CEOs from leading global companies across a variety of industries.
Within the aviation industry, he is active in the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines’ (AAPA) Executive Committee, serving as its Chairman in 2023. He was a member of the International Air Transport Association’s Board of Governors between June 2011 and June 2023, and was its Chairman from June 2017 to June 2018. He stepped down from the Executive Committee of the Star Alliance Chief Executive Board in June 2023.
Mr Goh received the Excellence in Leadership award at Air Transport World’s Airline Industry Achievement Awards (2024), the Airline Passenger Experience Association’s CEO Lifetime Achievement Award (2016), the Business Council for International Understanding’s Eisenhower Global Innovation Award (2016), and the CAPA Asia-Pacific Airline CEO of the Year award (2015).
At the 2019 Singapore Corporate Awards, he won the award for Best Chief Executive Officer for companies with $1 billion or more in market capitalisation. He was named Person of the Year by Orient Aviation magazine in 2018, and honoured as Outstanding Chief Executive Officer of the Year in the 2017 Singapore Business Awards.
Mr Goh holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, as well as three Bachelor of Science degrees in Computer Science and Engineering, Management Science, and Cognitive Science, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Director
Appointed on 1 August 2021
Mr Yeoh was the Executive Chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) Singapore before his retirement in June 2021, following a 38-year career with PwC. He was a key member of the firm’s Leadership Team for more than 15 years, and has led the firm through key growth milestones. Mr Yeoh has also chaired several of the firm’s regional joint ventures such as PwC SEA Consulting and PwC SEA Corporate Finance. He was a member of the PwC Executive Board for the CaTSH firm, which comprises the PwC firms in Singapore, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, and was also a member of the PwC Strategy Council, which comprises leaders from the largest 21 firms in the PwC global network. Mr Yeoh serves as the Chairman of Singapore Land Authority and the Singapore Institute of Directors. He is also a member of the Board of Singapore Exchange Limited, and the Corporate Governance Advisory Committee, which was set up by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Mr Yeoh was previously a board member of Singapore Press Holdings Limited, JTC Corporation, Accounting & Corporate Regulatory Authority, National Arts Council, and council member of Singapore Institute of International Affairs.
Director
Appointed on 1 June 2017
Mr Cheong is the Founder and Chairman of SC Global Developments Pte Ltd, a leading luxury high-end residential developer in Singapore. He has more than 42 years of experience in real estate, banking, and international finance. Mr Cheong established SC Global in 1996 as a real estate and hotel advisory and direct investment group, specialising in structuring large and complex transactions worldwide. He is also the Chairman and majority shareholder of AVJennings Limited. He was with Citibank (Singapore) as Head of Real Estate Finance for Singapore and with Credit Suisse First Boston as Regional Real Estate Head for Asia. Mr Cheong previously served as a Board Member of Republic Polytechnic and was also a Council Member of the Singapore Business Federation. He served two terms as President of the Real Estate Developers’ Association of Singapore.