Our Board

Our Board

Directors

Our directors bring deep insights and diverse expertise to the governance of the company.
Danny Teoh
Chairman
Non-Executive & Non-Independent Director

Associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales

Chairman of Keppel Ltd. with effect from 23 April 2021. Appointed to the Board on 1 October 2010 (Date of last re-election: 21 April 2023), Mr Danny Teoh is a non-executive and non-independent director. He is a member of the Nominating, Remuneration and Board Sustainability and Safety Committees.

Mr Teoh spent 27 years in KPMG LLP, Singapore and over the years, held various senior positions including member of KPMG International Board and Council, Head of the Audit and Risk Advisory Services and Head of Financial Services. He was the Managing Partner of KPMG LLP, Singapore since 2005 and he retired from KPMG in September 2010.

Loh Chin Hua
Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director

Colombo Plan Scholar with Bachelor in Property Administration, Auckland University; Presidential Key Executive MBA, Pepperdine University; CFA® charterholder

Mr Loh Chin Hua was appointed the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of Keppel Ltd. with effect from 1 January 2014 (Date of last re-election: 22 April 2022), after having served two years as Chief Financial Officer of the Company.

Mr Loh joined Keppel in 2002 and founded Keppel Fund Management, Keppel's private fund management arm, where he served as Managing Director for 10 years. Before this, he was the Managing Director at Prudential Investment Inc, leading its Asian real estate fund management business.

Mr Loh began his career with the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC), where he held key appointments in its Singapore, San Francisco and London offices. Beyond Keppel, Mr Loh is a member of the Board of Trustees of the National University of Singapore.

A CFA® charterholder, Mr Loh is a Colombo Plan Scholar with a Bachelor in Property Administration from the University of Auckland and a Presidential Key Executive MBA from Pepperdine University.

Shirish Apte
Non-Executive and Lead Independent Director

Bachelor of Commerce, Calcutta University; MBA, London Business School; Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, India; Qualified as a Member of Institute of Chartered Accountant, England & Wales

Appointed to the Board on 1 July 2021 (Date of last re-election: 22 April 2022), Mr Shirish Apte is an independent and non-executive Director. He was appointed Lead Independent Director with effect from 19 April 2024, and is also the Chairman of the Nominating Committee, the Chairman of the Board Risk Committee and a member of the Remuneration Committee.

Mr Apte is currently the Chairman of Singlife Financial Advisers Pte. Ltd. and a director on Singapore Life Holdings Pte. Ltd., and Standard Chartered PLC, London.

Prior to his retirement from Citigroup in 2014, Mr Apte had built up 32 years of financial services experience, holding various senior roles within the group, including Chairman of Asia Pacific Banking, Regional CEO of Asia Pacific, Regional CEO of Europe, Middle East & Africa, and Country Head of Citibank Poland. His responsibilities included corporate banking, investment banking and risk management.

Teo Siong Seng
Non-Executive and Non-Independent Director

Degree (First Class Honours) in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, University of Glasgow, UK

Appointed to the Board on 1 November 2019 (Date of last re-election: 22 April 2022), Mr Teo Siong Seng is a non-independent and non-executive Director. He is the Chairman of the Board Sustainability and Safety Committee.

Mr Teo is the Executive Chairman of Pacific International Lines Pte Ltd (PIL), one of the largest shipowners and operators in Southeast Asia with a focus on Asia-Africa and the Middle East. He is also the Chairman and CEO of PIL's listed subsidiary in Hong Kong, Singamas Container Holdings Ltd.

Mr Teo is currently the Honorary President of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce & Industry, a Director of Business China, and Honorary Consul of The United Republic of Tanzania in Singapore. He is an independent non-executive Director of Wilmar International Limited. Mr Teo was also a Nominated Member of Parliament of Singapore from 2009 to 2014.

Tham Sai Choy
Non-Executive and Independent Director

Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Degree in Economics, University of Leeds, UK; Fellow of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales

Appointed to the Board on 1 November 2019 (Date of last re-election: 22 April 2022), Mr Tham Sai Choy is an independent and non-executive Director. He is the Chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Nominating and Board Risk Committees.

Mr Tham is currently the Chairman of EM Services Pte Ltd and serves on the boards of Nanyang Polytechnic, the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, DBS Group Holdings Limited, and Mount Alvernia Hospital.

Mr Tham was Managing Partner of KPMG Singapore and then Chairman of KPMG Asia Pacific before he retired from professional practice as a chartered accountant in 2017. He was for many years a member of KPMG's global board, and had served on its executive committee and risk committee, and chaired its compensation and nominations committee. In 36 years of professional practice, Mr Tham had worked with many of Singapore's multinational companies in their audits and in other consultancy work.

Penny Goh
Non-Executive and Independent Director

Bachelor of Law (Honours), University of Singapore; Member of the Singapore Bar

Appointed to the Board on 2 January 2020 (Date of last re-election: 19 April 2024), Mrs Penny Goh is an independent and non-executive Director. She is the Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and a member of the Audit and Board Risk Committees.

Mrs Goh is Senior Adviser of Allen & Gledhill LLP. She was formerly the Co-Chairman and Senior Partner at Allen & Gledhill LLP, a leading South-east Asian law firm, where she has for many years served on the firm’s Executive Committee and as Head of the firm's corporate real estate practice. She advises listed corporations, private equity property funds, sovereign wealth funds and real estate investment trusts and she has extensive experience in a broad range of corporate real estate transactions for commercial, industrial, logistics and data centre projects in Singapore and Asia Pacific, involving mergers and acquisitions, joint development and profit participation structures.

She currently serves as the Independent Non-Executive Board Chairman of HSBC Bank (Singapore) Limited and is also a member of its Audit and Risk Committees. She is also on the board of Singapore Totalisator Board.

Mrs Goh serves as an Honorary Legal Advisor to the Real Estate Developers' Association of Singapore and is a member of the Advisory Board for Real Estate Programme, Singapore Management University.

Olivier Blum
Non-Executive and Independent Director

Master of Business Administration of General Management, Grenoble Business School (GEM), France

Appointed to the Board on 1 May 2022 (Date of last re-election: 21 April 2023), Mr Olivier Blum is an independent and non-executive Director. He is a member of the Nominating Committee and the Board Sustainability and Safety Committee.

Mr Olivier Blum is the Chief Executive Officer of Schneider Electric and Acting Executive Vice President of the company’s Energy Management business, effective 4 November 2024. He has been a member of the company’s Executive Committee since 2014. Prior to this, Mr Blum was the Chief Strategy & Sustainability Officer of Schneider Electric, where he led the development of the company’s strategic, sustainability and quality initiatives, while steering its merger, acquisitions, and divestment activities globally. Before this, he was on Schneider Electric’s Executive Committee as the Company’s Chief Human Resources Officer. Mr Blum began his career at Schneider Electric in 1993 in his home country of France.

Currently based in Hong Kong, Mr Blum has been living and working in Asia for the last two decades, during which he has held leadership positions in China and India. Mr Blum has been a Non-Executive Director on both AVEVA Group PLC (as Remuneration Committee member) and Delta Dore Boards since 2020.

Jimmy Ng
Non-Executive and Independent Director

Bachelor of Science degree in Information Systems, National University of Singapore; Masters in Business Administration (Banking & Finance), Nanyang Technological University

Appointed to the Board on 1 May 2022 (Date of last re-election: 21 April 2023), Mr Jimmy Ng is an independent and non-executive Director. He is a member of the Audit and Board Risk Committees.

Mr Jimmy Ng is the Group Head of Operations, and Regional Technology and Operations at DBS Bank. He possesses more than 30 years of regional and global experience in both wholesale banking and consumer banking businesses with DBS Bank, RBS, ABN Amro Bank and J.P. Morgan. In his current role in DBS, Mr Ng manages operations of institutional banking, retail banking, treasury and markets as well as the contact centre.

Prior to his current appointment, Jimmy was the Group Chief Information Officer as well as Head of Group Technology & Operations at DBS Bank. He was also previously the bank’s Chief Audit Executive and the Head of Consumer Banking Operations, where he spearheaded the transformation of the Audit function and the Consumer Banking Operations using advanced data analytics and machine learning techniques.

Ang Wan Ching
Non-Executive and Independent Director

Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours) in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, University of Oxford; Masters of Business Administration (Dean's List), INSEAD

Appointed to the Board on 1 July 2023 (Date of last re-election: 19 April 2024), Ms Ang Wan Ching is an independent and non-executive director. She is a member of the Audit and Board Risk committees.

Ms Ang Wan Ching has over 25 years of global experience in alternative private fund investments. She is on the supervisory boards of Bavaria Industries Group AG, a Germany-based listed investment holding company, and HQ Capital, a French-German joint venture and private equity and alternatives fund manager with global operations. She is also a member of the investment committee of Montana Capital Partners AG, a Swiss-based subsidiary of PGIM, the global investment management arm of Prudential Financial.

Ms Ang was formerly Chief Executive Officer of Allianz Private Equity Partners, the private equity investment vehicle of Allianz Group. She was also an External Investment Committee member for intermediated funds and co-investments at British International Investment plc, the development finance institution of the Government of the United Kingdom.

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