Hyflux

Olivia Lum

Group President & CEO

Ms Lum started corporate life as a chemist with Glaxo Pharmaceutical and left in 1989 to start up Hydrochem (S) Pte Ltd, the precursor to Hyflux Ltd.

Managing the Group for more than 20 years now, Ms Lum is the driving force behind Hyflux's growth and business expansion, responsible for policy and strategy formulation and corporate direction.

A former Nominated Member of Singapore Parliament, Ms Lum currently sits on the boards of a number of companies. She is a member of the Singapore-Tianjin Economic & Trade Council and the Singapore-Jiangsu Cooperation Council as well as the President of the Singapore Compact for Corporate Social Responsibility.

Among the many accolades Ms Lum has received for her entrepreneurial achievements are: the Winner of the Regional Growth Award by Nihon Keizai Shimbun at the 11th Nikkei Asia Prize 2006, and most recently the Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur of the Year 2011.

Ms Lum holds an Honours degree in Science from the National University of Singapore.

Teo Kiang Kok

Non-Executive Independent Director 

Mr Teo was admitted to the Singapore bar in 1983 and has been a partner of Shook Lin & Bok LLP ("SLB") since 1988. Prior to joining SLB in 1987, he worked for brief periods as an associate with an international law firm and as a corporate finance executive with an international investment bank. He obtained his Bachelor of Law (Honours) degree from the University of Hull and is a Barrister-at-Law from Lincoln's Inn.

Mr Teo currently heads the Corporate & Corporate Finance and China practices of SLB. In his 28 years of practice, he has advised on a wide range of corporate finance transactions, particularly securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic investments. He has significant experience in equity capital markets and has advised on many public offerings of securities by Singapore and foreign companies including those from the Peoples' Republic of China ("PRC"). Mr Teo also has expertise with mergers and acquisitions of Singapore and foreign companies including those from the PRC. Mr Teo's regional practice includes foreign investment work in and out of Singapore, PRC, India and the ASEAN countries.

In the course of his legal practice, Mr Teo has advised listed companies extensively on corporate law and regulatory compliance and in particular, the requirements of the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited.

Lee Joo Hai

Non-Executive Independent Director

Mr Lee has been a Non-Executive Independent Director of Hyflux Ltd since December 2000. He is also the Chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Remuneration and Risk Management Committees.

Mr Lee is a CPA and a member of both the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He is currently a partner in a public accounting firm in Singapore and has more than 20 years of experience in accounting and auditing.

Mr Lee also sits on the boards of other listed companies, including Lung Kee (Bermuda) Holdings Ltd.

Gay Chee Cheong

Non-Executive Independent Director

Mr Gay has been a Non-Executive Independent Director of Hyflux Ltd since August 2001. He is also the Chairman of the Remuneration Committee as well as a member of the Audit and Nominating Committees.

He is a member of the Board of Governors of Temasek Polytechnic, an Advisory Board member of the Lee Kong Chian School of Business at Singapore Management University, a member of the Entrepreneurship Committee at National University of Singapore and a Trustee of the United World College of South East Asia Foundation.

Mr Gay co-founded and was the CEO of 2G Capital Private Limited, a private investment company investing in equities and private companies in the Asia Pacific economies. The company was awarded Highest Net Profit in 2006 and Net Profit Excellence in 2007 in the annual SME 500 ranking.

Mr Gay graduated from the Royal Military Academy (RMA), Sandhurst and Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham, United Kingdom. At RMA, Sandhurst, Mr Gay won the Nigeria Prize for Best Overseas Student Officer and at the Singapore Command and Staff College, the Top Student Prize.

Mr Gay holds Honours degrees in Electronics Engineering from the Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham, United Kingdom, and in Economics from University of London. He also has a Masters of Business Administration from the National University of Singapore.

Christopher Murugasu

Non-Executive Independent Director 

Mr Murugasu has been a director of Hyflux Ltd since February 2005.

Mr Murugasu is also a member of the Nominating and Remuneration Committees.

Previously Senior Vice President for Corporate Services at Hyflux Ltd, he was responsible for the Group’s human resources, procurement and general administration functions. Prior to joining Hyflux, Mr Murugasu had accumulated over 15 years of experience in the public sector as well as with a foreign bank.

He holds an Honours degree in Computing Science from Imperial College, United Kingdom, and a Master’s degree from the London School of Economics, United Kingdom.

Raj Mitta

Non-Executive Independent Director 

Mr Mitta has been a Non-Executive Independent Director of Hyflux Ltd since April 2007. He is also Chairman of the Risk Management Committee.

Mr Mitta is currently the Chairman of Essential Value Associates Pte Ltd, a boutique consulting firm that works with selected Chairmen and CEOs who seek to create lasting change to develop high growth sustainable businesses with quality governance. EVA only works with leaders who are committed to leading by example and have the ability to internalize unvarnished and truthful analysis.

Mr Mitta was Chairman of Arthur D Little Asia and a Senior Member of Booz Allen Hamilton. He has advised some of the world’s best consumer goods and customer-intensive companies, technology-intensive corporations and regional governments. His client list includes multinationals like PepsiCo, Gillette, Kelloggs, and the Governments of Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Australia and India. He has also worked with regional conglomerates like Hutchisons (HK), Jardines (HK), Bakrie Group (Indonesia), Reliance (India), Amex, Citicorp, British Airways and telecom operators like Optus, Orange, Singapore Telecom and Deutsche Telekom.

Prior to his consulting experience of over 20 years, Mr Mitta worked in senior marketing roles with Pepsico (US and Cyprus) and Mars Inc. (UK).

Mr Mitta is a seasoned negotiator and deal maker with well developed cross cultural sensitivity developed through living and working across diverse countries and consulting with an expansive list of clients. His main areas of professional interest are in strategy development and value extraction through enhancing marketing and sales effectiveness, the competitive repositioning of brands/services and issues relating to managing change within organisations.

Mr Mitta holds a Bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Bombay, India and a Masters in Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He has two sons, Vinay and Rohan who study at UWC, Singapore.

Simon Tay

Non-Executive Independent Director

Mr Tay holds a Masters in Law from Harvard Law School, an LLB Hons from the National University of Singapore, and is a qualified advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore. He is an Associate Professor and he teaches international law at the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore, with a focus on international environmental law.

He is concurrently Chairman of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs, an independent think tank, and Senior Consultant with the WongPartnership law firm, giving special attention to the green economy practice.

From 2002-08, Mr Tay chaired the National Environment Agency and was previously selected for three terms as Nominated Member of the Singapore Parliament (1997- 2001). He has served to lead public consultations on Singapore in the 21st century, the national concept plan, and the Singapore Green Plan 2012. In 2006, he received the Public Service Medal (Pingat Baki Masyarakat, PBM), a Singaporean National Day award.

Gary Kee

Non-Executive and Non-Independent Director

Mr Kee was the Chief Executive Officer of the Trustee-Manager and Non-Independent Executive Director of Hyflux Water Trust Management Pte Ltd. Prior to that, he held numerous senior regional management positions in Finance, Operations and Strategic Business Development in his 23 year tenure at Hewlett Packard. He last served as Director, Head of Strategy and Corporate Development for Asia Pacific & Japan.

Before joining Hewlett Packard, Mr Kee was a Management Consultant with Arthur Andersen Associates (now known as Accenture). Mr Kee has also served as a Board Director of various companies and JTC Corporation.

Mr Kee holds a Bachelor of Commerce from McMaster University in Canada and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Arlington in the USA.