Hyflux

Olivia Lum

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 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 holds several positions in the public service. Presently, she sits on the board of a number of companies. She is a Member of the NUS Board of Trustees, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory Limited as well as National University Health System. In addition to her commitments in Hyflux, Ms Lum is also 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 CSR.

Among the many accolades Ms Lum has received for her ntrepreneurial achievements are: the Winner of the Regional Growth Award by Nihon Keizai Shimbun at the 11th Nikkei Asia Prize 2006, and most recently the Rising Asia – The Next 10 Years Award by the Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA) and AXN ASIA. She was also awarded Asiamoney’s Corporate Executive of the Year 2005 in Singapore.

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

Teo Kiang Kok

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 27 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

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, Risk Management and Executive 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

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

He is a member of the Board of Governors of Raffles University and 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 was the Group Executive Director of JIT Electronics Pte Ltd for four years, responsible for corporate development, business strategy and investments of the JIT Group. He established operational subsidiaries in Singapore, China and Hungary and served concurrently as their respective Managing Directors. He initiated and was responsible for the public listing of JIT Electronics in November 1997 and the subsequent merger of JIT with Flextronics International valued at $1.16 billion in August 2000.

Mr Gay was awarded the Singapore Armed Forces Overseas training Award (Graduating) and attended the Royal Military Academy (RMA), Sandhurst and Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenharm, 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

Mr Murugasu has been a Non-Executive Non-Independent Director of Hyflux Ltd since February 2005.

Mr Murugasu is also a member of the Risk Management 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

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.

Professor Tan Teck Meng

Professor Tan has been a Non-Executive Independent Director of Hyflux Ltd since April 2007. He is also the Chairman of the Remuneration Committee as well as a member of the Audit Committee.

Professor Tan is currently Professor of Accounting in the School of Accountancy at Singapore Management University. He chairs K K Women & Children Hospital’s Medifund Committee.

Professor Tan also sits on the board of a number of companies including: Singapore Reinsurance Corporation Limited; Kim Eng Holdings Limited; Singapore Shipping Corporation Ltd; k1 Ventures Ltd and Raffles Education Corporation.

Professor Tan has a Bachelor of Accountancy (BAcc) Degree from the University of Singapore and a Masters of Commerce (MCom) (Honours) from the University of New South Wales in Australia. In 1996, he was awarded an Honorary PhD by Liaoning University (China). In 1997, he became the first Singaporean to garner the (US-based) Wilford L. White Award.

He holds Fellowships in the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore (FCPA), Australian Society of CPAs (FCPA), Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (FCIS), and Chartered Management Institute, UK (FCMI).