Mr Kaikhushru S. Nargolwala

Chairman

Non-Executive and Independent Director

 
Board Committee(s):
Leadership Development & Compensation Committee (Chairman)
Nominating Committee (Chairman)

 

Mr. Kai S. Nargolwala is the Chairman of the Board of Singapore Pools (Private) Limited. He also serves on the Board of PSA International Pte Ltd and Manipal Health Enterprises Private Limited and chairs the Boards of 65 Equity Partners Pte. Ltd., Pentagreen Capital Pte. Ltd and Nxera Investment Holdings Pte. Ltd​.

The career of Kai spanned several decades in the financial services industry in the UK, USA and Asia.  At various times over the last 30 years, he has helmed the Asian businesses of Bank of America, Standard Chartered and Credit Suisse. He retired from executive roles at the end of 2011.

Kai previously served on the Boards of several listed companies including Credit Suisse Group AG, Prudential plc, Standard Chartered plc, Singapore Telecommunications Limited and Tate & Lyle plc.  He was the Founding Chairman of Clifford Capital Holdings, a company guaranteed by the Singapore Government. He was also the former Chairman of Prudential Corporation Asia Limited and Duke-NUS Medical School Governing Board. Additionally, he served as a Board member of the Casino Regulatory Authority of Singapore and was a member of Visa International's Asia Pacific Advisory Board.

Kai is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales as well as the Singapore Institute of Directors. He earned his Honors Degree in Economics from the University of Delhi and is a Singapore citizen.

Kai was awarded the Public Service Star (Bintang Bakti Masyarakat) at the National Day Awards 2019 in recognition of his service to Singapore.

           
           

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Ms Wan Mei Kit

Board Director
Non-Executive and Independent Director

 

Board Committee(s):
Audit & Risk Committee (Chairman)                
Technology Committee (Member)

Ms Wan Mei Kit is an experienced professional in Audit, Risk Control, Governance and Compliance roles of leading international banks, with knowledge spanning across Asia Pacific.

Ms Wan is currently a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee and member of the Nomination Committee of Singapore Pools (Private) Limited and member of the Tote Board Audit and Risk Committee. She is also a Non-Executive Director and member of the Audit Committee of Capitaland and China Trust Management Limited.

 

She serves on various non-profit organisations as Chair of the Advisory Committee on Oversight of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (United Nations Women) in New York, and a Board member of Asia Philanthropic Ventures Pte Ltd.  

Ms Wan began her career in audit with Cooper & Lybrand Public Accountants (now PricewaterhouseCoopers). Since then she has worked in various global financial institutions and held various regional head and leadership roles in the global audit, compliance and operational risk functions within Standard Chartered Bank Singapore from 1989 to 2015. Her most recent corporate role was the Regional Head of Audit, ASEAN at Standard Chartered Bank Singapore.

Ms Wan is a fellow member of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA) and a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (UK). She is a member of the Singapore Institute of Director and a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

 

 

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Mr Neo Sing Hwee

Board Director
Non-Executive and Independent Director

 

Board Committee(s):
Leadership Development & Compensation Committee (Member)
Nominating Committee (Member) 

Mr Neo Sing Hwee is a partner of the Ernst & Young Singapore Consulting Practice. He is currently the Global Client Service Partner of several large Temasek Portfolio Companies, Government & Public Service (GPS) accounts as well as private client accounts. 

Mr Neo was the Managing Director of Mapletree Investments Pte Ltd from 2018 to 2020 where he headed the operation business process department, group information system & technology department, group risk management department, group internal audit department as well as group policy and delegation of authority.

For 9 years till 2018, Mr Neo Sing Hwee was a member of the EY Asean Partner Governance Council and led the Advisory (Risk) Internal Audit Practice in EY Singapore, Asean and Asia Pacific. Mr Neo has more than 25 years of experience in providing risk management, business process and performance improvement, internal controls, and business advisory services to clients in various industries, including organisations in both public and private sectors.

Mr Neo worked closely and provided advice to Audit Committees of listed companies as well as organisations in the public sector on leading practices, insights as well as issues relating to corporate governance, risk management and processes and controls. Currently, he also sits on the Board of several government related, charities and social organisations. 

Mr Neo has led and continues to lead teams in the review and assessment of risks as well as performance of internal audits for Singapore listed companies, MNCs as well as organisations in the government and public sector including ministries and statutory boards.

 

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Mr Zhang Weihan

Board Director
Non-Executive and Independent Director

 

Board Committee(s):

Audit & Risk Committee (Member)

 

Mr Zhang Weihan is the Deputy Commissioner (Investigation & Intelligence) and concurrent Director of the Criminal Investigation Department, Singapore Police Force. Prior to this, he has held several key appointments including the Director of the Police Intelligence Department, Deputy Director of the Criminal Investigation Department and Commander of Ang Mo Kio Division. He also served previously as Deputy Director of the Joint Operations Group at the Ministry of Home Affairs and Senior Assistant Director at the Ministry of Trade and Industry.

 

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Mr Kok Ping Soon

Board Director
Non-Executive and Independent Director

 

Board Committee(s): 

Technology Committee (Chairman)               
Audit & Risk Committee (Member)

 

Mr Kok Ping Soon is Chief Executive Officer of the Singapore Business Federation (SBF), the apex business chamber advancing the interests of Singapore’s business community in trade, investment and industrial relations matters. SBF represents more than 30,000 companies, as well as key local and foreign business chambers.

 

Prior to his current appointment, Ping Soon was Chief Executive of the Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech), the lead agency driving Singapore’s Smart Nation initiative and public sector digital transformation. He also held various positions across government covering manpower, economic and security issues.

 

He serves on the Board of ACRA, SBF Foundation, Global Compact Network Singapore (GCNS), IPOS and NUS-ISS. 


 


 

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Mr Alan Goh Kim Hua

Board Director
Non-Executive and Independent Director

 

Board Committee(s):
Leadership Development & Compensation Committee (Member)

 

Mr Alan Goh is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Sport Singapore (SportSG). Prior to joining SportSG, he served as Deputy Secretary (Development and Regulation) in the Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI) from 2019 to 2023, and served in the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) and the Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) for 26 years, rising to the rank of Rear Admiral.

 

His previous appointments include Group Chief of Policy and Strategy in MINDEF's Policy Office, Commander of the RSN's Maritime Security Task Force, Head of Naval Plans, Head of Naval Personnel, and Commanding Officer of the RSN's Missile Corvette Squadron. He was a competitive sailor in his school days, and served as Commodore of the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) Yacht Club from 2017 to 2019 and Vice President (High Performance) of the Singapore Sailing Federation from 2018 to 2019.


Mr Goh holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Mathematics from Cambridge University and a Master of Business Administration (Sloan Fellow) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was also a Fulbright Scholar. He is also a graduate of the United States Naval War College.


Mr Goh also previously served on the Board of Directors of Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd and Unicorn International Pte Ltd, as well as on the Board of Governors of Temasek Polytechnic. For his contributions over the years, Mr Goh was awarded the Public Administration Medal (Silver) (Military) in 2019 and the Civil Service Long Service Award (30 years) in 2023.

 

 

 

     

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Ms Ng Shin Ein

Board Director
Non-Executive and Independent Director

 

Board Committee(s):
Audit & Risk Committee (Member)                

 

Shin Ein brings with her a blend of legal, business and diplomatic experience. She is a legally trained private equity entrepreneur and co-founder of Gryphus Capital, a pan-Asian private equity firm. Prior to this, she spent a number of years at the Singapore Exchange where she was responsible for developing Singapore's capital market and bringing foreign companies to list in Singapore. Additionally, she was part of the Singapore Exchange's IPO Approval Committee, where she contributed industry perspectives and acted as a conduit between the market and regulators.

Shin Ein was admitted as an advocate and solicitor of the Singapore Supreme Court in 1998 and practiced as a corporate lawyer in Messrs Lee & Lee.

Shin Ein has served on boards of companies listed on Nasdaq, the Singapore Exchange and the Australian Securities Exchange. She has steered some of these companies through their IPOs and seen others through their privatisations. She presently serves on the boards of Grab Holdings Inc, Starhub Holdings and Singapore Land. She is also on the Board of Governors of the Singapore International Foundation.

In 2015, Shin Ein was awarded for her services as a board member of Fairprice.

Apart from corporate boards, Shin Ein serves as Singapore's Non-Resident Ambassador to the Republic of Hungary. In 2021, she was awarded the Commander's Cross, Order of Merit, the second highest civilian state award of Hungary

 

 

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Ms Trina Liang

Board Director
Non-Executive and Independent Director

 

Board Committee(s): 

Nominating Committee (Member)

 

Ms Trina Liang is a fund manager with over two decades of experience in alternative investments in Asia. She currently serves as Managing Director at Sidra Capital with a US$25 billion global portfolio. She is Singapore's G20 representative for Women (appointed by MOF) and co-chairs ACCORD for National Service under the Ministry of Defence.  

She currently serves as President of Netball Singapore and Women in Sustainability and Environment (WISE) and formerly chaired UN Women Singapore and the Financial Women's Association Singapore.  Her board service includes WWF Singapore, SPCA Singapore, United Women Singapore, and the Community Foundation of Singapore. She has also served on the boards of Sentosa Development Corporation, Singapore Institute of International Affairs, National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre, and the Singapore Repertory Theatre.

A strong advocate for sustainability, DEI equality and philanthropy, Ms Liang co-founded the Lin Foundation and was named one of Forbes Asia's Heroes of Philanthropy. She writes regularly for The Straits Times and Business Times on sustainability, gender, and sports, and has contributed as a speechwriter and strategist in key national elections.

Ms Liang holds a Master's in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics and has attended executive education at the Yale School of Management.  She was named to Robb Report's Thought Leaders 2022/23, Prestige's Women of Power, and Harper's Bazaar Power List, among others.

 

 

          

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Mr Tan Choon Shian

Board Director
Non-Executive

 

Mr Tan Choon Shian is the Chief Executive of Tote Board since 1 July 2023.

 

He was formerly the Chief Executive, Workforce Singapore (WSG) from 2016 to June 2023. Prior to WSH, Mr Tan served as the Principal and Chief Executive Officer of Singapore Polytechnic (SP) for more than three years, after relinquishing his appointment as Deputy Managing Director of the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB). During his time at EDB, he held various diplomatic and leadership roles in Singapore and Japan, including First Secretary (Industry) of the Singapore Embassy in Japan, and led various EDB divisions including Asia Pacific Operations, Electronics and Precision Engineering Cluster, Planning and Policy, Marketing Communications and Knowledge Management.

 

Whilst at EDB, he was seconded for a year to the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) as Director, Corporate Development.

 

Mr Tan graduated as a valedictorian from the University of Tokyo with a Bachelor of Science (Information Science) in 1992. He was a Sloan Fellow at Stanford University, USA, where he received a Master of Science in Management in 2000. He completed his Advanced Management Programme at INSEAD in 2011.

 

 

 

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Mr Lam Chee Weng

Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer

 

Mr Lam Chee Weng is the Chief Executive Officer of Singapore Pools and was appointed to the Board on 1 May 2019.  

 

A seasoned finance professional with more than 30 years of work experience, he joined Singapore Pools in June 2017 as Chief Financial Officer. He has vast commercial experience working in public-listed companies and multinational companies with coverage across Asia Pacific. An auditor by training, he started his finance career with KPMG in 1992 and holds professional qualifications with CA Singapore, ACCA UK, CPA Australia, CA Malaysia, and CFA Institute USA. In addition, he has an MBA from RMIT University, Australia and has completed the Advanced Management Program and International Directors Program with INSEAD. 

           
Mr Lam is the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Asia Pacific Lottery Association (APLA) and committee member for United Lotteries for Integrity in Sports (ULIS), a non-profit organization that aims to protect the integrity of sports and prevent match-fixing. He is also the Asia Pacific Region Representative and Chairman of the Audit Committee of the World Lottery Association (WLA).  

 

He is currently Deputy Chairman of iShineCloud Pte Ltd (an Institution of a Public Character), and a Board Member and Audit Committee Chairman of Kallang Alive Sport Management and the TENG Company Ltd. He also serves as a Board member of Selegie Management Pte Ltd and Workwell Leaders and as a Co-opted member of Cerebral Palsy Alliance Sg. He was the Co-Chairman for the Responsible Gambling Forum (RGF) in Singapore from 2019 to 2023 where he spearheaded responsible gambling efforts within the gambling industry, particularly in Singapore Pools. He also sits on the Advisory Board of the Singapore Silent Heroes Awards which recognises ordinary Singaporeans for their extraordinary acts of humanity and compassion.