MS CHEW GEK KHIM
LLB (Hons)
Executive Chairman
Last re-elected in 2013
Ms Chew Gek Khim is a lawyer by training. She has been
Chairman of The Straits Trading Company Limited since
24 April 2008, first as Non-Executive and Non-Independent
Chairman and then as Executive Chairman since
1 November 2009.
Ms Chew is also Executive Chairman of Tecity Group, which
she joined in 1987. She is Deputy Chairman of ARA Asset
Management Limited, Chairman of ARA Trust Management
(Suntec) Limited, and sits on the board of Singapore
Exchange Limited.
Ms Chew is also Deputy Chairman of The Tan Chin Tuan
Foundation in Singapore and Chairman of The Tan Sri Tan
Foundation in Malaysia. She is a Member of the Securities
Industry Council of Singapore, the SSO Council and Board
of Governors of S. Rajaratnam School of International
Studies. She was chairman of the National Environment
Agency Board of Singapore from 2008 to 2015. Ms Chew
was also previously a director of CapitaRetail China Trust
Management Limited and board member of the Singapore
Totalisator Board.
Ms Chew graduated from the National University of
Singapore in 1984 and was awarded the
Chevalier de l’Ordre
National du Mérite
in 2010.
MR RAZMAN BIN ARIFFIN
B Sc (Eng), ARSM, MIME (M)
Independent and Non-Executive Director
Last re-elected in 2014
Mr Razman bin Ariffin was appointed to our Board in
December 2006. Mr Ariffin’s rich involvement in the mining,
metallurgical and energy industries spans over 40 years,
starting as production and planning engineer with Osborne
& Chappel Sdn Bhd, then as petroleum engineer with
Sarawak Shell Berhad. He was then attached to the Malaysia
Mining Corporation Berhad Group (now known as MMC
Corporation Berhad Group) serving in various capacities
over the years. In 1985, Mr Ariffin joined Malaysia Smelting
Corporation Berhad (“MSC”) as general manager and was its
chief executive officer and executive director when he left
in 1994. Currently an independent strategic and corporate
consultant, Mr Ariffin is also Chairman of MSC. He was the
former managing director of Trenergy (M) Berhad and Crest
Petroleum Bhd, both companies then listed on
Bursa Malaysia.
Mr Ariffin graduated from the Imperial College of Science
and Technology at the University of London, England with
first class honours in mining engineering in 1972.
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