About

Mr Boon Swan Foo was appointed as Manager Nominated Director and Chairman on 25 November 2009 and subsequently became Non-Executive Director and Chairman of the Company on 20 December 2011.

Mr Boon is the Executive Chairman of Singapore Consortium Investment Management Limited.

Mr Boon served as Chief Executive Officer and Deputy Chairman of ST Engineering Ltd for 3 years from October 1997 before moving on to serve as the Managing Director of Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and Executive Chairman of Exploit Technologies Pte Ltd, the commercial arm of A*STAR for 4 years and 8 years respectively. Mr Boon was the Chairman of ST Asset Management Ltd. from April 2010 to December 2011.

For his stewardship of ST Engineering Ltd, Mr Boon was conferred the Singapore Business Award for Outstanding CEO in 2000.

Mr Boon has extensive international board experience, having served as a director on the board of Intouch Holdings Plc (listed in Thailand), MIH Holdings Limited (South Africa), Dongfeng Motor Corporation (China), China National Offshore Oil Corporation, China Huadian Corporation (China),  China Baowu Steel Group Corporation Limited (China) and Orica Limited (listed in Australia). He also served on the board of several other listed and unlisted companies in Singapore.

Mr Boon served as senior advisor to Temasek Holdings and Temasek International Advisors Pte. Ltd. from time to time over the last two decades. He was also an advisor to the Dean’s Council of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (U.S.A.), Motorola Inc. Research Visionary Board (U.S.A.), Commercialisation Advisory Board of Imperial College (U.K.) and Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (Japan).

Mr Boon graduated from Newcastle upon Tyne with a degree in Naval Architecture. He is a member of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants which in 2023 conferred on him the Distinguished Lifetime Membership Award. Mr Boon is a Senior Accredited Director of the Singapore Institute of Directors and also a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), U.K. He holds an MBA from the National University of Singapore and has completed Harvard’s Advanced Management Program.