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DBS CEO Tan Su Shan named to EDB board

Micron Technology’s EVP Manish Bhatia has also been named to the EDB board.

The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) has named two new board members for the Economic Development Board (EDB), including DBS Group’s chief executive officer (CEO) Tan Su Shan.

Manish Bhatia, executive vice president of Global Operations in Micron Technology, will also join the board.

For the Energy Market Authority (EMA), Dr. Lock Kai Sang and Premod P. Thomas are the new board members.

Lock is professor (engineering) and head of the Energy Efficiency Technology Centre at the Singapore Institute of Technology. Thomas, meanwhile, is executive director and CEO of Capital Insights.

The EnterpriseSG board will see three new faces with Khoo Boo Hor, Cindy Lim, and Paul Santos.

Khooo is CEO and executive director of Sunningdale Tech; Lim is CEO, Infrastructure, at Keppel Ltd; and Santos is co-founder and managing partner of Wavemaker Partners.

JTC has named one new board member in Mohamad Saiful bin Saroni, partner at Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) Singapore.

SDC, meanwhile, announced that Bob Tan has been reappointed as chairman of its board for a one-year term. Tan is currently chairman at Jurong Engineering Limited.

Edmun Koh will be appointed deputy chairman of the SDC board. He is currently chairman, Asia Pacific, at UBS AG.

Four new members were appointed to the board of SDC: Ling Tok Hong, Kevin Goh, William Lim, and Tang Zhi Hui.

Ling is a partner at PwC Singapore; Goh is the CEO, Lodging at CapitaLand Investment Limited and CEO of The Ascott Limited; Lim is the divisional director, planning, in the planning division (PLD) of the Ministry of Education; and Tang is senior director (industry) at the MTI.

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