Wong Kim Yin

Group President & CEO
Joined 2020

Mr Wong is Group President & CEO of Sembcorp Industries. He is a member of the board’s Executive Committee and Technology Advisory Panel.

Mr Wong has over 20 years of leadership experience in the energy sector and investment management. Formerly the Group Chief Executive Officer of Singapore Power (SP Group), a leading energy utilities group in the Asia Pacific, Mr Wong led the transformation of the company towards an increased focus on sustainability and innovation.

Prior to the SP Group, Mr Wong was Senior Managing Director, Investments, at Temasek International, and was responsible for investments in the energy, transportation and industrial sectors. Before joining Temasek, he was with The AES Corporation, a global power company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, managing project development and mergers and acquisitions across the Asia Pacific.

Mr Wong is also the Chairman of SkillsFuture Singapore, a government agency focused on lifelong learning under the Singapore Ministry of Education. He is also a director of SeaTown Holdings, China Venture Capital Fund Corporation, DSO National Laboratories and the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore.

Mr Wong holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science & Information Systems from the National University of Singapore and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Graham Cockroft

Group Chief Financial Officer
Joined 2018

Mr Cockroft is Group Chief Financial Officer of Sembcorp Industries.

Mr Cockroft brings with him a strong financial background and extensive international experience in the electricity and gas business. Prior to his current appointment, Mr Cockroft was with Contact Energy for close to a decade, serving as Chief Financial Officer for six years, and before that as Chief Operating Officer, where he was responsible for the company’s wholesale and generation functions. He also spent close to two decades with BG Group, holding various senior strategy, business development and operational roles, primarily in the UK and South America, and formerly worked in investment banking and treasury. 

Mr Cockroft holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Commerce from the University of Otago, New Zealand, and a Masters in Finance from the London Business School in the UK.

Wong Weng Sun

President & CEO, 
Sembcorp Marine
Joined 1988

Mr Wong is President & CEO of Sembcorp Marine. He is also a member of Sembcorp Marine’s board Executive Committee.

A 30-year veteran of Sembcorp Marine, Mr Wong first joined the company in 1988 as an engineer and rose through the ranks to become President & Chief Operating Officer, before taking the helm of the business in 2009. He is the chairman of the Singapore Maritime Institute’s board and governing council and a member of Singapore’s Marine and Offshore Sectoral Tripartite Committee.

As part of his support for the development of offshore and marine tertiary education in Singapore, Mr Wong chairs the Singapore Institute of Technology-Newcastle University Industry Advisory Committee for marine engineering, naval architecture and offshore engineering joint-degree programmes. He is also a member of the Industry Advisory Panel of the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Nanyang Technological University.

Mr Wong holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (Marine) from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia and a MBA from Oklahoma City University, USA.

Koh Chiap Khiong

Head, Singapore, SEA & China (Energy)
Joined 2008

Mr Koh is Head of Singapore, Southeast Asia and China at Sembcorp. He is responsible for driving both the strategic direction and growth of these markets. 

Mr Koh brings with him deep knowledge of the energy and water sectors, extensive experience in managing infrastructure businesses, as well as a strong financial background. Prior to his current appointment, Mr Koh held various senior appointments in Sembcorp, including serving as the Group CFO from 1999 to 2018 as well as the head of finance and chief risk officer at its Utilities business. In 2017, he was also the Group’s Chief Transformation Officer where he oversaw Sembcorp’s efforts to strengthen its organisation and capabilities in line with its business strategy. Mr Koh was previously CFO of Power Seraya.

Mr Koh holds a First Class Honours degree in Accountancy from the National University of Singapore and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School, USA.

Vipul Tuli

Head, India (Energy)
Joined 2015

Mr Tuli heads Sembcorp’s India business and oversees Sembcorp’s investments and key stakeholder relationships within India. He is the Managing Director of Sembcorp Energy India Limited (formerly known as Thermal Powertech Corporation India Limited), a leading independent power company in India.

Mr Tuli has 25 years of experience in the energy sector, spanning power generation, fuel management, upstream oil and gas, refining, marketing and distribution, petrochemicals and speciality chemicals. Before joining Sembcorp, he was a senior partner with McKinsey & Company (McKinsey), where he worked for clients in the energy sector and helped build and lead McKinsey’s Asian energy practice. He has also advised government institutions on issues of energy policy, organisation, industry structure, and regulation.

Mr Tuli holds a Bachelor’s degree in Technology (Chemical Engineering) from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, India and received his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta, India.

Ng Meng Poh

Head, Global Operations
Joined 2007

Mr Ng heads Sembcorp’s Global Operations Group which provides engineering and process expertise to enhance and optimise operations and maintenance of Sembcorp’s utilities worldwide. He also heads Sembcorp’s businesses in the Middle East, South Africa, the Americas and Bangladesh.

Mr Ng has over 30 years of experience in the energy industry in both the private and public sectors. Prior to joining Sembcorp, he was a member of the executive management team of Senoko Power and also spent over a decade at Singapore's Public Utilities Board. In the course of his career, Mr Ng was actively involved in the restructuring and liberalisation of Singapore's power and gas markets, as well as in negotiations for the importation of piped natural gas from Malaysia and Indonesia into Singapore.

Mr Ng holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from the National University of Singapore and a Masters of Science in Energy Resources from the University of Pittsburgh, USA. He also completed the Advanced Management Program at the Wharton School of Business.

Nomi Ahmad

Head, United Kingdom (Energy)
Joined 2013

Mr Ahmad heads Sembcorp’s UK business, which includes the Wilton International-based industrial utilities and services provider, Sembcorp Utilities UK, as well as UK Power Reserve, the UK’s largest flexible distributed energy generator.

He brings 25 years of rich and varied experience spanning power development, engineering procurement & construction, project finance, M&A and asset management across Asia, Middle East and the Americas. In the course of his career, he has originated, acquired, developed, financed, built and divested power projects totaling 9.5 gigawatts. Prior to joining Sembcorp, Mr Ahmad worked at Lanco Infratech, Wärtsilä Corporation, El Paso Energy, Smith Cogeneration and Kidder Peabody.  

Mr Ahmad holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Business Economics from Brown University, USA.

Sriram Narayanan

Head, Gas & Power
Joined 2017

Mr Narayanan heads Sembcorp’s Gas & Power business, including its piped natural gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG) businesses, as well as its power and centralised utilities businesses. He drives the growth of these businesses globally.

Mr Narayanan brings with him rich experience in the field of natural gas and LNG, ranging from upstream exploration and production, to downstream LNG markets and infrastructure. Prior to joining Sembcorp, he served as Vice President of Projects & Development and Commercial at Singapore LNG Corporation. He also worked for Shell, where he was responsible for various commercial portfolios in India, Malaysia and Singapore, and was involved in the negotiation, structuring, evaluation and closure, as well as operationalisation of commercial contracts related to petroleum ownership, gas purchase and sale, LNG infrastructure ownership and usage rights and ports.

Mr Narayanan holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Gujarat University, India and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore, India.

Tan Cheng Guan

Head, Renewables & Environment
Joined 1990-2004 & 2007-Present

Mr Tan is the Head of Sembcorp’s Renewables & Environment business, including its renewable energy, water as well as waste-to-resource businesses, and drives the growth of these businesses globally.  

He brings with him broad experience in engineering, strategy, business and project development for the utilities industry. Prior to joining Sembcorp, Mr Tan spent 12 years in engineering and project management for the oil and gas sector at Brown & Root Far East, where he was based in London, Kuala Lumpur and Miri. He also spent three years in Shanghai as Managing Director of Vopak China, overseeing the growth and operations of Vopak’s businesses in the country. While at Sembcorp, Mr Tan pioneered the early development of the Group's Utilities business on Jurong Island and subsequently led the business' expansion into China, India, the UK, the Middle East, Myanmar and Bangladesh. He also drove Sembcorp’s acquisition of renewable energy businesses in China and India, as well as the acquisition of Cascal's international municipal water business.

Mr Tan holds a Bachelor of Civil Engineering (Honours) from the University of Liverpool, UK and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School, USA.

Namesh Hansjee

Head, Merchant & Retail
Joined 2018

Namesh Hansjee is the Head of Merchant & Retail for Sembcorp’s Utilities business. He drives efforts to build merchant and retail capabilities that enable the Group’s energy business to capture opportunities closer to the customer and in multiple markets, enhance competitiveness and returns, and strategically position itself to benefit from the global energy transition.

Mr Hansjee brings to the Group deep knowledge of the energy sector and more than twenty-five years’ experience in oil, gas, LNG, power, coal and carbon emissions trading. Before joining Sembcorp, he was a managing director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, heading its energy trading in London. Prior to that Mr Hansjee spent over a decade at EDF Trading, the trading and wholesale arm of Electricité de France and one of the largest energy trading businesses in the world, and was the company’s Head of Trading for several years. He also has over a decade of experience in oil trading at J.P. Morgan & Co and Royal Dutch Shell.

Mr Hansjee holds a first class honours degree in Chemistry from the University of Oxford in the UK.

Kelvin Teo

CEO, 
Urban Development
Joined 1993

Mr Teo is CEO of Sembcorp's Urban Development business, and he focuses on the overall planning, positioning, development, marketing and management of our integrated urban developments comprising industrial parks, innovation hubs, commercial and residential projects.

With over two decades at Sembcorp, Mr Teo has been involved in the start-up and joint venture management of all of Sembcorp Development's projects across Vietnam, China and Indonesia and India. Prior to his current appointment, Mr Teo served as the Urban Development business' President and Chief Operating Officer, as well as its Chief Financial Officer. Mr Teo is a member of the Singapore-Jiangsu Cooperation Council and the Singapore-Sichuan Trade and Investment Council, and was conferred the prestigious Friendship Medal by the President of Vietnam, for his long-standing contribution to Vietnam-Singapore economic cooperation.

An accountant by training, Mr Teo is an affiliate of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants in the UK and holds a Diploma in Business Studies (with Merit) from Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore. He completed the Senior Executive Programme jointly conducted by Harvard Business School, USA and Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management, China, as well as the Advanced Management Programme at INSEAD in France.

Matthew Friedman

Chief Digital Officer
Joined 2017

Matthew Friedman is Chief Digital Officer of Sembcorp Industries. His focus is on driving business growth through the digitalisation of business operations and processes. He also drives innovation through technology and technology investments at Sembcorp, and oversees the company’s efforts to build a secure technical and digital environment.

Mr Friedman has over two decades’ experience in the technology industry. Prior to joining Sembcorp, he spent 16 years at IBM, where he was responsible for leading a team of over 500 people and delivered over US$5 billion in annual revenue by helping leading global and regional technology companies digitise their service delivery and solution platforms. Mr Friedman also previously co-founded a successful management consulting firm, which became MarchFirst, one of the largest web integrators in the world in the late 1990s.

Mr Friedman received a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Economics (Honours) from Skidmore College, USA and completed the Senior Leadership Program at Harvard Business School, USA.

Looi Lee Hwa

General Counsel
Joined 2018

Ms Looi is General Counsel of Sembcorp Industries, and oversees legal, compliance and ethics matters as well as corporate secretariat functions within the Group.

She brings to Sembcorp rich experience in her field, having worked in legal and compliance positions in a number of industries, including shipping, manufacturing as well as oil and gas. Prior to joining Sembcorp, Ms Looi was Group General Counsel and Company Secretary at Neptune Orient Lines Group as well as at Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing.  

Ms Looi holds an LLB (Honours) degree from the National University of Singapore and was admitted to the bar as an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore.

Kenneth Lui

Chief Risk Officer
Joined 2019

Kenneth Lui is Chief Risk Officer of Sembcorp Industries, responsible for developing and overseeing the Group’s risk governance framework, recommending its risk appetite and ensuring the risks faced by the business are managed in order to support its sustainable growth.

Mr Lui has over two decades of experience in risk management, having worked across various industry sectors primarily in banking, finance and real estate. Before joining Sembcorp, he served as Senior Vice President, Head of Enterprise Risk Management at Ascendas Singbridge, responsible for the group’s global risk management framework. Prior to that, he worked in Bank of America Merrill Lynch Singapore, Deutsche Bank Singapore and Sydney, and other global banks holding leadership roles in operational risk and control.

Mr Lui holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Western Australia and a Master of Applied Finance from Macquarie University, Australia. He is also a chartered accountant of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Australia and a member of the Global Association of Risk Professionals.

Wendy Foong

Chief Human Resource Officer
Joined 2019

Wendy Foong is Chief Human Resource Officer of Sembcorp Industries, responsible for all aspects of Sembcorp’s human resource management and organisation development.

Ms Foong has over two decades of varied experience, having undertaken roles in both human resources and business functions. Prior to joining Sembcorp, she was with Schneider Electric where she was responsible for developing and executing the human resource strategy to build organisational capability. Ms Foong had also spent 13 years in SAP where she took on a variety of roles from human resources to business operations, customer success and bid management.

Ms Foong holds a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in English Language and Economics from the National University of Singapore.