34 M1 LIMITED ANNUAL REPORT 2016 SENIOR MANAGEMENT 1 2 3 4 5 PROFILE OF SENIOR MANAGEMENT 1 KAREN KOOI LEE WAH Chief Executive Officer 2 PATRICK MICHAEL SCODELLER Chief Operating Officer 3 LEE KOK CHEW Chief Commercial Officer 4 NICHOLAS TAN Chief Financial Officer 5 POOPALASINGAM SUBRAMANIAM Chief Marketing Officer 35 1 KAREN KOOI LEE WAH industry, including various positions responsibility as Head of Finance in Chief Executive Officer held with Telkom in South Africa, April 2009 and was Chief Financial Cable and Wireless Plc in the United Officer from May 2010 to February 2014. Please see Ms Kooi’s profile on page 31. Kingdom, Hong Kong Telecom CSL Limited in Hong Kong and in Malaysia. In January 2013, he was appointed 2 PATRICK MICHAEL SCODELLER as Chief Commercial Officer to provide Chief Operating Officer Mr Scodeller is an Incorporated added focus on corporate strategy Mr Scodeller joined M1 in August 1995. Engineer and a Member of the and commercial initiatives to drive In January 2013, he was appointed Institution of Engineering and business growth. as Chief Operating Officer responsible Technology. He is a member of for the day-to-day activities of the the board of M1 TeliNet Pte Ltd He was previously with Singapore main operational support functions, (formerly known as Wireless Intellect Press Holdings Limited for 14 years departments and infrastructure Labs Pte Ltd), and currently the and held various positions in sales, within M1, namely Engineering, Chairman and a member of the finance and operations. His last Information Systems and Customer board of Singapore Internet appointment prior to joining M1 Service. He was a key member of Exchange Limited. was Chief Operating Officer of SPH the senior management team that Magazines Pte Ltd. planned, built and launched M1’s 3 LEE KOK CHEW networks from inception. Chief Commercial Officer Mr Lee holds a Master of Business Administration degree and a Bachelor Mr Lee joined M1 in August 2007 as of Science (Honours) degree from the He has more than 37 years of Director, Business Development National University of Singapore. experience in the telecommunications and Strategic Planning. He assumed 4 NICHOLAS TAN 5 POOPALASINGAM Chief Financial Officer SUBRAMANIAM Chief Marketing Officer Mr Tan joined M1 in September 2016 as Chief Financial Officer. Mr Subramaniam joined M1 in October 1999 and heads the Consumer and Prior to M1, Mr Tan was Chief Financial Marketing Communication functions. Officer for StarHub. Mr Tan has also He also oversees the Company’s previously held senior positions at distribution network, comprising Fortune 500 companies such as both M1 Shop outlets and Hewlett Packard, Becton Dickinson exclusive distributors. and Texas Instruments, as well as ST Telemedia group of companies With more than 30 years of local in Singapore and in the region. and regional sales and marketing experience in telecommunications, At ST Telemedia, Mr Tan was media and fast moving consumer Senior Vice President for Corporate goods, Mr Subramaniam began his Planning at ST Telemedia. During his career at the Telecommunications secondment to ST Telemedia former Authority of Singapore and worked Indonesian subsidiary, PT Indosat Tbk, at New Zealand Milk Products (S) as CFO, Mr Tan facilitated a refinancing Pte Ltd and Singapore Press Holdings deal that successfully raised almost Limited before joining M1. US$1 billion, a landmark deal that achieved several industry awards. Mr Subramaniam holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (Honours) Mr Tan holds a Bachelor of degree from the National University Accountancy from the National of Singapore and a Bachelor of Law University of Singapore. (Honours) degree from the University of London. 36 M1 LIMITED ANNUAL REPORT 2016 SENIOR MANAGEMENT 6 7 8 9 10 PROFILE OF SENIOR MANAGEMENT 6 ALAN GOH Chief Information Officer 7 DENIS SEEK Chief Technical Officer 8 ALEX TAN Chief Innovation Officer 9 WILLIS SIM Chief Corporate Sales and Solutions Officer 10 LIM SOCK LENG Director, Regulatory and Enterprise Risk Management 37 6 ALAN GOH Mr Goh is the Vice President of IT Mr Seek started his career with Chief Information Officer Management Association (ITMA). He is Singapore Telecommunications also a member of the School Advisory Limited where he was involved in Mr Goh joined M1 in March 2011. Committee for Temasek Polytechnic’s the planning and implementation He leads the Information Systems School of Informatics and IT. of the initial mobile network in the department and is responsible for Philippines. Thereafter, he was the overall information technology 7 DENIS SEEK with M1 as Head of Radio Planning strategy, planning, implementation Chief Technical Officer and Technology Development for and operations of M1’s technology more than 10 years before joining Mr Seek joined M1 in November 2014 infrastructure and application Maxis Berhad. systems. These systems support as Director, Engineering and was appointed as Chief Technical Officer business activities across sales, Mr Seek holds a Bachelor degree in May 2015. He has over 23 years customer care, billing, payments, in Electrical Engineering (First of work experience in the and call centre functions. Class Honours) from the National telecommunications industry. University of Singapore, a “Diplôme Prior to M1, he spent 14 years in the d’ingénieur” (equivalent to a Master’s Prior to joining M1, Mr Seek was consulting business, with most of that degree) in Telecommunications with Maxis Berhad and was based in time focusing in the communications from the “Institut National des Malaysia for more than eight years. and media industries. Graduating from Telecommunications”, France and His last held position there was the National University of Singapore, a Master of Business Administration Head of Technology, Strategy and he holds a Bachelor of Science degree with distinction from Warwick Network Planning. in Computer Science. University in the UK. AN8 ALEX T 9 WILLIS SIM 10 LIM SOCK LENG Chief Innovation Officer Chief Corporate Sales and Director, Regulatory and Solutions Officer Enterprise Risk Management Mr Tan re-joined M1 Limited in June 2016 and helms M1’s product Mr Sim joined M1 in October 2009 Ms Lim joined M1 in October 1995. development, ICT and Digital Solutions and is in charge of Corporate Sales She is in charge of the Regulatory teams. In his role, he is responsible and Solutions. and Enterprise Risk Management for the transformation and growth departments. of strategic businesses and digital Prior to joining M1, he was one of the services, beyond traditional Managing Directors and owners of Prior to joining M1, Ms Lim was with telco connectivity. QALA Singapore Pte Ltd and the QMax the Administrative Service of the group of companies. While leading Singapore Civil Service, involved Prior to M1, Mr Tan served as the the group operations at QALA and in policymaking, financial control Info-communications Development QMax, he was responsible for the first and planning, and has held positions Authority of Singapore’s1 (IDA) commercial WIMAX service in Singapore, in various Ministries including the Covering Senior Director for Next as well as the islandwide deployment Ministry of Home Affairs, the Ministry Generation Infrastructure and of WiFi coverage in Singapore under of Finance and the Ministry of National Information Infrastructure. the Wireless@SG initiative by the Communications. He was responsible for the delivery Info-communications Development of Singapore’s Smart Nation Platform Authority of Singapore1 (IDA). Ms Lim obtained a Bachelor of Arts and oversaw the development (Honours) degree in Economics from and industry growth of the With over 15 years of industry and the University of Tasmania, Australia, communications infrastructure. operational experience in data and on a Colombo Plan Scholarship. telecommunication products and Mr Tan previously served in M1 as services, Mr Sim has played major roles Head of Product Development, Head in various national telecommunication of Enterprise Services and Enterprise projects initiated by government Network. Before M1 Limited, he was agencies such as the Maritime Port one of the Managing Directors and Authority of Singapore, Ministry of owners of QALA Singapore Pte Ltd Education, Info-communications Media and the QMax group of companies. Development Authority, Government Technology Agency (GovTech) and With over 18 years of industry and Land Transport Authority. operational experience in data and telecommunications products Mr Sim holds a Bachelor of Science and services, he has played degree in Computer and Information major roles in various national Sciences (Honours) from the National telecommunication projects. University of Singapore. 1 The IDA merged with the Media Development Authority to become the Info-communications Media Development Authority in October 2016 38 M1 LIMITED ANNUAL REPORT 2016 SENIOR MANAGEMENT 11 12 13 14 PROFILE OF SENIOR MANAGEMENT 11 KAREN TEO 15 16 Director, Head Legal Services/ Joint Company Secretary 12 STAMFORD LOW Director, Customer Service 13 KOH ANN HUAT Director, Procurement and Facilities 14 TEO WEE SENG Director, Human Resource 15 IVAN LIM Director, Corporate Communications and Investor Relations 16 KWAN WAI LING Director, Management Assurance Services 39 11 KAREN TEO 12 STAMFORD LOW 13 KOH ANN HUAT Director, Head Legal Services/ Director, Customer Service Director, Procurement Joint Company Secretary and Facilities Mr Low joined M1 in January 2015 Ms Teo joined M1 in October 2014. She and heads the