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SMRT has appointed 63-year-old Tan Ek Kia, a board director, as interim CEO.
- CNA/ir
Date of Birth: 21 April, 1948
Nationality: Malaysian
Race: Chinese
Dialect: Teochew
Marital Status: Married, with 3 children, a son aged 21 at Monash University, Melbourne, and 2 twin daughters aged 15 at International School of Beijing.
Language: - Mandarin, both written and spoken to junior secondary level
- English to University level
- Chinese dialects Teochew, Hokkien, Hakka at fluent spoken levels and Cantonese at elementary level
- Colloquial Malay & Iban at good conversation level
Education: First class honors in B. Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Nottingham University, England, 1973
Qualification:- Fellow, Institute of Engineers, Malaysia
- Member, Institute of Mechanical Engineers, UK
- Professional Engineer, Board of Engineers, Malaysia
Working Experience:
July 2000 - Now: Chairman of Shell Companies in North East Asia
Dec. 1997 - July 2000: Managing Director, Nanhai, Shell Development (China) Ltd.
Jan, 1994 - Nov.1997: Managing Director of Sarawak Shell Berhad (SSB)/Sabah Shell Petroleum Co. Ltd. (SSPC), responsible for the full range of exploration and production functions of the company, with initial total staff of some 3,000, annual operating budget of US$ 400 million and average capital expenditure of some US$ 700 million. Provided leadership during this period to take the company through a complete restructuring exercise to build enhanced capabilities which also saw the company staff reduced by about 30% to 2,000 through redundancy programmes.
May, 1992 - Dec. 1993: Operation Director, responsible for SSB/SSPC抯operations functions including exploration/production drilling, production, logistics and procurement with total staff of some 1,500 and annual operations budget of some US$ 350 million.
Jul, 1990 - Apr., 1992: Operation Manager, SSB/SSPC, responsible for SSB/SSPC operations functions as above.
Working Experience:
May 1987 - Jun. 1990: Business Liaison in Shell International Petroleum Maatschappij, The Hague, responsible for business performance and new investment decisions of Shell抯production ventures in Denmark, Norway and UK.
Dec. 1984 - Apr. 1987: Head, technical audit and safety responsible for implementation of the enhanced safety programme throughout SSB/SSPC to improve safety performance, reporting to Technical Director
Jul. 1982 - Nov. 1984: Project Manager responsible to the State Government of Sabah for the realization of the turn-key contract (US$ 300 million) for upstream gas supply facilities to power plant, methanol plant and hot briguet iron plant based on Labuan Island.
Aug. 1981 - Jun. 1982: Senior Facilities Engineer for SSB/SSPC, responsible for design and implementation of all gas facilities in SSB/SSPC.
Jan. 1980 - Jul. 1981: Project Engineer to implement construction of onshore slugcatcher, metering and condensate stabilisation facilities in Bintulu, Sarawak in connection with gas supply to Malaysian LNC plant.
Jan. 1979 - Dec. 1979: Resident Engineer on behalf of SSB in design offices of
consultant Crest Engineering, Tulsa, Oklahoma to supervise the detail design of offshore and onshore gas supply and condensate stabilisation facilities.
May 1978 - Dec. 1978: Facilities Design Engineer with SSB, involved in conceptual design of upstream gas supply facilities to Malaysian LNG plant, Bintulu, Sarawak.
Sept. 1975 - Apr. 1978: Construction Engineer with BSP to implement installation of offshore structure, pipelines, topside facilities and utilities for processing oil and gas as well as gas compression facilities for supply of gas to Brunei LNG plant.
Sept. 1973 - Aug. 1975: Design Engineer in onshore and offshore gas process facilities and utilities with Brunei Shell Petroleum Co. (BSP).
Enorth.com.cn 2003-02-15 15:16
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