Board of Directors

MR Tan Tze Wen
Managing Director
Mr Tan Tze Wen founded our Company in 1975 and has been our Director since 29 April 1975. He is currently our Managing Director. He is responsible for the overall management, strategic planning and business development of our Group. He also oversees the overall administration, finance and operations of our Group. Mr Tan has been instrumental to our growth. Under his leadership, our Company has grown from a business undertaking mainly small pump station projects to an environmental engineering company awarded with multi-million dollar contracts. He has more than 20 years of experience in the water and wastewater treatment business. Mr Tan obtained a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands in 1971.

MDM Ng Guat Hua
Executive Director
Mdm Ng Guat Hua is our Administrative Director. Mdm Ng joined our Company in 1981 and has more than 20 years of experience in finance and administration. She was appointed as Executive Director of our Company on 19 May 1992. Mdm Ng currently oversees the overall finance and administrative functions of our Group and is responsible for project cost control, analyzing accounts for management review and preparing the forecast and budget for each financial year. She is a member of The World Red Swastika Society and a director of the Red Swastika School Management Committee. She obtained her GCE ‘O’ level qualifications in or around 1975.

MR Andrew Bek
Executive Director
Mr Andrew Bek was appointed as the Executive Director of our Company on 20 May 2010. He will be responsible for corporate strategies and corporate finance areas in the Company. Mr Bek started his career in Arthur Anderson & Co and was there from 1988 to 1997. He was later attached to a steel manufacturing company as the Accounts Manager from 1997 to 1998. He then joined Ernst & Young Malaysia from 1999 to 2007, where he was responsible for statutory audit of public and non-public companies. In 2007, he joined OneEquity SG Pte Ltd and is currently the Investment Director, responsible for the assessment of investment opportunities, market research and analysis and making recommendations to the investment committee. He is also currently the Non-Executive Director of SGX Mainboard-listed China Environment Ltd and was actively involved in the entire Reverse-Take-Over ('RTO') exercise of the company.

MR Chen Yeow Sin
Independent Director
Mr Chen Yeow Sin was appointed as an Independent Director of our Company on 4 January 2006. He has about 20 years of experience in audit and financial advisory services. From 1992 to 1996, he was an audit manager at Deloitte and Touche, responsible for financial audit, due diligence reviews and initial public offerings. Subsequently, he was the South East Asian internal audit manager at Unocal Corporation from 1997 to 1999, where he was responsible for risk management, internal audit, business process evaluations and conflict of interest investigations for the South East Asian subsidiaries. In 2000, he joined LTC and Associates as an audit partner and has been serving in that capacity ever since. He is currently an Independent Director of Sitra Holdings (International) Limited. Mr Chen obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of London and is a Certified Public Accountant. He is also a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and a fellow of the Certified Public Accountants of Australia.

MR Basmadjian Krikor
Independent Director
Mr Basmadjian Krikor was appointed as an Independent Director of our Company on 4 January 2006. He has about 28 years of experience in the banking sector, having worked at Bank of America from 1974 to 2002. During his career at Bank of America, he held several senior positions including Vice President and Country Operations Manager for various countries such as Indonesia, Thailand and Indo-China from 1989 to 1998 as well as Senior Vice President and Country Operations Manager in Japan and Korea from 1998 to 2001. Between 2001 and 2002, he served as director of BA Forex, a subsidiary of Bank of America in the Philippines. Since 2002, Mr Krikor has been the trustee and honorary treasurer of the Armenian Church in Singapore. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration from Cyprus College USA in 1974.

DR Zhuo Zefan
Independent Director
Dr Zhuo Zefan was appointed as an Independent Director of our Company on 6 May 2010. He has over 18 years of experience in the fields of professional investment and mergers and acquisition covering a wide range of businesses. He was the Founder and Vice President of China Construction Bank Shaanxi Lixin Investment Co., Ltd, where he was in charge of real-estate development from 1991 to 1993. He was also the General Manager of CCB Lixin Jewelry Co., Ltd., in charge of the jewellery business. In 1993, he founded and became the Vice Chairman of Xi’an Jinye Investment Co., Ltd. and Shaanxi Jinrun Property Management Co., Ltd, responsible for VC and real-estate business. He became the Chairman and General Manager of Xi’an Juchuan International Investment in 1995 and also started Shaanxi Fuwanjia Chemical Co., Ltd which was reconstructed in 2000 as Shaanxi Fuwanjia Inc. Mr Zhuo later on became the Chairman of the board of Xi’an Kingsway Investment Consulting in 2002 and China Nonferrous Metals Co. Ltd (formerly known as Hong Kong Sungreen International Holdings) (8306 HK) in 2004 respectively, then founded Xi’an May International Investment where he became the Chairman and President of the company in 2007. 

Dr Zhuo graduated with a Master degree in Business Administration from Northwest University in China and a Doctorate degree in Business Administration from West Coast University in the United States of America.

MR Sam Kok Yin
Independent Director
Mr Sam Kok Yin was appointed as an Independent Director of our Company on 20 May 2010. He started his career as a practicing Advocate and Solicitor with Rajah & Tann in 2000. In 2003, he left to join Yeo Wee Kiong Law Corporation where he was made a Director in 2004. He also headed the China Practice at Yeo Wee Kiong Law Corporation until 31 March 2007. From August 2009 to July 2010, Mr Sam was a Partner at Colin Ng & Partners LLP. His main areas of practice include corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate work and he had been involved in several initial public offerings, reverse takeovers, investment deals and other capital markets related transactions.

In 2004, Mr Sam was appointed as a Singapore-China Young Business Ambassador as part of a program organised by the Singapore International Foundation and spent 10 weeks in Shanghai as part of the exchange program. Currently, Mr Sam is a director of Perennial Advisory Pte Ltd, a company involved in fund management and financial advisory. He is also an Independent Director of SGX Mainboard-listed Dapai International Holdings Co. Ltd. Mr Sam obtained his honours degree in law from the National University of Singapore in 2000 under an Overseas Union Bank scholarship. He was called to the Singapore Bar in 2001. He was ranked in first position in the postgraduate Practical Law Course organised by the Board of Legal Education and awarded the Aw Boon Haw and Aw Boon Par Memorial Prize.