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08. MR NIRUMALAN S/O V
KANAPATHI PILLAI
Independent Director, 59
Mr Nirumalan s/o V Kanapathi Pillai is an Independent
Director of OKP Holdings Limited. He was appointed
a Director on 1 June 2005 and currently serves as
Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and a member
of the Audit Committee and Nominating Committee. He
was last re-elected as a Director at the 2008 Annual
General Meeting on 20 April 2009.
Mr Pillai is the Senior Director of Global Law Alliance
LLC (incorporating Niru & Co). Global Law Alliance
LLC is a corporate law firm representing leading global
banking and financial institutions, major international
companies including Fortune 500 companies, private
equity groups, venture capitalists and global asset
management companies. In the late 1990s, Niru & Co
was associated with CMS Cameron McKenna, a top-tier
law firm with headquarters in London. Mr Pillai has been
in legal practice for more than 30 years, specialising
in insurance, reinsurance, shipping, libel and slander,
corporate, commercial and civil litigation. He qualified as
a Barrister-at-Law (England and Wales) and was admitted
to the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple in 1976.
He has been practising as an Advocate and Solicitor of
the Supreme Court of Singapore since 1978 and was
admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme
Court of Victoria, Australia, in 1990.
Mr Pillai holds a LLM degree from the University of
Melbourne, Australia and a LLM degree (with Distinction)
from the Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom.
He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of
Arbitrators, United Kingdom and the Singapore Institute
of Arbitrators. Until 2008, he was also an Adjunct
Associate Professor in the Faculty of Engineering,
National University of Singapore.
List of present and past directorships, other than those held
in the Company, as at 31 December 2011 and the preceding
three years in other listed companies are as follows:
Present Directorships
Nil
Past Directorships
Nil
09. MR TAN BOEN ENG
Independent Director, 79
Mr Tan Boen Eng is an Independent Director of OKP
Holdings Limited. He was appointed a Director on 25
June 2002 and currently serves as Chairman of the
Nominating Committee and a member of the Audit
Committee and Remuneration Committee. He was last re-
appointed a Director at the 2010 Annual General Meeting
on 20 April 2011.
Mr Tan has extensive experience in both the public and
private sectors. He has held and is currently holding
directorships in several listed and non-listed companies
from various industries, including business consultancy,
training and management consultancy. Mr Tan was the
President of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants
of Singapore from 1995 to April 2009. He was a member
of the Nanyang Business School Advisory Committee,
Nanyang Technological University and is currently a
Board member of Singapore Institute of Accredited Tax
Professionals. He has previously held the positions of
Senior Deputy Commissioner of the Inland Revenue
Authority of Singapore, Director of Singapore Pools Pte
Ltd and Board Member of the Accounting and Corporate
Regulatory Authority. He also served as Chairman of the
Securities Industries Council and was a Member of the
Singapore Sports Council.
Mr Tan holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics
(Honours) from the University of Malaya in Singapore.
He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Certified Public
Accountants of Singapore and CPA Australia. He received
the Public Administration Medal (Silver) in 1975.
List of present and past directorships, other than those
held in the Company, as at 31 December 2011 and the
preceding three years in other listed companies are as
follows:
Present Directorships
TEE International Limited
Past Directorships
AsiaMedic Limited
Annual Report 2011
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