Mr Sunny George Verghese
Chairman and Independent Director
Mr Verghese is currently the Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Olam International Limited (“Olam”) and is responsible for the strategic planning, business development and overall management of the Olam Group. Mr Verghese used to work for the Unilever Group in India before joining the Kewalram Chanrai (“KC”) Group in 1986. In 1989, the KC Group mandated Mr Verghese to start Olam.
Mr Verghese is the Chairman of International Enterprise Singapore, a statutory board under the Ministry of Trade & Industry, Singapore Government. He is also one of the three Singapore representatives on the ASEAN Business Advisory Council and a member of the Rabobank Food & Agribusiness Asia Advisory Board.
Mr Verghese holds a post graduate management degree from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and has also completed the Advanced Management Programme from the Harvard Business School.
Mr Foo is currently CEO of Fortis Bank S.A./N.V. in Singapore and a member of Fortis Asia Pacific Management Board. He is also a director in the various Fortis subsidiary companies in Singapore. Mr Foo’s banking career spans over 20 years and included various management, trading and sales positions in Chemical Bank, Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co, Bank of America and Bank Austria Creditanstalt.
In addition, he volunteers his time for various trade, professional and non-profit/community organisations in Singapore, including Association of Banks, ACI Singapore, CFA Society, European Chamber of Commerce, Methodists’ Welfare Services and Citizens’ Consultative Committee in Taman Jurong Constituency.
Mr Foo graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1987 with an Honours degree in Estate Management and is a CFA charter holder.
Mr Yeo is currently a partner of Allen & Gledhill LLP, a Singapore law firm. He has been in legal practice in Singapore as an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore since 1992. In addition, Mr Yeo has been admitted to the Roll of Solicitors in England and Wales and as an Attorney and Counselor-at-Law in the State of New York. He graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1991 and holds a LLB (Hons) degree.
Mr Yeo is currently Executive Director with Al Fahim Holdings (Dubai). Prior to that, he was the Managing Director of the privately held IMC Pan Asia Alliance. Mr Yeo has extensive experience in project finance advisory and structured finance with Schroders, Credit Agricole and ABN Amro having led advisory teams in both public and private sector infrastructure projects, in sectors like energy and resources, utilities and transportation across Asia, South America and Europe.
Mr Yeo graduated from Oxford University with a BA (Hons) degree and obtained his LLM from the National University of Singapore. He also completed the Insead’s Advanced Management Programme.
Mr Haresh Jaisinghani Rupchand
Independent Director
Mr Jaisinghani has been the owner and Managing Director of 3R Capital Private Limited, an investment and project development firm focused on the energy, environmental and infrastructure sector in Asia. From 1994 through 2007, Mr Jaisinghani held various management positions with the AES Corporation, an NYSE listed Fortune 500 global power company, including President of Asia, Middle East and CIS, Corporate Executive Vice President and a member of the Corporate Executive Committee.
Mr Jaisinghani is a graduate of University of Maryland and has an engineering degree from University of Bombay.
Ms Lui is currently Managing Director (Investments) at Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited (“Temasek”) and is responsible for the investments and portfolio management for Temasek in the infrastructure, industrial and engineering sectors. CitySpring is amongst the infrastructure portfolio companies that she oversees. Ms Lui was also the former head of Temasek’s transportation and logistics unit where she led investments in and actively monitored Temasek’s transportation portfolio. In the course of her career at Temasek, she has also worked in various other divisions including its corporate finance division and private equity funds division. She currently sits on, among others, the boards of Singapore Food Industries Ltd and Singapore Cruise Centre Pte. Ltd.
Ms Lui graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1982 with a degree in Accountancy. She completed the Advanced Management Programme in Wharton in 2001.
Mr Au Yeung Fai
Chief Executive Officer and Director
Prior to joining the Trustee-Manager, Mr Au Yeung was with Barclays Bank Group, JP Morgan and more recently, CK Life Sciences Int’l, Inc. (“CK Life Sciences”) which is part of the Cheung Kong Group. During his 17 years in the banking industry, Mr Au Yeung led many transactions in the infrastructure, power and utilities sectors in Asia, Australia, Europe and North America and also advised a number of Asian governments on their privatisation plans for the power industry and also advised a number of Asian utility and infrastructure companies on their merger and acquisition plans, including the first merger of two listed Chinese power companies. He arranged a number of innovative structured/non-recourse financing for infrastructure projects throughout Asia and Europe. In addition, Mr Au Yeung had executed investment banking mandates for several of Singapore’s leading infrastructure and utility companies.
At CK Life Sciences, Mr Au Yeung was responsible for setting and executing the company’s acquisition strategy as well as actively managing the portfolio companies acquired. He also served on the board of directors for many of these companies.
Mr Au Yeung read Mathematics and graduated from St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge University, in 1987. He obtained his Master of Arts from Cambridge University in 1991 and became an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in the same year.
