Koh Boon Hwee
Currently Chairman of Development Bank of Singapore
(DBS), Koh Boon Hwee joined DBS as a director in June 2005.
Mr. Boon Hwee started his career in 1977 at Hewlett Packard
and rose to becoming its Managing Director in Singapore, a post
he held from 1985 to 1990. From 1991 to 2000, he was Executive
Chairman of the Wuthelam Group. He was also the Chairman of
the Singapore Telecom Group (SingTel) and its predecessor organisations
from 1986 to 2001. During his 15-year term as Chairman of SingTel,
he successfully led the Singapore telecommunications company
through its transformation from a statutory board to a publicly-listed
company and from a domestic operator in Singapore to one of
Asia Pacific’s leading integrated communication service
providers. He was also the Chairman of Singapore Airlines Limited
for a period of 5 years.
Mr. Boon Hwee was named the Outstanding Manager
of the Year in 1991 by Business Times and DHL Worldwide, and
was conferred The International Herald Tribune Visionary and
Leader Honour in January 2003. He serves on the boards of Temasek
Holdings Pte Ltd and Agilent Technologies, Inc. in the United
States. Mr. Boon Hwee also contributes actively to non-profit
organisations, and is the current Chairman of the Board of Trustees
of Nanyang Technological University and director of the Singapore
Harvard Foundation.
Arjun Malhotra
Mr. Malhotra, winner of the Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs Award,
has a long string of entrepreneurial successes. He co-founded
the HCL group in 1975, taking it from a six-person “garage
operation” to one of India’s largest Information
Technology corporations. The first leading Indian entrepreneur
to relocate to USA, Mr. Malhotra took over HCL’s US operation
in 1989 and grew it to nearly $100 million annual revenues.
In 1992 he ran the HCL-HP joint venture in India, and in 1996
he set up and ran the joint venture with Deluxe Corporation.
He consolidated and grew HCL operations in Hong Kong, Australia
and New Zealand.
Mr. Malhotra studied at The Doon School, Dehradun,
and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur. He graduated
from IIT with B.Tech. (Hons.) in Electronics & Electrical
Communication Engineering and received the Dr. B.C. Roy Gold
Medal. In 1985, he attended the Advanced Management Program
at Harvard Business School.
In “recognition of his outstanding contribution
and services to the Institute”, Mr. Malhotra was declared
Life Fellow of IIT Kharagpur in February 2003. The Jerusalem
Fund of Aish HaTorah awarded Mr. Malhotra the Albert Einstein
Technology Medal for 2001. The Award salutes the high tech industry’s
vanguard who “with their vision…have revolutionized
the perception of time and space, linking mankind with ever
growing speed and ingenuity".
Mr. Malhotra currently serves as Chief Executive
Officer and Chairman of Headstrong’s Board of Directors.
Prior to Headstrong he was Chief Executive Officer and Chairman
of TechSpan, which merged with Headstrong in October 2003.
