Senior Management

Matthew Chan, Chief Executive Officer

Matthew Chan, Chief Executive Officer

Matthew Chan has been the Chief Executive Officer of Jurong Port since 2 May 2001. He has had almost 35 years of experience in the port and shipping business in Asia. His career began in 1975 with Nedlloyd Lines, which provided him with a solid foundation in the various aspects of the shipping industry.

After 5 years with Nedlloyd, Mr Chan further widened his regional and global perspective and experience when he joined the American container leasing companies – Transamerica ICS and Genstar Container Corporation, where he worked from September 1980 to April 1987. As Director of Marketing (Pacific) of Genstar Container Corporation, Mr Chan successfully started the company’s business operations in Shanghai and Tianjin, China, and in Korea, the Philippines and Taiwan.

In May 1987, Mr Chan expanded his experience into port operations and management when he joined Hutchison Port Holdings. Prior to joining Jurong Port in 2001, Mr Chan had held the position of Executive Director -Seaports in Hutchison from 1993.

Mr Chan holds an Honours Degree in Social Sciences from the University of Hong Kong.


Royston Lek, Vice President - Corporate Development

Royston Lek, Senior Vice President, Special Terminals

Royston joined Jurong Port as Vice President of Corporate Development in 2010. In April, 2011, he was appointed as Vice President, Special Terminals where he is now responsible for developing and expanding into new marine terminal-related businesses.

Prior to Jurong Port, Royston was with Deutsche Post DHL for 6 years and was based in China, Singapore and Germany where he led Group-wide strategy consultancy projects for Deutsche Post DHL Group as an Associate Partner. His key management roles also include business start-up & implementation of contract logistics projects for several Hi-Tech and Consumer Goods MNCs. He started out his career with NOL as a Management Trainee.

Royston graduated with a BA (Hons) in International Business, Finance & Economics from the University of Manchester and holds a MSc in Supply Chain Management from Cranfield University. He is currently pursuing an executive MBA at INSEAD.


Liew Chin Beng, Senior Vice President, Human Resources & Corporate Communications

Liew Chin Beng, Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs & Technical Services

Chin Beng has had more than 30 years’ experience in Human Resources management.

He has held management positions in human resources and public relations, in various organizations including DBS Bank, Raffles City, Westin Hotel & Resorts, Shangri-La, Guocoland, Pontiac Land and Marina Bay Sands. Chin Beng sits on the Workforce Development Agency’s (WDA) Port Services WSQ Industry Skills and Training Council.

He holds a Bachelor of Science (Statistics, Honours) degree from the University of Singapore.


Lim Sim Keat, Senior Vice President, General, Bulk and Container Terminals

Lim Sim Keat, Senior Vice President, GBC Terminals

Lim Sim Keat (S.K.) joined Jurong Port as Senior Vice President in charge of General, Bulk and Container (GBC) Terminals in March 2012.

S.K. has had more than 20 years of working experience in the shipping industry, and has held senior management positions in several shipping companies such as Austral Asia Line, Nova Shipping & Logistics, Newship Agencies (Kuok Group) and DSR Senator Lines. Prior to joining Jurong Port, he was the Chief Executive Officer of PST Management (as trustee-manager of Pacific Shipping Trust).

S.K. holds a double degree in Master of Business Administration (with specialisation in Shipping, Offshore and Finance) from Nanyang Business School and BI Norwegian School of Management, Norway; and a Bachelor of Business Administration from the National University of Singapore.


Terence Moo, Senior Vice President, Marketing & Business Development

Terence Moo, Senior Vice President, International Terminals

Terence has been with Jurong Port since 1998.

Upon graduation, Terence started his career with Neptune Orient Lines Ltd from 1988 to 1997, in various commercial and operational roles and was posted overseas as their commercial representative for four years in Europe based in Germany.

He started as Deputy Manager Business Development in Jurong Port in 1998 and helped set up its Container Terminal business.

He also previously held other responsibilities such as Corporate Planning & Development and Corporate Communications. He holds a Bachelor Degree of Engineering (Civil) from the National University of Singapore and a Graduate Diploma in Marketing Management from the Singapore Institute of Management.


Nina Tan, Chief Financial Officer

Nina Tan, Chief Financial Officer

Nina has had more than 25 years’ experience in audit, business strategy, and financial management. She began her career in audit, spending more than 6 years in this area, with Moss Dell in England, and subsequently KPMG and Coopers & Lybrand in Singapore. She then took on senior financial management positions of various corporations like United Engineers, Berger International, Singapore Technologies Telecommunications, and Degussa Construction Chemicals (North Asia).

From 2006 to 2008, Nina was President of ICS (Asia Pacific), a specialty chemical construction materials company she partially owned. Prior to joining Jurong Port, she was the Chief Financial Officer for Asia Renal Care (South East Asia).

Nina is a fellow member of (FCCA) of England and Wales Chartered Association of Certified Accountants, Singapore Chartered Association of Accountants, Certified Public Accountant (Australia), and holds an MBA from the University of Leicester. She also attended the Stanford-NUS International program in 2010.


Eugene Seah, Vice President, Operations

Eugene Seah, Vice President, Operations

Eugene was with the Port of Singapore Authority for 8 years, holding various positions in Operations.

Eugene joined Jurong Port in 1999 as Manager, Business Development and is now overall responsible for the port’s day-to-day operations.

He holds a Bachelor of Science (Industrial & Organisational Psychology) from the Massey University, New Zealand, in 1990 and was awarded the Master of Business Administration from the University of Leicester, UK in 1996.


Sim Chear Wah, Vice President - Information Technology

Sim Chear Wah, Vice President, Information Technology

Chear Wah has had more than 19 years’ work experience in management of large scale IT systems and projects.

Chear Wah started his career in information technology with PSA in 1984. He held the position of Head Business Consultant and Project Director of an IT company before joining Jurong Port in 2004.

He obtained from the National University of Singapore a Bachelor of Science in 1982 and a Master of Science (Management of Technology) in 1998.


Tan Wee Meng, Senior Manager - Engineering

Tan Wee Meng, Vice President, Technical Services

Wee Meng joined Jurong Port in 2005. He started his professional career in 1991 as an Electrical Engineer at one of PSA’s container terminals. Over the next 14 years, he was extensively involved in equipment maintenance, and in equipment procurement projects — from preparation of technical specifications, to project management, to site acceptance testing. Since joining Jurong Port, he has further developed his breath and depth of experience in engineering maintenance management and port equipment procurement.

Wee Meng graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1991 with a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical).


Lim Tat Kuan, General Counsel

Lim Tat Kuan, General Counsel

Tat Kuan joined Jurong Port in Legal & Company Secretariat in 2008.

He has had over 20 years of experience in private practice and in-house regional legal counsel positions in listed companies and MNCs in various industries like IT, Telco and volume products, covering a spectrum of legal functions from litigation, commercial, corporate, transactional and corporate secretarial work.

He holds a Bachelor Degree of Laws (Hon) from the National University of Singapore in 1988 and was called to Singapore Bar as Advocate and Solicitor in 1989.


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