Mr John Teo was first appointed as Independent
Director on 3 June 2015, and is currently the
Company’s Audit Committee Chairman and Lead
Independent Director. He is an accountant by
profession with over 30 years of professional
experience in finance, audit, and risk management,
and had held senior management positions in large
organizations across different industries.
Mr Teo is a Fellow of the Institute of Singapore
Chartered Accountants (ISCA) and a member of
its corporate governance and risk management
subcommittee. He is a member and a Senior
Accredited Director of the Singapore Institute of
Directors. He holds a Bachelor of Accountancy
(Honours) degree from the National University of
Singapore and a MBA from University of Wales.
He was previously the chief financial officer of
Singapore Pools Pte Ltd, managing director, finance,
of Temasek Holdings (Pte) Ltd, chief financial officer
of National University Hospital and audit manager in
Price Waterhouse Singapore.
His current appointments include Executive Director,
Asia Pacific Lottery Association Ltd, and independent
director and chairman of the Audit Committee, IX
Biopharma Limited, which is listed on the Catalist
board of the Singapore Stock Exchange. He is also a
director of the Ang Mo Kio-Thye Hua Kwan Hospital
Ltd, a charity community hospital with 380 beds, and
ISCA Cares Limited, a non-profit entity of the national
accountancy body.
Among his past appointments, he was director of
a government statutory board, the Energy Market
Authority from 2008 to 2014 and was the chairman
of its Audit Committee from April 2010. He was a
member of the Auditing & Assurance Standards
Committee of ISCA from 2008 to 2016, and of
the Investment Advisory Committee of People’s
Association, Singapore from 2005 to 2017.
Mr Teo was conferred the Public Service Medal
(PBM) and the Public Service Star (BBM) of the
Republic of Singapore in 2002 and 2012 respectively.
He is a Licenced Solemnizer of the Registry of
Marriages and serves on the management committee
of local community organizations. Age 66.
Present Directorships
Nil
