SMRT's senior management under DK - a real SAF old boys' club!

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SMRT's senior management under DK - a real SAF old boys' club!
2012: "SMRT chief to tap military men for key posts"

Quote:"In one of his first planned tweaks to his management team, Mr Desmond Kuek - himself a retired lieutenant-general - is understood by The Straits Times to be hiring two or three senior SAF officers to take up key appointments in the coming months.

Sources said one is Colonel Gerard Koh, who is poised to join next month as director of human resources - a department that has been in the news since last week's bus drivers' strike. He has held various HR positions. His latest post is head of national service affairs.

The last military man at the SMRT HR department was retired colonel Low Ah Tee, a one-time HR general manager.

Mr Low and more than half a dozen senior executives retired or quit when retailer Saw Phaik Hwa helmed the SMRT between 2002 and January this year.

Sources said Mr Kuek, 49, intends to appoint another senior officer, a logistics specialist, to the bus division. It has not only been loss-making for years, but also made the news when 171 drivers from China went on an illegal strike." -ST
Come 2013...

Desmond Kuek recruits 6th man with military background into SMRT senior management:

Quote: SINGAPORE — "Less than a month after ex-military man Lee Ling Wee, 47, was appointed senior vice-president of SMRT’s new division for maintenance and engineering, the transport operator has announced that Mr Lee has taken over the position of Executive Vice President of Trains, effective Monday (June 24).

The post was vacated by Mr Khoo Hean Siang, 65, last Sunday when his employment contract with SMRT expired.

As Senior Vice President for Maintenance and Engineering, Mr Lee — who joined SMRT on May 20 — had been responsible for the maintenance and engineering aspects of trains, as well as the tracks, quality assurance, innovation and power.

With his new appointment, Mr Lee will relinquish this position — renamed Senior Vice President for Systems and Engineering Division — to Mr Ng Bor Kiat, 56, former director of corporate development for the Ministry of Environment and Water Resources. He was also formerly director of land systems in the Defence Science and Technology Agency.

Prior to joining SMRT, Mr Lee, 47, headed the Republic of Singapore Air Force’s air-engineering and logistics department, and has more than 25 years of experience in engineering and maintenance in the air force.

He is the sixth person with military background whom SMRT chief executive Desmond Kuek has brought onto SMRT’s 20-member senior management board to help the company get back on track since the two major train disruptions in December 2011 that saw then-chief executive Saw Phaik Hwa resign.

Other hires include vice-president of human resources Gerard Koh, 42 and vice-president of train operations Alvin Kek, 45. Both men were previously with the Singapore Armed Forces." -TODAY
Not comprehensive. Feel free to CSI/SIC the full list of ex-SAF (or other military) men recruited by DK into SMRT to refresh our memory and for public interest.


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