Board of Directors

Mr. Simon Eng

Executive Director & Chairman

Mr Simon Eng joined the Advance SCT Group on 12 March 2009 as the Chief Executive Officer. After the AGM in August 2009, Mr Eng took on the additional responsibility as the Chairman of the Board. In this capacity, he is responsible for the overall direction and strategic development of the Group. From 2004 to 2007, he was a Senior Vice President of mainboard-listed United Engineers Ltd and concurrently it’s President of China Business, focusing on power generation and environment engineering sectors in China. After leaving UE, he set up a wastes and wastewater treatment company in 2008 that now owns 3 operating treatment plants in China. In addition to his private sector experience, he had gathered many years of government and diplomatic experience from being the chief of an important government agency and a roving diplomat of the Singapore government up to 2004.

Mr Eng graduated from the University of Hamburg, Germany, as a Naval Architect under a Singapore Public Service Commission scholarship in 1985. He had also attended a general management programme at the Harvard Business School.

Mr Attlee Hue Kuan Yew

Lead Independent Director

Mr Attlee Hue Kuan Yew is the executive director and one of the founding partners of Asia Equity Partners Pte Ltd, a private equity company with businesses in Singapore and Malaysia. He joined the Advance SCT Group on 9 November 2009. Prior to setting up Asia Equity Partners, Mr Hue was practising as an advocate and solicitor in Singapore for 15 years in two large international law firms specializing in the field of corporate law. He was also practising in a renowned law firm in Malaysia for 10 years. Apart from being qualified in Singapore and Malaysia, Mr Hue is qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales. He also sits on the board of several other listed companies as an independent director.

Mr Hue graduated from the National University of Singapore with a LLB (Hons) and obtained from the University of Hull his MBA (Finance) with Distinction.

Mr Chris Sim Chek Tong

Independent Non-Executive Director

Mr Chris Sim Chek Tong is the President & CEO of Clean Energy Holdings Pte Ltd. He joined the Advance SCT Group on 31 May 2010. Clean Energy Holdings is a Waste-to-Energy technology company with Invention Patent on Gasification Incineration and has secured municipal solid waste build-operate-transfer (BOT) projects in China. He is also President & CEO of Excellent Water Technologies Pte Ltd, a wastewater treatment technology company that has gained recognition of Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Science. Mr Sim has over twenty years of experience developing various business opportunities with Chinese companies since 1989. He had a wide range of business interests covering manufacturing, automotive distribution, chemical manufacturing, biotechnology, solid waste and wastewater treatment technologies. In 2001 he was invited to work in China as an expert by China Foreign Expert Bureau. In that year, he was appointed the Economic Development Advisor by Xin Zheng City Government.

Mr Sim graduated from the City & Guilds of London Institute in Pianoforte Engineering & Manufacturing in 1978. He is a fellow member of the Institute of Business Administration, UK.

Mr Eric Chan Meng Koo

Independent Non-Executive Director

Mr Eric Chan Meng Koo joined the Advance SCT Group on 1 December 2010. He was the Senior Vice President of Software Systems Group, ST Electronics Ltd between 1 July and 30 November 2010. Prior to this, he was the General Manager of ST Electronics (Training & Simulation Systems) Pte Ltd. Over the years, Mr Chan had held various senior management appointments in sales, marketing and international business within the Singapore Technologies Engineering Group and other companies. He began his career as an Electronics Engineer in the Ministry of Defence and held various senior appointments before leaving government service.

Mr Chan was the Honorary Secretary of SiTF Digital Media Chapter from 2007 to 2008 and a member of Systems Engineering Technical Committee of Institution of Engineers Singapore in 2008-2009. He had been a member of the Management Board of Interactive and Digital Media Institute (IDMI), National University of Singapore from 2008 to 2010 and an exco member of the Interactive Digital Media Chapter, Singapore Computer Society (SCS).

Mr Chan was a member of the Evaluation Panel for National Research Foundation (NRF)’s Proof-of-Concept (POC) Grant Scheme 2008-2010 and a panel member of the Interactive and Digital Media Programme Review Panel in September 2009. In 2010, he became a member of IDM Futures Committee, Media Development Authority (MDA).

Mr Chan graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor Degree (Honours) in Electrical Engineering. He also attended the General Management Program at Harvard Business School in 2006.