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Keppel Telecommunications and Transportation appoints Mr Lim Chin Leong to its Board(ENP Newswire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) ENP Newswire - 01 September 2014 Release date- 29082014 - Singapore - Keppel Telecommunications & Transportation Ltd has strengthened its Board with the appointment of Mr Lim Chin Leong as an independent, non-executive Director with effect from 1 September 2014. Mr Lim will also be a member of the Nominating Committee and Board Safety Committee. Mr Lim, 59, was with Schlumberger for more than 30 years where he served in various roles from technical, personnel and line management positions in Asia, the Middle East and the US, including Vice President of Well Completions and Production (Middle East and Asia) and President of Schlumberger Oilfield Services. Mr Lim retired as Chairman of Asia for Schlumberger in 2010. Upon retirement, he assumed a consulting role for Schlumberger Carbon Services and business advisor to Imerys for their minerals mining business in China. Mr Loh Chin Hua, Chairman of the Keppel T&T Board and CEO of Keppel Corporation, said, 'We are privileged to have Chin Leong join our Board. With his wealth of experience across various markets, we look forward to his contribution as we chart Keppel T&T's continued growth and create value for our stakeholders.' Mr Lim is currently a non-executive Director of Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the then University of Singapore in1980. With the appointment of Mr Lim, the Board of Keppel T&T will have a total of ten directors, of whom six are independent directors. About Keppel Telecommunications & Transportation Keppel Telecommunications & Transportation Ltd (Keppel T&T), is a subsidiary of Keppel Corporation Limited, a leading mainboard listed company in Singapore with core businesses in offshore & marine, infrastructure and property. Keppel T&T is also a listed company on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) with operations in Asia Pacific and Europe. Headquartered in Singapore, Keppel T&T offers integrated services and solutions in two core businesses: logistics and data centres. The logistics division offers one-stop, integrated logistics solutions to help clients manage their entire supply chain, while the data centre division owns, acquires, develops and manages high-availability data centre facilities. Keppel T&T has more than 12 years of track record in owning, designing and managing high quality data centres that support mission-critical computer systems. In order to ensure minimal downtime to these servers, data centres are built and operated to high technical standards, in terms of the provision of reliable power and cooling, water seepage prevention, fire prevention, high levels of physical security, rigorous maintenance, and are connected to land and/or submarine fibre-optic cables for high speed transmission of data. By being involved in designing and building the data centres it manages, through its subsidiary Keppel Data Centres, offers bespoke data centre suites to customers who require co-location services and manage them to customers' service level requirements. Keppel Data Centres owns, manages and operates high-availability data centres in Singapore and Ireland. As a carrier-neutral data centre operator, Keppel Data Centres provides data centre co-location services, dedicated co-location suites as well as 24-hour technical support to its customers. It currently owns and operates four data centre facilities, Keppel Digihub and Keppel Datahub in Singapore in a joint venture with Keppel Land, Citadel100 in Dublin, Ireland as well as Gore Hill in Sydney, Australia in a joint venture with Securus Data Property Fund. The Sponsor and AEPim are the joint investment managers of the Securus Fund. Since its inception, the Securus Fund has completed the acquisition of six high quality data centre assets in Australia, the Netherlands, the UK, Ireland and Malaysia. Media Contact: Kevin Ho Keppel Corporation Limited Tel: +65 9661 3124 Email: [email protected] Investor Contact: Ivana Chua (Ms) Senior Manager Keppel Corporation Limited Tel: +65 6413 6436 Email: [email protected] (c) 2014 Electronic News Publishing - |