Board of Directors

Mr. Yap Chee Keong is currently Chairman of the Board at Olam Group, where he has served for over nine years.  He is also the Deputy Chair of Seatrium Limited and Non-Executive and Independent Director of Sembcorp Industries Limited and Shangri-La Asia Limited, which are companies listed on the Singapore Exchange.  Mr. Yap’s career included being the Executive Director of The Straits Trading Company Limited and the Chief Financial Officer of Singapore Power Ltd. Mr. Yap has also worked in various senior management roles in multinational and listed companies. He was a board member of the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority and a member of the Public Accountants Oversight Committee, the MAS/SGX/ACRA Work Group to review the Guidebook for Audit Committees in Singapore and the MAS/SGX/ACRA/SID Review Panel to develop a Guide for Board Risk Committees in Singapore.

Dr. Wolle is presently Chairman of Kuehne + Nagel International Ltd and KlingeInberg AG. He was President and CEO of DKSH Holding Ltd from 2002 to 2017 and became its Chairman from 2017 to 2019. Dr. Wolle was a member of the Supervisory Board of Louis Dreyfus Company B.V. (2014 to 2018) and a member of the Board of Directors of UBS Ltd (2006 to 2009) and DietheIm Keller Holding Ltd. (2004 to 2019). Dr. Wolle was CEO of Siber Hegner Ltd. in 2000 and was instrumental in the 130-year-old Asian-focused trading company’s rapid turnaround. He led the transformation of the company into the leading business services and distribution group in the ASEAN region with more than 33,000 specialised staff following its merger with two other Swiss-based Asia-focused distribution companies. During his tenure as CEO, sales and profits grew three- and six-fold respectively and the company was listed on the Zurich Stock Exchange. 

Dr. Ajai Puri brings more than three decades of global experience in various food and agri industries. His expertise spans several domains – innovation, science and technology, product integrity, food safety and consumer marketing. From 1981 to 2003, Dr. Puri worked for The Coca-Cola Company where he held a variety of roles in research and development, innovation, consumer marketing and general management. When he left Coca- Cola in 2003, he was Senior Vice President – Science and Technology for Coca-Cola’s non-carbonated juice business in North America. From 2003 to 2007, Dr. Puri was Executive Board Member and President – Research, Development and Product Integrity at Amsterdam-based Royal Numico N.V. Previous non-executive roles include Tate & Lyle PLC (2012-2021), Nutreco N.V. (2009- 2015) and Barry Callebaut AG (2011-2014). Dr. Puri is presently a Non-Executive Director with IMI PLC, Firmenich S.A., Britannia Industries Ltd, the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (G.A.I.N.) and Califa Farms LP.

Mr. Lucas Tran is a partner in WLT Assurance LLP. He is currently sitting on various boards as Chair of Audit Committee or Audit and Risk Committee, including 3 Singapore listed companies. Mr. Lucas Tran is a qualified chartered accountant with over 35 years of public accounting experience, not including his experience as a chief financial officer. He was a former partner of KPMG, with extensive experience in auditing, advising on financial reporting requirements as well as regulatory compliance matters relating to the Companies Act and SGX-ST listing rules, IPO, restructuring exercises, due diligence and merger and acquisitions.

Mr. Cooper is a senior financier with 35 years' experience in global banking. He was most recently Global Chief Executive of Standard Chartered Corporate, Commercial & Institutional Banking segment (2016-2024) and CEO of its businesses across Europe and the Americas (2020-2024).

From 1989 to 2016, Mr. Cooper held a number of senior roles in HSBC Group including as Group Managing Director and Chief Executive of Global Commercial Banking, CEO of HSBC Middle East and North Africa, CEO Korea and Head of Corporate and Investment Banking, Singapore.

Mr. Cooper is a non-executive director of Nordea Bank Abp and Chairman of the Advisory Board of Singapore Management University, Lee Kong Chian School of Business. He was previously a trustee of the Standard Chartered Foundation and served as Non-Executive Director of HSBC plc, Saudi British Bank (SAB) and HSBC Oman SAOG.

Mr. Chin is Partner and Co-Head, Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions at Allen & Gledhill LLP. His areas of practice include mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, corporate restructuring, joint ventures, employment law and general commercial contracts.

Mr. Chin represents investment and commercial banks, private equity and sovereign funds and strategic corporate clients on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and private equity transactions. He also acts for venture capital investors and companies in Series A and subsequent funding rounds.

Mr. Chin has been a Legal Case Studies Instructor at the NUS Law School and a lecturer and instructor for the Corporate & Commercial Practice module of the Singapore Bar Examinations. He has been cited as a notable individual in Corporate and M&A by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific and also noted for his work in M&A by IFLR1000.

Mr. Dinesh Khanna joined Temasek in October 2024 and is currently the Joint Head for Portfolio Development Group. In this role he works actively with the Temasek Portfolio Companies (TPCs) to enhance long term shareholder value and advocate good governance practices.

Prior to Temasek, Dinesh was a Managing Director and Senior Partner at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Since joining BCG in 2002, Dinesh held several senior leadership roles, most recently as Global Chair of the People Team and member of the Executive and Operating Committees. Under his stewardship in the People Team, BCG underwent substantial workforce innovation. He also served in several leadership capacities, including Worldwide Leader of Global Advantage Practice and Global Leader of the Corporate Development Practice. He led the Corporate Development and Private Equity for Asia region and was Head of BCG Singapore from 2014 to 2015.

Mr. Yasuaki Matsuo is currently the Division Chief Operating Officer for Food and Wellness Division within the Food Industry Group of Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) in Tokyo and USA. Prior to this role, he has held several senior level roles in MC for the last 27 years.

Mr. Yoshinori Nagata is nominated by Mitsubishi Corporation ("MC") to replace Mr. Shuji Kobayashi as a Non-Executive Director of the Company. Mr. Nagata is the Head of Food Industry Group CEO Office and oversees the strategy and key investments of the Food Industry portfolio, which includes Food Ingredients, Food Sciences, Food Resources, Marine Products, Farm, Dairy & Meat Produce and Global Markets. Prior to this role, he has held several senior level roles in MC for the last 26 years. 

Mr Shekhar Anantharaman is currently the CEO of ofi, a principal operating group of the Company. He was also previously the Executive Director of Olam International Limited prior to the Scheme of Arrangement. Shekhar was appointed CEO of ofi in January 2020 upon its creation following the Re-organisation of Olam Group. Shekhar joined Olam in 1992 and was an Executive Director and a member of the Group's Board from 1998 to 2021. Shekhar held a variety of roles in Olam Group (then Olam International). He was previously the Group Chief Operating Officer, Executive Director - Finance and Business Development, and prior to these roles, he incubated and managed various global businesses, including the Nuts, Spices and Packaged Foods businesses, where he led many of the Company's organic and inorganic growth initiatives.