Mr Bertram R. C. Rickmers
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Mr Bertram R. C. Rickmers is the chairman and a non-executive
director of the Board and was appointed a member
of the Board in February 2007. After completion of schooling,
Mr Rickmers spent his "traditional year at sea", after which
he commenced studying law at the University of Hamburg
and continued with economics at the University of Freiburg.
He started his career as a sales manager responsible for the
planning of projects at the family-owned Rickmers Shipyard
in Bremerhaven. In 1982, Mr Rickmers founded MCC Marine
Consulting & Contracting GmbH in Hamburg, which specialises
in shipbroking and in 1984, he established Rickmers Reederei
in Hamburg, which today is one of the world's leading container
shipping companies. In 2000, Mr Rickmers purchased back
Rickmers Linie from Hapag-Lloyd, to which the Rickmers family
had sold the majority shareholding in 1974. Mr Rickmers is now
the chairman of the board of Rickmers Holding GmbH & Cie.
KG and Pacific Holdings GmbH & Cie. KG, the two holding
companies comprising the Rickmers Group, and the deputy
chairman of the supervisory board of container terminal group,
Eurokai KgaA. He is also in the advisory board of Hellmann
Worldwide Logistics Group and the chemical group Mankiewicz.
Mr Rickmers holds a diploma in economics from the University
of Freiburg. |
Dr Ignace Van Meenen
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Dr Ignace Van Meenen is a non-executive director and was appointed a member of the Board in November 2011. He joined Rickmers Group as a Chief Financial Officer in September 2011. Dr Van Meenen read law at Universiteit Gent and University of Osnabrück. He started his career at Deutsche Bank AG in several financial positions in Germany and the Americas. Thereafter, Dr Van Meenen held leading management positions as Finance Director and CFO in RAG AG, a leading mining & chemical group, the international media company RTL Group S.A. and the real estate DIC Group. |
Mrs Lee Suet Fern
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Mrs Lee Suet Fern is an independent director and was
appointed a member of the Board in February 2007. She is
the Senior Director of Stamford Law Corporation; her practice
focuses on mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt capital
markets and corporate finance. Mrs Lee has been involved in
many of Singapore's most significant corporate transactions and
has been named leading practitioner in numerous professional
publications. Mrs Lee is President of the Inter-Pacific Bar
Association. She is the Chairman of the Asian Civilisations
Museum Board, a member of the National Heritage Board, a
member of the Advisory Board to the Law School at Singapore
Management University and a Fellow of the Singapore Institute
of Directors. She also serves on the boards of public listed
companies in Singapore and France. Mrs Lee graduated from
Cambridge University in 1980 with a double first in law and isa barrister-at-law at Gray's Inn, London and an advocate and
solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore. |
Mr Lim How Teck
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Mr Lim How Teck is an independent director and was
appointed a member of the Board in February 2007. Mr Lim is
a shipping veteran with more than 20 years' experience in the
industry. He had worked at Coopers & Lybrand (now part of
Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP) and Plessey Singapore, a multinational
trading and manufacturing company prior to joining
Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) in June 1979. At NOL, Mr Lim held
various senior positions including group deputy chief executive
officer, group chief operating officer and group chief financial
officer before retiring in June 2005. Mr Lim is currently the deputy
chairman and director of Tuas Power Ltd, chairman and director
of Redwood International (Pte) Ltd and chairman and director
of Certis CISCO Security Pte. Ltd. He is also a director on the
board of several publicly listed companies, including IFS Capital
Limited, ARA Asset Management Ltd and Swissco Holdings
Limited. Mr Lim holds a Bachelor of Accountancy Degree from
the then University of Singapore and is a Fellow of the Chartered
Institute of Management Accountants of UK, a Fellow of the
Certified Public Accountants of Australia, a Fellow of the Institute
of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore, a Fellow of the
Singapore Institute of Directors and an Associate of the Institute
of Business Administration of Australia. Mr Lim graduated from
the Harvard Graduate School of Business Corporate Financial
Management Course and Advanced Management Programme
in 1983 and 1989, respectively. Mr Lim was awarded The Public
Service Medal, PBM (Pingkat Bakti Masyarakat) National Day
Award in 1999. |
Mr Raymundo A. Yu Jr.
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Mr Raymundo A. Yu Jr., is an independent director and
was appointed a member of the Board in May 2009. Mr Yu
spent 27 years in wealth management, global markets and
investment banking with Merrill Lynch International where
he held the position of Chairman of the Merrill Lynch Group,
Asia Pacific from 2000 to 2008. During his tenure at Merrill
Lynch, Mr Yu built and managed significant financial services
franchises across the Asia Pacific region. He was credited for
driving the growth of the bank's Global Private Client business
across Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacifi c regions
and was instrumental in the expansion of the entire Merrill
Lynch Group in Asia. Mr Yu was dubbed the "Star of Asia" by
Business Week Magazine in July 2005, and at the time of his
retirement in 2008, he was the only Asian to be a Chairman
in a US investment bank in Asia Pacific. In October 2010,
Mr Yu was appointed Chairman of Threadneedle Investments,
a member of the Ameriprise Financial Group. He is a member
of the Board of Fellows of the Thunderbird School of Global
Management in Arizona, USA, and is active in various charity
organisations in the Philippines and Singapore. Mr Yu holds a
Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from
Ateneo de Davao University in the Philippines and a Masters
in Business Administration in International Management from
Thunderbird School of Global Management. |
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