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Board of Directors
Dr. B.K Modi
Chairman
Dr Modi is a global visionary and billionaire entrepreneur, futurist, philanthropist and peacemaker, author and film producer. He is the Global Chairman of Spice Group.
Dr. BKM has set up joint ventures in partnership with global giants such as Xerox, Alcatel, Telstra and Olivetti, in the areas of information technology, document processing, telecommunications and cellular telephony. Under the Spice brand, the company is involved in the businesses of innovation, communications and entertainment. The area of innovation includes software development, telecom value-added services, call centers and computer and accessories manufacturing and sales; the area of communications includes cellular services and mobile handset sales; and entertainment includes shopping malls, film production, hotels , holistic enterprises, and travel-related services.
Dr. BKM has also written several books on management i.e. Performance - A Manager’s Challenge. He heads the Asia Crime Prevention Foundation. Dr. Modi was conferred with a Proclamation by the 108th Congress of Sixth Congressional District in New York for his humanitarian efforts worldwide. He is a Global Counselor to the Conference Board & is on the Advisory Board of the Global Corporate Governance.
He is a graduate in Chemical Engineering, MBA – University of South California and a Ph.D. in Financial Management. He has also been conferred D. Litt. in Industrial Management.
Divya Modi
Executive Director
Ms Divya Modi is a CFA charter holder, a Graduate in Economics and Business Finance (Honors) from Brunel University, UK and a Masters in Accounting from the University of Southern California, USA.
She had worked closely with Jones Lang and Lasalle and Haldford Associates to develop Spice Global’s first Entertainment Centre “Spice World” where she has been credited for tying up with the Key Anchor Stores for the venture.
She was instrumental in setting-up the Management Assurance Services (Internal Audit function) for Spice Global and was also involved with various Financial Restructuring initiatives and Investor Relations for the group especially for its erstwhile listed entities.
Currently she manages the Mergers & Acquisitions and Investor Relations team and as the Executive Director of “Spice Finance” is also spearheading the group’s entry into Financial Services.
Ashok Kumar Goyal
Executive Director
Mr Ashok Kumar Goyal is a professional with diversified experience of over 25 years in the field of finance, taxation, corporate laws and general management. Prior to taking up this assignment, he was serving as Global President- Finance, Spice group and is a member of the Board of directors in various companies inside and outside the group.
Also, he had been Chief Executive Officer of Spice Communications Limited, a renowned telecom company in India. He had also served as Executive Director of Modi Xerox Limited, a subsidiary of Xerox Corporation in India. He had been the Senior Partner and Director of Grant Thornton-India overseeing the corporate finance and consulting business of the firm.
Mr. Goyal had been the Chairman of Institute of Company Secretary India (Northern Region), Chairman of Noida Branch of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He also served on the various expert committees of Associated Chamber of Commerce and Industries, Federation of Indian Chamber and Commerce and Industries, PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industries in India and had interacted with the various expert committees formulated by the government of India on important corporate laws and taxation matters.
Mr. Goyal holds a degree in Masters of Business Administration ,Brunel University London, Bachelors of Law as well as he is the fellow member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Institute of cost and works Accountants of India and Institute of Company Secretary of India.
Thomas Henrik Zilliacus
Independent Director
Mr Zilliacus was appointed as Non-Executive Director in February 2002 and was last re-elected to his position on 24 April 2008. Mr Zilliacus is the founder and Executive Chairman of Mobile FutureWorks Inc, a company which develops and invests in mobile space. He is also the Executive Chairman of OpenMobile Corporation, a leading global enabler of premium-priced mobile originated mobile value-added services and the former head of Nokia’s Asian operations. He holds a Master of Science in Economics and Business Administration from the Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, Helsinki.
Eileen Tay-Tan Bee Kiew
Independent Director
Ms Tay was appointed to the Board in October 2002 and was last re-elected as Director on 21 April 2009. With more than 25 years of experience in the public accounting field, Ms Tay was a partner with KPMG and her experience includes auditing, taxation, public listing, due diligence, mergers and acquisitions and business advisory. She holds an Honours degree in Accountancy from the Singapore University. Ms Tay is a Fellow of Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (UK), Fellow of CPA Australia, Fellow of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore and Licentiate of Trinity College (London).
Sin Hang Boon
Independent Director
Mr Sin joined the Board in June 2003 and was last re-elected as Director on 21 April 2009. He is currently also serving as a Director in Ideas Services Pte Ltd and Sirius Venture Consulting Pte Ltd. Mr Sin spent over 40 years in the telecommunications industry before his retirement in 2002. He was a senior executive in Belgacom S.A. in Belgium from 1996 to 1998. From 1999 till 2001, he headed SingTel International, the strategic investment arm of the SingTel Group. From 2002 to March 2004, Mr Sin was advisor to SingTel and represented SingTel on the boards of several of its associated companies overseas, including Belgacom S.A., ADSB Telecommunications B.V. in The Netherlands and New Century Infocomm Tech Co Ltd in Taiwan. He holds a Bachelor of Science (Physics) degree from Nanyang University, Singapore.
Vijay Brijendra Chopra
Independent Director
Mr. Vijay B. Chopra was appointed to the board on 14 October 2009. Mr. Chopra is a Senior International Financier with a robust TMT Executive track record, experienced in origination, structuring, and managing Equity and Debt investments across a wide range of sectors. Mr. Chopra is a veteran in M&A, private and traded equity, as well as in project/leveraged debt financing and loan/bond markets. Mr. Chopra is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Millennium Capital Pte. Ltd. Prior to this current assignment, Mr. Chopra was Managing Director with UBS Bank in Singapore and held senior executive positions in BNP/BNP Paribas/BNP Paribas Peregrine and ABN Amro. Mr. Chopra holds a degree in Masters of Commerce from University of Bombay and is an MBA (Finance) with distinction from University of Hull (UK). He is an Associate of the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India and a Certified Associate of the Indian Institute of Bankers.
Jai Swarup Pathak
Non-Executive Non-Independent Director
Mr. Jai S. Pathak was appointed to the Board on 14 October 2009. He is currently the Partner-In-Charge of Pacific Asia for Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. Mr. Pathak has more than 20 years experience in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, takeovers, dispositions, privatisations, joint ventures, licensing, infrastructure development, as well as private equity and structured finance transactions. He has significant experience in the telecommunications, IT, banking, hospitality, oil/gas, pharmaceutical and chemical industries. Mr. Pathak graduated from law school (B.A. (Hons in Jurisprudence)) from Oxford University in 1984 (M.A., 1989) and received his LL.M from the University of Virginia in 1985. Having previously earned his B.A. (Hons.) and M.A. degrees from the University of Delhi and Jawaharlal Nehru University, he is fluent in Hindi. Mr. Pathak currently splits his time between Gibson Dunn's Los Angeles and Singapore offices.
Mr. Dilip Modi
Non-Independent Non-Executive Director
Currently Group President Global Operations – Spice Group
and Managing Director Spice Televentures, Dilip started his
professional career in 1996 working closely with McKinsey
to help restructure the BK Modi Group businesses. This led
to formation of Spice Corp (formerly Mcorp Global) and its
vision to grow in the ICE (Internet, Communications and
Entertainment) domain. He has since executed instrumental
roles, amalgamating the inherited business acumen with
contemporary professionalism to build the Group into a
vibrating, energetic business entity with a highly skilled
team managing the core and strong businesses forming
the periphery.
He built Modi Telstra, India’s first cellular service provider,
and was later instrumental in divestment of this company
through one of the smartest deals. As Chairman-MD of Spice
Communications, he developed ‘Spice Telecom’ into one of the
most valuable and enduring brands in Punjab and Karnataka,
the two highly profitable mobile markets in India. Over the
past five years, Dilip founded and set up Mobility businesses
in the areas of Mobile Devices (Spice Mobile), Mobile Value
Added Services (Spice Digital) & Mobile Retail (Spice Hotspot),
which have since emerged as amongst the leading players in
their respective domains in the fast growing Indian mobility
landscape.
He is President designate of ASSOCHAM (Associated Chamber
of Commerce), one of the leading business chambers of India
for the year, starting 2010-11 and is the past Chairman-Cellular
Operators Association of India (COAI). Dilip Modi holds a BSc
from Brunel University and MBA from Imperial College London.
Dato’ Chuah Seong Ling
Executive Director
As an Engineer in Texas Instruments, Kuala Lumpur, he realised
that his true interests were rooted in business and finance.
Moving on, he founded a small CSL Computer business in Johor
in 1998, which has since grown into a large corporate entity.
Today, he is the Founder-Managing Director of CSL Group of
Companies, whose activities include manufacturing, trading,
after sales/customer care services and third party logistics
with a paid up capital of over RM5 million. Since 1998,
CSL Group has grown in size, stature and reputation and has
been appointed by several renowned hand phone brands as
their contract manufacturer.
Today CSL Group of Companies has significant visibility,
conspicuous market share and an established distribution
network across major ASEAN countries.
Dato’ Eric is an Electrical and Electronics Engineering
graduate from University Technology Malaysia and a Ph.D
in International Marketing from Inter America University, USA.
An all round champion sportsman, he has also been a king
scout and done Auxiliary Police and Military service.
Currently he is a Reserve Military Lieutenant.
He was conferred the “Dato’” title by the Sultan of Pahang,
Malaysia in February 2008. In recognition of his contribution
and achievements as a young entrepreneur, Dato’ Eric Chuah
has been awarded Top 10 JCI Creative Young Entrepreneur
Award (M) by Junior Chamber International Malaysia (JCI).
In 2010 he has won another two awards, they are The 8th
Asia Pacific International Honesty Enterprise – Keris Award
2009 which presented by Y.B. Senator Tan Sri Dr. Koh Tsu
Koon and MRCA 8TV Entrepreneur Awards – Outstanding
Entrepreneurship in 2009 presented by Mr. Lee Hwa Cheng
– The President of Malaysia Retail Chains Association.
Mr. S Chandra Das
Independent Director
At present he is the Managing Director of NUR Investment &
Trading, Chairman of Southern Africa Investments (a subsidiary
of Temasek Holdings) and Director of several other trading and
manufacturing companies. He also sits on the board of two
public listed companies Nera Telecommunications Ltd and
Yeo Hiap Seng Ltd.
He is Singapore’s non-resident Ambassador to Turkey,
Pro-Chancellor of Nanyang Technological University and
Board-Member of the Institute of South Asian Studies.
S Chandra Das has been simultaneously involved in the
corporate sector and public/community services for over
4 decades, holding several high profile appointments.
He was a Member of Parliament (1980 to 1996),
Chairman-Parliamentary Committee for Defence & Foreign
Affairs (1985-90) and Chairman-Parliamentary Committee
for Finance, Trade and Industry (1990-91); Chairman-Trade
Development Board (1983-86); Chairman-Jurong Shipyard and
Jurong Engineering Ltd; Chairman-NTUC Fairprice Co-operative
(1993-2005) and Director-CIES Food Forum, Paris (1994-2006).
An economics graduate, Chandra Das has been conferred
honorary doctorates in Business (by the University of
Newcastle, Australia) and in Commercial Science (by St. John’s
University, NY).
His efforts across various fields have also earned significant
recognition through several awards and citations. These
include NTUC’s Friend of Labour Award (1979), Meritorious
Service Award (1997), Distinguished Service Award (2001) and
Distinguished Service (Star) Award (2005); Poland’s Golden
Cross of Merit (1991), Rochdale Medal by Singapore National
Co-operative Federation (1998) and President’s Medal by
Singapore Australian Business Council (2000)..
Shareholder Value Enhancement Committee
The Shareholder Value Enhancement Committee is chaired by Dr. B.K. Modi and members includes Ms. Divya Modi, Mr. Ashok Kumar Goyal and Mr. Thomas Henrik Zilliacus.
Executive Committee
The Executive Committee is chaired by Dr. B.K. Modi and members includes Ms. Divya Modi and Mr. Ashok Kumar Goyal.
Audit Committee
The Audit Committee is chaired by Ms Eileen Tay-Tan Bee Kiew and members includes Mr Jai Swarup Pathak and Mr Vijay Brijendra Chopra.
Nominating Committee
The Nominating Committee is chaired by Mr Thomas Henrik Zilliacus and members includes Mr Jai Swarup Pathak and Mr Vijay Brijendra Chopra.
Remuneration Committee
The Remuneration Committee is chaired by Mr Vijay Brijendra Chopra and members includes Mr Jai Swarup Pathak and Mr Sin Hang Boon.
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