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Board of Directors

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YAM Tunku Ali Redhauddin Ibni Tuanku Muhriz
Chairman / Independent Non-Executive Director / Chairperson Of Nomination & Corporate Governance Committee
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Alexandra Elisabeth Johanna Maria Schaapveld
Independent Non-Executive Director / Chairperson Of Remuneration Committee / Member Of Audit, And Nomination & Corporate Governance Committee
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Uthaya Kumar K Vivekananda
Independent Non-Executive Director / Chairperson Of Audit And Risk Management Committees / Member Of Remuneration And Nomination & Corporate Governance Committees
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Donald Allan Chudanov
Independent Non-Executive Director / Member of Risk Management Committee
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Chan Chee Beng
Non-Independent Non-Executive Director / Member Of Nomination & Corporate Governance Committee
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Maureen Toh Siew Guat
Non-Independent Non-Executive Director / Member Of Audit, Risk Management, Remuneration Committees
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Gary Neal Christenson
Executive Director / Chief Executive Officer
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Management Team

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Gary Neal Christenson
Executive Director / Chief Executive Officer
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Luke C. Targett
Chief Financial Officer
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Sasha Vijayananthan
Head of Business & Corporate Partnering
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Mark Andrew Newby
Head of FPO
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Megat Zariman bin Abdul Rahim
Head of Offshore Marine Services
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Gary Leong
Head of Health, Safety, Security, Environment and Quality (HSSEQ)
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Stephen Matthew Williamson
Head of Asset Integrity and Engineering Floating Production Operations and Technology
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Roger M Harwood
General Counsel
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Noreen Melini Muzamli
Joint Company Secretary / Head, Corporate Secretarial Services
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YAM Tunku Ali Redhauddin Ibni Tuanku Muhriz

Chairman / Independent Non-Executive Director
Chairperson of Nomination & Corporate Governance Committee
Country: Malaysia
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Dates of Appointment:
Director – 17 January 2013
Chairman – 18 June 2013
 
Qualifications:
  • BA (Hons) in History and Social & Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge
  • Masters in Public Administration from the John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Present Directorships: 
Bumi Armada Berhad
 
Listed Companies:
Taliworks Corporation Berhad
 
Other Public Companies:
  • Bangkok Bank Berhad
  • Sun Life Malaysia Assurance Berhad
Skill and Experiences:
Tunku Ali Redhauddin ibni Tuanku Muhriz (“Tunku Ali”) brings over 20 years of corporate experience to the board, combining active participation and advisory work across many sectors, with significant strategy consulting and principal investing knowledge.
 
He is a Senior Advisor to TPG Capital, a global private equity firm. In addition, Tunku Ali sits on the boards of Themed Attractions Resorts and Hotels Sdn Bhd and several TPG portfolio companies including Cardiac Vascular Sentral (Kuala Lumpur) Sdn Bhd, Columbia Asia Healthcare Sdn Bhd and Pathology Asia Holdings Pte Ltd.
 
He is Chairman and Founding Trustee of Teach For Malaysia, Chairman of WWF Malaysia, Chairman of the Board of Governors of Marlborough College Malaysia, and Pro Chancellor of Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia. He is also Chairman of Yayasan Munarah and a Trustee of Amanah Warisan Negara.
Previously, Tunku Ali was an Investments Director at Khazanah Nasional Berhad and prior to that he was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company.
 
Tunku Ali has no family relationship with any Director and/or major shareholder of the Company and he has no conflict of interest with the Company.
 
He has not been convicted of any offence within the past 5 years nor been imposed any penalty by the relevant regulatory bodies during the financial year.

Alexandra Elisabeth Johanna Maria Schaapveld

Independent Non-Executive Director
Chairperson of Remuneration Committee
Member of Audit Committee
Member of Nomination & Corporate
Country: Netherlands
Age: 61
Gender: Female
Date of Appointment: 8 June 2011
 
Qualifications:
  • Degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University, United Kingdom.
  • Master in Development Economics at Erasmus University, Netherlands.
Present Directorships: 
Bumi Armada Berhad
 
Listed Companies:
  • Société Générale S.A.
  • 3i PLC
Other Public Companies:
Nil
 
Skill and Experiences:
Alexandra Schaapveld started her career at ABN AMRO Bank in 1984 in corporate banking and subsequently in investment banking: equity capital markets and mergers and acquisitions.
 
She had always been a strong advocate of client relations at the Bank. In 2001, she was made Senior Executive Vice President responsible for sector expertise and in 2004 she became the head of the global clients and investment banking units. After the acquisition of ABN AMRO Bank by a consortium of banks, she became head of Europe for Royal Bank of Scotland in 2008.
 
Alexandra Schaapveld has no family relationship with any Director and/or major shareholder of the Company and she has no conflict of interest with the Company.
 
She has not been convicted of any offence within the past 5 years nor been imposed any penalty by the relevant regulatory bodies during the financial year.

Uthaya Kumar K Vivekananda

Independent Non-Executive Director
Chairperson of Audit Committee
Chairperson of Risk Management Committee
Member of Remuneration Committee
Member of Nomination & Corporate Governance Committee
Country: Malaysia
Age: 66
Gender: Male
Date of Appointment: 10 April 2017
 
Qualifications:
  • Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales
  • Chartered Accountant of Malaysian Institute of Accountants
  • Member of Malaysian Association of Certified Public Accountants
Present Directorships:
Bumi Armada Berhad
 
Listed Companies:
Nil
 
Other Public Companies:
Nil
 
Skill and Experiences:
VU Kumar was with PricewaterhouseCoopers for nearly 35 years. He has led and worked on some of the most challenging and complex assignments, both in Malaysia and globally, working with multinational and blue-chip national clients in audit, business advisory, mergers and acquisitions, valuations, privatisations, IPOs and cross-border transactions.
 
VU Kumar has no family relationship with any Director and/or major shareholder of the Company and he has no conflict of interest with the Company.
 
He has not been convicted of any offence within the past 5 years nor been imposed any penalty by the relevant regulatory bodies during the financial year.

Donald Allan Chudanov

Independent Non-Executive Director
Member of Risk Management Committee
Country: United States of America
Age: 62
Gender: Male
Date of Appointment: 1 January 2021
 
Qualifications:
  • Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering, The Ohio State University, USA
Present Directorships: 
Bumi Armada Berhad
 
Listed Companies: 
Bumi Armada Berhad
 
Other Public Companies: 
Nil
 
Skills and Experiences: 
Donald Allan Chudanov (“Don Chudanov”) has over 40 years of technical and managerial experience in the oil and gas industry with responsibilities in facility engineering design and construction, drilling operations, production field operations, deepwater project development and overall asset management. 
 
At Chevron, he held Operations and Asset Development General Manager positions in Indonesia deepwater, the UK North Sea, offshore Thailand, and Nigeria deepwater. At Unocal, as Deepwater Development Manager, he was the project manager from discovery through production for Indonesia’s first deepwater development, the West Seno Field, which involved several innovative new technologies. Prior to this with Unocal, he held positions of increasing responsibility in facilities engineering and construction, drilling, and offshore operations across various US locations.  
 
Don Chudanov has no family relationship with any Director and/or major shareholder of the Company and he has no conflict of interest with the Company. 
 
He has not been convicted of any offence within the past 5 years nor been imposed any penalty by the relevant regulatory bodies during the financial year.

Chan Chee Beng

Non-Independent Non-Executive Director
Member of Nomination & Corporate
Country: Malaysia
Age: 64
Gender: Male
Date of Appointment: 2 June 2003
 
Qualifications:
  • Degree in Economics and Accounting from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom.
  • Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
Present Directorships: 
Bumi Armada Berhad
 
Listed Companies:
Nil
 
Other Public Companies:
  • Maxis Communications Berhad Group
  • Yu Cai Foundation
Skill and Experiences:
Chan Chee Beng has more than 42 years of experience in general and financial management, investment banking and accounting including stints with Ernst & Young and Morgan Grenfell & Co. Ltd prior to joining the Usaha Tegas Sdn Bhd (“UTSB”) Group in 1992 as Head of Corporate Finance. He is currently a Director of UTSB Management Sdn Bhd. He serves on the boards of several other companies in which UTSB has significant interests, such as Sri Lanka Telecom PLC, Binariang GSM Sdn Bhd and Maxis Communications Berhad (holding company of Maxis Berhad), having an operational base in Malaysia.
 
Chan Chee Beng has no family relationship with any Director and/or major shareholder of the Company and he has no conflict of interest with the Company.
 
He has not been convicted of any offence within the past 5 years nor been imposed any penalty by the relevant regulatory bodies during the financial year.

Maureen Toh Siew Guat

Non-Independent Non-Executive Director
Member of Audit Committee
Member of Risk Management Committee
Member of Remuneration Committee
Country: Malaysia
Age: 54
Gender: Female
Date of Appointment: 23 April 2014
 
Qualifications:
  • Bachelor of Law (LL.B) from University Malaya, Malaysia.
  • Master of Law (LL.M) from Harvard Law School, United States of America.
Present Directorships:
Bumi Armada Berhad
 
Listed Companies:
Nil
 
Other Public Companies:
Nil
 
Skill and Experiences:
Maureen Toh Siew Guat (“Maureen Toh”) has more than 20 years of legal experience, primarily in corporate, commercial and banking matters and equity/capital markets, including stints with law firms in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.
 
She is a Director of Usaha Tegas Sdn Bhd (“UTSB”), which is a Malaysian based investment holding company which has significant interests in companies operating across diverse industries such as telecommunications, media and entertainment, energy and real estate and leisure, including the following companies which are listed on Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad – Maxis Berhad (integrated communications services group) and Astro Malaysia Holdings Berhad (integrated consumer media entertainment group). She was previously the Group General Counsel of UTSB.
 
Maureen Toh has no family relationship with any Director and/or major shareholder of the Company and she has no conflict of interest with the Company.
 
She has not been convicted of any offence within the past 5 years nor been imposed any penalty by the relevant regulatory bodies during the financial year.

Gary Neal Christenson

Executive Director / Chief Executive Officer
Country: United States of America
Age: 65
Gender: Male
Dates of Appointment: NED – 2 May 2018 CEO – 16 May 2019
 
Qualifications:
  • Stanford Executive Programme (“SEP”), Stanford University, United States of America (“USA”)
  • Ph.D. programme in Structural Geology (thesis not completed), Cornell University, USA
  • Bachelor of Arts, Geology, Hamline University, USA
  • United States Air Force (“USAF”) and USAF Reserve, Aircrew for C-130A Hercules aircraft
Present Directorships: Bumi Armada Berhad
 
Listed Companies: Nil
 
Other Public Companies:
  • Black Platinum Energy Ltd
Skill and Experiences:
Gary Neal Christenson (“Gary Christenson”) has over 35 years of technical and managerial experience in the petroleum exploration and production industry with a focus on South East Asia and Africa. His experience includes Management positions at Tenneco Oil E&P, British Gas Indonesia, Unocal Indonesia Co. (“Unocal”) and Santos Indonesia (“Santos”).
 
At Unocal he was the Senior Vice President of Unocal E&P Indonesia and President of Unocal Makassar and developed and produced the West Seno field utilising a min-TLP, semisubmersible TAD and a barge hull FPU. At Santos he was the President of Santos Indonesia and developed and produced the Maleo and Oyang fields. He was the Chairman and CEO of Black Gold Energy in partnership with Goldman Sachs and Temasek.
 
Gary Christenson has no family relationship with any Director and/or major shareholder of the Company and he has no conflict of interest with the Company.
 
He has not been convicted of any offence within the past 5 years nor been imposed any penalty by the relevant regulatory bodies during the financial year.

Luke C. Targett

Chief Financial Officer
Country: Australia
Age: 54
Gender: Male
Date of Appointment: 29 October 2018
 
Qualifications:
  • Bachelor of Commerce Degree from Melbourne University
Directorship in Listed Issuers and Public Companies: Nil
 
Skill and Experiences:
Luke C. Targett (“Luke”) is responsible for leading Bumi Armada’s current operations and growth trajectory through Financial Services, Treasury, Corporate Finance & JV Management, Group Tax, Investor Relations, Communications & Sustainability, Information System & Technology and Insurance.
 
He has more than 30 years’ experience in financial advisory roles which include restructuring, mergers & acquisitions, pre-lending reviews, transaction advisory, independent business reviews and non-performing loan management in numerous jurisdictions including London, Singapore, Indonesia, Myanmar and Thailand. Luke started his career with Coopers & Lybrand, Melbourne in 1988 and subsequently spent more than 12 years at Ernst & Young. In 2005, he joined Interra Resources Limited, a dual SGX and ASX listed oil & gas producer and explorer as CEO in Singapore for 4 years. Prior to joining Bumi Armada, he was a Partner in Melbourne at Cor Cordis, an Australian national business advisory firm. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand and has also attained a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment.

Sasha Vijayananthan

Head of Business & Corporate Partnering
Country: Malaysia
Age: 45
Gender: Male
Date of Appointment: 10 June 2019
 
Qualifications:
  • CPA Australia
  • Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting), Monash University, Australia
Directorship in Listed Issuers and Public Companies:
Nill
 
Skill and Experiences:
Sasha Vijayananthan (“Sasha”) is responsible for the Supply Chain Management, Human Resources and Administration functions of Bumi Armada. This would include responsibilities and accountabilities over the areas of vendor quality management, procurement, logistics management, inventory management as well as all people and administrative matters.
 
Prior to her appointment to this role, Sasha was the Head of Internal Audit and Risk. This was a position that she held from March 2016 to June 2019. It was during her tenure as Head of Internal Audit that she built her in-depth knowledge of the processes within Bumi Armada hence her progression into her current role.
 
She has over 23 years’ experience in the Governance, Risk and Control space and was Vice President of Group Risk Management at Sime Darby Berhad, before joining Bumi Armada. 
 
Sasha was previously an auditor at Ernst & Young, starting as an associate and working her way up to Director level. She has a wealth of experience, specialising in governance reviews, financial control framework implementations, transformation projects, internal and external auditing for a broad range of industries including the oil and gas industry.

Mark Andrew Newby

Head of Floating Production and Operations ("FPO")
Country: Australia
Age: 56
Gender: Male
Date of Appointment: 17 October 2016
 
Qualifications:
  • Master Class 1 Certificate of Competency & Diploma of Nautical Science
Present Directorships: Bumi Armada Berhad
 
Directorship in Listed Issuers and Public Companies:
Nil
 
Skill and Experiences:
Mark Andrew Newby (“Mark”) is responsible for Bumi Armada Floating Production and Operations Division. This Division encompasses all aspects of Floating Production from engineering design, construction, commissioning and operation of new developments through to safely operating and maintaining Bumi Armada’s existing fleet of FPSOs and FSU.
 
Mark has over 30 years of wide-ranging experience in the Oil and Gas industry and has held senior positions both offshore and onshore, with extensive knowledge of Floating Production Systems and significant involvement in developing industry best practice for FPSO operations through involvement with Oil Companies International Marine Forum (“OCIMF”) and the Society of International Gas Tanker and Terminal Operations (“SIGTTO”).
 
Before joining Bumi Armada in 2016, he was with BG Group for 5 years, with the last 2 years as the Regional Operations Manager. 
 
Prior to that, he was at ConocoPhillips as the Global Production Marine Operations Manager.

Megat Zariman bin Abdul Rahim

Head of Offshore Marine Services ("OMS")
Country: Malaysia
Age: 52
 
Dates of Appointment:
  • 11 April 2013 (Appointed as Senior General Manager, Sales & Marketing – Malaysia)
  • 1 March 2018 (Appointed as Head of Offshore Marine Services)
Qualifications:
  • Bsc Electrical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Directorship in Listed Issuers and Public Companies: Nil
 
Skill and Experiences:
Megat Zariman Abdul Rahim (“Megat”) is responsible for the running of our OMS business which includes the OSV and SC sub-segments. He has held various positions within Bumi Armada for the last five years with the scope of building, managing and growing the Company’s activities within Malaysia and the Asia Pacific region. 
 
He is a certified Professional Engineer by the Malaysian Board of Engineers since 1997, and Professional Technologist from Malaysian Board of Technologies since 2018. Before joining Bumi Armada, Megat spent over 21 years with Schlumberger, in various technical, commercial, and Management roles globally. 
 
Concurrently, Megat is also the Vice President in the Malaysian Oil & Gas Service Council (“MOGSC”). MOGSC is a leading non-profit association, which promotes the interests of the Malaysian Oil & Gas service providers, with the mission to champion the Malaysian Oil & Gas services sector as a regional hub and with the scope of aiding in the development of the Malaysian Oil & Gas services sector.

Gary Leong

Head of Health, Safety, Security, Environment and Quality ("HSSEQ")
Country: Malaysia
Age: 39
Gender: Male
Date of Appointment: 15 March 2018
 
Qualifications:
  • Bachelor (First Class), Chemical Engineering with Environmental Protection, Loughborough University
  • Certified Sustainability Reporting Specialist (CSRS), License No. TR114747
Directorship in Listed Issuers and Public Companies:
Nil
 
Skill and Experiences:
Leong Wei Kit (“Gary”) is responsible for overseeing Bumi Armada’s HSSEQ function as well as driving governance and assurance on HSSEQ matters related to corporate, operations and projects across the organisation.
 
Before joining the Company, Gary was the Head of Health, Safety, Security & Environment (“HSSE”) Performance at Group HSSE, PETRONAS where he was responsible for HSSE performance management, sustainability reporting, digitalisation of HSSE performance management and C-level reporting to PETRONAS Executive Leadership Team and Board. 
 
Gary has also worked with DuPoint and Accenture, where he held various positions in driving HSSE excellence for clients in the energy and mining industry. His experiences span across strategy development, governance audits, risks assessment, safety culture transformation, organisation improvement, project management and performance improvement in the realm of HSSE. He is also a member of the HSE Technical Committee for the MOGSC.

Stephen Matthew Williamson

Head of Asset Integrity and Engineering Floating Production Operations and Technology
Country: United Kingdom
Age: 52
Gender: Male
Date of Appointment: 1 December 2019
 
Qualifications:
  • Class 1 Marine Engineer General and Motor Diploma in Engineering
Directorship in Listed Issuers and Public Companies:
Nil
 
Skill and Experiences:
Stephen Matthew Williamson (“Steve”) is responsible for ensuring that FPO assets are maintained and operated in a safe, compliant and efficient manner. 
 
He is also responsible for the direct management of the FPO Technology team, providing appropriate technical design competence and capability to the FPO business.
 
Steve has 36 years of experience of technical operations and risk management in the Shipping and Oil and Gas industry.
 
He started his career as a sea going Engineer Officer, serving predominantly on tanker vessels. In 2001 he moved to BP where he held several technical and senior operations management roles over a period of 17 years. These included; Engineering Standards Superintendent, Technical Authority and Regional Fleet Manager (East) based in Singapore. 
 
Prior to joining Bumi Armada, he had spent the previous 4 years as Manager of the BP Gas Fleet, based in the UK.

Roger M Harwood

General Counsel
Country: New Zealand / United Kingdom
Age: 55
Gender: Male
Date of Appointment: 15 June 2020
 
Skill and Experiences:
Roger Harwood (“Roger”) is responsible for all areas of legal, contracts, and corporate regulatory compliance and risk related matters at Bumi Armada and its subsidiaries.
 
Roger has over 30 years of international experience in legal advisory work and has held senior management roles in the oil and gas industry. He has worked in both the upstream E&P space and within the full spectrum of the oil & gas services sector.
 
After qualifying and working in private practice in New Zealand, Roger moved to the UK in 1991 where he began a 20-year career with Hess Corporation.  During this time, he advised Hess on its developments in the North Sea, before moving into their international group and supporting activities in North-West Europe, South America, South East Asia, Australia, Africa and Central Asia. Roger spent 3 years in Hess’s KL office, where he established a regional legal team for the group. 
 
Prior to joining Bumi Armada, Roger was the Group Head of Legal at Petrofac where he led a global team of lawyers and had responsibility for the management of the group’s legal risk.
 
Roger was admitted as a Barrister & Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand in 1988 and as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 2006.

Noreen Melini Muzamli

Joint Company Secretary / Head, Corporate Secretarial Services
Country: Malaysia
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Dates of Appointment:
  • 1 September 2015 (joined Bumi Armada)
  • 10 September 2015 (appointed as Joint Company Secretary)
 
Qualifications:
  • Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from University of Bristol, United Kingdom (1999)
  • Certificate of Legal Practice (2005)
  • Company Secretary license from the Companies Commission of Malaysia (since 2001)
Directorship in Listed Issuers and Public Companies:
Nil
 
Skill and Experiences:
Noreen Melini binti Muzamli (“Noreen”) is responsible for ensuring the provision of effective corporate secretarial services at Bumi Armada and advising the Board and Management of Bumi Armada on the compliance with relevant regulations and best practices on corporate governance. 
 
She has more than 18 years of corporate secretarial experience in various sectors which included property development and financial services. Prior to joining Bumi Armada, Noreen was attached to the Maybank Group for nine years and her last position was as the Company Secretary of Maybank Investment Bank Berhad and its group of companies, a position she held since November 2010. 
 
She was also Regional Head, Corporate Secretarial Services of Maybank Kim Eng Group (“Group”), the investment banking division of Maybank Group and was responsible for ensuring the adoption of group policies and best practices on corporate governance in the 10 countries in which the Group operated. Before Maybank Group, she was with a public listed property developer for more than five years and was assigned to its Legal and Secretarial Department.