Keppel Corporation Limited (Keppel) announced the appointment of Mr. Olivier Blum and Mr. Jimmy Ng as Independent Directors to the Board with effect from 1 May 2022. Mr. Blum will be appointed a member of the new Board Sustainability and Safety Committee to be established, while Mr. Ng will be appointed a member of the Board Risk Committee. Mr. Olivier Blum, 51, is the Executive Vice-President of Schneider Electric's Energy Management Business and a member of the company's Executive Committee.

Prior to this, Mr. Blum was the Chief Strategy & Sustainability Officer of Schneider Electric, where he led the development of the company's strategic, sustainability and quality initiatives, while steering its merger, acquisitions, and divestment activities globally. Before this, he was on Schneider Electric's Executive Committee as the Company's Chief Human Resources Officer. Mr. Jimmy Ng, 57, is the Group Chief Information Officer, as well as Head of Group Technology & Operations (GTO) at DBS Bank.

He possesses more than 30 years of regional and global experience in both wholesale banking and consumer banking businesses with DBS Bank, RBS, ABN Amro Bank and J.P. Morgan. In his current role in DBS, Mr. Ng manages more than 10,000 technology and 5,000 operations professionals across the region and is responsible for the technology transformation for DBS.