Boon Hwee Koh

Boon Hwee is a General Partner and the Chairman of Altara. He is a distinguished corporate leader and entrepreneur. He currently sits on multiple boards in both the public and private sectors—serving as Chairman of Singapore Exchange Limited, the Securities Industry Council, Agilent Technologies Inc., Rippledot Capital Advisers Pte. Ltd., and Sunningdale Tech Ltd.; and as a board director of GIC Private Limited.

Boon Hwee began his career at Hewlett-Packard and rose to become its Managing Director in Singapore. He later served as Executive Chairman of the Wuthelam Group, a Singapore-based corporate group with activities across Asia, where he led and managed its companies. In particular, he co-founded Omni Electronics and Omni Plastics, which were subsequently consolidated and listed on the Singapore Exchange as Omni Industries.

A proven visionary, Boon Hwee has previously served as Chairman of DBS Bank Ltd., Singapore Airlines Limited, Singapore Telecommunications Limited, the Nanyang Technological University Board of Trustees, Far East Orchard Limited, Yeo Hiap Seng Ltd., and AAC Technologies Holdings Inc. He was also a board member of Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited, the Economic Development Board (EDB) International Advisory Council, and the Singapore Economic Committee in 1985, which guided the country out of recession. Additionally, he served on the board of the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, a non-profit organisation.

Boon Hwee is a graduate of Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, and the Harvard Business School.