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Mr Koh joined the SGX Board on 15 March 2022. In January 2023, upon the retirement of Mr Kwa Chong Seng, Mr Koh was appointed Chairman of the Board.

He is the Chairman of Altara Ventures Pte Ltd, a venture capital firm providing early and growth stage capital and expertise to entrepreneur led start ups and SMEs largely in South East Asia.

He is also the Chairman of Sunningdale Tech Ltd, Rippledot Capital Advisers Pte Ltd and Agilent Technologies, Inc and a Board Member of GIC Pte Ltd. He is also the Chairman of the Securities Industry Council.

He started his career in 1977 at Hewlett Packard and rose to become its Managing Director in Singapore from 1985-1990. From 1991-2000, he was Executive Chairman of the Wuthelam Group.

Mr Koh was also the Chairman of the Singapore Telecom Group (SingTel) and its predecessor organisations from 1986-2001, Chairman of Singapore Airlines Limited from 2001-2005, Chairman of DBS Bank from 2006-2010 and served on the Board of Temasek Holdings Pte Ltd from 1996-2010. He was Chairman of AAC Technologies Holdings Inc from 2004-2020.

He was also the Chairman of the Board of Trustees and its predecessor Council of the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) from 1993 until his retirement in March 2021. He was a Director of the Hewlett Foundation in the United States from September 2007 until his retirement in March 2022, and Chairman of the Investment Committee overseeing the Endowment’s investment from July 2015 until his retirement.

He received his Bachelor’s Degree (First Class Honours) in Mechanical Engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, and his MBA (Distinction) from the Harvard Business School. He also received honorary doctorates from Imperial College London in 2014 and from NTU in 2021.

Mr Koh was last re-elected as a director at the Annual General Meeting on 6 October 2022.

Mr Loh Boon Chye

SGX Group - Executive Management - Loh Boon Chye

Chief Executive Officer

Executive and Non-Independent Director

Mr Loh Boon Chye joined Singapore Exchange (SGX Group) as CEO on 14 July 2015. He is also an Executive and Non-Independent Director on the SGX Board. As CEO, he drives SGX Group’s growth strategy, with the aim of transforming SGX Group into a world-class multi-asset exchange.

Over the years, Mr Loh has played a key role in the development of Southeast Asia’s capital markets, having held a number of senior advisory positions. Apart from his directorship on the SGX Board from 2003 to 2012, he also sits on the Board of GIC Pte Ltd. He is Chairman of the Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics Advisory Board, Co-Chair of the Council for Board Diversity and Vice-Chair of the World Federation of Exchanges.

Mr Loh leads SGX Group’s efforts in sustainability and climate action. He serves as an independent advisory committee member in the United Nations Sustainable Stock Exchange Initiative, and advisory board member for the Climate Governance Singapore Limited and Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ)’s Asia-Pacific Network. He is also a member of the GFANZ’s CEO Principals Group.

With a career in the financial industry that spans three decades, Mr Loh was most recently Deputy President and Head of Asia Pacific Global Markets at Bank of America-Merrill Lynch from December 2012 to May 2015. He was also the bank’s Country Executive for Singapore and Southeast Asia and a member of its Asia Pacific Executive Committee. From 1995 to 2012, Mr Loh was with Deutsche Bank AG, where he held various leadership roles including Head of Corporate & Investment Banking for Asia Pacific and Head of Global Markets for Asia.

Mr Loh is a council member and Distinguished Fellow at the Institute of Banking & Finance Singapore. He was also previously Chairman of the Singapore Foreign Exchange Market Committee, as well as Deputy President of ACI Singapore.

Mr Loh holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the National University of Singapore.

Mr Loh was last re-elected as a director at the Annual General Meeting on 5 October 2023.