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24 GEO ENERGY RESOURCES LIMITED | Annual Report 2012
and finance matters including group restructurings
and mergers and acquisitions. From 2002 to 2004,
he joined Deloitte & Touche (Singapore) as an audit
manager and was responsible for the audits of listed
companies, multinational corporations and small
and medium-sized enterprises from the technology,
engineering and manufacturing industries. In 2000,
he joined Arthur Andersen (which was subsequently
merged with Ernst and Young (Singapore) in 2002) as
an audit senior and was promoted to Audit Manager in
2001. He was involved in the audits of numerous public
limited companies and multinational corporations in the
shipping, contract manufacturing, logistics, confectionary
and construction industries. From 1997 to 1998, he
joined PriceWaterhouse (Malaysia), and then KPMG
(Singapore) from 1998 to 1999. During these periods, he
was involved in the audits of public limited and medium-
sized companies. He was an audit semi-senior at Rubin
Winter & Co (London) from 1995 to 1997. Mr Lu King
Seng is a fellow of the Association of Certified Chartered
Accountants, as well as a non-practising member of the
Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore. He
is also a member of the Singapore Institute of Directors.
Mr Lu King Seng graduated from Emile Woolf London
and obtained a professional qualification from the
Association of Certified Chartered Accountants in 1995.
Mr Ong Beng Chye
Mr Ong Beng Chye is an Independent Director of
our Company and was appointed to our Board on 25
September 2012. He has more than twenty years of
experience in the financial sector. Since the end of 2006,
he joined Appleton Global Private Limited as director and is
providing business management and consultancy services.
Concurrently since 2007, he joined Higson International
Pte Ltd as group financial controller of Higson International
Pte Ltd, a retailer and manufacturer of sportswear. He is
also presently the lead independent director and chairman
of the audit committee of Hafary Holdings Ltd and Kitchen
Culture Holdings Ltd, and a non-executive director of
Heatec Jietong Holdings Ltd.He is a fellow of The Institute of
Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, a Chartered
Financial Analyst conferred by The Institute of Chartered
Financial Analysts and a non-practising member of the
Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore. Mr
Ong Beng Chye obtained a Bachelor of Science (Honours)
from The City University, London in 1990.
Mr Karyono
Mr Karyono is an Independent Director of our Company and
was appointed to our Board on 25 September 2012. He has
more than twenty years of experience in the coal mining
industry (including mining engineering academia). He was
previously employed as head of the engineering division
of PT KTC Coal Mining & Energy, where he managed the
geology, mine plan and survey departments. From 2009 to
2011, he worked at PT Berau Bara Energi as a senior mine
engineer and managed and oversaw both the geology,
mine plan and survey department as well as the production
department of a mine site. From 2007 to 2008, he assumed
the role of mine project coordinator at PT Yucoal Energi
Resources, PT Batubara Selaras Sapta and PT Nusalucky
Tama. From September 2006 to July 2007, he worked at PT
Bara Pratama Agung. In 2006, he worked first as a mine
project coordinator and mine engineering superintendent
at PT Mahakam Prima Akbar Sejati from January to June,
then as the geotechnic engineer at PT Bukit Mandiri (BUMA)
from June to September. From October 2004 to December
2005, he worked as a mine project coordinator and a mine
engineering superintendant at PT Alhasanie. From 1993 to
2006, he was also a lecturer in the mining engineering study
programme of Universitas Islam Bandung, Bandung. He
had been appointed as the division head of administration
and student affairs of the engineering faculty in 1997,
and then the assistant dean of the engineering faculty in
1999. Concurrently from 1993 to 1994, he was also chief
of the chemistry laboratory. From 1992 to 1993, he was
a mine planning engineer at PT Lusang Mining and was
extensively involved in the monitoring and planning of mine
operations and design, as well as mine rehabilitation. From
1990 to 1991, he worked at PT Lusang Mining, Bengkulu
as a mine ventilation officer, and then subsequently as a
mine technical and ventilation engineer from 1991 to 1992.
Mr Karyono obtained a Masters in Geomechanics from the
mining engineering department of the Bandung Institute
of Technology in 1997, as well as a Bachelor’s degree in
Mining Engineering from Unisba Bandung in 1989.