SINGAPORE (Dec 26): Singtel appointed two new board members -- Gail Kelly and Bradley Horowitz -- to its board from Wednesday.
Kelly was previously the group CEO and managing director of two banks in Australia – St George Bank from 2002 to 2007 and Westpac Banking Corporation from 2008 to 2015. Currently, she is a board director of Woolworths Holdings in South Africa and Australian Philanthropic Services.
She is also a Senior Global Adviser to UBS and a member of the Group of Thirty, Bretton Woods Committee, McKinsey Advisory Council and PLuS Alliance Advisory Board.
Kelly has also been a member of the Optus Advisory Committee since Sec 2017. She will join Singtel’s Executive Resource and Compensation Committee.
On the other hand, Horowitz is currently the VP of product management at Google, Inc. He has led product development for a wide array of consumer products at Google over the past decade, including Gmail, Google Drive, Google Docs, Blogger, Google Voice, Google News and Google Photos.
Before joining Google, Horowitz was the vice president of advanced development at Yahoo, Inc. He is an independent Director of Issuu, Inc. and also a member of the Visiting Committee of Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Horowitz will become a member of the Finance and Investment Committee and the Technology Advisory Panel.
Including Kelly and Horowitz, Singtel’s board comprises a total of 11 directors.
Simon Israel, chairman of Singtel, says, “Gail and Bradley bring a wealth of international experience and expertise across a range of areas including technology, innovation, finance and global operations, which will be invaluable as we continue on our transformation journey in a fast-changing business and technology landscape. We are very pleased to welcome them to the Singtel board and look forward to their contributions.”
Year to date, shares in Singtel are down nearly 20% to $2.89.
