Kum Soh Har

Mr. Kum was appointed to the Board on 21 December 2018 as the Non-Executive Non-Independent Chairman and a member of the Audit Committee and Remuneration Committee. Mr. Kum has over four decades of hands-on experience in the offshore support vessels (“OSV”) market, extending from the Middle East, India, South East Asia and Australia. He commenced his career in Singapore in 1969 working for an Australian OSV company headquartered in Fremantle, Western Australia (with operations in Singapore).

He subsequently founded Offshore Equipment Pte Ltd in 1976 to charter OSVs to the oil and gas industry in the Middle East (including Egypt), India, Australia (including the North West Shelf) and South East Asia, which was later renamed Miclyn Offshore Pte Ltd (“Miclyn Offshore”). Miclyn Offshore was later merged with Express Offshore Transport Pte. Ltd. to form Miclyn Express Offshore Pte Ltd (“MEO”), which was listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (“ASX”) in 2010. Mr. Kum served as Chairman of Miclyn Offshore and MEO, and was responsible for the strategic planning and development of the group’s business and was instrumental to the expansion and growth of the group. He retired as Chairman of MEO post listing on the ASX.

Mr. Kum was previously a majority shareholder of ASX-listed Mermaid Marine Australia Limited (which is now known as MMA Offshore Limited) and is currently its substantial minority shareholder.