Singtel appoints Dominic Barton to board of directors
Singtel has announced the appointment of Dominic Barton as an independent director of its board.
“The diversity of his experience will be invaluable as Singtel’s digital transformation takes the Group into businesses and partnerships that cut across multiple industries,” Singtel’s chairman Simon Israel said in a statement on Monday (25 March).
Barton, 56, was global managing partner of McKinsey until July 2018, a role he held for nine years. McKinsey’s current global managing partner emeritus had also served as its chairman in Asia and headed its office in Korea.
Among his other posts, Barton has been chairman of the board of Canadian mining company Teck Resources since 1 October 2018, and is the Chancellor of the University of Waterloo.
Apart from Barton, the Singtel board comprises 11 other directors including Israel, Group CEO Chua Sock Koong, Gautam Banerjee, Bobby Chin Yoke Choong, Venky Ganesan, Bradley Horowitz, Gail Kelly, Low Check Kian, Peter Mason, Christina Ong and Teo Swee Lian.
