Gopinath Pillai
Gopinath Pillai is the Executive Chairman of Savant
Infocomm Pte Ltd, Singapore.
Gopinath has varied interests in companies
incorporated in Singapore, India, Mauritius, and the
U.K. He is also the Chairman of Gateway DistriParks
Limited, incorporated in India. . He is also
Chairman of Windmill International Pte. Ltd, and a
Director of KSP Investments Pte. Ltd., Infotech
Solutions Pte. Ltd., and several other companies.
He has been Singapore’s Non-Resident Ambassador to
Iran since 1989.
Gopinath is a Trustee of NTUC Fairprice Co-operative
Ltd having been its founding Chairman between
1983-1993. He is also a past President of the
National University of Singapore Society. He is
currently the Chairman of IT Services Cooperative
Ltd and Deputy Chairman of Ang Mo Kio Community
Hospital.
Awards Received:
• “Friend of IT” Award by the Singapore Computer
Society in 2001
• The Public Services Star (BBM ) Award by the
Government of Singapore in 1999.
• “Friend of MCD” Award in 1998
• Meritorious Award by NTUC in 1990 and; “Friend of
Labour” Award by NTUC in 1987
David Ho
David Ho is the Managing Director of Savant Infocomm
Pte Ltd, Singapore.
David is also the CEO of Educational Resources Pte
Ltd and Director of ECICS Credit Insurance Ltd.
David started his career with Citibank Singapore.
Subsequently he worked for Intraco (a state trading
company) before establishing Windmill International
Pte Ltd in 1979.
Haider M. Sithawalla
Haider Sithawalla is an Executive Director of Savant
Infocomm Pte Ltd, Singapore and a Director of SIL.
Haider started his career as a civil servant and
held the position of Deputy Secretary, when he
resigned to join the private sector. He joined ACMA
as a General Manager and later became its Managing
Director. His prior appointments include
Directorship and Non-Executive Directorship in
various Public listed and Private Companies. He is
also a trustee of NTUC FairPrice Co-operative
Limited.
Haider is the Singapore High Commissioner
(Non-Resident) to Mauritius, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.
Awards Received:
· The PBM (Public Service Medal) Award given by the
Government of Singapore in 1999
· The Meritorious Service Award given by the
National Trade Union Congress of Singapore in 1990
· The Rochdale Medal Award by the National
Federation Co-operatives, Singapore in 1984
· "Friend of Labour" Award by the National Trade
Union Congress of Singapore in 1981
Prakash Damodaran
Prakash is currently a Director of SIL. Earlier, as
a Director of Media Lab Asia, an initiative of MIT
Media Lab, USA and the Ministry of Information
Technology, Government of India, he set up its
research labs at the Indian Institutes of Technology
(IITs) at Madras (Chennai) and Kharagpur, India, and
oversaw their operations.
Prakash has had a distinguished career with the
Indian Administrative Service since 1979 with the
state governments of Tripura and Tamil Nadu and with
the central government at Delhi. He attained the
position of Secretary to the Government in the state
governments, and held charge of several departments,
notably, Industries, Planning and Information
Technology. He has also worked as Chairman and/or
Managing Director of a large number of public sector
enterprises in the manufacturing and financial
sectors.
Prakash is a Director on the board of UTI Technology
Services Limited, Mumbai, a Government of India
company.
Prakash has a B.Tech in Aerospace Engineering from
IIT, Madras, and was conferred its Distinguished
Alumnus award in 2001. He has a Post Graduate
Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of
Management, Calcutta (Kolkata), and a Master in
Public Administration degree from the Kennedy School
of Government, Harvard University, USA.