Sim Cheok Lim
Director (Non-Executive & Independent)
Engineering
VICOM Ltd
Singapore
Biography
Mr Sim Cheok Lim has been a non-executive Director of VICOM Ltd since 1984. He is an independent Director of the Company. Mr Sim is a member of both the Nominating Committee and Remuneration Committee. In public service, he was Singapore’s Ambassador (non-resident) to Kazakhstan till 2014 and was Ambassador to Uzbekistan from 1999 to April 2011. Mr Sim was previously the Chairman of Commercial & Industrial Security Corporation (CISCO) from 1994 to 2002, and Chairman/Director of several of its subsidiary companies. He was also the Marketing Director of Shell Eastern Petroleum (Pte) Ltd from 1987 to 1994, a Director of Keppel Transportation and Telecommunications Ltd from 1989 to 2003 and Boardroom Limited from 2000 to 2014. Mr Sim was awarded the Friend of Labour Award in 1991 by the National Trades Union Congress and conferred the Public Service Medal in 1998, Public Service Star in 2003 and Public Service Star (Bar) in 2013 by the President of the Republic of Singapore Mr Sim holds a Bachelor of Engineering (First Class Honours) from the University of Adelaide, Australia and a Diploma in Competitive Strategic Marketing from the University of California Berkeley.
Research Interest
Competitive Strategic Marketing