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Temasek’s future leadership needs clarity
Asiamoney, October 2009
Author’s note: this is the filed version. For the published version, click here: Sovereign Wealth-r4 (2)
Those who saw Chip Goodyear in Singapore in July describe a man keen to get on with things, enthused by his pending new position. Still three months ahead of his start date as CEO of Singapore’s investment arm Temasek, but by now installed on the board, the former BHP Billiton chief had already met at least half of the major Temasek-held companies. “There was nothing to suggest anything was coming,” says one.
But by the afternoon of a July 21 board meeting, it was all over. A press release announced that, four months into the leadership transition, the board and Goodyear had “concluded and accepted that there are differences regarding certain strategic issues that could not be resolved” and terminated the handover. Ho Ching, Temasek’s CEO since January 2004, would not step down after all. Continue…
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