Career biography

Lynette provides strategic leadership and oversight of the Sembcorp Group’s global legal, compliance and corporate secretarial affairs.

With over 26 years of international legal and commercial experience, Lynette has extensive expertise in strategic business leadership, managing large-scale transactions, and driving compliance. Before joining Sembcorp, she was the Asia Pacific General Counsel of Cargill and a member of its Global Ethics and Compliance Committee. Prior to that, she spent 15 years at Hilton Worldwide in senior leadership positions across the US, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. She began her career as a corporate and mergers and acquisitions lawyer at TSMP Law Corporation before moving in-house to IMC Industrial Group.

Lynette holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from the National University of Singapore and is qualified to practise in Singapore, England and Wales. An accredited director of the Singapore Institute of Directors and holder of the Advisory Board Centre’s Certified Chair™ credential, she also serves on the nominating sub-committee of the Singapore Association for the Visually Handicapped, and as Company Secretary of APSN, a social service agency supporting individuals with mild intellectual disability.