Our People

We have over 38,000 multi-national employees operating farms, manufacturing facilities and offices in 7 countries across Asia.

As we grew in scale, products and geographical locations; our industry know-how has also expanded from animal feed to livestock breeding, commercial farming, dairy and consumer food production.

Our corporate culture is a key contributing factor to our success in building agri-food infrastructure in some of the most challenging emerging markets.

For over four decades, we have abided by a set of founding values based on integrity, mutual benefit, and cohesiveness in achieving common goals. These values that are handed down from one generation of Japfa employees to another have shaped our approach to product quality, business and community relations.

Key Management Team

Handojo Santosa

Executive Chairman

Mr Santosa was appointed Executive Director on 19 December 2008.
Mr Santosa joined our Group in 1986 as a manager in the edible oil division at Nilam in Surabaya

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Mr Santosa was appointed Executive Director on 19 December 2008. He is in charge of the overall management of our Group’s business and operations, including making any major corporate decisions. He oversees the formulation of our Group’s corporate planning, strategic direction, business and corporate policies.

Mr Santosa joined our Group in 1986 as a manager in the edible oil division at Nilam in Surabaya where he was in charge of the edible oil division’s day-to-day operations. From 1989 to 1997, he served as Vice-president Director of our subsidiary, PT Japfa Comfeed Indonesia Tbk.

In 1997, he was appointed as President Director of PT Japfa Comfeed Indonesia Tbk, a role in which he has oversight of the pt Japfa Group’s operations. His responsibilities include overseeing the entire operations of the pt Japfa Group including the Aquaculture Division, Trading Division and the Beef Cattle Division.

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Tan Yong Nang

Executive Director and the Chief Executive Officer

Mr Tan was appointed Executive Director on 1 June 2009, and as the Group’s Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) on 1 January 2014.
Mr Tan joined our Group in 2007 as an assistant to the CEO and Chief Operating Officer (“COO”)

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Mr Tan was appointed Executive Director on 1 June 2009, and as the Group’s Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) on 1 January 2014. As CEO, he is in charge of leading the development and execution of our long-term strategy, and responsible for all day- to-day management decisions.

Mr Tan joined our Group in 2007 as an assistant to the CEO and Chief Operating Officer (“COO”) of Corporate Services before taking on the position of COO of our Group in 2011. Mr Tan was involved in the growth of our Group’s operations in the region such as the expansion of our swine and dairy business segments, and had oversight of the management functions across our Group’s businesses. Mr Tan is also involved in the management of our Group’s financial liabilities and has assisted our Group in diversifying our financial relationships to include regional and international banking organisations.

Mr Tan started his career as a statistician at the Department of Statistics, Singapore in 1985 and went on to become a research economist with Singapore’s Ministry of Trade and Industry in 1986. He joined the Prudential group in 1988 as an investment analyst and was based in Hong kong and the USA.

From 1991 to 2003, Mr Tan was employed by the PAMA Group Inc.’s group of companies (“PAMA Group”), becoming a partner of PAMA BVI in 2001. He was involved in setting up several equity funds of the PAMA Group and handling the funds’ investment portfolio in South East Asia. He was also an Investment Committee member of PAMA BVI from 1997 to 2003. In 2003, Mr Tan joined Delifrance Asia Ltd as its CEO, and in 2005, he joined Li & Fung Group in 2005 as its Project Director and COO.

Mr Tan graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Economics) degree from the University of Cambridge, UK in 1983. He was also registered as a Chartered Financial Analyst with the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts, USA in 1992 and is currently a member of Mensa International.

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Kevin John Monteiro

Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer

Mr Monteiro was appointed Executive Director on 16 April 2014
Mr Monteiro was previously the Head of Corporate Finance of our subsidiary, PT Japfa Comfeed Indonesia Tbk and has over 14 years of experience of working in the agri-food industry

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Mr Monteiro was appointed Executive Director on 16 April 2014. As Chief Financial Officer, his key roles are to develop a balanced capital structure, to source adequate funding for our Group, and to ensure the integrity of the Group’s financial data. He has oversight over all the financial operations of our Group.

Mr Monteiro was previously the Head of Corporate Finance of our subsidiary, PT Japfa Comfeed Indonesia Tbk and has over 14 years of experience of working in the agri-food industry, having joined PT Japfa Comfeed Indonesia Tbk in 1999. His responsibilities in this position included overseeing its capital structure and managing equity-related matters such as investor relations, annual reports and IDX-compliance.

Prior to joining PT Japfa Comfeed Indonesia Tbk, Mr Monteiro was a financial advisor to another IDX-listed company between 1995 and 1999. Between 1985 and 1995, Mr Monteiro practised as a chartered accountant, first as a sole practitioner, and later as a partner of Callaway & Hecht in Melbourne. Whilst in practice, Mr Monteiro was a registered tax agent and registered company auditor in Australia.

Mr Monteiro obtained a Bachelor of Economics degree from Monash University, Australia in 1979 and has been a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia since 1982.

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Bambang Budi Hendarto

Chief Operating Officer, Operation 1 - Poultry Indonesia

Mr Hendarto oversees the entire poultry operations, including the feed, breeding and commercial aspects, and is responsible for establishing corporate objectives, strategies and plans for our poultry operations.
Mr Hendarto joined our Group in 1978 as a Nutrition Manager in the Production Planning Control Department where he was involved in supervising and coordinating the activities for the production of formula feed.

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Mr Hendarto oversees the entire poultry operations, including the feed, breeding and commercial aspects, and is responsible for establishing corporate objectives, strategies and plans for our poultry operations.

Mr Hendarto joined our Group in 1978 as a Nutrition Manager in the Production Planning Control Department where he was involved in supervising and coordinating the activities for the production of formula feed. He became a Vice Director (Deputy Director) of PT Comfeed Indonesia in 1981 and led the Feed Division of our Group’s operations in Indonesia.

Over the years with our Group, he was promoted several times and was appointed the Vice-President Director of PT Japfa Comfeed Indonesia Tbk in 1997. He holds this position till today and his roles and responsibilities in this position include leading the breeding and commercial poultry operations of our Group and to oversee and ensure that our Group’s corporate objectives and strategies relating to such operations are met.

Mr Hendarto graduated from Brawijaya University in 1972 with an Engineering degree in Animal Husbandry.

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Edgar Dowse Collins

Head of Dairy

Mr. Collins is the Head of Dairy of our Group. He is responsible for the day-today operations of our Group's Dairy Division and is in charge of formulating, developing and implementing both strategic and long-term business plans for our Group's Dairy operations.

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Mr Collins is responsible for the day-to-day operations of our Group’s Dairy Division and is in charge of formulating, developing and implementing both strategic and long-term business plans for our Group’s Dairy operations.

Having been involved in beef and cattle operations throughout his career, Mr Collins has accumulated many years of industry experience. He has been with AustAsia Food Pte. Ltd. since 1999 and is currently its Managing Director. Before joining AustAsia Food Pte. Ltd., he was Head of Operations of PT Santosa Agrindo, currently a subsidiary of our Group, where he was involved in the development of a cattle and beef business in Indonesia.

Mr Collins was also a General Manager for approximately two years at BxE Commodities Pty Ltd (“BxE”), a company engaged in the business of import and trading of cattle feed commodities in Australia’s and new Zealand’s dairy industries. During his time at BxE, he was involved in the establishment of a system for the importation, trading and distribution of feed products such as coprameal and palm kernel extract to commercial farmers and feedmills.

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Antonius Harwanto

Deputy Chief Operating Officer, Operation 1 - Poultry Indonesia

Mr Harwanto is responsible for setting up the vision, mission and strategies to further grow the Group’s poultry business in Indonesia.
Mr Harwanto has been with PT Japfa Comfeed Indonesia Tbk since 1979

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Mr Harwanto is responsible for setting up the vision, mission and strategies to further grow the Group’s poultry business in Indonesia.

Mr Harwanto has been with PT Japfa Comfeed Indonesia Tbk since 1979. From 1979 to 1999, he held various positions in transportation, sales and marketing and served as the unit head of Cikupa, Cirebon and Sidoarjo, respectively.

In addition, Mr Harwanto is serving as a Director of PT Indojaya Agrinusa since 1995. From 1999 to 2012, he was also the Commissioner of PT Multibreeder Adirama Indonesia Tbk. Separately, he served as a Director of PT Multiphala Agrinusa from 2001 to 2008, and was subsequently appointed to president Director from 2008 till 2010.

Between 2003 and 2017, Mr Harwanto was the Head of Feed Division, before he was promoted to his current position.

Mr Harwanto graduated from the 17 August 1945 university in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 1986 with an Economics degree

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Christina Chua Sook Ping

Head of Legal and Compliance

Ms Chua oversees all legal, compliance and secretarial functions of our Group’s operations. She joined our Group in 2010.
Ms Chua has more than 20 years of experience in legal practice

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Ms Chua oversees all legal, compliance and secretarial functions of our Group’s operations. She joined our Group in 2010.

Ms Chua has more than 20 years of experience in legal practice. She joined Drew & Napier LLC in 1990 and later joined Rajah & Tann LLP in 2007. During her time in practice, Ms Chua was a partner in the corporate and tax departments of both firms and was recommended in the 2003/2004, 2004/2005 and 2006/2007 editions of the Asia Pacific Legal 500 for Mergers & Acquisitions with a technology specialisation, for her role in advising in the Bharti Changi Consortium in respect of the modernisation and restructuring of the Mumbai and Delhi airports and as a leading individual, respectively.

She was also named in both Who’s Who-Legal (Singapore) for Mergers & Acquisitions and the International tax Review 2004 as a leading tax practitioner in Singapore. She was highly recommended for tax (particularly infrastructure and cross border) transactions in PLC Which lawyer? Yearbook Singapore 2008/2009 edition and was also named as a highly recommended tax lawyer in PLC Tax on transactions Handbook 2009/2010 edition. Ms Chua graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (Honors) degree from the National University of Singapore in 1989 and was admitted as an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Singapore in 1989. She has been a member of both the Law Society of Singapore and the Singapore Academy of law since 1990.

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Jasper Tan Kai Loon

Head of Human Resources

Mr. Tan is the Head of Human Resource is in charge of all human resource matters in our Group and responsible for human resource management, policy governance and administration.
He joined our Group in 2012.

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Mr. Tan is the Head of Human Resource is in charge of all human resource matters in our Group and responsible for human resource management, policy governance and administration.

Prior to joining our Group, Mr. Tan was employed by the Singapore Ministry of Defense from 1998 to 2012. He was engaged in various positions including Head of the Singapore Armed Forces Careers Centre and Head of Mindef Scholarship Centre. He was appointed as the Head of the Human Resource Department of the Ministry of Defense in 2009 and was responsible for all human resource matters for all non-uniformed personnel of the Ministry of Defense and Singapore Armed Forces. He joined our Group in 2012.

Mr. Tan graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and Social Sciences degree from the National University of Singapore in 1997.

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