About the Management
Our Leadership
ESC’s organisational structure is built upon our strong culture of integrated teamwork and collaboration, and this is reflected in our “1-Enterprise” approach in leading and managing our business.
Our Executive Leadership is responsible for setting and implementing the overall strategy of the enterprise and works jointly with our Senior Management Team to deliver our clients’ projects seamlessly across our practice areas and our geographies.
Leadership Team Members
Executive Leadership
Andrew Young
Group CEO
About Andrew:
Founder and Group CEO of ESC, Andrew has worked within the Asian environmental industry since 1994.
He has gained extensive experience as an environmental specialist within the industry, government and consulting organisations. Andrew’s broad expertise covers solid waste management, planning and impact assessments, air quality management, due diligence and compliance assessments, where Andrew has advised on EHS risks for the acquisition and divestiture of global businesses.
With experience from project inception, development and planning through operations, Andrew brings a wealth of knowledge and practical insights to all his consulting projects.
Geographically, Andrew has advised on EHS risks, liabilities and compliance for government and private sector clients in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Taiwan, India, China, Australia, New Zealand, UK and Germany.
Frank Ganendran
About Frank:
Frank has 36 years of experience working in Australia and the Asia-Pacific Region within the environmental and engineering consulting and professional services industry. He has been in senior executive leadership roles for the past 23 years mainly for large international firms.
In 2007, he established and grew a successful Australian-based environmental consulting and advisory practice (E3 Consulting Australia) which was eventually acquired by CDM Smith Inc. in 2011.
His recent role was as the Group Manager and Managing Director of CDM Smith Inc.’s Asia-Pacific region, in charge of approximately 960 staff looking after design, construction, engineering and environmental projects across private and public sector markets as well as for the multilateral lending agencies. He has a proven record of strong leadership, strategy development and implementation, training and developing executive managers, and delivering results. His valuable understanding of the intricacies of combined Asian and Western modalities of business allows him to lead, communicate and be trusted across cultural boundaries effectively and successfully.
Frank has assisted and mentored CEOs, boards and senior executives in strategic development, effective change and leadership, delivering strategic goals and business development.
Clive Mason
Senior Advisor
About Clive:
Clive Mason is Senior Advisor to ESC, supporting the company’s due diligence and advisory services across the finance sector, including engagement with development finance institutions (DFIs), international financial institutions (IFIs), and private sector investors. With more than 40 years of international experience in environmental and social risk management, Clive has worked across over 100 countries, including more than 20 years in Southeast Asia and China.
He has held senior positions with the World Bank Group, including the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), advising on sustainable finance, environmental and social standards, and climate finance initiatives. His experience working with global financial institutions, private equity funds, and renewable energy investors brings valuable strategic insight to ESC’s advisory and investment support work across the region.
Regional Technical & Commercial Delivery Group
Nigel Landon
International Development Aid (IDA) and Development Financial Institution (DFIs)
About Nigel:
Nigel has twenty years of experience in International Development projects as a strategic manager and technical specialist. He is also the Technical Principal for Waste Management services, having worked in the water agriculture and environmental sector since 1995 first as an irrigation engineer and later as a solid waste management specialist. Nigel has extensive experience working on environmental projects both in Indonesia and internationally. Having served in both the private sector, for large international agriculture, environment and development consultants, and for the Donor sector with the World Bank, KfW, ADB and UNDP, Nigel has experience managing projects from both consultant and the client’s side. This gives a unique advantage to ensure the Client is fully understood and the needs of the project are appropriately addressed. He has technical expertise focused on water resources planning and management, Irrigation engineering, agricultural planning and development, solid waste management, Renewable Energy, Climate Change, environmental and social impact assessments, EHS, rural development, institutional capacity building, livelihoods development, post-disaster early recovery planning and management.
Nigel has managed, and was Team Leader on, a number of large projects in developing countries, situated in post-disaster and post-conflict environments, including TRWMP, ETESP and NSIASP in Aceh, Indonesia, and the ELWDP Command Area Development Project in Eritrea. He has proven himself to be adept in managing multidisciplinary teams, including international consultants, community facilitators, engineers, administrative staff and other support staff, in difficult environments. Through extensive experience in managing projects with complex and widely diverse development activities, Nigel has considerable knowledge of project planning, financial management, procurement, monitoring and evaluation. Geographically, Nigel has worked on a diverse range of projects in the Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe, and Asia including Pakistan, Libya, Kosovo, Albania, Eritrea, and for more than 12 years in Indonesia.
Liam Hogg
Planning & Assessment
About Liam:
Liam has 20 years’ experience with expertise in the field of biodiversity, environmental impact assessment and monitoring, natural resource and land use management, environmental credit markets and environmental policy.
Based in Singapore, Liam has worked in many different parts of the world including Australia, Central America, the UK and across South East Asia. He has experience in both the private sector as well as, most recently, in the Australian government where he operated as a senior executive leading the development of environmental policy and legislation relating to agriculture and native forestry in New South Wales.
He has worked across a diverse range of industries and developments, including housing and commercial developments, critical infrastructure, renewables, mining, agriculture, and forestry. His combination of experienced senior leadership with a global scientific background can be used to develop strategic advice to support clients to manage key environmental considerations utilising international best practice.
Pirabagaran Balasingam
Operations & Performance Management
About Pira:
Pira brings over 20 years of expertise in Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS), with extensive experience across Asia and the Middle East. He specialises in Site Investigation and Remediation and has held senior management roles since 2022, overseeing technical leadership, operational performance, and financial accountability. Known for his practical approach and strategic insight, Piraba combines hands-on project management with a deep understanding of industry best practices.
Throughout his career, he has worked with leading multinational technology firms, manufacturing industries, and major oil and gas companies—including PETRONAS, Shell, ExxonMobil, Caltex, and Total—primarily in downstream operations such as retail stations, depots, refineries, and pipelines. He has also contributed to offshore baseline data collection and impact assessment projects in Malaysian and Bruneian waters.
Country Managers
David Cham
About David:
David Cham has over 17 years of experience in environmental, health and safety (EHS) consulting. David has a strong track record in EHS assessments including soil, groundwater, water, wastewater, air quality, industrial hygiene, noise, vibration and air quality; EHS compliance; due diligence assessment and sustainability reporting. In his current role, David is responsible for the day-to-day management of ESC’s Singapore business and spearhead the development and growth of the office.
Prior to joining ESC, David has held several senior leadership position including Environmental and Operations manager at an environmental testing laboratory, EHS Manager for Asia Pacific (including Australia, India and Japan) for a datacenter company, EHS Manager for South East Asia for a networking company. He was involved in numerous projects including site investigation and baseline studies; environmental impact assessments; risk assessments; decommissioning, demolition and remediation; across the various disciplines with overall responsibility for the technical and commercial aspects of the projects. He has managed and worked on projects in Singapore and Asia Pacific region including China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam and Australia.
Tessa Morton
About Tessa:
Tessa is an international environmental & social specialist and urban planner with over 20 years’ experience advising on projects while living in Indonesia, Myanmar and UK. She has master’s degrees in Town Planning and Real Estate Management, and is a Chartered Member of the UK Royal Town Planning Institute.
Tessa’s E&S work in Indonesia and Myanmar has included technical advisory on many large scale infrastructure projects including ESIAs, and the writing of E&S manuals for mainstreaming the management of E&S issues into projects.
Along with E&S specific work, Tessa’s experience also includes major project management roles with private developers and public sector agencies in urban planning and real estate development. She has been working in SE Asia for the last 12 years in Indonesia and Myanmar, on developments which required complex approaches to urban planning for mixed use, industrial and residential-led development, including the integration of E&S and GSI assessment and management. Prior to living in SE Asia, Tessa lived and worked in London UK for Jones Lang LaSalle providing town planning consultancy to a range of private sector clients across the UK.
Khoo Boon Keat
About Boon Keat:
Boon Keat has over 30 years of experience in environmental management in the construction of large infrastructure projects, including soil erosion control, river/water pollution control, noise level control, waste management, social and stakeholder planning and engagements.
He is a certified Sustainable INFRASTAR facilitator and has helped large infrastructure projects earn a 5-star rating. He has worked on Environmental Impact Assessments, Environmental Audits, and Feasibility Studies for projects all over Malaysia, including the railway, major roads and highways, dam, reclamation, coastal rehabilitation, bridge, marine, drainage, water and sewage treatment plant, township, and tunnel. He was involved in important projects like the KVMRT Putrajaya Line, KLIA 2, the Second Penang Bridge, the East Coast Rail Link, Teluk Chempedak, and the Pulau Tioman Beach Rehabilitation.
His training as a Civil Engineer gives him superior insights into construction site management and he can formulate practical, cost-effective solutions to address a wide range of environmental challenges.
Ben Ridley
About Ben:
Ben Ridley is an accomplished and highly collaborative sustainability advisor with strong critical thinking and problem-solving abilities, and good attention to detail. He possesses a scarce blend of 30+ years’ expertise across external and in-house roles in APAC, built on a foundation in compliance, risk and strategy advisory.
Ben has a technical background in Ecology, from which he diversified in his early career into various associated environmental and social assessment disciplines including water quality, municipal and hazardous waste management, land contamination, air and noise quality, landscape and visual, and cultural heritage. Ben has also applied and developed his knowledge through involvement in hundreds of banking client and transaction situations spanning strategy, stakeholder engagement, capacity building, objective setting and delivery, and disclosures.
Ben has directed, managed and otherwise supported assignments for public and private sector clients throughout Greater China, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia. He has also been involved in many projects elsewhere globally, including Australia, Europe and the Americas.