Umoe Schat-Harding Services Management

Andrew Lemmis (born 1969) is Vice President North East Asia for Umoe Schat-Harding Services. Andrew first started his career with Schat-Harding over 20 years ago in the production department of Watercraft in Gosport, UK, his hometown. A change in direction in the mid 1990’s found Andrew working in Singapore for an independent lifeboat servicing company before returning back to Schat-Harding in 2005 to head up the development of the Service Division in China. Spending the past 15 years in Asia, Andrew has garnered much cross cultural managerial experience having set up and run operations in Singapore, India, Hong Kong and China and gained extensive knowledge of the marine industry in the Asia region. Having set Schat-Harding Services as a market leader in China and setting standards that others must follow Andrew is now responsible for further developing Schat-Harding Services in the North East Asian region.

Sonny SS Choo (born 1947), is Vice Present of South East Asia as well as Managing Director of Umoe Schat-Harding Services in Singapore. Sonny spent five years between 1976 and 1980 working in the North Sea, based out of Aberdeen, Scotland. He also served as the Marketing Director from 1986 to 1998, when he became the Managing Director of Umoe Schat-Harding Singapore.

David Torres (born 1976) is Vice President Sales for Umoe Schat-Harding Services. He brings over nine years of experience in international business within the Life Saving Appliances industry. David is a Dutch national, studied at the University of Nijmegen and Rotterdam, holds a Master and Bachelor’s degree in Management and a professional degree in Export Management. David has experience in servicing Life Saving Equipment and is certified by several major Lifeboat and Davit manufacturers as a service engineer. Throughout his career within USH, David has been responsible for a variety of activities related to USH’s vision of “Improving Safety at Sea”. Training of new service engineers and members of the group service network as well as training of The Netherlands based Classification societies, USCG and PSC officers on risks involved with life saving equipment are some of these activities. David is a requested guest speaker at several events, such as Paris MOU, IFSMA, NVKK and SASMEX on risks involved with life saving equipment as well as member of the Netherlands delegation at IMO for several years.

Siri Forsberg (born 1975) is Senior Business controller for Umoe Schat-Harding Services. Siri holds a Master’s of science of business degree from BI Norwegian Business School and has 12 years of international business experience from Norske Skog (one of the world’s largest supplier of newsprint paper and a big contributor to the magazine/directory sectors). Siri Forsberg has experience from difference finance positions; Business advisor, Senior controller Sales, Controller Global IT, Regional controller South America, Finance manager and Group Controller.