Reuters UK, 6 Feb 2009
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Chip Goodyear, the former chief of BHP Billiton and now CEO-designate at Singapore's best known wealth fund, hails from the halls of Ivy League universities and Wall Street, but is best known for his reign at the Australian mining giant.
Goodyear, who will take the helm at state investment agency Temasek Holdings TEM.UL in October, replacing Ho Ching, descends from a U.S. lumber baron and was schooled at Yale and Wharton School of Finance.
Goodyear joined then debt-ridden BHP in 1999 as chief financial officer, and was instrumental in growing the company into the world's top miner, via a merger with South Africa's Billiton, with a market value bigger than the GDP of some countries it operated in.
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