Jonathan Lim is executive director and chair of Catalist-listed Adventus Holdings in Singapore.
Mr Lim is an entrepreneur having founded Romar Positioning Equipment in 1984. Since then, Mr Lim has grown Romar to a leading global heavy automation equipment manufacturer, principally in the energy, alternative energy, and oil & gas sector. Romar also has distribution facilities and associates in over 30 countries globally and was ranked 3rd in the Singapore Enterprise E50 Awards in 2007. In 2008, Romar was acquired by a UK-based MNC and re-organised as Romar Positioning Equipment International. Mr Lim continued running the business until the end of 2009.
Mr Lim is also an avid investor, promoter and venture capitalist in various listed and unlisted companies in advanced materials, oil sands, heavy oil, electric cars and its allied industries and mineral business in both North and South America, Australia and North and SE Asia.