Mr Tan Boon Kheng (Managing Director)

is the Group Managing Director and a member of the Nominating Committee. He was last re-elected at the AGM held on 27 July 2023. He joined the Group in 1983 upon his graduation from Singapore Polytechnic with a diploma in mechanical engineering and was appointed a Director on 25 October 2002. He has attended Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business executive education in Global Business Leadership and International Relations in 2015.

His primary responsibilities are strategic planning and business development. Mr Tan was instrumental in the Group’s foray into the overseas markets and expansion into the power generation business. Mr Tan has been accredited as a Qualified Fire Safety Manager by the Singapore Joint Civil Defence Force since 1982.

Mr Tan was recognised as one of the top outstanding leaders in the Asia Corporate Excellence & Sustainability Awards in 2014 and also appointed in 2016 as Honorary Chairperson of Cheng Hong welfare Service Society, a Non-Profit oganisation in Singapore to help the disadvantaged needy and destitute in the society through healthcare, lifestyle and financial support.

Mr Chia Soon Hin William (Independent Chairman)

was appointed as a Non-Executive Independent Director on 1 September 2018 and Independent Chairman of the Board on 30 July 2024. He was last re-elected at the AGM held on 29 September 2022. Pursuant to Regulation 103 of the Company’s Constitution, William will retire by rotation as a director at the forthcoming AGM and has consented to his re-election as a director. He is also a member of the Audit and Risk Committee, Remuneration Committee and Nominating Committee.

He provides training for financial institutions and business advisory to corporations through his company, Xie Capital Pte Ltd. He has more than 35 years of retail and commercial banking experience with Overseas Union Bank, Standard Chartered Finance, DBS Bank, Malayan Banking Berhad and United Overseas Bank.

Prior to his retirement from United Overseas Bank in October 2014, he was an Executive Director with the bank’s Group Commercial Banking. He is a Chartered Secretary and Associate of the Governance Institute of Australia, Fellow with the Chartered Institute of Marketing (UK) and Associate with the Chartered Institute of Bankers (UK). He was conferred IBF Fellow by the Institute of Banking and Finance Singapore in November 2014. In May 2024, he attained the Senior Accredited Director credentials from the Singapore Institute of Directors.

Mr Yip Mun Foong James (Independent Director)

was appointed as a Non-Executive Independent Director on 23 December 2019 and was last re-elected at the AGM held on 24 September 2020. He is a member of the Audit and Risk Committee, the Remuneration Committee and the Nominating Committee.

James had been in the banking industry for some three decades covering the whole gamut of corporate, commercial, investment banking, capital markets and private equity fund raising. He has worked for several international financial institutions and his last banking appointment was Global Head of Capital Markets and Syndications at Overseas Union Bank. A native Singaporean, James has worked and travelled widely in Asia, Australiasia, Europe and the USA.

James had also been for two years until May 2006 the general manager of the investment subsidiary of the Changi Airport Group. From July 2006 to end 2008, James was an independent advisor with the Asian Transportation Group of HSH Nordbank, Hamburg assisting in the financing of infrastructure projects in the Asia Pacific, working closely with international agencies like the Asian Development Bank and the IFC, a unit of the World Bank.

James holds a post-graduate diploma in management studies from the Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, a postgraduate diploma in financial management from the Stern School of Business Administration, New York University and a diploma from the Chartered Institute of Bankers, London. He also holds an executive diploma in directorship jointly awarded by the Singapore Institute of Directors and the Singapore Management University.

James has sat on the boards of several listed companies in Singapore, Australia and UK as an independent non-executive director. These companies were involved in diversed industries, ranging from oil and gas production, solar-powered water heaters, biofuel, memory modules manufacturing to marine out-board equipment distribution.

Mr KOH KEW SIONG, DOUGLAS (Independent Director)

was appointed as a Non-Executive Independent Director of the Company on 1 June 2024 and was last re-elected at the AGM held on 29 July 2024. He is also the Chairman of both the Remuneration Committee and Nominating Committee, and a member of the Audit and Risk Committee. Mr Douglas Koh was a practising lawyer for more than 20 years specialising in equity capital markets and corporate governance. His former firmsinclude Virtus Law LLP, CNPLaw LLP (formerly known as Colin Ng & Partners LLP), Harry Elias Partnership LLP and Drew & Napier LLC.

Prior to returning to Singapore to be a lawyer, Mr. Douglas Koh was working with an internet services company and a manufacturing company in the People’s Republic of China. Mr. Douglas Koh graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1992 with a Bachelor of Laws and is admitted as an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore.

Mr Douglas Koh is an independent director of Catalist-listed YKGI Limited and the manager of Mainboard-listed EC World REIT. He was also an independent director of Mainboard-listed LCT Holdings Limited from December 2019 until its delisting in December 2020 and Mainboard-listed New Silkroutes Group Limited (formerly known as Digiland International Limited) from November 2013 to March 2015.