Board of Directors

MR STEVEN JAY GREEN

US Ambassador to Singapore from November 1997 to March 2001. Mr Green spearheaded a number of strategic programmes that greatly enhanced US-Singapore relations in economic development, intellectual property, immigration and national security. He is currently a Special Advisor to the Singapore Government, and is also a director of Vistage International, Inc., Knowledge Schools Inc., Cardean Learning Group, Greenstreet Capital Management, Inc. and Long Haul Holdings Corp.

Mr Green is the founder of merchant bank Greenstreet Partners, and the founding partner of a real estate investment company with real estate holdings throughout the United States. Mr Green has had 25 years of experience as an international industrialist leading major corporate restructurings and expansions in a host of manufacturing, housing, consumer products, retail and real estate enterprises. He served as Chairman and CEO of Samsonite Corporation from 1988 to 1996 where he oversaw the recapitalisation and subsequent turnaround of the company to a highly profitable business.

In addition to his corporate responsibilities, Mr Green is also active in national civic affairs. He serves as a contributing trustee for a number of community and national charities, including the Children’s Health Fund and the University of Miami Advisory Board. He is also the Chairman of the Green Family Foundation.

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DR LEE SUAN YEW

MBBS from Cambridge University, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Glasgow.

Dr Lee is a Director of Haw Par Corporation Ltd, and was previously a Director of the Board of Singapore General Hospital, Hotel Properties Ltd and Premier Healthcare Services International, and was also a Member of the Singapore Government’s Review Sub-Committee on Specialists. He was past President of the Singapore Medical Council.

Dr Lee was appointed a Justice of Peace in 1998 and was conferred the Public Service Star in 1991 and the Public Service Star (Bar) in 2002.

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MR CHOO CHIAU BENG

Bachelor of Science (First Class Honours), University of Newcastle upon Tyne (awarded the Colombo Plan Scholarship to study Naval Architecture); Master of Science in Naval Architecture, University of Newcastle upon Tyne; attended the Programme for Management Development in Harvard Business School in 1982 and is a Member of the Wharton Society of Fellows, University of Pennsylvania.

Mr Choo is a Senior Executive Director of Keppel Corporation Limited, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd and the Chairman of Singapore Petroleum Company Limited, Singapore Refining Company Pte Ltd and SMRT Corporation Ltd. Mr Choo also sits on the board of directors of Keppel Land Ltd and is a Board Member of Singapore Maritime Foundation and Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore. He is a member of the Nanyang MBA Advisory Committee.

He is also Chairman of Det Norske Veritas South East Asia Committee and Council member of the American Bureau of Shipping and member of the American Bureau of Shipping’s Southeast Asia Regional Committee and Special Committee on Mobile Offshore Drilling Units. He is Singapore’s Non-Resident Ambassador to Brazil.

Mr Choo was conferred the Public Service Star Award (BBM) in August 2004.

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MR LIM CHEE ONN

Bachelor of Science (First Class Honours) in Naval Architecture, Glasgow University; Masters in Public Administration, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Member of the Wharton Society of Fellows, University of Pennsylvania; Honorary Doctorate in Engineering, Glasgow University.

Executive Chairman of Keppel Corporation Ltd since Jan 2000. He is also Chairman of Keppel Land Ltd, MobileOne Ltd, and Singapore-Suzhou Township Development Pte Ltd and a Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore and Keppel Energy Pte Ltd. Mr Lim is also the Honorary Chairman of the National Heritage Board and Deputy Chairman/Advisory Board, Harvard Singapore Foundation.

Mr Lim started his career in the Civil Service. He was Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Communications until elected as Member of Parliament in July 1977. He served as Political Secretary, Ministry of Science and Technology from August 1978 to September 1980. Mr Lim was Secretary-General, National Trades Union Congress from May 1979 to June 1983 and concurrently Minister without Portfolio, Prime Minister’s Office from September 1980 to July 1983, and remained as Member of Parliament until December 1992.

In addition, Mr Lim is Co-Chairman of the Philippines-Singapore Business Council and Deputy Chairman of the Seoul International Business Advisory Council. He is Economic Advisor to Jiangsu Provincial Government, PRC, Consultant to the People's Government of Yunnan Province, PRC. Member of the Singapore-US Business Council. Mr Lim is also Counsellor of The Conference Board’s Global Advisory Council on Economic Issues and member of the INSEAD Singapore International Council.

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MR TEO SOON HOE

Bachelor of Business Administration, University of Singapore; and Member of the Wharton Society of Fellows, University of Pennsylvania.

Mr Teo is a Senior Executive Director and the Group Finance Director of Keppel Corporation Limited. He is the Chairman of Keppel Telecommunications & Transportation Ltd and Keppel Philippines Holding Inc. In addition, he is a director of several companies within the Keppel Group, including Keppel Land Limited, Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd, Keppel Energy Pte Ltd and Singapore Petroleum Company Limited. He is also a director of MobileOne Ltd.

Mr Teo began his career with Keppel Group in 1975 when he joined Keppel Shipyard. He rose through the ranks and was seconded to various subsidiaries of the Keppel Group before assuming the position of Group Finance Director in 1985.

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Prof Tan is the Professor of Accounting, Singapore Management University, where he was the Deputy President from 1998 to 2001. He was Dean of Accountancy and Business at the Nanyang Technological University from 1990 to 1998. He is Chairman of the KK Women’s & Children Hospital’s Medifund Committee, the Singapore National Committee for Pacific Economic Co-operation and Meridian Junior College Advisory Commitee, and is a Director of the Singapore Reinsurance Corporation Limited, Kim Eng Holdings Limited, Singapore Shipping Corporation Limited and Raffles Education Corporation Limited.

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MR KAMAL BAHAMDAN

Bachelor of Science in Manufacturing Engineering, Boston University.

Mr Bahamdan is a founder and Managing Partner of The BV Group, the Vice-Chairman of Sara Holdings, founder and Chairman of Advanced Telecommunications Company, and Chairman of Tashelat Marketing Co. Ltd. He also serves on the Board of Directors and Advisory Board of several private companies and investment funds in which the BV Group has significant investments.

Mr Bahamdan is also an equestrian Olympian and has competed in the 1996 Atlanta, 2000 Sydney and 2004 Greece Olympics.

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MR YONG PUNG HOW

Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Laws and Master of Arts from Cambridge University; Honorary Doctor of Laws, National University of Singapore. AMP alumnus of the Harvard Business School. Barrister at Law of the Inner Temple and Honorary Bencher; Advocate and Solicitor, Malaysia and Singapore; and Fellow of the Malaysian Institute of Management.

Mr Yong was Singapore's Chief Justice from 1990 to 2006, during which time he was also the President of the Legal Service Commission, the Chairman of the Presidential Council for Minority Rights, and President of the Singapore Academy of Law. Since 1991, Mr Yong has been appointed thrice by the Cabinet as acting President of the Republic of Singapore.

He started his legal career as a partner with Shook Lin & Bok in 1952, serving until his retirement from legal practice in 1970. Whilst in legal practice, he also held a variety of public appointments such as Chairman of the Malayan Public Services Arbitration Tribunal from 1955 to 1960, the Malaysian Industrial Court from 1961 to 1967, and Malayan Airways (later renamed Malaysia-Singapore Airlines) from 1964 to 1969. He was also Deputy Chairman of the largest Malayan bank, Malayan Banking Berhad between 1966 and 1971.

In 1971, Mr Yong founded the Singapore International Merchant Bankers Ltd (SIMBL) and Malaysian International Merchant Bankers Berhad (MIMB), and served as Chairman and Managing Director of both companies. In 1976, he retired from SIMBL and MIMB, and was appointed Vice-Chairman of OCBC Bank. In 1981, Mr Yong was seconded by OCBC Bank to the Singapore Government to form and head the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC). In 1982, he was appointed concurrently the Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, Deputy Chairman of the Currency Commissioners, and Alternate Governor for Singapore of the International Monetary Fund, and returned to OCBC Bank as its chairman and CEO from 1983 to 1989.

Before returning to law in 1989 when he was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of Singapore, Mr Yong also served as a menber of the Singapore Securities Industry Council from 1972 to 1981, and as a member of the Provisional Mass Rapid Transit Authority, and later a director of the MRT Corporation, between 1981 and 1985. He was Chairman of the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation from 1985 to 1989, and in 1987 he became the first Chairman of the Institute of Policy Studies, as well as a director of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra.

Mr Yong was conferred the Distinguished Service Order in 1989 and the Order of Temasek (First Class) in 1999. The citation on Singapore's highest award stated that "as Chief Justice since 28 September 1990, Justice Yong Pung How has made the Singapore Judiciary world class".

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