Mr Yap Boh Pin was appointed to the Board as an independent and Non-Executive Director on 1 April 2004. He is also a member of the Audit Committee and the Chairman of the Nominating Committee of the Company. Mr Yap is currently the managing director of B.P.Y. Private Limited, a firm of management consultants which provides financial planning, financial accounting, reviewing internal control systems as well as corporate secretarial services. Between July 1975 and January 1999, Mr Yap was a senior partner at Yap Boh Pin & Co, which provided advice on auditing, taxation, liquidation and corporate restructuring matters. He is also a director of TeleChoice International Limited and Asia Mobile Holdings Pte Ltd (a subsidiary of Singapore Technologies Telemedia Pte Ltd). Mr Yap also holds directorship in Overseas Realty (Ceylon) Plc, a public listed company in Sri Lanka.

He has also held directorships in various public companies between 1975 and 2000, including Singapore Land Limited, L&M Investments Limited and Pan Pacific Public Company Limited. During his appointment by these companies, Mr Yap was a member of their executive committee and/or audit committee, assisting in the evaluation and recommendation of changes to their system of internal controls as well as corporate governance.

Beyond the corporate sector, Mr Yap is actively involved in various non-profit, educational and social welfare organisations. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the Singapore Hokkien Huay Kuan, member of the Board of Trustees of Chinese Development Assistance Council and its Audit Committee and Volunteers and Social Services Committee. He is also actively involved on the Board of Management of the Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) ("ACS"), serving as Chairman of ACS Endowment Fund and Finance Management Committee of ACS. At end January 2008, Mr Yap was appointed as Director, ACS (International).

Mr Yap qualified as Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales in 1966. He is a Fellow of both the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore, and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Mr Yap’s last re-election as a Director was on 14 July 2007.

 

Mr Peter Farrar, British, was appointed as an independent and Non-Executive Director of the Company on 20 November 2006. At the same time he was also appointed as Chairman of the Audit Committee. Mr Farrar was appointed as a member of the Nominating Committee on 15 November 2007. He graduated from Newcastle University in 1968 with a degree in economics and accounting and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, qualifying in 1971.

Mr Farrar is currently an independent Non-Executive Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Bintai Kinden Corporation Berhad, Malaysia. He is also a member of the Audit Committee of the Department for International Development in London. He was an audit partner in Price Waterhouse in the United Kingdom from 1980 to 1996, specializing in financial services. After that he was Chief Financial Officer of a UK investment bank and later, until his retirement at the end of 2005, Managing Director of the Private Client Division of a London based professional services firm.

Mr Farrar's last re-election as a Director was on 14 July 2007.

 

 

Mr Goh Yeow Tin was appointed as an independent and Non-Executive Director of the Company on 1 October 2007 and as a Director and Non-Executive Chairman of Lereno BC (Singapore) Pte Ltd on the same day. Mr Goh holds a Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering (Hons) and a Masters Degree in Industrial Engineering. Mr Goh is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Seacare Education Pte Ltd which specialises in providing educational services and consultancy in Singapore, Malaysia and China. Mr Goh began his career with the Economic Development Board ("EDB") where he headed the Local Industries Unit and was subsequently appointed as a Director of EDB's Automation Applications Centre located in the Singapore Science Park. Mr Goh was the founding member of the Association of Small and Medium Enterprise ("ASME") and founded International Franchise Pte Ltd, a pioneer in franchising business in Singapore. Mr Goh was previously the Deputy Managing Director of Tonhow Industries Ltd, the first SESDAQ listed plastic injection moulding company. Prior to his present business, Mr Goh was the Vice-President of Times Publishing Ltd and was responsible for the Group's Retail and Distribution businesses. Mr Goh is also a member of the Singapore Institute of Directors and an Independent Director of Juken Technologies Limited, Oakwell Engineering Limited and ETLA Limited. In recognition of his many years of social and community services, Mr Goh was awarded the Public Service Medal in 1996 and the Public Service Star in 2006 by the President of the Republic of Singapore.

Mr Goh's last re-election as a Director was on 28 July 2008.