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Chuan Seng Lee
Chair
Chuan Seng Lee is a New Zealand citizen and a Singapore permanent resident, with a long and illustrious career in engineering in both countries.
After graduating with a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) from the University of Auckland, Chuan Seng worked on engineering projects in New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore and Indonesia.
In 1989 he was appointed Director of Beca Carter Hollings and Ferner (South East Asia) Pte Ltd, with responsibility for various projects in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Myanmar.
In that role he grew the Beca Group’s business into these countries as well as China.
He is currently Chairman of Beca Asia Holdings Pte Ltd and Beca Carter Hollings & Ferner (SE Asia) Pte Ltd and Executive Director of Beca Group Ltd, New Zealand.
Chuan Seng is also a Member, Fellow or Chairman of a number of professional industry bodies and committees.
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Yong Areecharoenlert
Yong Areecharoenlert is the President and Chairman of Thai listed company, Pakfood Public Company Limited.
Pakfood employs about 600 staff and its core activities are the manufacturing and distribution of frozen foods such as prawns, crayfish and sea water shrimps.
Some of the products are then canned or “instant” frozen for immediate consumption such as steamed and fried dim sum, fried prawn and squids.
Most of these products are exported to the US, Japan, Australia and Europe.
Yong is also the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Ecuador since 17 January 1995.
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John Lim Kok Min
John Lim Kok Min is currently the Chairman of Gas Supply Private Limited, Chairman of the Singapore Institute of Directors, Deputy Chairman of NTUC Fairprice Co-operative and the Singapore Institute of Management.
He is also the immediate past Chairman of Senoko Power and the Building & Construction Authority.
He has more than 40 years of senior management experience in the Asia-Pacific region and has held directorships and CEO roles in companies in SEA Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
He currently sits on the board of several public listed and private companies. He was previously Group Managing Director of Pan-United Corporation Limited, MPH Ltd and Chief Executive Officer of Cold Storage Holdings Ltd.
He now sits on the Boards, Audit, Remuneration and Nominating Committees of three listed companies and is the Audit Committee Chairman of Boustead Singapore Ltd.
He is a member of the Corporate Governance Council, Securities Industry Council, Company's Act Review Steering Committee, Management Committee of Singapore Compact for Corporate Social Responsibility, Senate Member of the Marketing Institute of Singapore, and a former director/Council Member of both the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce and the Singapore Confederation of Industries.
He is the Chairman for the OECD Asian network on Corporate Governance for State Owned Enterprises.
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Dr Tran Huu Chinh
Dr Chinh studied at the University of Canterbury and lived in New Zealand from 1967 to 1972.
Upon his return to Vietnam, he established his own company Fideco where he is currently Chairman.
Fideco is the umbrella company for a group of 12 businesses such as seafood processing, residential and commercial property, trading, financial investment, industrial park development and more.
Dr Chinh brings to the board a familiarity of Vietnam’s political and economic market dynamics, his network of contacts from his respective businesses as well as knowledge of gaining faster access to market.
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Dato’ Dr Michael Yeoh
Dato’ Dr Michael Yeoh is the Founder, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Asian Strategy & Leadership Institute, Malaysia’s leading private sector think tank.
He is the Secretary-General of the ASEAN Business Forum, the Malaysia-China Business Council and the Corporate Malaysia Roundtable.
Michael is also the Chairman of Asia Pacific Partners and API Capital, which are private equity and investment consulting companies.
Michael has extensive boardroom and consulting experience over the past 30 years, specializing in corporate strategic planning, Asian leadership strategies and the political economy.
He has consulted for the World Bank, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the Nomura Research Institute and the Economist Intelligence Unit.
He has also sat on the boards of directors of the National Heart Institute, SBB Asset Management (a subsidiary of Southern Bank and Malaysia’s second largest fund management company).
Michael has been a Principal Adviser to Southern Bank, General Manager of Multi-Purpose Holdings and Chief Administrative Director of the Malaysian Chinese Association.
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Ian Spence
Ian Spence is a company director and business consultant in South East Asia.
He holds directorships for several multinational companies and is a member of the Asia/Pacific Advisory Board for the International Baccalaureate.
A New Zealander, Ian is an accountant with 40 years’ international experience.
He started his career with Barr, Burgess & Stewart (now Price Waterhouse Coopers) in Dunedin, and was a Manager with Price Waterhouse Peat in Ethiopia in the late 60s, marketing for IBM in Australia in the early 70s, and was Managing Director of Bowater Far East Ltd for the next 17 years.
The company’s interests during that time included merchant banking, agency trading, fast food restaurants, airport catering, paper packaging materials, and ready mix concrete.
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Noke Kiroyan
Noke Kiroyan is Managing Partner of Kiroyan Partners, a strategic consulting firm he established in 2006.
The company specialises in areas such as reputation building, stakeholder management, non-financial risk assessment and corporate social responsibility.
Noke is concurrently President Commissioner of PT Amstelco Indonesia Tbk, (oil & gas projects); Commissioner of PT Wana Hijau Nusantara, an affiliate of Macquarie Capital involved in Ecosystem Restoration Concessions; Commissioner of PT SoE Makmur Resources, a manganese mining company; Independent Commissioner of PT Asuransi CIGNA, and Director of PT Agincourt Resources which specialises in gold mining and exploration.
In the early years of his career, Noke has been with the Siemens Group in Indonesia as a management trainee and rose to become President Director; headed Indonesia’s SALIM group in Germany, Australia and the United States with its oleo chemicals operations, and was the country head of Rio Tinto Indonesia until the eventual sale of its joint venture with BP.
Noke graduated in Communication Science from Padjadjaran University in Bandung, Indonesia, and Liberal Arts from Syracuse University in the United States.
He holds a Diploma in Commerce & Accounting (Industriekaufmann) acquired in Nürnberg, Germany and a Post-graduate Diploma in Business Administration from the Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University in the United Kingdom.
