BOARD MEMBERS

Timothy Chia Chee Ming

Chairman

Mr Timothy Chia was appointed Chairman on 1 May 2010.

Mr Chia was instrumental in the founding of Hup Soon Global and has been involved in the daily operations ever since.  Prior to Hup Soon, Mr Chia was a director of PAMA Group Inc (“PAMA”) from 1986 to 2004 where he was responsible for private equity investments and from 1995 to 2004, he was President of PAMA. Mr Chia also previously served as Vice President of the Investment Department of American International Assurance Company Limited from 1982 to 1986 and as President of Unithai Oxide Company Ltd from 1980 to 1981. In 2009, Mr Chia was appointed Chairman – Asia for UBS Investment Bank.

Mr Chia serves on the board of several private and public-listed companies, including Banyan Tree Holdings Ltd, Fraser and Neave Ltd, SP Power Grid Limited, Singapore Post Limited and SPI (Australia) Assets Pty Ltd. Amongst his past appointments, Mr Chia was director of KorAm Bank Co., Ltd (Korea), Meritz Securities Co., Ltd (Korea), Singapore Power Ltd, Macquarie Pacific Star Prime REIT Management Ltd, The Hour Glass Ltd, Frasers Centerpoint Ltd and FJ Benjamin Holdings Ltd. Since January 2004, Mr Chia was named a Trustee of the Singapore Management University.

Mr Chia holds a Bachelor of Science cum laude degree, majoring in Management, from the Fairleigh Dickinson University, United States of America.

Philip Eng Heng Nee

Executive Deputy Chairman

Mr Philip Eng was appointed Executive Deputy Chairman on 1 May 2010.

Mr Eng joined the Board of Directors of Hup Soon Global Corporation Limited on 26 November 2009.  He is also currently Deputy Chairman of MCL Land Limited, an appointment he has held since 1 March 2005.  Mr Eng began his career in Singapore with Price Waterhouse Singapore from 1972 to 1976. He was the Finance Director of Rank O’Connors from 1976 to 1980 and Company Secretary of Rheem Hume Industries from 1980 to 1982.  He joined Jardine Cycle & Carriage Limited in 1982 and retired as Group Managing Director in 2005. Mr Eng currently served on the Boards of various public listed companies in Singapore and non-public boards such as NTUC Income and Singapore Health Services Pte Ltd.  He is also Singapore’s Non-Resident Ambassador to Greece and High Commissioner to Cyprus.

Mr Eng graduated from the University of New South Wales with a Bachelor of Commerce in Accountancy and is an Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia.

Timothy Yong Wei Hsien

Executive Director/ Group COO

As the Group Chief Operating Officer, Mr Yong is primarily responsible for the formation and implementation of the Group’s strategies.  Prior to the incorporation of Hup Soon Global Pte Ltd in 2005, Mr Yong spent eight years with the PAMA Group. Initially founded as the Asian investment and asset management arm of the Prudential Insurance Company of America, PAMA was one of the oldest and largest private equity fund managers in Asia. While at PAMA, Mr Yong's responsibilities included the sourcing, structuring, acquisition and divestment of investment opportunities.

Prior to PAMA, Mr Yong spent two and a half years as a Research Analyst with SBCI & Associates, then the stock broking arm of the Swiss Bank Corporation (which subsequently merged with the Union Bank of Switzerland to form UBS).  Mr Yong completed his tertiary education in England, graduating with a BSc (Hons) degree in Electronics Engineering and Physics from Loughborough University of Technology and a MBA from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine.

Yap Chee Keong

Independent Director/Chairman of the Audit Committee

Mr Yap Chee Keong was appointed an Independent Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee on 1 May 2010.

Mr Yap is the Lead Independent Director of The Straits Trading Limited and an independent non-executive director of CapitaMalls Asia Limited. Mr Yap is also the chairman of the audit committee of these companies. He is also an independent non-executive director of Tiger Airways Holdings Ltd and the chairman of its remuneration committee. In addition, he serves as a non-executive director of SPI (Australia) Assets Pty Ltd and chairman of Singapore District Cooling Pte Ltd. Mr Yap previously served as an adviser to Singapore Power Limited (“SP”) and is presently an adviser to Entropy Ventures Limited. Mr Yap was previously the chief financial officer of the Singapore Power Group where he also sat on the boards of certain SP subsidiaries including SPI Management Services Pty Ltd, the manager of SP AusNet which is dual listed on the Australian Stock Exchange and the SGX-ST. Prior to SP, Mr Yap worked as the chief financial officer and in other senior management roles in several multinational and listed companies. Mr Yap has 25 years of experience in senior management, strategic planning, merger & acquisitions, corporate finance, treasury, financial management and risk management functions in diverse industries.

Mr Yap holds a Bachelor of Accountancy from the National University of Singapore and is a Fellow of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore and CPA Australia.

Professor Tan Chin Tiong

Independent Director

Prof Tan is the Deputy President of Singapore Management University. He is a founding member of SMU and was its Provost from 1999 to 2008. Prof Tan is active in management development and consulting, and had worked with many corporations around the globe. He is on the Board of Citibank Singapore Ltd, and several publicly listed companies like Communication Design International Ltd, HMI Ltd, Hersing Corporation Ltd, and Superior Multi-Packaging Ltd. He is the Past President and Chairman of Senate of the Marketing Institute of Singapore.

Prof Tan is a leading expert in marketing. He co-authored with Prof Philip Kotler the popular Marketing Management: An Asian Perspective, and several other titles. He is active with many government agencies and has served on the committees of various government bodies over the years.

Prof Tan received his PhD in Business from the Pennsylvania State University