Meet our Board of Directors

Date of appointment as chairman: 11 May 2016

Date of first appointment as a director: 11 May 2016

Date of last re-election as a director: 21 July 2022

Board committee(s) served on:

• Board Sustainability Committee (Chairman)
• Finance and Investment Committee (Chairman)
• Compensation Committee (Member)
• Nominations and Corporate Governance Committee (Member)

Mr Simon Israel, 71, is a Director of Stewardship Asia Centre CLG Limited. He is also a member of the Global Leadership Council of Leapfrog Investments. Mr Israel is a former Chairman of Singapore Telecommunications Limited and Asia Pacific Breweries Limited and has previously served as a Director of Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited, CapitaLand Limited and Stewardship Asia Centre Pte Ltd. Mr Israel was also a member of the Governing Board of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Westpac's Asia Advisory Board.

Mr Israel was an Executive Director and President of Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited before retiring on 1 July 2011. Prior to that, he was Chairman, Asia Pacific of the Danone Group. Mr Israel also held various positions in Sara Lee Corporation before becoming President (Household & Personal Care), Asia Pacific.

Mr Israel was conferred Knight in the Legion of Honour by the French government in 2007 and awarded the Public Service Medal at the Singapore National Day Awards 2011.

Mr Israel holds a Diploma in Business Studies from The University of the South Pacific.

Date of first appointment as a director: 1 September 2021

Date of last re-election as a director: 21 July 2022

Board committee(s) served on: NIL

Mr Phang, 50, was appointed as Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO) of Singapore Post Limited (SingPost) on 1 September 2021 to lead SingPost in its transformation strategy to drive its next phase of growth. Mr Phang first joined SingPost in April 2019 as Chief Executive Officer for Postal Services and Singapore, which encompasses all SingPost’s core businesses in Singapore, including Post, Parcel, and Logistics. In that role, Mr Phang was responsible for leading the delivery network in Singapore, through a comprehensive and customer-centric suite of logistics, mail, and parcel solutions for our customers. He was also responsible for SingPost’s international postal relationships. Mr Phang has over 20 years of regional experience in the supply chain, logistics, industrial and manufacturing industries in Asia, having served in various senior leadership roles including CEO of ST Logistics.

Mr Phang holds a Master of Engineering (1st Class Hons) Aeronautic from the Imperial College, United Kingdom, and a Post Graduate Diploma (Distinction) in Flight Test Engineering from International Test Pilots School, United Kingdom. He has also attended the Advanced Management Programme at Harvard Business School, United States in 2014.

Date of first appointment as a director: 1 September 2018

Date of last re-election as a director: 21 July 2022

Board committee(s) served on:

• Audit Committee (Member)
• Board Risk and Technology Committee (Chairperson)

Ms Chu, 61, is a Senior Advisor of EDBI Pte Ltd (“EDBI”) and Founding Partner of August Global Partners Pte. Ltd., a multi-stage global investment firm partnering healthcare companies to shape the future of the industry.

She was formerly the Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) and Executive Director of EDBI, where she was responsible for developing and championing EDBI’s global direct investment strategies in high growth start-ups and late-stage companies, as well as fund investments in the sectors of Infocommunications, Deep Technologies and Healthcare and select key strategic manufacturing and services related industries.

Prior to EDBI, Ms Chu helmed senior positions at Economic Development Board and the Agency for Science, Technology & Research (A*STAR) where she was instrumental in developing the Biomedical Sciences Cluster as a new economic pillar for Singapore, nurturing private-public sector capabilities, shaping effective policies, strategies, and driving their successful execution. She was also the founding CEO of Bio*One Capital, a dedicated investment entity that catalysed investments in the sector for Singapore.

Ms Chu graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Biochemistry (Honours) Degree. She is also a graduate of the Advanced Management Programme from Harvard University, as well as the International Directors Programme from INSEAD.

Date of first appointment as a director: 10 October 2016

Date of last re-election as a director: 24 July 2024

Board committee(s) served on:

• Audit Committee (Chairperson)
• Nominations and Corporate Governance Committee (Chairperson)
• Compensation Committee (Member)

Mrs Fang, 74, is a director of Cromwell EREIT Management Pte. Ltd. She is the Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Singapore Business Federation and MediShield Life Council.

Mrs Fang was a director of Metro Holdings Limited till July 2023, a member of the Tote Board till May 2022, an advisor of Far East Organization Group till June 2021, a director of Banyan Tree Holdings Limited till April 2021, a member of the Singapore University of Technology and Design’s Board of Trustees till August 2019, a director of Singapore Telecommunications Limited till July 2015 and a director of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited till April 2014.

Mrs Fang also served as the Chairperson of Great Eastern Holdings Limited as well as Chairperson of its insurance subsidiaries until her retirement in April 2014. Prior to that, she was with Ernst & Young (“E&Y”) for 37 years where she last held the position of Chairperson of E&Y Singapore from 2002 until her retirement in March 2008.

Mrs Fang is a qualified Chartered Accountant and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants.

Date of first appointment as a director: 10 October 2016

Date of last re-election as a director: 24 July 2024

Board committee(s) served on:

• Board Sustainability Committee (Member)
• Finance and Investment Committee (Member)
• Nominations and Corporate Governance Committee (Member)

Ms Kong, 42, is currently the Asia General Counsel (Safety and Industrial, Transportation and Electronics and Enterprise Supply Chain) at 3M Innovation Singapore, serving as a senior leader in the execution of strategies and key priorities of 3M’s Transportation and Electronics Business Group in Asia. Ms Kong joined 3M in 2020 as the Asia General Counsel (Enterprise Operations).

Prior to that, Ms Kong was with leading international law firms Clifford Chance and Morgan Lewis Stamford, where she had more than a decade of cross-border transactional experience and had managed a wide range of corporate matters that include mergers and acquisitions, equity fund raising, corporate finance, and securities regulation. Chambers Asia-Pacific, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, Asialaw Leading Lawyers, Lawyer Monthly, and Acquisition International have noted and acknowledged Ms Kong’s impressive record of corporate transactions and she was named in 2014 by both Prestige Singapore and the Singapore Business Review as one of the most influential lawyers aged 40 and under.

Ms Kong is a trustee on the board of Cambridge Assessment Singapore and a fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust. She was invited to be an honorary member of the Commercial Bar Association of London and also sat on the government-appointed working committee to review the future of legal services in Singapore. She writes regularly on corporate law issues for a number of legal journals.

Ms Kong holds a Double First in Law from Cambridge University.

Date of first appointment as a director: 1 April 2017

Date of last re-election as a director: 24 July 2024

Board committee(s) served on:

• Finance and Investment Committee (Member)

Ms Lim, 52, is currently the Group Chief Corporate Officer of Singapore Telecommunications Limited. She assumed this role on 1 April 2021 and is responsible for the Singtel Group’s corporate functions including finance shared services and transformation office, group property, legal, mergers and acquisitions, procurement, and risk management.

Ms Lim joined Singtel in 2012 as Vice President, Group Strategic Investment and was appointed Deputy Group Chief Financial Officer in October 2014 and Group Chief Financial Officer in April 2015.

Before joining Singtel, Ms Lim was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at SMRT Corporation Ltd. She also worked at Singapore Power for 10 years in various corporate planning, investments and finance roles, the last of which was Head and Vice President (Financial Planning and Analysis). She started her career with PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Ms Lim holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business (formerly known as University of Chicago Graduate School of Business) and a Bachelor of Accountancy from Nanyang Technological University. She is a Chartered Accountant (Singapore) of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants.

Date of first appointment as a director: 10 October 2016

Date of last re-election as a director: 19 July 2023

Board committee(s) served on:

• Compensation Committee (Chairman)
• Audit Committee (Member)
• Board Risk and Technology Committee (Member)

Mr Tan, 72, serves as a director on the boards of two other listed companies namely CapitaLand Ascott Trust, a stapled group managed by CapitaLand Ascott Trust Management Limited (as manager of CapitaLand Ascott Real Estate Investment Trust) and CapitaLand Ascott Business Trust Management Pte. Ltd. (as trustee -manager of CapitaLand Ascott Business Trust) where he is the Chairman of the boards of both the managers and SBS Transit Ltd where he is also the Chairman of the board .

He is also the Chairman of Jurong Engineering Limited and Sentosa Development Corporation. In addition, he is a member of the board of the Ong Teng Cheong Labour Leadership Institute and serves as a member of Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Corporate Governance Advisory Committee and Securities Industry Council, and the NTUC Club Management Council.

His past directorships in listed companies and major appointments include CapitaMalls Asia Limited, Asia Pacific Breweries Limited, SingEx Holdings Pte Ltd, SMRT Corporation Ltd, SMRT Trains Ltd, Sembcorp Marine Ltd, the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore and the Institute of Technical Education.

Mr Tan is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and the Singapore Institute of Directors.

Date of first appointment as a director: 31 October 2023

Date of last re-election as a director : 24 July 2024

Board committee(s) served on:

• Audit Committee (Member)
• Nominations and Corporate Governance Committee (Member)
• Board Risk and Technology Committee (Member)

Mr Gan Chee Yen, 65, is the Chairman of V3 Capital Investments Pte. Ltd. He also serves on the Board of Surbana Jurong Private Limited, ICHX Tech Pte. Ltd., Heliconia Capital Management Pte. Ltd. and Nomura Singapore Limited.

He was previously the Co-President and Executive Director of Pacific International Lines (Private) Limited, where he was a member of the leadership team to execute the successful turnaround of the company’s business, before he retired in August 2022. Prior to that, he was the CEO and Executive Director of Fullerton Financial Holdings (International) Pte. Ltd. (‘FFH’). He was Chairman or Board Member of several of its overseas portfolio companies, including being a Board Commissioner of Bank Danamon Indonesia from 2003 to 2019. Prior to FFH, he was Co-Chief Investment Officer, Senior Managing Director and Head of China Market at Temasek International Pte. Ltd. He joined Temasek in May 2003 as Chief Financial Officer and progressed to serve in various investments roles as a member of the senior management team. The investment clusters he led included the Financial Industry portfolio and the Transportation and Logistics portfolio, where he anchored several successful investments, before he took on the role of Co-Chief Investment Officer.

Mr Gan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accountancy from the National University of Singapore and is a Chartered Accountant (Singapore) of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants. He also attended the Harvard Business School’s Program for Management Development in September 2001.

Date of first appointment as a director: 1 January 2024

Date of last re-election as a director : 24 July 2024

Board committee(s) served on:

• Finance and Investment Committee (Member)
• Compensation Committee (Member)
• Board Sustainability Committee (Member)

Ms Yasmin Binti Aladad Khan, 66, started her career in JP Morgan Chase in Malaysia and subsequently joined General Electric as Director, Business Development in Malaysia, and Thailand. She then joined DHL Express Malaysia as country manager and later transferred to Singapore as country manager. She was then promoted to Area Director of Southeast Asia and South Asia with her final posting in DHL before her retirement, as Head of Commercial, Asia Pacific excluding China. Yasmin was also a member of the Advisory Board of Singapore Management University and an independent non-executive director of Digi Telecommunications in Malaysia after 9 years in the role. She holds a Master’s in Business Administration from Aston University.