Our Board of Directors is entrusted with the responsibility for the overall management of our Group. The Board members are:
Dr Ho Tat Kin
Executive Chairman
Appointed to the Board on 26 June 2002

Dr Ho Tat Kin is a management consultant, specialising in the education business, digital media technology and business ventures. He brings with him more than 29 years of experience in management and information technology. Over the years, Dr Ho has served as Director of various companies listed on the main boards of Singapore and Hong Kong. At present, he is Executive Chairman of Rowsley Ltd., a corporation listed on the main board of the Singapore Exchange. He was Non-Executive Director of Eagle Brand Holdings Ltd, also listed on the main board of the Singapore Exchange, until his resignation with effect from 16 August 2007. He is also serving as Director in several other private limited companies in Singapore.
Dr Ho has had a successful career in the public sector, having served in the Ministry of Education, Singapore Economic Development Board and finally leading the Japan-Singapore Institution of Software Technology as its Director until 1997, when he left to join the private sector. He was an elected Member of Parliament from 1984 to 2001 and was concurrently a Town Council Chairman from 1988 to 1999. Dr Ho was the Chairman of the Japan-Singapore Parliamentary Friendship Group from 1997 to 2001.
Dr Ho Tat Kin holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) from the University of Singapore, a Japan International Co-operation Agency (Postgraduate) Certificate (Teacher on Computer Science) completed at Tokyo University, a Master of Science (Technological Economics) and a Doctor of Philosophy (Management Science) from the University of Stirling, Scotland.
Mr Quek Kai Hoo
Executive Director
Appointed to the Board on 1 August 2010

Mr Quek Kai Hoo has extensive experience in private equity, mergers & acquisition ("M&A") and operations management. He evaluated and carried out direct investments and fund-of-fund investments with Rothschild Ventures, Temasek Holdings, HRJ Capital and Kestrel Capital Partners. While with these investment companies, he recommended and invested significant investment amounts into companies and funds.
He also led the M&A activities and was a General Manager at Unisteel Technology Ltd, a company that was listed on Singapore Exchange and later bought out by private equity firm KKR. The M&A activities involve the evaluation and purchase into three industrial companies in Singapore and China, and the post-acquisition integration of these companies. While at Unisteel, he was the General Manager of a surface treatment subsidiary company and later on a optical solutions subsidiary company, and implemented operational improvements and restructuring to enhance the revenues and profits for these companies.
Besides working in Singapore, Mr Quek also has China-related experience first in Unisteel where he led the acquisition into a Wuxi-based surface treatment business and a Suzhou-based metal stamping business, and then as the General Manager of Valen Technologies overseeing its Suzhou operations. He was also based in Shanghai for two years as the Chief Rep of HRJ Capital’s representative office there. He managed the firm’s fund investment program there and initiated its co-investment program in China, resulting in the investment into a solar module company, a camera module company and a outdoor advertising company.
Mr Quek started his career with Economic Development Board with a EDB-Glaxo scholarship. He graduated from University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering. Mr Quek is a CFA charterholder.
Dr Lam Lee G
Lead Independent Director
Chairman, Audit Committee
Appointed to the Board on 26 June 2002

Dr Lam Lee G, aged 50, has been an Independent Director of the Company since 26 June 2002. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Sciences, a Master of Science in Systems Science and a Master of Business Administration, all from the University of Ottawa in Canada, a Post-graduate Diploma in Public Administration from Carleton University in Canada, a Post-graduate Diploma in English and Hong Kong Law and a Bachelor of Law (Hons) from Manchester Metropolitan University in the U.K., a PCLL in law (and has completed the Bar Course) from the City University of Hong Kong, a LLM in law from the University of Wolverhampton in the U.K. and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Hong Kong. Dr Lam has over 28 years of multinational general management, strategy consulting, corporate governance, investment banking, and direct investment experience in the telecommunications, media and technology (TMT), retail, property and financial services sector. He is Chairman of Monte Jade Science and Technology Association of Hong Kong, and serves as an independent or nonexecutive director of several publicly-listed companies in the Asia Pacific region. Having served as a Part-time Member of the Central Policy Unit of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region for two terms, Dr Lam is a Member of the Jilin Province Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Committee (CPPCC), a Member of the Hong Kong Institute of Bankers, a Board Member of the East-West Center Foundation, a Member of the Young Presidents' Organization, a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Directors and a Member of its Corporate Governance Committee, a Member of the General Committee and the Corporate Governance Committee of the Chamber of Hong Kong Listed Companies, and a Visiting Professor at the School of Economics & Management of Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Mr Rajasingam M Rajagopal
Independent Director
Chairman, Nominating Committee
Appointed to the Board on 24 May 2003

Mr Rajasingam M Rajagopal was the past Senior Director of Freshfields Drew & Napier Pte Ltd with an accomplished career as a leading lawyer who had argued in some of the most landmark cases in Singapore. He was the Honorary Legal Advisor of the British High Commission for more than 11 years. He is a Barrister-atlaw at the Middle Temple (London) and holds a Master of Laws (LLM) degree in Advanced Litigation.
After retiring from the legal profession, Mr Rajasingam continues to advise companies and individuals on strategic developments within the region.
Mr Rajasingam is on the board of St James Holdings Limited, a company listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange and is the President Director of P.T. Baligreat Jaya Bungalows, owner of Bali Holiday Resort in Seminyak, Bali. He has been appointed to the committee of the Medifund of the KK Women and Children Hospital.
Mr Rajasingam M Rajagopal was awarded the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 2004.
Ms Claire Lee Suk Leng
Independent Director
Chairman, Remuneration Committee
Appointed to the Board on 24 May 2003
Ms Claire Lee Suk Leng has over 8 years of experience in the areas of corporate finance and advisory, and private wealth management.
Ms Claire Lee started her career with the merchantbanking arm of the Union Bank of Switzerland, UBS (East Asia) Ltd and later joined HSBC Investment Bank plc and Salomon Smith Barney (Singapore) Pte Ltd. She has also served as a director of Kestrel Capital Partners (M) Sdn Bhd, a fund management company based in Malaysia.
Ms Claire Lee Suk Leng holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (Distinction) in Finance from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Mr Yoon Soon Seng
Independent Director
Appointed to the Board on 11 August 2010

Mr Chris Yoon Soon Seng is presently the Managing Director of the Secura Group of companies in Singapore.
Mr Yoon brings with him 30 years of management experience, serving various industries in Singapore in planning, manufacturing and marketing functions of commercial products.
Mr Yoon has held senior management positions from which he acquired experience in strategic planning, corporate management, business development and now specializes in fraud and risk management.
Graduated from University of Wales, Institute of Science and Technology with a Bachelor of Engineering degree, he moved on to obtain a Master of Engineering in Material Science with the same university. He later did his post-graduate in Master of Business Administration with University of Warwick, United Kingdom.
In 1980, he received the Top Student award in the United Kingdom under The John Burbidge Industrial prize for his undergraduate work in Control Engineering.