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Lee Soo Hoon, Phillip
Independent Non-Executive Director
Mr Lee is the Managing Director of
Phillip Lee Management Consultants
Pte Ltd, a company of which he
is the major shareholder. He also
serves as an Independent Director
of a number of companies listed on
the Singapore Stock Exchange and
on the Malaysian Stock Exchange
including IPC Corporation Ltd, CSE
Global Limited and G K Goh Holdings
Ltd. Prior to this, he was a Partner at
Ernst & Young from 1978 to 1997.
Mr Lee’s areas of experience included
audit, investigations, reorganisations,
valuations and liquidations.
Mr Lee is a Fellow of the Institute of
Chartered Accountants in England and
Wales, also a Fellow of the Institute of
Singapore Chartered Accountants. He
is a member of the Malaysian Institute
of Certified Public Accountants, the
Malaysian Institute of Accountants and
the Institute of Directors.
He has received awards for his
community work, including the UK
Order of St John in 1998, the Singapore
PublicMedal in 1998 and the Singapore
Public Service Star in 2007.
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Douglas Chew
Independent Non-Executive Director
Mr Douglas Chew is currently a board
member of the board of governors
of SymAsia Singapore Fund, part of
SymAsia Foundation Ltd (SymAsia).
SymAsia is an umbrella philanthropic
foundation which is a wholly owned
subsidiary of Credit Suisse. He is also
a member of the Investment Review
Committee of SymAsia.
He has served from January 2010
to February 2012 as the Regional
Manager for the Asia-Pacific Regional
Office of Raiffeisen Bank International
AG (formely known as RZB-Austria) with
responsibilities for risk management,
financial controlling, compliance,
audit and human resources. He was
appointed to the board of Bowsprit
Capital Corporation Ltd (Manager of
First REIT) as an Alternate Director from
October 2009 to February 2012.
With extensive experience in general
management, business strategies and
risk management stretching back as far
as 1977, he kick started his career in
1977 as a Credit Officer in ABN Bank,
where he looked into credit analysis
and evaluation. Thereafter, Mr Chew
was an Account Manager at the Bank of
Montreal from 1979 to 1984, where he
was responsible for the development
and maintenance of a sound and
profitable loan portfolio. From 1984
onwards, Mr Chew served as aManager
of the Michigan-based Chemical Bank
in Singapore where he was responsible
for business development of corporate
and trade businesses.
In 1988, he was appointed as the
Assistant General Manager of Banque
Worms where he oversaw the business
strategy and management of risks in
the Singapore Branch. He served as
the General Manager of RZB-Austria
Singapore Branch and was involved in
the bank’s general management from
1997 to 2005.
Mr Chew holds a degree in Bachelor
of Business Administration from the
National University of Singapore.
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