ANNUAL REPORT 2015
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Board of Directors
Mrs. Christina Kong Chwee Huan
is our Executive Director and was appointed to our
Board on 22 October 2015. She oversees our Group’s human resource and training and
development divisions, a role which she has undertaken since joining our Group as Manager
of Human Resource and Corporate Affairs in 2008. She also supervises our Group’s various
training and development programs, strategising to ensure our Group’s human resource
requirements are met, and manages the employee compensation, benefits and human
resource issues of our Group. Mrs. Kong has been, and continues to be, instrumental in
the continued refinement and development of our Group’s human resource and training
and development divisions. Our Group was accredited by both the Singapore Workforce
Development Agency and Singapore’s Institute of Technical Education as an approved
training organisation in 2008. Mrs. Kong began her career as a purchasing executive
with our Group from 1993 to 1994. Between 1995 and 2000, she provided educational
services, before joining the Ministry of Education as a teacher from 2001 to 2007.
Mrs. Kong is currently a member of the 5S Council of the Restaurant Association of
Singapore and the Tripartite Committee for Low-wage Workers and Inclusive Growth, an
initiative of the MOM. She is also a Business Excellence Assessor with SPRING Singapore.
Mrs. Kong obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Education from the Nanyang Technological
University in 2004 and graduated with a Bachelor of Science from the University of
Birmingham (UK) in 1991. She also obtained a Human Resource Graduate Certification
from the Singapore Management University in 2014.
Mr. Tan Cher Liang
was appointed our Lead Independent Director on 22 October 2015.
He has more than 40 years of experience in corporate audits, general management and
business advisory. In May 2000, he co-founded Boardroom Limited, a company listed
on the Main Board of the SGX-ST. He was the Managing/ Finance Director of Boardroom
Limited from 2000 to 2013, and is currently an Advisor to Boardroom Limited. He was also
the Managing Director of Boardroom Business Solutions Pte. Ltd and Boardroom Corporate
& Advisory Services Pte. Ltd., from 1992 to 2013 and 1994 to 2013 respectively. Prior to
1992, he worked with Ernst & Young Singapore and its affiliates, since September 1973.
Mr. Tan currently serves as an Independent Director of Vibrant Group Limited, Ezra Holdings
Limited and Kingsmen Creatives Ltd, which are companies listed on the Main Board of the
SGX-ST, as well as Wilton Resources Corporation Limited, which is listed on the Catalist
of the SGX-ST. He holds directorships in various charitable organisations such as the D.S.
Lee Foundation and Etonhouse Community Fund Limited, and is also a Trustee of Kwan Im
Thong Hood Cho Temple. Mr. Tan was awarded the Public Service Medal in 1996.
Mr. Tan was a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants of the United
Kingdom from 1982 to 2014, and a member of the Institute of Singapore Chartered
Accountants from 1984 to 2014.
