Directors' Profile - Food Empire Holdings Limited

Food Empire Holdings Limited Annual Report 2008 THE EMPIRE 09
Mr Lew Syn Pau
He was appointed as Independent
Director of the Company in April 2000.
He is a member of the Audit Committee.
He is currently Chairman of an
international executive search
consultancy, Stanbridge International Pte
Ltd and Director of Capital Connections
Pte Ltd, a financial advisory consultancy
firm. He is also a Director of many listed
companies with businesses ranging from
food, logistics, property to engineering
in Singapore. He was previously
Managing Director of NTUC Comfort
and General Manager and Senior Country
Officer of Credit Agricole Indosuez.
He was the President of the Singapore
Manufacturers Federation between 2002
and 2006. He has been a Member of the
Singapore Parliament from 1988 to 2001
and was Chairman of the Government
Parliamentary Committee for National
Development. A Singapore Government
scholar, Mr Lew also holds a Masters
Degree in Engineering from the
University of Cambridge, UK and a
Masters Degree in Business
Administration from Stanford
University, USA.
Mr Ong Kian Min
He was appointed as an Independent
Director in 8th April 2000 and last reappointed
in 20th April 2006. He is
Chairman of the Audit Committee and
is also a member of the Remuneration
and Nominating Committees. Mr Ong
was called to the Bar of England and
Wales in 1988 and to the Singapore
Bar the following year. In addition to
practising as a consultant with Drew &
Napier LLC, a leading Singapore law
firm, he is a senior adviser of Alpha
Advisory Pte Ltd (a financial and
corporate advisory firm) and an
executive director of Katana Asset
Management Pte Ltd. In his 19 years’
of legal practice, he focused on
corporate and commercial law such as
mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures,
restructuring and corporate finance.
Mr Ong also serves as an independent
director and chairs most of the audit
committees of several other SGX-ST
listed companies. Mr Ong was awarded
the President’s Scholarship and Police
Force Scholarship in 1979. He holds a
Bachelor of Laws (Honours) external
degree from the University of London
and a Bachelor of Science (Honours)
Degree from the Imperial College of
Science and Technology in England.
Mr Ong has been a Member of Parliament
of Singapore since January 1997, and
serves as Deputy Chairman of the
Government Parliamentary Committee
(GPC) for Transport.
Mr Boon Yoon Chiang
He was appointed as Independent
Director of the Company in December
2005. He is the Chairman/Managing
Director of Jardine Matheson (Singapore)
Ltd and Deputy Chairman of Cycle &
Carriage Limited. In addition to the
directorships of the various Jardine Group
companies, he also serves on the Boards
of other listed and public companies,
including MNCs. He is the Honorary
Secretary of the Singapore National
Employers’ Federation, and a board
member of the Singapore International
Chamber of Commerce. He represents
the Singapore Business Federation on
the Council of ASEAN Chambers of
Commerce and Industry (ASEAN-CCI).