BOARD OF
DIRECTORS
CHIA CHEE MING TIMOTHY, 66
Bachelor of Science cum laude, majoring in Management
Independent and Non-Executive Director
Lead Independent Director
First appointed: 27 February 2015
Last re-elected: 30 April 2015
Mr Chia Chee Ming, Timothy was appointed as an Independent
and Non-Executive Director and Lead Independent Director of
the Company on 27 February 2015.
Mr Chia is Chairman of Hup Soon Global Corporation Private
Limited as well as Chairman – Asia for Coutts & Co Ltd, the
private banking arm of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group.
He sits on the boards of several other private and public
companies, including Banyan Tree Holdings Ltd, Fraser and
Neave Limited, Singapore Power Limited, Vertex Venture
Holdings Ltd, Ceylon Guardian Investment Trust PLC and
Ceylon Investment PLC. He is a Member of the Board of
Trustees of the Singapore Management University, an Advisory
Council Member of the ASEAN Business Club and a Member of
the Advisory Board of the Asian Civilisations Museum.
From 1986 to 2004, he was a director of PAMA Group where
he was responsible for private equity investments and served
as president from 1995 to 2004. He was previously a director
of SP PowerAssets Limited, PowerGas Limited, InnoTek Limited,
and a senior advisor to EQT Funds Management Ltd.
Mr Chia graduated with a cum laude in Management from
Farleigh Dickinson University in the United States of America.
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