Board of Directors & Senior Management

Mr. Lee Yong Soon was appointed to the Board as Lead Independent Non-Executive Director on 27 April 2018 and was last re-elected as Director on 26 November 2018. Mr. Lee Yong Soon has more than 45 years of experience in the finance industry, and started his career in September 1968 with the Inchcape Group, where he was responsible for accounting, finance and administrative matters. He left in 1981 to join the Haw Par Group, where he assumed the role of financial controller for its subsidiary corporations. After serving in the Haw Par Group for four years, Mr. Lee Yong Soon joined the Petrodril group as their financial controller from February 1986 to May 1997. After his stint atthe Petrodril group, he joined Keppel Integrated Engineering Ltd as its financial controller from July 1997 to August 1999, and from the period of August 1999 to December 2014, Mr. Lee Yong Soon served as the financial controller of Keppel FELS Ltd where he was involved in the accounting, finance, management of operations and administrative functions of the company and several subsidiary corporations within the Keppel group. He was also involved in the company’s SGX-ST compliance matters. Mr. Lee Yong Soon served as an Independent Non-Executive Director of Wong Fong Industries Ltd, a company listed on the Catalist, and was also the Chairman of its remuneration committee, a member of the audit and nomination committees from 28 June 2016 up to his retirement on 29 April 2019. Save for the aforementioned, Mr. Lee Yong Soon did not hold any directorship in any other listed company as at the date of Annual Report and for the last three years.

Mr. Lee Yong Soon obtained his Diploma in Management Studies from the Singapore Institute of Management in 1977 and subsequently his degree in Accountancy from the Association of International Accountants of the United Kingdom in 1981. He is currently a Fellow of the Association of International Accountants of the United Kingdom, and an Associate and Chartered Secretary of The Chartered Governance Institute of Australia. He is also a member of the Singapore Institute of Directors.