MR GOH CHUNG MENG
Independent Director
Mr Goh Chung Meng is an Independent Director of our Group.
He was appointed to our Board in 2001. After graduating from
the National University of Singapore (Business School), Mr Goh
began his career in 1982 with the management consulting
arm of Deloitte & Touche in Singapore solving financial and
management problems for USA and European clients operating
in Southeast Asia. During the period from 1985 to 1990,
Mr Goh worked as a senior consultant for Deloitte & Touche
Management Consultants where he was involved in a wide
variety of consulting assignments for MNC clients including a
two-year stint helping to start up an insolvency unit during the
1985 recession.
After the economic recovery in 1987, Mr Goh refocused his
consultancy assignments on corporate finance work that
eventually led to mergers and acquisitions and significant equity
restructuring exercises. In 1990, he was headhunted by executive
search firm, Korn/Ferry, to join Carr Indosuez Asia (Merchant
Banking unit of Credit Agricole and formerly known as Banque
Indosuez). Mr Goh was subsequently invited in 1995 by the
merchant bank’s parent company, SUEZ, to join its newly created
US$200 million Asian Venture Capital Fund known as Suez Asia
Holdings. He was Director, Investments, of the Fund focusing on
Southeast Asia and China private equity investments.
Mr Goh is currently a director (alternate) of TauRx
Pharmaceuticals Ltd (TauRx), the holding company of a group
of biomedical science companies currently conducting FDA
(US)/EMA (EU) clinical trials covering over 1,900 patients in
more than 20 countries in three global Phase 3 clinical trials for
Alzheimer’s disease and Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) in the
commercialization phase of an experimental new drug, LMTX,
which is a tau aggregation inhibitor. Mr Goh has been a pioneer
board member of the TauRx Group since the Group’s founding
in 2002.
Mr Goh is also a director of ACE Investment Management Pte
Ltd, a boutique private equity investment company. Mr Goh
was formerly a Qualified Business Angel of the National Science
and Technology Board in 2001 and he had served as a Panel
Member (2001 to 2008) of a Singapore government innovation
and research fund, The Enterprise Challenge Unit (TEC), PS21
Office, Public Service Division, Prime Minister’s Office.
Current Directorships in Other Listed Companies
Organisation/Company
Title
NIL
Principal Commitments
Organisation/Company
Title
TauRx Pharmaceuticals Ltd Director
ACE Investment
Management Pte Ltd
Director
Directorships in Other Listed Companies in the
past 3 years
Organisation/Company
Title
NIL
MR MICHAEL GRENVILLE GRAY
Independent Director
Mr Michael Grenville Gray is an Independent Director of our
Group. He was appointed to the Board on 30 October 2006.
Prior to his retirement at the end of 2004, Mr Gray was a
partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers, Singapore and before
that Territorial Senior Partner for PricewaterhouseCoopers
Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos). He has over 30
years of experience in professional practice, most of which
has been in Southeast Asia.
Mr Gray spent ten years in the shipping industry before
training as a Chartered Accountant with Coopers & Lybrand
in the United Kingdom. He is a Singapore citizen and has
held a number of positions in Statutory Boards, grassroots
organisations and Voluntary Welfare Organisations.
Mr Gray was admitted as a member to the Institute of
Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (FCA) in 1976.
Apart from being a FCA, Mr Gray has a Bachelor of Science
Degree in Maritime Studies from the University of Plymouth,
United Kingdom, and a Masters of Arts in South East Asian
Studies from the National University of Singapore. He was
also awarded an Honorary Doctor of Business from the
University of Newcastle, Australia. He is a Fellow of the
Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, a Fellow of
the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants and a
Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Directors.
Current Directorships in Other Listed Companies
Organisation/Company
Title
Ascendas Property Fund
Trustee Pte Ltd
Director/Chairman of
Audit Committee
FSL Trust Management
Pte. Ltd.
Director/Chairman of
Audit Committee
GSH Corporation Limited Director/Chairman of
Audit Committee
VinaCapital Vietnam
Opportunity Fund
Director/Chairman of
Audit Committee
Principal Commitments
Organisation/Company
Title
Asian Cruising Pte Ltd
Director/Shareholder
Raffles Marina Holdings Ltd Director
TGY Property Investments
Pte Ltd
Director/Shareholder
The Masonic Hall Board Ltd Director
Tras Street Property
Investment
Director/Shareholder
UON Singapore Pte Ltd
Director
PAVE
President
Singapore Grand Prix
Secretary to the Event
Directorships in Other Listed Companies in the
past 3 years
Organisation/Company
Title
Grand Banks Yachts Limited Director
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