Professor Dato’ Dr. Adeeba binti Kamarulzaman was appointed to the Board on 16 January 2019 as our Independent Non-Executive Director. She is a member of the Audit Committee and Risk Management Committee. On 29 November 2021, she was appointed as a member of the Nomination Committee. On 29 August 2022, she was appointed as a member of the Remuneration Committee and re-designated as Chairwoman of the Nomination Committee.

She graduated from Monash University in 1987 and trained in internal medicine and infectious diseases at the Monash Medical Centre and Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. She is presently the President and Pro Vice Chancellor of Monash University Malaysia having previously been the Dean of Medicine at Universiti Malaya from 2011 to 2019. She is the Chairperson of the Malaysian AIDS Foundation and a former President of the International AIDS Society.

She holds numerous other positions in international bodies including as member of the WHO Science Council and Advisory Group of UNAIDS and is a Commissioner of the Global Commission on Drug Policy.

She has played a critical role in the national response to the COVID-19 pandemic through her involvement as Chair of the UMMC COVID-19 Taskforce and as Advisor to various state governments.

Her achievements have been recognised through several national and international awards including the Merdeka Award and a Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) from her alma mater, Monash University. The particulars of her shareholdings are set out on page 144 of this Annual Report.

Chew Fook Aun was appointed to the Board on 17 April 2023 as our Independent Non-Executive Director. On 28 August 2023, he was appointed a member of the Risk Management Committee, the Remuneration Committee, and Alternate Chairman of the Nomination Committee. He also served as Chairman of the Employee Share Option Scheme Committee, a sub-committee under the Remuneration Committee. He was a member of the Audit Committee before being redesignated as Chairman on 2 January 2025.

Chew Fook Aun has over 30 years of experience in accounting, auditing and finance in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong. He graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science of the University of London with a Bachelor of Science (Economics) Degree. He is a certified public accountant, a Fellow Member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (HKICPA) and The Hong Kong Institute of Directors (HKIoD).

He is the Deputy Chairman and Executive Director (until 1 June 2023) of the Lai Sun Group of companies which is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. With effect from 2 June 2023, he was re-designated as the Deputy Chairman and Non-Executive Director of Lai Sun Garment (International) Ltd, Lai Sun Development Company Ltd and Lai Fung Holdings Ltd as announced to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. He has fully retired from all positions at the Lai Sun group of companies from 1 October 2023.

Prior to joining the Lai Sun Group, he was an executive director and the group chief financial officer of Esprit Holdings Limited, an executive director and the chief financial officer of The Link REIT. He was also the chief financial officer of Kerry Properties Limited, a director of corporate finance for Kerry Holdings Limited and an executive director of Kyard Limited in charge of the property portfolio of a private family office.

He was a council member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants and its vice president in 2010. He was also a Council member of the Financial Reporting Council (“FRC”), a member of the Independent Audit Oversight Reform Committee and a member of the Investigation and Compliance Committee of the FRC. He was a member of the Advisory Committee of the Securities and Futures Commission, the Citizens Advisory Committee on Community Relations of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (“ICAC”), the Corruption Prevention Advisory Committee of the ICAC and the Operations Review Committee of the ICAC. He was also a member of the Standing Committee on Company Law Reform of the Companies Registry.

He is presently a member of the Hong Kong Judiciary Barristers Disciplinary Tribunal Panel. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Hong Kong Sports Institute Limited (HKSI) and its current Vice Chairman. He is also a member of the Board of the Directors of The Asian Youth Orchestra and a Council Member of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He was appointed as a board member of the Securities & Futures Commission in Hong Kong on 1 January 2023.

Kung Chin Woon (Pamela) was appointed as our Independent Non-Executive Director on 2 January 2025. On the same date, she was appointed as Chairwoman of the Nomination Committee and as a member of the Remuneration Committee, Risk Committee, and Audit Committee. She holds a LL.B (Honours) degree from University of Leicester, United Kingdom and obtained the Certificate in Legal Practice in 1994. She was admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in 1995 and is a member of the Bar Council Malaysia.

Ms. Kung commenced her career as an Advocate and Solicitor at Messrs. Raja Eleena Siew Ang & Tan in 1995. Subsequently, she moved on to practise law at a number of mid-sized legal firms in Kuala Lumpur before joining Messrs. Zaid Ibrahim & Co. in 2000 and became a partner there in 2003. She then joined Messrs. Adnan Sundra & Low as a partner in 2007. Since February 2011, she has been a partner of Messrs. Shearn Delamore & Co. and is a member of their management committee since 2019. She has also served on the board of World Law Group, a global network of leading independent law firms, as the regional director for the Asia Pacific region from 2020 to 2022. Her legal practice portfolio covers a broad range of banking and debt capital markets across a diverse spectrum of corporates and institutions. She advises on loans and financing facilities, Islamic banking as well as issuances of bonds, debt instruments and Sukuk. She represents lenders, borrowers, guarantors and financial advisers in domestic as well as cross-borders transactions and financing arrangements. She also advises on corporate debt restructuring and provides regulatory advice on exchange control regulations, banking regulations, finance and securities laws. She is also involved in private wealth and succession planning and advises on trusts and foundation structures.

Mr Jaimie Sia Zui Keng was appointed as our Independent Non-Executive Director on 28 August 2025. On the same date he was appointed as a member of the Remuneration Committee, Risk Committee, and Audit Committee. He was formerly Executive Director/Head of Group Capital Markets at RHB Investment Bank. He brings over 30 years of financial services experience specialising in M&A, capital markets and financial advisory, and led the bank’s de novo buildout of the equity and debt capital market business across South East Asia. 

He was also previously Head of Private Equity and a prior Board member of RHB Private Equity Holdings Sdn Bhd, where he oversaw over USD180 million of assets under management focused on global mid-stream infrastructure assets in the energy sector.

During his tenure at RHB, he played key roles in various committees which oversaw the audit, risk, management and underwriting functions of the investment banking business, contributing to group wide strategic decision making. He also previously served on the Malaysian Investment Banking Association’s (MIBA) Executive Committee and Corporate Finance Committee as well as Securities Industry Development Centre’s (SIDC) Continuing Professional Education Framework sub-committee as MiBA’s representative. He earned his Bachelor of Economics degree in accounting & finance from Monash University. He is a CFA Charterholder.

Lam Jiuan Jiuan was appointed to the Board on 30 November 2012 as our Non-Independent Non-Executive Director. She is the Chairwoman of the Risk Management Committee and a member of the Nomination Committee. On 02 January 2025 she was appointed to the member of Audit Committee. She has a vast 40 years of experience from the financial and corporate management industry.

She started out in 1976, where she joined the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney, as a management trainee, where she gained a wide spectrum of retail banking experience before moving on to join Tricontinental Australia Limited in 1978. In 1979, she moved to Hong Kong and joined Toronto Dominion Bank in its Asia and Australasia Division, responsible for credit approvals of banks/corporate and monitoring country limits. In 1986, she joined the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce for three (3) years as the Corporate Marketing Manager in charge of major public listed companies and as well as corporate company accounts. She joined Barclays Bank PLC in 1989 as a private banker and resigned in June 2015 as a Senior Banker in the bank’s Wealth Investment Management Division.

Subsequently, she worked in a private family office of one of the leading property developers in Hong Kong and had since retired in 2016. She has since been with the Hong Kong Office of Zedra Group, a major independent trust, corporate and fund services group, as Private Clients Advisor.

She graduated with a Bachelor of Economics majoring in Accounting and Commercial Laws from the University of Sydney, Australia in 1976. She is also a Fellow of Certified Public Accountant, Australia as well as a member of the Hong Kong Registered Financial Planners.