Board of Directors
 QUEK LENG CHAN
 Chairman
 Non-Independent Non-Executive Director

Mr Quek was appointed to the Board on 19 December 1988 and was re-elected as Director at the Company’s Annual General Meeting held on 24 October 2024. He was appointed as Chairman of the Board and the Company on 14 October 2022. He is also a member of the Remuneration Committee.

Mr Quek is the Chairman of GuoLine Capital Assets Limited, the ultimate holding company of the Company. He is also the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Hong Leong Company (Malaysia) Berhad, a public company; Chairman of Hong Leong Assurance Berhad, a public company; and Chairman of the Council of Members of Hong Leong Bank Vietnam Limited.

Mr Quek qualified as a Barrister-at-Law from Middle Temple, United Kingdom and has extensive business experience in various business sectors, including financial services, manufacturing and real estate.

Present directorship(s) in other listed company(ies)
Mr Quek is the Non-Executive Chairman of the following companies, all listed on Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad:

  • Hong Leong Financial Group Berhad
  • Hong Leong Bank Berhad

Past directorship(s) in listed company(ies) held over the preceding 5 years

  • Nil
 
 CHENG HSING YAO
 Group Chief Executive Officer
 Non-Independent Executive Director

Mr Cheng is the Group Chief Executive Officer and an Executive Director of the Company. He was appointed to the Board on 1 July 2021 and was re-elected as Director at the Company’s Annual General Meeting (“AGM”) held on 27 October 2023. Mr Cheng is proposed for re-election as Director at the Company’s AGM to be held on 23 October 2025.

Mr Cheng joined the Group in October 2012. His last posting was Group Managing Director of GuocoLand Singapore which commenced in 2014. Prior to joining the Group, he was with the Singapore public service at the Urban Redevelopment Authority (“URA”) and the Centre for Liveable Cities (“CLC”). Both agencies are under the purview of the Ministry of National Development.

Mr Cheng is a Board Member of the Land Transport Authority. He is also a member of CLC’s Advisory Panel, URA’s Heritage and Identity Partnership and Changi Airport Group’s Executive Committee of Airport Development.

Mr Cheng was appointed by the President of the Republic of Singapore to serve as a Nominated Member of Parliament from January 2021 to July 2023.

Mr Cheng holds a Bachelor of Arts (Architectural Studies) from National University of Singapore, a Bachelor of Architecture (First Class Honours) from Newcastle University, United Kingdom, and a Master in Design Studies (with Distinction) from Harvard University.

Present directorship(s) in other listed company(ies)

  • GuocoLand (Malaysia) Berhad, a subsidiary of the Company, listed on Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad
  • GLM REIT Management Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of the Company and the Manager of Tower Real Estate Investment Trust, listed on Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad

Past directorship(s) in listed company(ies) held over the preceding 5 years

  • Eco World International Berhad, listed on Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad
 
 KWEK LENG HAI
 Non-Independent Non-Executive Director

Mr Kwek was appointed to the Board on 28 November 1988 and was re-elected as Director at the Company’s Annual General Meeting held on 24 October 2024. He is a member of the Nominating Committee.

Mr Kwek is the Executive Chairman of Guoco Group Limited, listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (“HKSE”). He was the President, Chief Executive Officer of Guoco Group Limited from 1995 to 1 September 2016.

Mr Kwek is a Director of GuoLine Capital Assets Limited, the ultimate holding company of the Company. He is also a Director of GL Limited which was privatised and delisted from the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited in June 2021.

Mr Kwek qualified as a chartered accountant of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He has extensive experience in various business sectors, including but not limited to finance, investment, manufacturing and real estate.

Present directorship(s) in other listed company(ies)

  • Executive Chairman of Guoco Group Limited, listed on HKSE
  • Chairman of Lam Soon (Hong Kong) Limited, listed on HKSE
  • Hong Leong Bank Berhad, listed on Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad
  • Bank of Chengdu Co., Ltd., listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange

Past directorship(s) in listed company(ies) held over the preceding 5 years

  • Nil
 
 SAW KOK WEI
 Independent Non-Executive Director

Mr Saw was appointed to the Board on 24 October 2020 and was re-elected as Director at the Company’s Annual General Meeting (“AGM”) held on 27 October 2023. He is the Chairman of the Audit and Risk Committee, a member of the Nominating Committee and a member of the Remuneration Committee. Mr Saw is proposed for re-election as Director at the Company’s AGM to be held on 23 October 2025.

Mr Saw is currently the Chief Financial Officer of Swan & Maclaren Group Pte. Ltd.. He was the Chief Financial Officer of Jurong Port Pte Ltd (“Jurong Port”) from October 2021 to December 2022, having first served in this capacity from September 2013 to March 2019. Mr Saw was President, Business Units of Jurong Port from April 2019 to September 2021, and oversaw several functions including Finance, Admin, Enterprise Risk Management, Information Technology and Business Intelligence.

Mr Saw has many years of commercial and financial experience across a number of industries in the United Kingdom, Singapore, Indonesia and China. He started his career with Arthur Young in London as an auditor. Since then he has worked for Chase Manhattan, Inchcape Berhad, Nike South East Asia, and Merck Sharp & Dohme. Mr Saw was also with Electrolux for ten years holding various positions including that of Vice President, Finance & Administration, East Asia; President-Director & General Manager for its operations in Indonesia; Chief Financial Officer in China; and Deputy Head of Strategy in Asia Pacific. He also served as a Director of Hong Leong Financial Group Berhad, which is listed on Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad, from 2011 to 2020.

Mr Saw holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) Degree in Accounting and Finance from The University of Warwick, United Kingdom.

Present directorship(s) in other listed company(ies)

  • Nil

Past directorship(s) in listed company(ies) held over the preceding 5 years

  • Nil
 
 WEE LIENG SENG
 Independent Non-Executive Director

Mr Wee was appointed to the Board on 29 October 2021 and was re-elected as Director at the Company’s Annual General Meeting held on 24 October 2024. He is the Chairman of the Nominating Committee, the Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and a member of the Audit and Risk Committee.

Mr Wee is currently the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Dragonfly LLC, a New York based firm which provides strategy, risk management and investment advice to companies in the United States, Europe and Asia. He is an independent director of The Private Infrastructure Development Group Ltd and serves as the Chairman of Investment Committee, and as a member of its Audit Committee and Impact Committee. He also serves in the Investor Committee of Mapletree US Logistics Private Trust, and is a member of the Management Advisory Board of NUS Business School. He is a Director of Eldridge Capital Management (Pte) Ltd and Managing Director, Risk and Sustainability of Danantara Indonesia.

Prior to founding Dragonfly LLC, he was a partner and head of the risk and shareholder value practice at The Capital Markets Company (Capco). Before that he was a partner at Capital Market Risk Advisors in New York. Mr Wee was a Managing Director, Global Risk Management at Bankers Trust Company (now part of Deutsche Bank). Prior to this, he was a senior associate at Booz Allen in New York managing strategy engagements across industries. He started his career as a banker at Banque Paribas in Singapore and New York. He has been an adjunct professor of risk management at Singapore Management University, Columbia University and Peking University. He was appointed Senior Fellow of The Wharton School. He co-authored the books, “What Every CEO Must Know About Risk” and “RAROC and Risk Management”.

Mr Wee holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (Valedictorian) from the National University of Singapore and a Master of Business Administration with Distinction (Salutatorian) from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He completed the Senior Executive Leadership Program (China) from Harvard Business School and also the Corporate Director Certificate Program.

Present directorship(s) in other listed company(ies)

  • Nil

Past directorship(s) in listed company(ies) held over the preceding 5 years

  • Nil
 
 MADELEINE LEE SUH SHIN
 Independent Non-Executive Director

Ms Lee was appointed to the Board on 1 April 2023 and was re-elected as Director at the Company’s Annual General Meeting (“AGM”) held on 27 October 2023. She is a member of the Audit and Risk Committee. Ms Lee is proposed for re-election as Director at the Company’s AGM to be held on 23 October 2025.

Ms Lee is the Founder/Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer of Athenaeum Private Limited (“Athenaeum”), a Monetary Authority of Singapore (“MAS”)-licensed investment/endowment advisor focusing on Asian Family Offices. She is Director of Pericles Investments Pte Ltd and Green Phyto Pte Ltd.

From 2004 to 2007, Ms Lee was Deputy Chief Investment Officer of the Investment Office of the National University of Singapore (“NUS”). She founded Athenaeum in 2008 and has spent nearly 40 years in investment management at Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, Morgan Grenfell (now Deutschebank) Asset Management and as Managing Director at Commerzbank Asset Management Asia.

Ms Lee has served on the board of directors of Mapletree Investments Pte Ltd, Aetos Holdings Pte. Ltd. and ECICS Holdings of the Temasek Holdings stable of companies. She was on the MAS’s Financial Sector Review Committee on the Liberalisation of the Stockbroking Industry and the Business Development Review Group for the Merged Exchange, headed by then Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in 1998. In the not-for-profit sector, she has volunteered on the Boards of UNIFEM Singapore (now UNWomen), International Women’s Forum Singapore, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music NUS, The Community Foundation of Singapore, Singapore Symphony Orchestra and Singapore Academy of Law, Arts House Ltd and Singapore Institute of Management Group Limited. She is also a published author of twelve books of poetry in English.

Ms Lee holds a Bachelor of Arts Honours in Economics and Accounting from the University of Leeds, United Kingdom and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Bradford, United Kingdom. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst of the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts, USA and a Fellow of the Eisenhower Fellowship and an Accredited Director at Singapore Institute of Directors.

Present directorship(s) in other listed company(ies)

  • First Pacific Company Limited, listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited

Past directorship(s) in listed company(ies) held over the preceding 5 years

  • Verde Agritech Ltd, listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange
 
 QUEK KON SEAN
 Non-Independent Non-Executive Director

Mr Quek was appointed to the Board on 1 April 2023 and was re-elected as Director at the Company’s Annual General Meeting held on 27 October 2023.

Mr Quek started his career in investment banking before joining the Hong Leong Group in 2004. He has held various positions in the Hong Leong Group, including Executive Director of Hong Leong Financial Group Berhad and is currently the Managing Director of HL Management Co Sdn Bhd, a position held since 2016. He is also a Director of Hong Leong Foundation, a public company and GuoLine Capital Assets Limited, the ultimate holding company of the Company.

Mr Quek holds a Bachelor of Science (Economics) and a Master of Science (Economics) from the London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom.

Present directorship(s) in other listed company(ies)

  • GuocoLand (Malaysia) Berhad, a subsidiary of the Company, listed on Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad

Past directorship(s) in listed company(ies) held over the preceding 5 years

  • Nil
 
 SHARON WEE HSU OON
 Independent Non-Executive Director

Ms Wee was appointed to the Board on 1 September 2023 and was re-elected as Director at the Company’s Annual General Meeting held on 27 October 2023.

Ms Wee is a Partner of Allen & Gledhill LLP, a law firm in Singapore where she specialises in mergers and acquisitions (“M&A”) and capital markets. She also provides corporate regulatory and compliance advice to Singapore listed entities.

Ms Wee has extensive experience acting for public and private entities on complex M&A and capital markets transactions. She regularly advises companies listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange on a wide range of post-listing matters, including follow-on equity offerings, acquisitions, issues of convertibles and hybrid securities, regulatory and compliance matters.

Ms Wee is appointed as a Notary Public and Commissioner for Oaths in Singapore and Accredited Mediator with the Singapore Mediation Centre.

Ms Wee holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom and she was called to the Singapore Bar in 1999.

Present directorship(s) in other listed company(ies)

  • Nil

Past directorship(s) in listed company(ies) held over the preceding 5 years

  • Nil
 
 CHRISTINE FELLOWES  
 Independent Non-Executive Director

Ms Fellowes was appointed to the Board on 25 January 2024 and was re-elected as Director at the Company’s Annual General Meeting held on 24 October 2024.

Ms Fellowes has more than 30 years of experience in Asia leading businesses across strategy, marketing, product and brand development, operations and profit and loss and driving digital transformation within multinational organisations in media, communications and technology. She served as the Managing Director of the NBC Universal Global Networks and Direct to Consumer businesses in Asia-Pacific. She held leadership positions – as Managing Director of Comcast International Media Group; Vice President, Commerce and Brand Management for Turner Entertainment; and Managing Partner of DDB Needham/Product Creation, a division of the Omnicom Group. She had also served as Chief Executive Officer of the Asian operation of ClickThings, a New York based technology company.

Ms Fellowes is currently an Executive Director and Co-Founder of NINEby9 Pte. Ltd., a Singapore based company dedicated to research and advocacy for gender equality in organisations in Asia. She is also a Board Member of the University of Western Australia Business School.

Ms Fellowes holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from The University of Western Australia. She also undertook Board Director Program and Executive Program, Finance from Harvard Business School Executive Education in 2019 and 2017 respectively.

Present directorship(s) in other listed company(ies)

  • National Australia Bank Limited, listed on Australian Securities Exchange Ltd

Past directorship(s) in listed company(ies) held over the preceding 5 years

  • VIQ Solutions Inc., listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange

 
 
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