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One of the Group’s most important attributes for success is its complement of dedicated, competent, experienced and innovative senior managers who run its separate operations.

F&N Holdings Berhad has a relatively young (mid-40s and early 50s) energetic management team, all professionals and committed to the objective of making the Group a world class organization.

 

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Y.A.M. TENGKU SYARIF BENDAHARA PERLIS SYED BADARUDIN JAMALULLAIL IBNI ALMARHUM TUANKU SYED PUTRA JAMALULLAIL


Malaysian, age 66
Chairman of the Board, Independent and non-executive director
Chairman of the Nominating and Remuneration Committees
Member of the Audit Committee

Tengku Syed Badarudin graduated from Cambridge University in 1968 with a Master of Arts degree in Law & History. From 1968 to 1978, he was employed and held various executive positions in Fraser & Neave (Malaya) Sdn Bhd. Currently Tengku is involved in his family business and he is a Director of Hwang-DBS (Malaysia) Berhad / Hwang-DBS Investment Bank Berhad. He is also a board member of Yayasan Tuanku Syed Putra, a charitable foundation.

He was appointed to the Board on 8 February 1987 and on 27 February 2001 was appointed its Chairman. During the financial year, he attended all the eight scheduled meetings of the Board. He does not have any family relationship with any director and/or major shareholder of the Company, nor any personal interest in any business arrangement involving the Company.

 

 

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Y.BHG. DATO’ NG JUI SIA


Singaporean, age 59
Non-independent and executive director
Chief Executive Director

Dato' Ng holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of Singapore and is an Associate of the Institute of the Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.

Dato' Ng spent his early years in accounting and auditing in London and Singapore with PriceWaterhouse, and has extensive general management experience since 1988 operating in Hong Kong, China, South Asia,   Malaysia and Singapore. Dato' Ng was with Carnaud MetalBox Asia, an MNC headquartered in Singapore, managing the packaging start-up in Hong Kong and South China from 1989 - 1994.

He joined the F&N Group in 1995 and led a management team in F&N Coca-Cola Singapore in 1995 - 1999 in brand marketing, manufacturing, sales and distribution. Dato' Ng was responsible for a massive restructuring of the Malaysian soft drinks business over a 6-year period from 2000 - 2006. He was appointed CEO of F&N's Times Publishing Ltd in 2006 until 2010, an international portfolio of printing, publishing, distribution and book retailing over eight countries.

Dato' was a nominee director in Fung Choi Media Group Ltd, a China based company listed in the Singapore Stock Exchange from August 2009 to July 2010 and PMP Ltd, a company listed in the Australia Stock        Exchange, from November 2007 to August 2010.

Dato' Ng has been appointed the Chief Executive Officer of Fraser & Neave Holdings Group on 1 August 2010.

 

 

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Y.BHG. DATO’ DR NIK NORZRUL THANI BIN NIK HASSAN THANI


Malaysian, age 51
Non-independent and non-executive director

Dato’ Dr Nik holds a Ph.D. in Law from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London and a Masters in Law from Queen Mary College, University of London. He read law at the University of Buckingham, United Kingdom.

Dato’ Dr Nik also holds a Post-Graduate diploma in Syariah Law and Practice (with Distinction) from the International Islamic University of Malaysia. He is a Barrister of Lincoln’s Inn and an Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1985 and to the Malaysian Bar in 1986. He was a Visiting Fulbright Scholar, HarvardLawSchool in 1996 to 1997, and was formerly the Acting Dean/Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Laws, International Islamic University Malaysia. Dato’ Dr Nik is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (United Kingdom) and is also a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australia (FINSIA).

Currently, Dato’ Dr Nik Norzrul Thani is a practising lawyer with Zaid Ibrahim & Co. Prior to joining Zaid Ibrahim & Co., Dato’ Dr Nik was with Baker & McKenzie (International Lawyers), Singapore.

He was appointed to the Board on 7 November 2006. During the financial year, he attended six of the eight scheduled meetings of the Board. He does not have any family relationship with any director and/or major shareholder of the Company, nor any personal interest in any business arrangement involving the Company except that he is a nominee director of Permodalan Nasional Berhad, a major shareholder of the Company.

  

 

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MR LESLIE OSWIN STRUYS


Singaporean, age 74
Senior independent and non-executive director
Member of the Audit, Nominating and Remuneration Committees

Mr Struys graduated from the University of Malaya in 1960 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics.

He joined Fraser and Neave, Limited in 1960 and in his career worked in numerous capacities in sales, marketing and production. He was based in various locations including KL and Ipoh and was the first Branch Manager of the new F&N bottling plant in Johor which was built in 1967. His last position was Product Manager in the soft drinks operations in Malaysia and Singapore in 1972. He was then transferred to Malaya Glass Berhad (which later became Fraser & Neave Holdings Bhd.) as its General Manager and held that position until his retirement in December 1997. He was also a director of Malaya Glass Berhad from 1985 and later of Fraser & Neave Holdings Bhd. until December 1997. He is also a director of Leeden Ltd based in Singapore.

He was re-appointed to the Board on 24 May 2001. During the financial year, he attended all the eight scheduled meetings of the Board. He does not have any family relationship with any director and/or major shareholder of the Company, nor any personal interest in any business arrangement involving the Company.

 

 

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Y.BHG. DATO’ ANWARRUDIN BIN AHAMAD OSMAN


Malaysian, age 68
Independent and non-executive director
Member of the Audit Committee

Dato’ Anwarrudin Ahamad Osman graduated from the University of Malaya in 1966 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.

Upon graduation, he joined the Malaysian Civil Service in 1966 and served in the Ministry of Defence. In May 1975, he joined Petronas and served in various capacities until his retirement on 1 September 1998 as MD/CEO of Petronas Dagangan Berhad.

During the 23 years in Petronas, Dato’ Anwarrudin held various senior positions. He was the General Manager of Corporate Planning Division in 1984, General Manager, Human Resources Management Division in 1985 before heading the International Marketing Division of Petronas responsible for sales of crude and products and processing of crude. He was a member of the Asean Council On Petroleum (ASCOPE) technical committee for several years and spoke at the ASCOPE oil marketing management seminars and local seminars on prospects of bumiputera in the marketing and distribution industry; represented Malaysia in the OPEC/NON-OPEC dialogues from 1989 – 1991.

Currently, Dato’ Anwarrudin holds directorship positions in KKB Engineering Bhd and in several non-listed companies.  He is also Executive Vice-Chairman of Yasmin Engineering Sdn Bhd (formally known as TDW Sdn Bhd).

He was appointed to the Board on 19 January 2005. During the financial year, he attended all the eight scheduled meetings of the Board. He does not have any family relationship with any director and/or major shareholder of the Company, nor any personal interest in any business arrangement involving the Company.

 

 

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MR ANTHONY CHEONG FOOK SENG


Malaysian, age 57
Non-independent and non-executive director
Member of the Audit Committee

Mr Anthony Cheong is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales and the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Singapore.

He worked in the Audit & Corporate Advisory Services Division of Ernst & Young till 1989 when he joined CarnaudMetalbox Asia Ltd as Internal Audit Manager, later on assuming the position of Company Secretary. He joined the F&N Group in Times Publishing Ltd as Corporate General Manager (Group Finance) and Company Secretary in 2001. He was appointed the Group Company Secretary of the Fraser and Neave, Limited Group on 1 October 2002 and was a director from 1 February 2005 to 31 January 2008. He represents the F&N Group on the boards of a number of subsidiaries.

He was appointed to the Board on 1 October 2002. During the financial year, he attended all of the eight scheduled meetings of the Board. Except for his position as the Group Company Secretary of Fraser and Neave, Limited, a major shareholder of the Company, he does not have any family relationship with any director and/or major shareholder of the Company, nor any personal interest in any business arrangement involving the Company.

 

 

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Y.BHG. TAN SRI DATO’ DR LIN SEE YAN


Malaysian, age 72
Independent and non-executive director
Chairman of the Audit Committee
Member of the Nominating Committee

Tan Sri Lin is an independent strategic consultant. Qualified as Malaysia’s first Chartered Statistician, he graduated from the University of Malaya in Singapore and Harvard University (where he received 3 degrees, including a PhD in economics). He is Pro-Chancellor, Universiti Sains Malaysia, and also Professor of Economics (Adjunct), Universiti Utara Malaysia, Professor of International Finance and Business (Adjunct), Universiti Malaysia Sabah as well as an Eisenhower Fellow and a Chartered Scientist, London.

Prior to 1998, he was Chairman/President and CEO of Pacific Bank and for 14 years previously, Deputy Governor of Bank Negara Malaysia, having been a central banker for 34 years. Dr. Lin continues to serve the public interest; some current appointments include: Member of the PM’s National Innovation Council and the PM's Economic Action Council Working Group, as well as a member of key Steering Committee at the Ministry og Higher Education; Economic Advisor, Associated Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Malaysia; Member, Asian Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee; Governor, Asian Institute of Management, Manila; Member, Advisory Board of the Malaysian-Japanese University Centre; Trustee, Malaysia University for Science & Technology and Monash University (Sunway Campus); and Chairman Emeritus, Harvard Graduate School Alumni Council at Harvard University in Cambridge (USA) as well as Regional Director for Asia, Harvard Alumni Association at the University, and President, Harvard Club of Malaysia. Tan Sri advises and sits on the Boards of a number of publicly listed and private businesses in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Hong Kong including Chairman, Cabot (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd and is Director of Ancom Berhad, Genting Berhad, Genting Malaysia Bhd, Wah Seng Bhd, Jobstreet Corporation Bhd and KrisAssets Holdings Bhd.

He was appointed to the Board on 12 March 1996. During the financial year, he attended all the eight scheduled meetings of the Board. He does not have any family relationship with any director and/or major shareholder of the Company, nor any personal interest in any business arrangement involving the Company.

 

 

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MR LEE KONG YIP


Malaysian, age 67
Non-independent and non-executive director
Member of the Remuneration Committee

Mr Lee graduated from the University of Malaya with a Bachelor in Economics (Hons) majoring in statistics in 1969. He completed the Executive Program in the Graduate School of Business Administration in the University of California Berkeley, USA in 1988.

From 1969 to 1994, he has held various executive positions in the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited and its finance subsidiary, the Oversea-Chinese Finance Company Berhad. In 1995, he was appointed the Executive Vice President and director of the OCBC Bank (Malaysia) Berhad, a post he held until his retirement in April 2000. He is a director of Overseas Assurance Corporation (Malaysia) Berhad, Overseas Assurance Corporation (Holdings) Bhd, Great Eastern Capital (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd and Great Eastern Life Assurance (Malaysia) Berhad.

He was appointed to the Board on 10 May 2000. During the financial year, he attended seven of the eight scheduled meetings of the Board. He does not have any family relationship with any director and/or major shareholder of the Company, nor any personal interest in any business arrangement involving the Company except that he is a nominee director of Fraser and Neave, Limited, a major shareholder of the Company.

 

 

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Y.BHG. DATO’ DR MOHD SHAHAR BIN SIDEK


Malaysian, age 64
Non-independent and non-executive director

Dato’ Dr Mohd Shahar bin Sidek graduated from the University of Malaya with a Bachelor of Economics (Accounting) Hons in 1971. Upon graduation, he joined the Federal Treasury of Malaysia as Assistant Secretary. In 1980, he was transferred to INTAN as a lecturer where he completed his Masters in Economics (Public Administration) at the University of Malaya in the same year. He pursued his PhD in Public Finance at the Temple University, USA and completed it in 1989.

Upon completion of his doctorate in Finance, Dato’ Dr Mohd Shahar joined the Penang State as its State Financial Officer in 1991 and held the position until 1994. He was promoted as the Director General of Biro Tata Negara in 1994. In 1997, he was posted to the Federal Treasury of Malaysia as Secretary for the Supply and Procurement Division and was transferred to MAMPU as Deputy Director General in 1999. He was promoted as Director General of the Road Transport Department in the Ministry of Transport in 2000 until his retirement in April 2003.

He was appointed to the Board on 30 September 2003. During the financial year, he attended all the eight scheduled meetings of the Board. He does not have any family relationship with any director and/or major shareholder of the Company, nor any personal interest in any business arrangement involving the Company except that he is a nominee director of Permodalan Nasional Berhad, a major shareholder of the Company.

 

 

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MR HUANG HONG PENG


Singaporean, age 52
Non-indepedent and non-executive

Mr Huang Hong Peng is currently the Deputy Chief Executive Officer (Food & Beverage) of Fraser and Neave Group. ("F&N Group") He sits on the boards of F&N Group subsidiaries and associates.

Before his transfer to the F&N Group on 1 October 2008m he was the Regional Director, China/CEO’s office of Asia Pacific Breweries Limited (APB), a subsidiary of Fraser and Neave, Limited and was responsible for brewery operations of the APB Group in the People’s Republic of China now consolidated under Heineken-APB (China) Pte Ltd. He joined the APB Group in November 1994 and has served in various positions in Myanmar and the People’s Republic of China. He also sits on the boards of APB Group subsidiaries and associates.

Before joining the APB Group, Mr Huang was Assistant Director, Airport Management in the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore and has a degree in Air Transport from the Ecole National de I’Aviation Civile, Toulouse, France.

Mr Huang was appointed to the Board on 1 March 2009. During the financial year, he attended all the scheduled meetings of the Board.  He does not have any family relationship with any director and/or major shareholder of the Company nor does he have any personal interest in any business arrangement involving the Company except that he is a nominee director of Fraser and Neave, Limited a major shareholder of the Company.

 

 

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MR PASCAL DE PETRINI


French, age 51
Non-indepedent and non-executive director
Member of the Group Executive, Nominating,
Remuneration and Share Buy Back Committees

Mr Pascal De Petrini graduated with a Master's degree from Mines De Nancy, France, in 1981 and a Master of Science in Management, ESSEC, France, in 1983.

Mr De Petrini has vast experience in Country and Regional General Management in leading MNC. He joined the Danone Group in 1984 and has worked in various capacities from Project Manager-Danone France to Supply Chain Director LU (Paris). In 1998, he became the first non-Asian to head Danone Biscuits China (Shanghai) as General Manager until 2002 where he assumed another position as General Manager-Themis ERP Project for 2 years. He moved on to be the General Manager of Danone Aqua (Jakarta) from 2004-2007. His last position with Danone was as the Vice President of Danone Baby Nutrition Asia Pacific (Singapore) from 2007-2011.

Mr De Petrini is currently the Chief Executive Officer, Food & Beverage of Fraser and Neave, Limited. He oversees the performance and growth of all of the Group’s beer and non-beer food and beverage businesses.

Mr De Petrini was appointed to the Board on 10 October 2011. He does not have any family relationship with any director and/or major shareholder of the Company, nor any personal interest in any business arrangement involving the Company except in his capacity as the Chief Executive Officer, Food & Beverage of Fraser and Neave, Limited, a major shareholder of the Company.

 

 

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MR HUI CHOON KIT


Singaporean, age 47
(Alternate director to Mr. Pascal De Petrini)
Non-independent and non-executive director

Mr Hui Choon Kit holds a Bachelor of Business degree from Curtin University, Australia and a Master of Business Administration degree from Nanyang Technology University, and is a member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore.

Mr Hui is currently the Group Financial Controller for the Fraser and Neave, Limited Group and is responsible for the Group’s corporate finance, treasury, accounting, taxation, information technology and investor relations functions.

Mr Hui joined the F&N Group in February 2000 as Senior Manager, Business Development and has held a number of other positions. He is also a director of Frasers Property (China) Limited, a company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Prior to joining the F&N Group, he worked as a corporate finance banker based in Singapore and Thailand, covering the Asia-Pacific region. Mr Hui commenced his career as an accountant and financial consultant with Ernst & Young.

Mr Hui was appointed as an alternate director to Mr Koh Poh Tiong on 10 March 2011, and subsequently as alternate to Mr Pascal De Petrini upon Mr Koh’s resignation. He does not have any family relationship with any director and/or major shareholder of the Company, nor any personal interest in any business arrangement involving the Company except that he is a nominee director of Fraser and Neave, Limited, a major shareholder of the Company.

 

Note : None of the above directors have any disclosable offences as required under the Listing Requirements of Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad.