Mr. Ong Kian Min was appointed a Director in 2003. Mr. Ong is concurrently an Advocate and Solicitor practicing as a consultant with Drew & Napier LLC, a Senior Adviser with Alpha Advisory Pte. Ltd., an independent corporate advisory group providing advice to companies and businesses in the Asia Pacific region and CEO of Kanesaka Sushi Private Limited, a company set up to invest in and operate Japanese sushi restaurants in the region. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1988, and to the Singapore Bar the following year. In the course of his 20 years of legal practice, his main areas of practice have been corporate and commercial law, such as, mergers & acquisitions, capital markets, IPOs, divestments, restructuring and corporate finance. He is also an Independent Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of a number of public companies listed on the SGX-ST. He was awarded the President’s Scholarship and Singapore Police Force Scholarship in 1979, and holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) external degree from the University of London and a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree from the Imperial College of Science & Technology in England. Mr. Ong has also been an elected Member of Parliament since January 1997.