Philip Yeo
Chairman
Mr Philip Yeo, a Non-Executive Independent Director, joined the CapitaLand Board on 15 September 1999 and was elected Chairman on the same day. He was last re-elected as Director at CapitaLand's Annual General Meeting on 9 May 2003. In addition, Mr Yeo is also Chairman of CapitaLand's Investment Committee.
 
Mr Yeo's current directorships in other companies include United Overseas Bank, Industrial & Commercial Bank, Singapore Precision Industries 2000 Pte Ltd, SilkRoute Holdings Pte Ltd, A-Bio Pharma Pte Ltd and InfoSys Technologies Limited.
 
Mr Yeo is currently the Chairman of the Agency for Science, Technology & Research and Co-Chairman of the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB). He was Chairman of the EDB from January 1986 to January 2001. He had served in the Ministry of Defence from 1970, holding several appointments including as the Permanent Secretary. He set up the National Computer Board and became its first Chairman from 1981 to 1987.
 
Mr Yeo graduated in 1970 in Applied Science (Industrial Engineering) from the University of Toronto, Canada, under a Colombo Plan Scholarship. He also holds a Master of Science (Systems Engineering), 1974 from the University of Singapore and a Master in Business Administration, 1976 from Harvard University, USA, as a Fulbright scholar. In 1997, he was honoured with a Doctor of Engineering by his alma mater, University of Toronto.
 
 
Hsuan Owyang
Deputy Chairman
Mr Hsuan Owyang, a Non-Executive Independent Director, joined the CapitaLand Board on 20 November 2000 and was elected Deputy Chairman on the same day. He was last re-elected as Director at CapitaLand's Annual General Meeting on 9 May 2003.

Mr Owyang is Chairman of CapitaLand's Finance and Budget Committee and Deputy Chairman of CapitaLand's Investment Committee, and also sits on CapitaLand's Executive Resource and Compensation Committee and Nominating Committee. Mr Owyang is also Chairman of CapitaMall Trust Management Limited.

In addition, Mr Owyang is Chairman, Board of Governors of The Institute of Policy Studies, N.M. Rothschild & Sons (Singapore) Limited and Ayala International Holdings Limited. He is also a Director of MobileOne Limited and former Chairman of Transpac Industrial Holdings Limited, both companies listed on the SGX-ST.
He served on the Board of Singapore's Housing Development Board (HDB) since 1977 and was appointed Chairman of the HDB in 1983 until his retirement in October 1998. Mr Owyang had extensive banking experience and worked on Wall Street for 12 years as an investment advisor. He was also Director and General Manager of Overseas Union Bank which he was associated with for more than 18 years before his appointment as Executive Deputy Chairman of Post Office Savings Bank until 1988.
Mr Owyang is a graduate of the University of Dubuque, USA with a BSc in Business Administration. He also holds a Master in Business Administration from Harvard University, USA.
 

 
Peter Seah
Director
Mr Peter Seah, a Non-Executive Director, joined the CapitaLand Board on 18 December 2001 and is also serving as Chairman of CapitaLand's Executive Resource and Compensation Committee and Nominating Committee. He was last re-elected as Director at CapitaLand's Annual General Meeting on 2 May 2002.
Currently, Mr Seah is Chairman of SembCorp Industries Ltd and Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd and is a director of various companies in the Singapore Technologies Group. He sits on the boards of Government of Singapore Investment Corporation Pte Ltd, Institute of Defence & Strategic Studies and the Defence Science and Technology Agency. He also serves as Vice President of Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce & Industry and Treasurer of Singapore Business Federation.
Mr Peter Seah assumed his current position as President & CEO of Singapore Technologies Pte Ltd on 1 December 2001. Prior to this, Mr Seah was with Overseas Union Bank (OUB) since 1977, holding several senior positions and becoming its President & CEO in 1991. Mr Seah retired as Vice Chairman and CEO from OUB on 30 September 2001.
Mr Seah graduated from the University of Singapore with an honours degree in business administration in 1968.
Lim Chin Beng
Director
Mr Lim Chin Beng, a Non-Executive Independent Director, joined the CapitaLand Board on 23 February 1998 and was last re-elected as Director at CapitaLand's Annual General Meeting on 9 May 2003. Mr Lim is also a Member of CapitaLand's Executive Resource and Compensation Committee and Nominating Committee.
Currently, Mr Lim is Chairman of The Ascott Group Limited, Singapore Technologies Aerospace Limited, Singapore Press Holdings Limited, SPH MediaWorks Ltd and Valuair Ltd. He is also a Director of StarHub Limited, Pontiac Land Private Limited and Press Foundation of Singapore Ltd. He is a Member of the Public Service Commission.
Mr Lim has 30 years of experience in the aviation industry beginning with the Malaysian Airlines in the 1960s. In the 1970s, he helped start up Singapore Airlines and was its Managing Director from 1972 to 1982. Mr Lim retired as Deputy Chairman of Singapore Airlines in 1996. Between 1991 to 1997, Mr Lim was also Singapore's Ambassador to Japan.
Mr Lim is a graduate from the University of Malaya with BA (Economics) (Honours). He also attended an Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School, USA in 1973.

 

Jackson Tai
Director
Mr Jackson Tai, a Non-Executive Independent Director, joined the CapitaLand Board on 20 November 2000 and was last re-elected as Director at CapitaLand's Annual General Meeting on 2 May 2001. In addition, Mr Jackson Tai is a Member of CapitaLand's Investment Committee, Executive Resource and Compensation Committee, Nominating Committee and Finance and Budget Committee.
Currently, Mr Tai is Vice Chairman and CEO of DBS Group Holdings and DBS Bank, and also Chairman of the DBS Group Holdings' Management Committee. He is also Chairman of DBS Group Holdings (Hong Kong) Ltd. Prior to joining DBS Bank, Mr Tai was a Managing Director of J P Morgan & Co's Investment Banking Division.
Besides CapitaLand, Mr Tai is a Director of Singapore Telecommunications Limited. He also sits on the Boards of Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated, DBS Bank (Hong Kong) Limited and MasterCard Asia/Pacific.
Mr Tai graduated with a BSc degree from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA. He also holds a Master of Business Administration from Harvard University, USA.
Sir Alan Cockshaw
Director
Sir Alan Cockshaw, a Non-Executive Independent Director, joined the CapitaLand Board on 1 July 1999 and was last re-elected as Director at CapitaLand's Annual General Meeting on 2 May 2002. He is a Member of CapitaLand's Executive Resource and Compensation Committee and Nominating Committee.
Currently, Sir Alan is also Chairman of the Roxboro Group Plc, HPR Holdings Ltd., PCS International Ltd, and Shawbridge Management Ltd.
Based in the UK, his early career was spent in both the public and private sectors. In 1973, he joined Fairclough Civil Engineering and was appointed Chief Executive in 1978 and a Member of the main board of Fairclough Construction Group in 1981. In 1982, Fairclough acquired the Press Group and in so doing created the AMEC Group where Sir Alan became Group Chief Executive in 1984 and Chairman in 1988. He retired from AMEC in 1997. Sir Alan has also held a number of public positions on behalf of the UK Government and was Chairman of English Partnerships, the national regeneration agency, and the Commission for the New Towns, which merged in 1999. He is a Past President of the Institution of Civil Engineers and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Sir Alan holds an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Engineering and an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science.
 

 

Sum Soon Lim
Director
Mr Sum Soon Lim, a Non-Executive Director, joined the CapitaLand Board on 23 October 1998 and was last re-elected as Director at CapitaLand's Annual General Meeting on 9 May 2003. In addition, Mr Sum is Chairman of CapitaLand's Risk Committee and Corporate Disclosure Committee. He is also a Member of CapitaLand's Audit Committee.
Mr Sum's directorships include Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd, Singapore Technologies Telemedia Pte Ltd, Singapore Health Services Pte Ltd, Vertex Venture Holdings Ltd and Singapore Press Holdings Ltd. Mr Sum is also a Commissioner of PT Indonesian Satellite Corporation (Indosat) and a Member of the Securities Industry Council. He formerly sat on the Board of ST Assembly Test Services Ltd, a public company listed on the SGX-ST.
Mr Sum has worked for the Singapore Economic Development Board, DBS Bank, J P Morgan Inc, Overseas Union Bank and Nuri Holdings (S) Pte Ltd, a private investment holding company. Mr Sum is a Corporate Advisor to Singapore Technologies Pte Ltd and Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited.
Mr Sum is a graduate of the University of Nottingham, UK with a BSc (Hons) in Production Engineering.
Lucien Wong
Director
Mr Lucien Wong, a Non-Executive Independent Director, joined the CapitaLand Board on 20 November 2000 and was last re-elected as Director at CapitaLand's Annual General Meeting on 2 May 2001. In addition, Mr Wong is a Member of CapitaLand's Audit Committee, Corporate Disclosure Committee and Risk Committee.
He is also a Director of Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd, a public company listed on the SGX-ST.
Mr Wong is the Managing Partner of Allen & Gledhill. He has been in legal practice for more than 20 years, specialising in corporate and finance work and has been involved in several landmark corporate transactions in Singapore.
Mr Wong is a graduate in LLB (Honours) from the University of Singapore.

Richard Hale
Director
Mr Richard Hale, a Non-Executive Independent Director, joined the CapitaLand Board on 10 February 2003, and was appointed as Chairman of CapitaLand's Audit Committee and a Member of CapitaLand's Risk Committee on the same day. He was last re-elected as Director at CapitaLand's Annual General Meeting on 9 May 2003.
Mr Hale also sits on the Board of The Ascott Group Limited (Ascott) and is Chairman and Member of Ascott's Nominating Committee and Executive Resource and Compensation Committee, respectively.
In addition, he is a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Directors and also sits on the Boards of Sembcorp Industries Ltd and Marco Polo Developments Ltd, companies listed on the SGX-ST, and of Wildlife Reserves Singapore Pte Ltd and World-Wide Shipping Agency (Singapore) Pte Ltd.
Mr Hale started his career with The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Ltd in October 1958 and served in London, Paris, Hong Kong, Germany, Malaysia, Japan and Singapore before retiring from the Bank as CEO Singapore and Director in March 1995. From July 1995 to September 1997, he acted as advisor on environmental matters for HSBC Holdings Plc London based in Singapore. Mr Hale was Executive Chairman of SNP Corporation Ltd from 1 April 1999 to April 2000, and also served as Chairman of the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce for 1993 and 1994. He was formerly a Governor of United World College of South East Asia, Singapore.
Mr Hale is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, London.
Andrew Buxton
Director
Mr Andrew Buxton, a Non-Executive Independent Director, joined the CapitaLand Board on 1 June 2003. He is also a Director of CapitaLand Financial Limited, a subsidiary of CapitaLand.
Currently, Mr Buxton is Deputy Chairman of Xansa Plc, Chairman of Allied Schools Limited, a group of private schools in the United Kingdom, and Chairman of Heart of the City, an organisation which assists businesses based in the City of London in supporting the wider community. He is also Chairman of the Saudi British Business Council which promotes trade between Saudi Arabia and Great Britain.
Mr Buxton retired in 1999 as Executive Chairman of Barclays Bank Plc. He joined Barclays in 1963 and rose to be in charge of the Bank's Corporate Division, becoming Chairman in 1993. After his retirement, he became the Senior Advisor to the Barclays group on Middle East business until 2003.
He was President of the British Bankers Association from 1998 to 2002, and was a Member of the Court of the Bank of England from 1997 to 2001. He was also Chairman of the Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School in London, and a Governor of the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine.
Mr Buxton holds a Masters Degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University. He has also been awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science from the City University, London, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Bankers.
Mr Buxton was honoured in the Queen's Birthday Honours in June 2003 when he was made a Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG).

Liew Mun Leong
President & CEO
Mr Liew Mun Leong is President & CEO of CapitaLand. He joined the CapitaLand Board as Director on 1 January 1997 and was last re-elected as Director at CapitaLand's Annual General Meeting on 9 May 2003. He also serves on CapitaLand's Investment Committee, Nominating Committee, Corporate Disclosure Committee and Finance and Budget Committee.
Concurrently, Mr Liew is Deputy Chairman of The Ascott Group Limited and Raffles Holdings Limited, subsidiaries of CapitaLand listed on the SGX-ST. He is Deputy Chairman of CapitaMall Trust Management Limited, the manager of CapitaMall Trust, the first listed real estate investment trust in Singapore. He is also Chairman of CapitaLand Residential Limited, CapitaLand Commercial Limited and PREMAS International Limited, and Deputy Chairman of CapitaLand Financial Limited.
In addition, Mr Liew is Chairman of the Board of Governors of Temasek Polytechnic and a Board Member of the Public Utilities Board.
With more than 25 years of international experience in construction and real estate in Singapore and overseas, Mr Liew led a number of public sector infrastructural development projects in Singapore, including the successful development and construction of Changi International Airport. For five years, he was CEO of Singapore Institute of Standards and Industrial Research (SISIR), a statutory board responsible for Singapore's national standards and industrial research and development to support the manufacturing industry in Singapore. Thereafter, he headed a public listed engineering and construction company in Singapore. From 1997 to 1998, Mr Liew was also the President of International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO).
Mr Liew graduated from the University of Singapore with a civil engineering degree in 1970 and is a registered professional civil engineer.