Board of Directors
Mr. Andy Luong
Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Date of first appointment as a Director: 22 February 2018
Date of last re-election as a Director: 22 June 2020
Mr. Andy Luong was appointed as Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company on 22 February 2018 and 1 June 2018 respectively.
As the leader of the Group, he has more than 20 years of experience in manufacturing front-end semiconductor components. He acquired his machining skills through his experience in working in his family machining business in Vietnam. He emigrated to the USA from Vietnam in 1979 and shortly after college, started a precision business called Long's Manufacturing, Inc.
Mr. Andy Luong currently is also the Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the UMS Holdings Limited, a SGX Mainboard-listed company.
Mr. Zee Hoong Huay
Executive Director
Date of first appointment as a Director : 27 August 2015
Date of last re-election as a Director : 22 June 2020
Mr. Zee Hoong Huay, the co-founder and Managing Director of JEP Industrades Pte. Ltd. ("JEPI") joined the Company as Executive Director on 27 August 2015.
Mr. Zee is a veteran and proven personnel in the metal tooling and precision engineering industries with over 30 years of industrial experience and capabilities. He cofounded JEPI in 1986 as a trading company that markets cutting tools and spearheads its overall direction, sales and marketing strategies. JEPI is now a leading distributor for cutting tool solutions and distributes its manufactured products to the aerospace, mould and die, and oil and gas segments across the Southeast Asia Pacific regions.
Mr. Zee holds a Diploma in Industrial Management, Manufacturing Engineering.
Mr. Wong Gang
Lead Independent Director
Chairman of Remuneration Committee
Member of Audit Committee
Member of Nominating Committee
Date of first appointment as a Director : 1 November 2006
Date of last re-election as a Director : 22 April 2021
Graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1995 with Bachelor of Law (Hons) and was admitted as advocate and solicitor to the Supreme Court of Singapore in 1996. Mr. Wong Gang joined the Company as an Independent Director on 1 November 2006.
A partner since 2002 at Shook Lin & Bok LLP, a law firm in Singapore, with more than 20 years’ experience advising on a wide range of corporate finance and securities transactions, stock market flotation, securities regulation, corporate governance and compliance for public listed companies, mergers and acquisitions, as well as general corporate legal advisory work.
Head of Shook Lin & Bok LLP’s China practice group and has advised multinational corporations and Singapore companies on cross border transactions in China, as well as on public offerings of securities in Singapore by companies from China, Hong Kong and South-East Asia.
Mr. Kong Chee Keong
Independent Director
Chairman of Audit Committee
Member of Remuneration Committee
Member of Nominating Committee
Date of first appointment as a Director : 25 April 2018
Date of last re-election as a Director : 22 April 2021
Mr. Kong is a Chartered Accountant with more than 27 years of experience of corporate development, private equity investment as well as accounting and corporate governance.
Throughout his career, he held key positions in finance such as chief financial officer and corporate management of several early stage ventures in the renewable energy and healthcare industry. He provided corporate advisory and project management services to both public and private companies. Started his career with Ernst & Young LLP, then private equity arm of ING Barings before progressing into several corporate roles including CEO of Darco Water Technologies Limited, CFO and directors of private and public companies.
Mr. Kong holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Manchester and a Bachelor of Accountancy (Hons) from the National University of Singapore. He is a full member of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants and member of the Singapore Institute of Directors.
Ms. Lee Sook Wai, Irene
Independent Director
Chairperson of Nominating Committee
Member of Audit Committee
Member of Remuneration Committee
Date of first appointment as a Director : 8 July 2019
Date of last re-election as a Director : 26 April 2022
Ms. Irene Lee has many years of experience in the technology industry and has held leadership positions at numerous technology companies. Since 2020, she has been an Investment Officer at Singapore-based family office Little Rain Pte Ltd, participating in Technology Investment & Due Diligence and Charity activities. Last year, she was also elected as a director of Key Point (Singapore) Pte Ltd.
Ms. Irene Lee started her career in 1980 at Varta Singapore. She then worked as the only female engineer in the design, installation, set-up and commissioning of pressure vessels for oil and gas exploration on new platforms for Hughes Offshore. In 1987, Ms. Irene Lee joined Seagate Technology International Inc. where she held various management positions for 24 years. She joined Kulicke & Soffa Inc as Chief Quality Officer in 2012 and expanded her role to SVP Operations till 2019.
Ms. Irene Lee holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Leeds and an Executive MBA from Harvard Business School, in addition to a Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from Singapore Polytechnic.