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FRENCKEN GROUP LIMITED
ANNUAL REPORT 2014
PROFILE OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND
KEY MANAGEMENT
(CONT’D)
Dato’ Gooi Soon Chai is our Non-Independent, Non-Executive Director. He was appointed as our Director on 10 February 2015.
In an illustrious career spanning 30 years, Dato’ Gooi has amassed a wealth of experience and extensive network of contacts in
the global technology industry. He is presently Senior Vice President of Keysight Technologies, overseeing the global operations of
Keysight Technologies’ Order Fulfillment & Infrastructure across the U.S.A., Europe and Asia. Dato’ Gooi was previously Senior Vice
President of Agilent Technologies and President of Agilent Order Fulfillment as well as Vice President and General Manager of Agilent
Technologies’ Electronic Instruments Business Unit.
Dato’ Gooi is a board member of the Malaysian Investment Development Authority. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree with first
class honors in engineering from University of London and a Masters of Science degree in computing science from Imperial College
of Science and Technology, London.
DATO’ GOOI SOON CHAI
CHIA CHOR LEONG
Chia Chor Leong is our Independent Non-Executive Director. He was appointed as our Director on 22 September 2004 and is the
Chairman of the Nominating Committee and a member of our Audit and Remuneration Committees.
Mr Chia has an L.L.B. (Honours) degree from the University of Singapore in 1980 and was admitted as an advocate and solicitor of
the Supreme Court of Singapore in 1981. He has been practising as an advocate and solicitor since 1981, and is presently a director in
Citilegal LLC., a law corporation. Mr Chia is a distinguished solicitor, a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators and a member
of that Institute’s Panel of Arbitrators, and an accredited Adjudicator as well as an accredited Associate Mediator with the Singapore
Mediation Centre. He is also a commissioner for oaths as well as a notary public.
Mr Chia had served as the Chairman of the Criminal Law Advisory Committee (Review) of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Singapore.
He is the Chairman of the External Placement Review Board and a member of the Independent Review Panel, under the Ministry of
Home Affairs. He is also a member of the Singapore Road Safety Council. In recognition of his voluntary public service, Mr Chia was
awarded the Pingat Bakti Masyarakat (Public Service Medal) in 2000 and the Bintang Bakti Masyarakat (Public Service Star) in 2007.
