Board of Directors

Mr Kuok Khoon Hong, 69, is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Group. He is overall in charge of the management of the Group with a particular focus on new business developments. He has extensive experience in the industry and has been involved in the grains, edible oils and oilseeds businesses since 1973. Mr Kuok has completed many projects involving the establishment of oil palm plantations in Asia and Africa, as well as the processing of grains, edible oils and oilseeds. Mr Kuok graduated from the then University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree. Mr Kuok was appointed to the Board on 24 March 2006 and was last re-elected on 26 April 2017.

Ms Teo La-Mei, 59, is responsible for overseeing the Group’s legal and corporate secretarial functions. She has been the Group Legal Counsel and Company Secretary of the Company since August 2009. Ms Teo was the Company Secretary and Legal Counsel for the Shangri-La Hotel Limited Group of companies from August 1988 to December 2018. Ms Teo is a director of Shangri-La Hotel Limited, a position she has held since June 2001. She holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) degree from the National University of Singapore and is a member of the Corporate Governance & Regulatory Committee of the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce. Ms Teo was appointed to the Board on 21 February 2019.

Mr Kuok Khoon Hua, 40, is the Chairman of Kerry Holdings Limited, the main investment holding company of the Kuok Group in Hong Kong. He is also a director of Kerry Group Limited and Kuok (Singapore) Limited; an executive director of Kerry Logistics Network Limited and a non-executive director of Kerry Properties Limited (both of which are companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange) and an independent director of Sea Limited (a company listed on the New York Stock Exchange). Mr Kuok holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Harvard University. Mr Kuok was appointed to the Board on 1 July 2016 and was re-elected on 26 April 2017.

Mr Yeo Teng Yang, 77, is the Lead Independent Director. He has a varied international career spanning senior positions in the Ministry of Finance and the Monetary Authority of Singapore, Ambassador to the European Community in Brussels as well as Executive Board Director of the Asian Development Bank, Manila and Advisor at the International Monetary Fund, Washington D.C. besides his extensive banking experience. From 1995 to 2000, he was the Senior Executive Vice President of United Overseas Bank Ltd, Singapore, with management responsibilities in treasury, international banking business, fund management, stockbroking and risk management. While in banking, he was a founding Board Member and served as the Board Chairman during 1990-1992 of the Singapore International Monetary Exchange which has since merged into the current Stock Exchange of Singapore. He also served as a Board Member of Korea First Bank, South Korea, from 2000 to 2005. Mr Yeo holds a Bachelor of Social Science Honours degree from the then University of Singapore and a Master’s degree in Economics from Yale University, USA. Mr Yeo was appointed to the Board on 14 July 2006 and was last re-elected on 28 April 2016.

Mr Kwah Thiam Hock, 72, sits on the boards of various companies including IFS Capital Limited, Excelpoint Technology Ltd and Teho International Inc Ltd. He started his career in 1964 with the Port of Singapore Authority. From 1969 to 1970, he was an Assistant Accountant with the Singapore Textile Industries Limited. Subsequently, he served as the Secretary and Assistant Accountant in Singapore Spinners Private Limited from 1970 to 1973 and later in 1974, he moved on to become the Regional Accountant and Deputy Manager of its related company, IMC (Singapore). Mr Kwah left to join ECICS Holdings Ltd in 1976 and rose to become its President and Chief Executive Officer. He stepped down from ECICS Holdings Ltd in 2003 to assume the position of Principal Officer and Chief Executive Officer of ECICS Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of listed IFS Capital Limited. Mr Kwah retired from ECICS Limited in December 2006 but he remains as advisor of ECICS Limited. He is a Fellow, Certified Public Accountant of Australia, ISCA and ACCA. He graduated from the then University of Singapore in 1973 with a Bachelor of Accountancy degree. Mr Kwah was appointed to the Board on 14 July 2006 and was last re-elected on 26 April 2017.

Mr Lim Siong Guan, 71, is a professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore and a Senior Fellow of the Singapore Civil Service College. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Singapore University of Technology and Design. He is also Chairman of Swiss Re Asia Pte Ltd, the Asian subsidiary of Swiss Reinsurance, and a Member of the International Board of the stars Foundation, a Swiss foundation that promotes leadership development for leaders of the next generation. Mr Lim is the Founder Chairman of Honour (Singapore), a charity that seeks to promote a culture of honour and honouring for the well-being of the nation. In September 2017, Mr Lim was named the Institute of Policy Studies’ fourth SR Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. Mr Lim was the Group President of GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, from 2007 to 2016, and the Head of the Singapore Civil Service from 1999 to 2005. He was the first Principal Private Secretary to Singapore’s founding Prime Minister, Mr Lee Kuan Yew, and was Permanent Secretary in the Ministries of Defence, Education, Finance, and the Prime Minister’s Office. Mr Lim has chaired the Singapore Economic Development Board, the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore, the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority and, the Central Provident Fund Board. He graduated with First Class Honours in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Adelaide and has a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration from the National University of Singapore. Mr Lim was appointed to the Board on 1 January 2018 and was re-elected on 25 April 2018.

Mr Juan R. Luciano, 57, is the Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and CEO of Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM). ADM is one of the world’s leading agricultural processors and food ingredient providers. Mr Luciano joined ADM in 2011 as Executive Vice President and COO. He was named President of ADM in February 2014, and was appointed CEO in January 2015. He became Chairman of the Board in January 2016. Mr Luciano previously spent 25 years at The Dow Chemical Company, where he last served as Executive Vice President and President of the Performance division. Mr Luciano serves on the Boards of Directors of Eli Lilly and Company, where he chairs the Finance Committee and Intersect Illinois, a non-profit economic development organisation created by former Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner. He is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago and the Commercial Club of Chicago. He also serves on the Global Advisory Board of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He holds an industrial engineering degree from the Buenos Aires Institute of Technology. Mr Luciano served as a Non-Executive Director on the Wilmar Board from 20 June 2012 to 28 December 2018. He was appointed Alternate Director to Mr Raymond Guy Young on the Wilmar Board on 28 December 2018.