Directors
Poh Kiat
Chairman and Independent Non-Executive Director –
Appointed to Board on 26 August 2009 and Chairman on 27 November 2009
Mr. Poh holds a Certified Diploma in Accounting and Finance from the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants, United Kingdom, a Diploma in Management Studies from the Singapore Institute of Management, and a Diploma in Civil Engineering from the Singapore Polytechnic.
Mr. Poh has over 30 years’ experience at senior management level in the construction, real estate development, manufacturing and financial industries. From 1998, he was Managing Director of Singapore Stock Exchange listed Teamsphere Limited, leading the strategic management and business development of the Company prior to Delong Steel’s successful reverse acquisition of Teamsphere Limited in 2005. He has also held senior positions in corporate finance and mezzanine capital investment companies in Malaysia.
Since 2005, Mr. Poh has managed a Singapore based investment advisory company that focuses on participating in strategic stakes in listed companies. He is not a director, currently or in the past three years, of any other ASX listed companies. Age 56.
Kit Foo Chye
Non-Executive Director – Appointed 16 November 2006
Mr Chye specialises in advising both public and private companies on acquisitions, mergers, capital raisings and balance sheet restructures. He has managed a significant number of initial public offers and secondary market capital raisings, his main strengths being in the restructuring and financing of entities, including the preparation of prospectuses and other requirements for listings on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange and the ASX. Mr Chye is an accountant by profession with 15 years’ experience in the management and administration of public listed companies.
He is a director of Rocklands Richfield Ltd (ASX: RCI).
Freddie Heng
Non-Executive Director – Appointed 29 January 2008
Mr Kim Chuan Freddie Heng is a Chartered Accountant and has a BSc (Economics) from the London School of Economics. He worked with an international accounting firm in London and Singapore.
Mr Heng is currently a director at Noel Gift International Limited, a company which was listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange in 1993. Prior to that, he was an Executive Director (Finance) at Van Der Horst Limited from 1992 to 2000. During this period he oversaw the structuring of four oil pipeline and storage depot projects in Indonesia. He also oversaw the successful issue of floating rate notes to financial institutions in East Asia to fund the first of those projects.
For the past seven years Freddie has pursued his own interests in investments, primarily in listed companies. He is not a director of any other ASX listed company.
Andrew Metcalfe, (B.Bus, CPA, FCIS)
Company Secretary – Appointed 7 Apr 2009
Mr Metcalfe has over 23 years experience in finance and accounting and over 14 years as Company Secretary of a number of ASX listed companies. He is employed by Accosec Consultants, a specialist service provider of Company Secretarial, Governance and Corporate Administration Services to public and small cap ASX listed companies, assisting with corporations act and listing rule compliance, share registry management, board and general meeting services, accounting and statutory report preparation and ensuring companies maintain a proper corporate governance environment.
Mr Metcalfe is a CPA and is an active member and Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries of Australia. Andrew has worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers, British Gas (UK), Swiss Bank Corporation (UK), and various small to medium ASX listed, Canadian listed and Australian public companies. His experience includes Resources, Energy, Property, Retail, Entertainment, IT, Environmental, and Finance Industries. Andrew does not participate in the operational decision making of the company and assists Synergy in company secretarial processes and procedures, including corporate governance matters.