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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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Annual Report 2014 •
Audrey Yap Su Ming
Proposed Independent Director
to 1995. Following that, he became the
marketing director of APV Asia Pte Ltd, part
of the Invensys PLC global technology and
controls group, before being promoted to
the position of managing director (Greater
China Division) in 1997, a position he held
till 1998.
Mr Wong was an executive director of China
Fashion Holdings Limited from December
2009 to May 2011 and a non-executive
director of Mary Chia Holding Limited from
June 2009 to December 2012. Currently, he
is a non-executive director of Goodland
Group Limited. All these companies are
listed on the SGX Catalist.
Mr Wong holds a Bachelor of Arts (Second
Upper Honours)(Chinese Studies) and
Bachelor of Arts (Economics and Statistics)
degree from the National University of
Singapore. In addition, he holds a Graduate
Diploma in Marketing from the Marketing
Institute of Singapore.
Audrey Yap Su Ming, our proposed
Independent Director, is a practicing lawyer
with more than 20 years of experience.
She is well known amongst her clients &
peers as an astute intellectual property
(“IP”) lawyer and strategist. In 1999 Audrey
co-founded a boutique IP & corporate
law frm Yusarn Audrey, offering legal and
intellectual capital management as part of
an integrated suite of IP solutions.
Audrey’s strengths lie in her ability to shape
her clients’ IP portfolios and worldwide
IP strategies to better extract value and
monetise IP assets.
Audrey was named as one of Singapore’s
leading lawyers in the 2008 Who’s Who
Legal. She is the only Singapore lawyer listed
as one of the World’s Leading IP Strategists
(IAM 250 and IAM 300) by IAM magazine for
six years consecutively (2009 – 2014).
Audrey served as the Regional Consultant
(IP) to the World Intellectual Property
Organisation (WIPO) in 2004 to design
and lead a study involving IP as an
economic tool for ASEAN. She also served
as an external expert for the European
Patent Offce (EPO) under the EC-ASEAN IP
Cooperation Programme in 2004. She is an
Adjunct Fellow of the Intellectual Property
Academy of Singapore and served as an
examiner for the Intellectual Property Offce
of Singapore (IPOS) for the Patents Agents
qualifying exams for several years.
In 2012, Audrey served on IPOS Steering
Committee on a National IP Competency
Framework as well as on the IP Sub
Committee on “Developing a vibrant
market place for IP transactions and
commercialisation” for the purpose of the IP
Hub Master Plan for Singapore, launched in
March 2013.
Audrey is a qualifed lawyer in Singapore
and Malaysia, a solicitor of England and
Wales, and is a registered patent agent in
Singapore. She was elected President of the
Licensing Executives Society Singapore for
2011/2013. She has served as Co-Chair of
the Asia Pacifc Committee LESI, and was
Legal Counsel to the LESI Board from 2013-
2014.