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Audrey Yap Su Ming
Independent Director
Audrey Yap Su Ming, appointed as our Independent Director on 24 July 2014, is the managing partner of intellectual property (“IP”) specialist law firm,
Yusarn Audrey. Known as one of Singapore’s outstanding IP experts, Audrey has an international reputation, and has received numerous awards for her
role in shaping IP portfolios of companies and industries, and advising countries on IP policies.
Audrey is the only lawyer in Singapore who has been named one of the World’s Leading IP Strategists in a London based survey conducted by IAM
magazine from 2009 till 2016, 8 years running.
Audrey was listed as one of Singapore’s leading lawyers in the 2008 Who’s Who Legal and named by Euromoney as one of the top Women Business
lawyers in Singapore.
Audrey is a Member of the Board of Directors, IP Office of Singapore, an Advisor of IP ValueLabs and Director of IPOS International, a subsidiary of IPOS.
Audrey served as regional consultant for the World Intellectual Property Organisation (“WIPO”), a UN specialised agency from 2004-2006 to look at
harnessing IP for growth for ASEAN. Audrey was selected by WIPO to serve on a high level expert panel in 2015 on International Technology Transfer
in Geneva under the WIPO Development Agenda framework.
She is an Adjunct Fellow with the IP Academy of Singapore and a Notary Public.
In 2012, Audrey served on the 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.
She is Chairman of the SMEC Innovation Committee, Singapore Business Federation and LES International Vice President.
Audrey is a qualified lawyer in Singapore and Malaysia, a solicitor of England and Wales, and is a registered patent agent in Singapore.
Zainudin Bin Nordin
Independent Director
Zainudin Bin Nordin, appointed as our Independent Director on 28 July 2015, is currently the President of the Football Association of Singapore,
President of the French Alumni of Singapore and the Executive Director of AMS Marine Services Group. Zainudin was Mayor of Central Singapore
District from 2006 to 2011. He was the Member of Parliament for Bishan-Toa Payoh Group Representation Constituency (GRC) for the period from 2001
to 2015.
Zainudin also holds directorships in a number of companies including Mendaki Social Enterprise Network Singapore Pte Ltd, Celestine Management
Pte Ltd and AFF Pte Ltd. He holds a Diplôme d’ingénieur en électronique et électrotechnique (which is equivalent to a Master of Science in Electrical
and Electronics Engineering) from ESIEE Paris, France.
