Natarajan Subramaniam

Biography

Mr Natarajan Subramaniam is the Non-Executive Chairman of the Board and a Non-Executive Director of the Company. Prior to the appointment of Non-Executive Chairman, he was the Deputy Chairman of the Board. Mr Subramaniam was first appointed a Director on 15 November 1995 and was last re-appointed on 29 April 2016. He is also Chairman of the Audit, Compensation and Investment Committees and a member of the Nomination Committee of the Company. The Nomination Committee and the Board, after comprehensive review and taking into consideration the views of a special committee of the Board formed to evaluate the true independence of long serving directors as set out in the Company's Corporate Governance Report, consider Mr Subramaniam to be an independent director. Mr Subramaniam began his accounting career in 1965 as a trainee with Blackborn Mellstrom & Co, London and subsequently with Ernst & Young, London. He joined Ernst & Young, Singapore in January 1971 and was appointed partner in July 1976, a position he held till retirement in December 1993. Mr Subramaniam continued as an associate of the firm from January 1994 until December 2003. His major areas of experience include audit, investigations, IPOs, mergers and acquisitions. He was for a number of years a member of the Accounting Standards Committee of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore (now known as the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants) and a member of the Accounting and Auditing Standards, Quality Control and Professional Development Committees of Ernst & Young International.

Research Interest

Business, Finance management