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Trustee-Manager
Board of Directors
Human Resources; Education and Research; Administration,
Infrastructure and Facilities; and Infosys Leadership Institute.
Earlier to this he was the CFO of Infosys Limited.
Mr Pai was a Trustee of the International Financial Reporting
Standards (IFRS) Foundation, the body that oversees the
International Accounting Standards Board.
Mr Pai holds a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from St.
Joseph’s College of Commerce, Bangalore, and a Bachelor’s
degree in law (LLB) from Bangalore University. He is also a
fellow member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
8. Chong Siak Ching
Non-Executive Director
Date of appointment: 11 June 2007
Ms Chong, 53, is a member of the Investment Committee,
Nominating Committee, and Human Resource and
Remuneration Committee.
Ms Chong has been the President and CEO of Ascendas
Pte Ltd since 2000. She sits on the Board of Ascendas Pte
Ltd and its subsidiaries. Ascendas pioneered Singapore’s
frst business space trust, Ascendas REIT which was listed
in November 2002, and Asia’s frst India-based property
business trust, a-iTrust which was listed in August 2007.
She is the Deputy Chairman of SPRING Singapore, the
enterprise development agency of Singapore, as well as an
Independent Director on theBoard of SingaporePressHoldings
Limited. She is also a Board member of Jurong Health Services
and a member of National University of Singapore (“NUS”)
Board of Trustees and the Yale-NUS College Governing
Board. Previously Jurong Town Corporation’s Deputy CEO,
she has extensive experience in business space management.
Ms Chong studied Estate Management at the NUS where,
in 1981, she graduated with honours and was awarded a
Gold Medal by the Singapore Institute of Surveyors and
Valuers. In 1991, Ms Chong obtained a Masters in Business
Administration from the same university. Ms Chong completed
the Advanced Management Programme at Harvard Business
School in 1998. In recognition of her unwavering commitment
and service to her alma mater, she was conferred the NUS
Distinguished Alumni Award by the Faculty of Architecture
and Building Management in 1999, and the NUS Distinguished
Alumni Service Award in 2009.
In March 2009, Ms Chong was recognised as the “Outstanding
CEO of the Year” in the Singapore Business Awards 2009 for her
steadfast leadership and dynamism in establishing Ascendas
as Asia’s leading provider of business space across Asia.
9. Jonathan Yap Neng Tong
Executive Director & CEO
Date of appointment: 11 June 2007
Mr Yap, 44, is the CEO of the Trustee-Manager and a member
of the Investment Committee.
Mr Yap has been with Ascendas Group since 2004 and was
appointed CEO (India Funds) from 1 June 2007, managing
a-iTrust and Ascendas India Development Trust, a private fund
focusing on integrated real estate development in India. He is
also the Executive Vice President, Real Estate Funds, focusing
on the formation of new funds for Ascendas and developing
synergies across the funds. Mr Yap was previously CEO, India
Operations while also managing a-iTrust when it was a private
fund, then known as Ascendas India IT Parks Trust.
Prior to that, he was with the Australian Stock Exchange-listed
Lend Lease Corporation since 1997 and his last held position
was Investment Director of its Asian real estate investment
business and concurrently, Deputy Fund Manager of Asia
Pacifc Investment Company I and II (private funds focusing
on Asian real estate). From 1992 to 1997, Mr Yap was with
Tan Chong Realty Pte Ltd (the real estate arm of the Hong
Kong Stock Exchange-listed Tan Chong Group) and the Inland
Revenue Authority of Singapore.
Mr Yap holds a Bachelor of Science in Estate Management
(Honours) degree and a Masters of Science in Project
Management from the National University of Singapore.
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