BOARD OF
DIRECTORS
LEADERSHIP STRUCTURE
RONALD SEAH LIM SIANG, 68
Mr Ronald Seah Lim Siang was appointed an independent
non-executive Director of the H-REIT Manager and HBT
Trustee-Manager on 21 October 2013. He is currently the
Chairman of the Nominating and Remuneration Committees
and a member of the Audit and Risk Committees of the
H-REIT Manager and the HBT Trustee-Manager. Mr Seah
was previously the Chairman of the Risk Management
Committees and a member of the Audit Committees of the
H-REIT Manager and the HBT Trustee-Manager until the
committees were dissolved on 29 December 2015.
Mr Seah sits on the board of directors of other listed
companies, namely, Yanlord Land Group Limited, Global
Investments Limited, PGGWrightson Limited and Telechoice
International Limited. Mr Seah is also the Chairman of
Nucleus Connect Private Ltd.
Over a 25-year period between 1980 and 2005, Mr Seah
had held various senior positions within the AIG Group in
Singapore, initially as AIA Singapore’s Vice-President and
Chief Investment Officer managing the investment portfolio
of AIA Singapore and later as AIG Global Investment
Corporation (Singapore) Ltd’s Vice-President of Direct
Investments. Between 2001 and 2005, Mr Seah was also the
Chairman of the Board of AIGGlobal Investment Corporation
(Singapore) Ltd. From 1978 to 1980, Mr Seah managed the
investment portfolio of Post Office Savings Bank as Deputy
Head of the Investment and Credit Department. Prior to
that, he worked at Singapore Nomura Merchant Bank as an
Assistant Manager with responsibilities covering the sale of
bonds and securities and offshore (ACU) loan administration
for the bank. Between 2002 and 2003, Mr Seah served on
the panel of experts of the Commercial Affairs Department
of Singapore.
Mr Seah graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and Social
Sciences (Second Class Upper in Economics) from the then
University of Singapore in 1975.
RONALD NATHANIEL ISSEN, 54
Mr Ronald Nathaniel Issen was appointed a
non-independent and non-executive Director of the H-REIT
Manager and the HBT Trustee-Manager on 7 April 2014.
Mr Issen is currently a non-executive Director and
Deputy Chairman of City e-Solutions Limited. He is a
non-executive Director of Capella Hotel Group Asia Pte. Ltd.,
a non-executive Director of Auric Pacific Group Limited
and Managing Director of Issen & Company.
Mr Issen has served in the past, based in Hong Kong, as
a Senior Advisor with private equity group Apollo Global
Management LLC, and has also served on the Executive
Management Committee of eSun Holdings Limited.
He began his career with Smith Barney and the Boston
Consulting Group and later worked for then-Banque
Indosuez and its successor entities. In the preceding 3-year
period, Mr Issen was a non-executive and non-independent
Director of Food Junction Holdings Limited until
December 2013.
Mr Issen holds a Master of Business Administration from
Stanford University, where he was an EJ Gallo Foundation
Fellow, and holds a Bachelor of Arts from Williams College,
cum laude with honors. He also serves as Chapter Head/
President and as a member of the Board of Directors of the
Stanford GSB Chapter of Hong Kong Limited.
Executive Boardroom, Novotel Singapore Clarke Quay
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