Board of Directors

The IHC Board meets regularly to deliberate on the strategic direction of IHC including significant acquisitions and disposals, approve the annual budget, review IHC&rsquo s performance, approve the release of the quarterly and annual results, as well as other important and material decisions of significant impact to IHC.

Ms Lim Beng Choo &ndash Executive Director

Ms Lim Beng Choo joined IHC as the Executive Director in January 2016, and is responsible for the overall operations and the future strategic development of the Group. She will be providing leadership to the management and oversee the Group&rsquo s healthcare services thrust into overseas markets, through the development of medical real estate, asset management and business acquisitions.

Ms Lim has extensive knowledge of financial accounting and corporate finance, with almost 30 years of experience in these fields. Subsequent to her initial auditing roles in various public accounting firms, she took on the appointment as Financial Controller for over 22 years in various organisations such as the Unistar Group of Companies, Cityneon Holdings Limited, Mount Faber Leisure Group Pte Ltd, and Healthway Medical Corporation Limited (&ldquo HMC&rdquo ), overseeing the Controller functions of these organisations, both local and overseas, including China, Australia, Mauritius, Middle East, Philippines, and Malaysia. Having brought various organisations through their IPO listings, Ms Lim was the key driver in the setting up of various frameworks in these organisations, including the compliance and reporting frameworks, treasury management systems, business and operational monitoring and improvements, and controls processes. During her term as a financial controller in HMC, Ms Lim was a key contributor to the Group&rsquo s growth into the largest outpatient services provider in Singapore.

As the Executive Director of IHC, Ms Lim is also serving as director for 32 IHC subsidiaries for its operations in China, Malaysia, Australia, Japan, and Singapore. Prior to her appointment in IHC, Ms Lim has also served in various directorship appointments for over 34 healthcare companies over the past decade.

Ms Lim is currently a Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants.

Lim Thien Su Gerald &ndash Non-Independent and Non-Executive Director

Mr Gerald Lim is the Chief Executive Officer (Trade Credit, Financial & Political Risks &ndash Asia) of Marsh. Previously, he served as the Chief Executive Officer of AON Taiwan and AON Singapore. Mr Lim has also served on various grassroots and non-government organisations. He currently sits on the Boards of SGX-listed Hi-P International Ltd and Blackgold Natural Resources Ltd.

Mr Lim is currently the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Slovenia and the President of the Singapore Insurance Broker Association. He also participates actively in the community. He serves as Chairman of Tampines Central Citizens Consultative Committee and is a member of the Council of Education of the Methodist Church in Singapore.

Mr Lim did his undergraduate studies at the National University of Singapore, obtained a Masters of Arts from George Washington University and attended executive development programmes at Insead (France) and Kellogg (Chicago).

Chia Chee Hyong Leonard &ndash Independent Director

Mr Leonard Chia is the managing director of Asia Ascent Law Corporation, Singapore and has been an Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore since 1991. Having been in practice for over 25 years, he has handled numerous commercial and corporate disputes, both local as well as international, in complex litigation and arbitration involving oil and gas disputes marine insurance and admiralty and shipping disputes cross border and international sale and supply contracts building contract and construction disputes corporate disputes including disputes pertaining to issues under the Companies Act (Chapter 50), parent company and subsidiary arrangements, shareholder disputes and disputes involving directors and directors&rsquo duties as well as employment disputes.

Mr Chia is also an associate mediator of the Singapore Mediation Centre and a Court appointed volunteer mediator in the State Courts.

Mr Chia graduated from University of Buckingham, United Kingdom with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Business Studies, Diploma in Law from City University, United Kingdom. Mr Chia is a Baristar-at-Law of the Inner Temple.

(The above is a direct extraction from IHC homepage. It lists only the above 3 as Board Members. How can a public-listed company have only 3 Board Members, and 1 of them is the CEO? Does this sound right for good governance?