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PROFILE OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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Dato’ Mark William Ling Lee Meng
Malaysian, aged 50
(Senior Independent Non-Executive Director)
Dato’ Mark
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was appointed to the Board on 16 June 2010. He is the Chairman of the Nomination Committee, Remuneration Committee and
Audit Committee. Dato’ Mark was born in Sarawak, Malaysia to a family rooted in business and commerce. The Ling family founded Hock Hua
Bank and Kong Ming Bank, being the predecessors to Malaysia’s anchor banks of today, and have been extensively involved in timber
concessions in Borneo as well as the Pacific islands, mining and property development in Australia and New Zealand.
Upon completing his high school education at The Southport School, Australia, Dato’ Mark started his career in Kong Ming Bank Berhad
(which had since been restructured to form part of the then EON Bank Group which merged with Hong Leong Bank Berhad today) on 2
February 1984 as a Marketing Director where he was involved in project finance transactions in a number of industry sectors, including
privatisation of public infrastructure, power and telecommunications. Dato’ Mark left the banking industry as a Marketing Director on 24
February 1988. Since then, Dato Mark has been focusing on the development of greenfield power projects in the Asia Pacific region.
Dato’ Mark is highly experienced in regional business development and strategy. He was appointed as the Strategic Planning Advisor for Asia
Pacific by Powergen International in 1996. Part of his role as the Advisor was to create proprietary deal flow to develop Powergen’s power
project portfolio in the Asia Pacific region. Dato’ Mark led the execution of the acquisition of Malakoff Berhad, and was appointed as an
Executive Director on 2 April 2001.
On 1 August 2001, Dato’ Mark left Malakoff Berhad to set up a private equity firm specialising in the energy sectors. He has been involved
with strategic investments focused primarily in the emerging economies in the Asia Pacific and Africa regions. His ventures include, inter alia,
developing proprietary technology in oil and gas drilling, renewable energy power plant utilising biomass waste and currently, a steel
manufacturing facility.
Dato’ Mark does not hold any directorship in any other public company. He has no family relationship with any director and/or major
shareholder of MClean and does not have any conflict of interest with MClean. Further, he has never been convicted of any offences within
the past ten years other than traffic offences, if any.
Dr Ho Choon Hou
Singaporean, aged 41
(Independent Non-Executive Director)
Dr Ho Choon Hou
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was appointed to the Board on 17 August 2011 and is a member of the Audit Committee.
Dr Ho holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (Honours) from the University of Sheffield, UK and a Master of Medicine (Surgery) from the
National University of Singapore. He obtained membership into the Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh) and his Masters of Business
Administration (Honours) from the University of Chicago.
He is currently attached to Southern Capital Group Limited as an Executive Director, a private equity firm, which is principally involved in the
management of investments for institutional investors.
Prior to joining Southern Capital Group Limited, Dr Ho held various portfolios in the healthcare industry. From 2004 to 2007, he served as
Executive Director at National Healthcare Group. He was also the co-founder of Medfolders which was acquired by NovaMSC in 2000 and the
co-founder of Cordlife (listed on the ASX). He is also the non-executive Chairman of Cordlife Group Limited listed on the Singapore Stock
Exchange.
Dr Ho does not hold any directorship in any other public company. He has no family relationship with any director and/or major shareholder of
MClean and does not have any conflict of interest with MClean. Further, he has never been convicted of any offences within the past ten
years other than traffic offences, if any.