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The Board is entrusted with the responsibility for the overall
management of the Trustee-Manager, and compr ises
seven directors all of whom have prior experience in being
a director of a public listed company (whether in Singapore
or overseas). As detailed in the following biographies, the
Board has a range of commercial experience, including
expertise in fund management and the property industry.
In July 2011, Dr. Tan Khee Giap was appointed as an
Independent Non-Executive Director to the Board and as a
member of the Audit Committee following Mr. Wong Fong
Fui’s formal resignation from the TCT Board. The Board
led by Chairman Richard Barrett thanked Mr. Wong for his
valuable contribution in the first 12 months of TCT’s listing
and welcomed Dr. Tan Khee Giap to the Board.
1. MR. RICHARD BARRETT
Chairman and Non-Executive Director
Appointed 18 February 2010
Mr. Barrett is Managing Director of Treasury Holdings,
which he co-founded in 1989 and owns 50.0% of i ts
shares. He moved to China in 2004 to establish TCT and
since its successful listing in Singapore in June 2010, splits
his time between China and Treasury Holdings’ global
head of fice in Europe.
Mr. Barrett star ted his career in Agricommodities with
R Barrett & Co Ltd, his family holding company from 1977
to 1987. Since 1987, he has been in the investment sector
beginning with Rivoli Investment Co. Mr. Barrett has been
a non-executive director of Real Estate Opportunities plc
since 2001, a London Stock Exchange l isted proper ty
company, in which Treasur y Holdings has a 50.75%
interest. He is also a director/shareholder of a number
of private wind farms, waste-to-energy and solar energy
technology companies in Ireland and Europe.
Mr. Barret t was awarded the Ernst & Young Industr y
Entrepreneur of the Year in 2007. He served on the Advisory
Board of the Graduate School of Design at Har vard
University from 2005 to 2008 and is a Senior Research
Fellow of the Asian Competitiveness Institute at the Lee
Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore, part of the
National University of Singapore. Mr. Barrett has been a
Guest Lecturer at Harvard University, ESADE Barcelona,
Trinity College Dublin, Kings Inns Dublin, the Society of
Chartered Surveyors Ireland, Royal Society of Chartered
Surveyors (HK), United Nations Sustainability Conference in
South East Asia and at numerous other conferences.
Mr. Barrett is a double graduate in Economics, holds a
postgraduate degree in Law from Trinity College, Dublin
and is a Barrister at Law of the King’s Inns, Dublin. He
holds a Diploma in French Language from Insti tut de
Francais, Vi l lefranche sur Mer, France and a Diploma
in Spanish Language f rom ESADE, Barcelona, Spain.
Mr. Barrett has also authored numerous publications and
articles on Real Estate, China and Renewable Energy.
Front: From L to R:
Mr. Stuart Leckie
Mr. Richard Barrett
Back:
Mr. Rory Williams
Mr. Richard David
Mr. Ray Horney
Mr. Jen Shek Voon
Dr. Tan Khee Kiap
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Trustee-Manager’s
Board Of Directors
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