Annual Report 2024 1 1 2 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE REPORT All newly appointed Directors will undergo an orientation programme where the Director would be briefed on the Group’s strategic direction, governance practices, business and organisation structure, and participate in an external course detailing the expected duties of a director of a listed company. To get a better understanding of the Group’s business, the Directors will also be given the opportunity to visit the Group’s operational facilities and meet with Management, whenever required. A new Director who has no prior experience as a director of an issuer listed on the SGX-ST must also undergo mandatory training in his roles and responsibilities as prescribed by the SGX-ST. All Directors are required to undergo a one-time training on sustainability. All Directors have not been on the Company’s board for more than three years. Except for Ms Mae Heng and Mr Pong Chen Yih, the rest of the Directors of the Company did not have prior experience holding directorship(s) in public listed companies in Singapore. To prepare and familiarise herself with the roles and responsibilities of Directors of a public listed company, Ms Beverley Smith, who was appointed in August 2023, has participated in the Listed Company Director courses conducted by the Singapore Institute of Directors (the “SID”). Directors are also regularly updated with the latest professional developments in relation to the Listing Rules and other applicable regulatory updates or amendments to relevant laws, rules and regulations to ensure the compliance of the same by all Directors. In 2024, the Directors attended the following: John d’Abo (1) Singapore Institute of Directors - LED 5: Audit Committee Essentials (2) Squire Patton Boggs - Data Privacy Training (3) KnowBe4 - Reality Hijacked: Deepfakes, GenAI, and the Emergent Threat of Synthetic Media (4) KnowBe4 - Everything You Can Do to Fight Social Engineering and Phishing (5) KnowBe4 - All the Ways the Internet is Surveilling You (6) KnowBe4 - Combatting Rogue URL Tricks: Quickly Identify and Investigate the Latest Phishing Attacks (7) Nanyang Technological University - Nanyang Business School Knowledge Lab Carbon Credits and the Race to Net Zero (8) Rystad Energy - The road ahead: what’s in store for energy in 2025? Pong Chen Yih (1) Allen & Gledhill - Joint Seminar: Independence of Directors - Theory vs Practice Mae Heng (1) D.S. Cheung & Co., Solicitors - Overview of directors’ duties in a listed company under Hong Kong Listing Rules (2) Securities Investors Association Singapore - Introduction to Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) (3) Allen & Gledhill - Joint Seminar: Independence of Directors - Theory vs Practice LED: Listed Entity Director
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