09 Board of Directors

Board of Directors Simon Israel Chua Sock Koong • Non-executive and non-independent Director • Executive and non-independent Director • Chairman, Singtel Board • Member, Optus Advisory Committee • Chairman, Finance and Investment Committee • Date of appointment: Director on 12 October 2006 and Group Chief • Member, Corporate Governance and Nominations Committee Executive Offi cer (CEO) on 1 April 2007 • Member, Executive Resource and Compensation Committee • Last re-elected: 28 July 2017 • Member, Optus Advisory Committee • Number of directorships in listed companies (including Singtel): 2 • Date of appointment: Director on 4 July 2003 and Chairman on 29 July 2011 • Last re-elected: 29 July 2016 Ms Chua Sock Koong, 61, was appointed Group CEO • Number of directorships in listed companies (including Singtel): 3 on 1 April 2007. She has overall responsibility for the Group’s businesses. Mr Simon Israel, 66, is the Chairman of Singapore Sock Koong joined Singtel in June 1989 as Treasurer Post Limited and a Director of Fonterra Co- before becoming CFO in April 1999. She held the operative Group Limited and Stewardship Asia positions of Group CFO and CEO, International Centre CLG Limited. He is also a member of the from February 2006 to 12 October 2006, when she Governing Board of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public was appointed Deputy Group CEO. Policy and Westpac’s Asia Advisory Board. Simon is a former Director of CapitaLand Limited and Sock Koong sits on the boards of Bharti Airtel Stewardship Asia Centre Pte. Ltd. Limited, Bharti Telecom Limited, the Defence Science and Technology Agency, Cap Vista Pte Ltd Simon was an Executive Director and President of and key subsidiaries of the Singtel Group. She is Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited before retiring also Deputy Chair of the GSMA Board. on 1 July 2011. Prior to that, he was Chairman, Asia Pacifi c of the Danone Group. Simon also held She is a member of the Singapore Management various positions in Sara Lee Corporation before University Board of Trustees, the Public Service becoming President (Household & Personal Care), Commission, the Research, Innovation and Asia Pacifi c. Enterprise Council and the Indonesia-Singapore Business Council. She is also an alternate member Simon was conferred Knight in the Legion of of Singapore’s Council of Presidential Advisers. Honour by the French government in 2007 and Sock Koong holds a Bachelor of Accountancy awarded the Public Service Medal at the Singapore (First Class Honours) from the University of National Day Awards 2011. He holds a Diploma in Singapore. She is a Fellow Member of the Institute Business Studies from The University of the South of Singapore Chartered Accountants and a CFA Pacifi c. charterholder. 15 OVERVIEW BUSINESS REVIEWS GOVERNANCE AND GOVERNANCE SUSTAINABILITY Gautam Banerjee Dominic Barton • Non-executive and independent Director • Non-executive and independent Director • Member, Audit Committee • Member, Finance and Investment Committee • Member, Risk Committee • Member, Risk Committee • Date of appointment: 1 March 2018 • Date of appointment: 25 March 2019 • Last re-elected: 24 July 2018 • Number of directorships in listed companies (including Singtel): 2 • Number of directorships in listed companies (including Singtel): 4 Mr Dominic Barton, 56, is Senior Partner of Mr Gautam Banerjee, 64, is Senior Managing McKinsey & Company. Until July 2018, Dominic Director of Blackstone Group and Chairman of was the Global Managing Partner of McKinsey & Blackstone Singapore Pte Ltd. Gautam spent over Company. Prior to that, he was based in Shanghai PERFORMANCE 30 years with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and as McKinsey’s Asia Chairman and also led the was a Senior Partner and Executive Chairman of Korea offi ce. PwC Singapore until he retired on 31 December 2012. Dominic is the Chairman of Teck Resources Limited. He is the Chancellor of the University of Waterloo, Gautam sits on the boards of Singapore Airlines the Chairman of the International Integrated Limited, Piramal Enterprises Limited, The Indian Reporting Council, the Canadian Minister of Hotels Company Limited, GIC Private Limited and Finance’s Advisory Council on Economic Growth EDBI Pte Ltd. He also serves in several not-for- and the Seoul International Business Advisory FINANCIALS profi t organisations including Defence Science and Council. He is also a trustee of the Brookings Technology Agency, Listings Advisory Committee of Institution, a member of the Singapore Economic the Singapore Exchange, Singapore Legal Service Development Board’s International Advisory Commission and Yale-NUS College. He was a Council, and a member of the boards of Memorial Director of The Straits Trading Company Limited. Sloan Kettering in New York City and the Asia Pacifi c Foundation of Canada. He is one of the Gautam holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) and founders of FCLT Global. an Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) from Warwick University. He is a fellow member of the Institute of Dominic holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in INFORMATION ADDITIONAL Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, the Economics from the University of British Columbia Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants and and a Master of Philosophy in Economics from the Singapore Institute of Directors. Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. Singapore Telecommunications Limited | Annual Report 2019 16 Board of Directors Bobby Chin Venky Ganesan • Non-executive and independent Director • Non-executive and independent Director • Chairman, Audit Committee • Chairman, Technology Advisory Panel • Member, Risk Committee • Member, Finance and Investment Committee • Date of appointment: 1 May 2012 • Date of appointment: 2 February 2015 • Last re-elected: 24 July 2018 • Last re-elected: 24 July 2018 • Number of directorships in listed companies (including Singtel): 4 • Number of directorships in listed companies (including Singtel): 1 Mr Bobby Chin, 67, is a member of the Council Mr Venkataraman (Venky) Ganesan, 45, is one of of Presidential Advisers and Chairman of the the Managing Partners of Menlo Ventures, a top- Corporate Governance Advisory Committee, the tier Silicon Valley venture capital fi rm. He focuses Housing & Development Board, NTUC Fairprice Co- on investments in the consumer and enterprise operative Limited and NTUC Fairprice Foundation sectors. Venky sits on the boards of several Ltd. He is the Deputy Chairman of NTUC Enterprise portfolio companies of Menlo Ventures. He is also Co-operative Limited. He serves on the boards of a Board member of Amobee, Inc., a wholly-owned the Singapore Labour Foundation and Temasek subsidiary of Singtel. Holdings (Private) Limited. He is Chairman of Frasers Commercial Asset Management Ltd and Prior to joining Menlo Ventures, Venky was also a Director of several listed companies, namely Managing Director at Globespan Capital Partners. Yeo Hiap Seng Limited, Ho Bee Land Limited and AV Before Globespan, he was one of the founders of Jennings Limited. Trigo Technologies. He also worked at McKinsey & Company and Microsoft as a Program Manager. Bobby was the Managing Partner of KPMG He is the former Chair of the National Venture Singapore from 1992 until his retirement in Capital Association and a former Director of Gild, September 2005. He was a Director of SembCorp Inc., Handle, Inc., Palo Alto Networks Inc and Industries Ltd. Virident Systems. Bobby holds a Bachelor of Accountancy from the Venky holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics- University of Singapore. He is an associate member Mathematics from Reed College and a Bachelor of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England of Science in Engineering and Applied Science and Wales. (Honours) from the California Institute of Technology in the US. 17 OVERVIEW BUSINESS REVIEWS GOVERNANCE AND GOVERNANCE SUSTAINABILITY Bradley Horowitz Gail Kelly • Non-executive and independent Director • Non-executive and independent Director • Member, Finance and Investment Committee • Member, Audit Committee • Member, Technology Advisory Panel • Member, Executive Resource and Compensation Committee • Date of appointment: 26 December 2018 • Member, Optus Advisory Committee • Number of directorships in listed companies (including Singtel): 1 • Date of appointment: 26 December 2018 • Number of directorships in listed companies (including Singtel): 1 Mr Bradley Horowitz, 54, is Vice President of Product Management at Google, Inc. Over the Mrs Gail Kelly, 63, is a Board Director of Australian past decade, Bradley has led product development Philanthropic Services. She is also a Senior Global Adviser to UBS and a member of the Group of for a wide array of consumer products at Google PERFORMANCE including Gmail, Google Drive & Docs, Blogger, Thirty, Bretton Woods Committee, McKinsey Google Voice, Google News and Google Photos. Advisory Council and PLuS Alliance Advisory Board. Prior to joining Google, he was the Vice President of Gail’s executive banking career spanned 35 years. Advanced Development at Yahoo, Inc. She was the Group Chief Executive Offi cer and Bradley is an independent Director of Issuu, Inc. Managing Director of two banks in Australia – and also a member of the Visiting Committee St.George Bank from 2002 to 2007 and Westpac of Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Banking Corporation from 2008 to 2015. She was Technology. previously a Director of Woolworths Holdings Limited in South Africa, Country Road Group, David FINANCIALS Bradley holds a Bachelor in Computer Science from Jones and the Business

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