Board Of Directors

Mr Steven Loh was appointed to the Board of Far East Group in 1990. He has close to 34 years of experience in the HVAC&R industry. He is responsible for the formulation and execution of the Group's business strategies, strategic directions and expansion plans, as well as managing the Group's overall business development and financial performance.

Mr Loh joined the Group in 1990 as a Retail Sales Executive and has progressively advanced through the ranks to become the Group's Assistant Managing Director in 2000, overseeing its operations and financial performance. In 2003, he was appointed as the Group Managing Director. On 3 December 2024, the Group established a Board Sustainability Committee (the "BSC"), of which Mr Loh is a member. Following Ms Karen Loh's re-designation on 2 January 2025, Mr Loh was re-designated as the Group's Executive Chairman and CEO on the same day.

Mr Loh graduated from the University of the Pacific, Stockton, California, with a degree in Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1987. In 1996, he obtained a Master of Business Administration from the University of South Australia. On 24 June 2011, he was awarded the Outstanding Entrepreneur in the Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Award 2011.

Mr David Leng joined the Group as Business Development Director and Assistant Group Managing Director in 2004, and was appointed to the Board in 2005. He is responsible for overseeing the Group's sales, strategic marketing and business development, as well as growing the Group's business in the South-East Asia region.

Mr Leng has held several managerial positions in the automotive and leasing industry since the start of his career before joining Barcelona Motors Pte Ltd and Perocom Motors Pte Ltd (both of which are distributors of new motor vehicles) as the General Manager, where he was mainly responsible for the two companies' day-to-day operations and financial performance from 1995 to 2003.

Mr Leng obtained his Industrial Technician Certificate in Mechanical Engineering from the Singapore Technical Institute in 1977 and his Certificate in Sales and Marketing from the Marketing Institute of Singapore in 1990.

Ms Karen Loh was appointed to the Board on 28 June 2011 and was appointed as the Non-Executive Chairman of the Group on 24 February 2017. On 2 January 2025, Ms Loh was re-designated as Vice-President (China) and Executive Director, overseeing the overall business strategy, operation and development of the Group's business in China.

Ms Loh commenced her career as a management trainee with the Group in 1988. From 1992 to 1993, she was an accounts executive of the Group and was responsible for the accounts of the Group's subsidiaries. From 1993 to 1997, she pursued her studies in Australia. From 1997 and 2000 onwards, she became the Director of Far East Refrigeration (Hong Kong) Limited and Far East Refrigeration Limited, respectively.

Ms Loh obtained an Advanced Certificate in Accounting from Alexander College in 1994.

Mr Tan Soon Liang was appointed to the Board on 24 May 2024. He is the Founder and Managing Director of Ti Ventures Pte. Ltd., which invests in growing businesses and partnering business owners through leading its corporate development, business transformation and mergers and acquisitions functions since May 2009. He is also the Managing Director of Omnibridge Capital Pte. Ltd. since December 2014, which focuses on early stage angel and venture capital investments.

Mr Tan is currently an Independent Director of ISDN Holdings Limited, ValueMax Group Limited, Stamford Land Corporation Limited, Choo Chiang Holdings Limited and EuroSports Global Limited.

Mr Tan graduated with a Bachelor of Business (Honours) Degree, majoring in Financial Analysis from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in 1997 and a Master of Business Administration Degree from University of Hull, United Kingdom in 2001. He is a CFA ® charterholder from CFA Institute, United States of America since 2000 and a member of the Singapore Institute of Directors since 2022.

He also serves as the President of NTU Nanyang Business School Alumni Association and a Board Director of Spectra Secondary School. He also serving on the School Advisory Committee of Bukit Panjang Government High School.

Mr Wilson Ho was appointed as the Lead Independent Director of the Board on 1 September 2020. He is currently the Managing Director, Asia of Westcon-Comstor, a value-added global technology distributor of category-leading solutions in Security, Collaboration, Networking and Data Centre, where he is responsible for managing the business across 12 countries in Asia.

His experiences over the last 20 years include working in the capital markets group of DBS Bank Ltd, holding the position as a Chief Financial Officer of a SGX-Main Board listed company, as well as building and managing a regional IT distribution group.

Mr Ho graduated from Nanyang Technological University in 1994 with a Bachelor of Accountancy (Hons) degree. He is a Chartered Accountant, Singapore (CA Singapore) and a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

Ms Linda Hoon was appointed to the Board on 24 May 2024. On 3 December 2024, she was appointed the Chairman of the BSC.

Ms Hoon has over three decades of experience as a C-suite executive and has worked in several SGX-listed large cap corporations in financial industry, conglomerate, e-commerce, hospitality and healthcare. Ms Hoon is currently an Independent Director of Kidney Dialysis Foundation and Tru-Marine Pte Ltd. Ms Hoon is also an Adjunct Lecturer teaching business law at the National University of Singapore, School of Business and a part-time law lecturer at Kaplan Singapore. Ms Hoon was called to the Singapore Bar in 1987 and is currently practising as an Advocate & Solicitor and also a director with Oaks Legal LLC.