Mr. Andy Luong was appointed as Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company on 22 February 2018 and 1 June 2018 respectively.

As the leader of the Group, he has more than 20 years of experience in manufacturing front-end semiconductor components. He acquired his machining skills through his experience in working in his family machining business in Vietnam. He emigrated to the USA from Vietnam in 1979 and shortly after college, started a precision business called Long’s Manufacturing, Inc.

Mr. Andy Luong currently is also the Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the UMS Holdings Limited, a SGX Mainboard-listed company.

Mr. Zee Hoong Huay, the co-founder and Managing Director of JEP lndustrades Pte. Ltd. (“JEPI”) joined the Company as Executive Director on 27 August 2015.

Mr. Zee is a veteran and proven personnel in the metal tooling and precision engineering industries with over 30 years of industrial experience and capabilities. He cofounded JEPI in 1986 as a trading company that markets cutting tools and spearheads its overall direction, sales and marketing strategies. JEPI is now a leading distributor for cutting tool solutions and distributes its manufactured products to the aerospace, mould and die, and oil and gas segments across the Southeast Asia Pacific regions.

Mr. Zee holds a Diploma in Industrial Management, Manufacturing Engineering.

Mr. Kong is a Chartered Accountant of Singapore with over three decades of corporate development, accounting, and governance experience across various industries. He holds a Bachelor of Accountancy from the National University of Singapore and a MBA from the University of Manchester. He is a member of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants and a fellow member of the Singapore Institute of Directors.

His career commenced at Ernst & Young LLC in 1991, culminating in the role of Audit Manager by 1997. He then progressed through the private equity arm of ING Barings at Baring Communications Equity Asia Pte Ltd until 2004 when he was a Senior Investment Manager. Following this, he transitioned into leadership roles at NewBiomed Pte Ltd, a biotech development start-up, as its Director and CFO, and at Top Global Limited as CFO in 2006. In 2007, he took on similar responsibilities at HealthTrends Medical Investments Pte Ltd, a group specializing in medical aesthetics and specialty treatments, serving as its Director, Senior Vice President of corporate development, and CFO. He started Penvest Co Pte Ltd in 2011, where he owned and developed several clean energy projects. He then led Darco Water Technologies Limited as Executive Director and CEO from 2021 to 2022.

Currently, Mr. Kong also serves as an Independent Director at Ever Glory United Holdings Limited where he chairs the remuneration committee and is a member of its audit and nominating committee.

Ms. Irene Lee has many years of experience in the technology industry and has held leadership positions at numerous technology companies. Since 2020, she has been an Investment Officer at Singaporebased family office Little Rain Pte Ltd, participating in Technology Investment & Due Diligence. Ms. Lee also holds director positions at Key Point (S) Pte Ltd and Amethyst Micrometric (S) Pte Ltd, starting in 2022. She has been a board member at Comet Holding AG since 2023.

Ms. Lee has 39 years of professional experience. She started her career in 1980 at Varta Singapore. She then worked as the only female engineer in the design, installation, set-up and commissioning of pressure vessels for oil and gas exploration on new platforms for Hughes Offshore. In 1987, Ms. Lee joined Seagate Technology International Inc. where she held various management positions for 24 years including Vice President of Quality. She joined Kulicke & Soffa Inc as Chief Quality Officer in 2012 and expanded her role to SVP Global Operations till 2019.

Ms. Lee holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Leeds, UK and an Executive MBA from Harvard Business School, in addition to a Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from Singapore Polytechnic.

Mr. Tan Wei Shyan is our Independent Director, Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and member of the Nominating Committee and Audit Committee, was appointed as a director on 24 April 2024. Mr. Tan is presently a partner at Shook Lin & Bok LLP, a firm of advocates and solicitors in Singapore, and has over 20 years of experience in the legal profession. His legal practice focuses on corporate finance and securities transactions, including initial public offerings (IPOs), dual/secondary listings, strategic investments, corporate restructuring, fund-raising exercises and securities regulation compliance by public listed companies. He is also active in commercial transactions covering various areas of corporate practice, including joint ventures and acquisitions and disposals of corporate assets involving public and private companies.

Prior to joining Shook Lin & Bok LLP in 2005, Mr. Tan practised as a legal associate at Ang & Partners, a firm of advocates and solicitors in Singapore. He currently also serves as an Independent Director of Mainboard listed Anchun International Holdings Ltd.. He is currently a member of the Sengkang West Citizens’ Consultative Committee and was a member of the Inquiry Panel of the Singapore Law Society from 2011 to 2024.

Mr. Tan graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) from the University of Exeter in 2001, and was admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore in 2003.