Food Empire
Mr. Ong has served on the Board as an Independent Director since April 2000. He is the Chairman of the Remuneration and Nominating Committees and a member of the Audit Committee. As a lawyer and corporate adviser, Mr. Ong brings invaluable legal and business experience to the Board. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1988 and to the Singapore Bar the following year. In his more than 20 years of legal practice, he focused on corporate and commercial law such as mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, restructuring, and corporate finance. In addition to his legal practice, he is also a senior advisor of Alpha Advisory Pte Ltd (a financial and corporate advisory firm) and CEO of Kanesaka Sushi Private Limited which invests in and operates Japanese fine-dining restaurants.
In 1979, Mr. Ong was awarded the President's Scholarship and Police Force Scholarship. He holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) external degree from the University of London and a Bachelor of Science (Hons) degree from the Imperial College of Science and Technology in England. Mr. Ong was a Member of the Parliament of Singapore from January 1997 to April 2011.
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Food Empire
Food Empire Holdings Limited is an investment holding company. The Company is a branding and manufacturing company specializing in the food and beverage industry. The Company operates through five segments: Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and CIS countries (Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan), Indochina and Others. The Company's products portfolio includes instant beverages, such as regular and flavored coffee mixes and cappuccinos, chocolate drinks and flavored fruit teas; frozen convenience food; confectionery, and snacks, such as potato crisps, corn sticks, butter cookies and wafer rolls. The Company also markets instant breakfast cereal. In addition to consumer retail products, the Company also sells raw ingredients, such as instant coffee and non-dairy creamer to other food manufacturers. Its brands include MacCoffee, Petrovskaya Sloboda, Klassno, CafeRite, NutriRite, Hillway, Hyson, OrienBites and Kracks. It exports products to over 50 countries.