Wayne Robert Porritt

Mr. Wayne Robert Porritt was appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company on 26 May 2021. Mr. Porritt is an accomplished global risk professional having extensive experience in banking and finance industry specializing in risk, corporate credit, global financial restructuring, and insolvency engagements for corporate and financial institutions. He has held senior positions with Standard Chartered Bank and Bank of America and has extensive exposure across Asia, United States, United Kingdom, Middle East and Africa. He previously worked for Standard Chartered Bank holding the position of regional chief risk officer for the Greater China & North Asia Region, and a non-executive director on the boards of the Bank’s South Korea and Taiwan subsidiaries. Mr. Porritt started his career at the State Bank of New South Wales and then Ernst & Young and Société Générale Australia. Mr. Porritt is a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Mr. Porritt holds various non-executive director and advisory roles in both corporate and not-for-profit organisations. He is an independent non-executive director of Global Invacom Group Limited, a company listed on the Mainboard of the Singapore Exchange Limited (“SGX”) and the London Stock Exchange’s AIM market. He was previously an independent non-executive director of Floatel International Limited, a company headquartered in Norway which owns and operates a fleet of offshore accommodation vessels, and was a non-executive director of Skylight Financial Solutions Pty Limited, an Australian company engaging in the business of provision of financial solutions services. He is also a council member, a member of Finance, Risk & Audit Committee and Vice Chair of Fundraising & Communications Committee of Oxfam Hong Kong, an advisory board member of Hong Kong Children in Need Foundation, company secretary of The Aurora Group-A Ruby Foundation Limited and an Animal Ethics Committee member of QIMR Berghofer.