Yoma Strategic Holdings
Appointed to the Board of Yoma Strategic on 24 July 2018, Mr. George Thia is a Non-Executive Independent Director of Yoma Strategic and the Chairman of the Audit and Risk Management Committee, and a member of the Remuneration Committee of Yoma Strategic.
Mr. George Thia has more than 35 years’ experience in merchant banking and financial services, being actively involved in many corporate finance transactions in Singapore and the surrounding region. He is a Chartered Accountant (Singapore) and practiced as an accountant with Cooper Brothers & Co. (now known as PricewaterhouseCoopers).
Mr. Thia is currently a Business Consultant for Mergers & Acquisitions at GAAB Private Limited and Asianic Private Limited and an advisor to a private equity fund focusing on healthcare, eldercare and education. He is also a board member of a non-profit organisation, the National Cancer Centre. He is an Independent Non-Executive Chairman of CH Offshore Limited, a company in the business of offshore supplies and services listed on SGX.
Mr. Thia was formerly a Managing Director at Morgan Grenfell, Merrill Lynch International, Sun Hung Kai Securities and Lum Chang Securities. He was also an Executive Director and Partner of Kay Hian (now UOB Kay Hian Securities). Mr.Thia was the Executive Chairman of two publicly listed companies and had served as an Independent Director and the Chairman of Audit Committees of several listed companies in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. He was a consultant to the SGX on the training of regulation officers and rendered advice on the development and launch of the alternative board, SGX Catalist. Mr. Thia practiced business consultancy in association with law firms Rodyk & Davidson (Singapore) from 2003 to 2005 and Kelvin Chia & Partners (Myanmar) from 2012 to 2013.
Mr. Thia is a Life Member of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants, a Retired Member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (UK), Master of Gerontology from Singapore University of Social Science (formerly known as UniSIM).
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Yoma Strategic Holdings
Yoma Strategic Holdings Ltd. is an investment holding company. The Company's segments include real estate segment, which is engaged in developing, selling and leasing land development rights, residential and commercial properties, and providing design and project management services, as well as property and estate management services; agriculture activities segment, which cultivates and manages plantation estate; automotive and equipment segment, which supplies and leases motor vehicles and automotive equipment; consumer segment, which operates quick service restaurants and develops food and beverage distribution, and retail businesses; tourism services segment, which operates hot air balloons business and related travelling services; rental of properties segment, which relates to the rental of shopping center and retail stores, and corporate segment, which is involved in Company level corporate services in treasury functions, and investments in financial and non-financial assets.