THE MANAGER

Professor Annie Koh is Professor Emeritus of Finance (Practice) at Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University (SMU). She is a renowned conference speaker, panel moderator and commentator. She chairs the Asian Bond Fund 2 supervisory committee for the Monetary Authority of Singapore and is a committee member of Singapore's Customs Advisory Council and HR Industry Transformation Advisory Panel. She has recently been appointed board member of Singapore Food Agency with effect from 1 April 2023.

Professor Koh is currently an independent director of NYSE-Listed AMTD IDEA Group, Prudential Assurance Company Singapore Pte. Ltd., SGXListed Yoma Strategic Holdings Ltd and EtonHouse Community Fund (Charity). She previously served on GovTech, Singapore's CPF, HMI, K1 Ventures boards, and was a member of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council from 2019 - 2022.

Professor Koh also advises privately owned enterprises such as Flexxon Pte. Ltd., PBA Group and TOP International, and startups such as Dedoco, Hyperscal Solutions Pte. Ltd., Pyxis Maritime Pte. Ltd., RABC Holdings Pte. Ltd. and non-profits such as Blockchain Association of Singapore and Cyber Youth Singapore. She has been an investment committee member of iGlobe Partners since July 2010, advisor to CUBE3 Ventures since October 2021, and Asia Food Sustainability Fund since February 2022. Previously held leadership positions at SMU include Vice President for Business Development; V3 Group Professor of Family Entrepreneurship; Academic Director of Business Families Institute and International Trading Institute; Associate Dean, Lee Kong Chian School of Business; and Dean, Office of Executive and Professional Education.

Professor Koh received her Ph.D. degree in International Finance as a Fulbright scholar from Stern School of Business, New York University in 1988. Her research interests are in Family Office and Family Business, Investor Behaviour, Alternative Investments and Enterprise Risk Management. She co-authored Financial Management: Theory and Practice, 2nd edition (2021), and Financing Internationalisation – Growth Strategies for Successful Companies (2004), co-editor of Asian Family Business: Succession, Governance and Innovation (2020), and author of a number of Asian family business cases and survey reports. In recognition of her contribution to education and the public sector, she was awarded the bronze and silver Singapore Public Administration medal in 2010 and 2016 respectively, and the Adult Education Prism Award in 2017.

Founding Principal, French Asset Management, Inc., which manages real estate investments and provides advisory and other services to the real estate industry.

After 37 years serving public and private real estate clients, Mr French retired from Ernst & Young LLP (EY) in June 2019 as a Senior Assurance Partner. His specialties include: real estate investment funds/advisors/ sponsors, REITs, land developers, homebuilders and hospitality companies. Prior to being a partner at EY, Mr French was an Assurance Partner at Kenneth Leventhal & Company, a real estate accounting firm acquired by EY in 1995. As a Senior Assurance Partner at EY, Mr French served some of the largest real estate investment sponsors, REIT, homebuilder, and other real estate and hospitality companies in the U.S.

For many years Mr French was actively involved with the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT) and the Urban Land Institute (ULI). Mr French also served on the Executive Board of University of California at Irvine (UCI) Paul Merage School of Business Center for Real Estate and the Policy Advisory Board of the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics University of California at Berkeley. Mr French received the 2018 UCI Paul Merage School of Business Center for Real Estate Lifetime Achievement Award recognising his long-term commitment to serving the real estate industry.

Mr French graduated from California State University, Long Beach with a Bachelor of Science in Accountancy (1981) and a Master of Business Administration (1990). He is a Certified Public Accountant in California (inactive) and a member of the AICPA and the California Society of CPAs.

Mr French does not presently hold any other directorships in any other listed company.

Mr Adolphe has over 35 years of global experience in real estate, asset management and financial services. As a Partner with CEO Coaching International, Mr. Adolphe works with, advises and mentors CEOs and their leadership teams from around the world to achieve extraordinary results. Mr Adolphe was with Manulife for 13 years. As the President and CEO of Manulife Asset Management Private Markets and Manulife Real Estate, Mr Adolphe commercialized Manulife's Private Asset Management capabilities to clients and investors worldwide. He profitably grew Manulife's Real Estate platform threefold, expanding the business internationally including launching the first U.S. Office REIT on the Singapore Exchange. Prior to Manulife, Mr Adolphe was with CIBC for 16 years and held a variety of senior roles, including Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Financial Officer of CIBC World Markets.

Mr Adolphe is a Fellow of the Chartered Professional Accountants (Ontario), a member of the Institute of Corporate Directors and serves on the Boards of PRIME, Rogers Bank, Nieuport Aviation, and the Ontario Provincial Judges Pension Plan.

Mr Adolphe does not presently hold any other directorships in any other listed company.

Professor Phua is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. He has been teaching taxation laws since 1990 and currently holds the offices of Tax Director at the EW Barker Centre for Law & Business as well as the Director of the LLM (International Business Law) programme.

Professor Phua was a member on all 3 tax tribunals during the last 3 decades and currently practices as a senior tax consultant with a local law firm. He is also the Chairman of the Home Team Council as well as a member of the Curriculum Development and Examination Committee of the Tax Academy of Singapore.

Professor Phua has delivered papers in many international conferences and published articles in refereed journals and chapters in books. He is the editor of 2 books.

Professor Phua graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Laws in 1988 and obtained a Master of Laws (Tax) from University College London in 1990.

Professor Phua does not presently hold any other directorships in any other listed company.

Mr. Bren is a substantial shareholder in Prime US REIT Management Pte. Ltd., the manager of Prime US REIT which is listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange.

As Managing Member since 2004 of Wave Hill Investors, LLC, Mr. Bren was portfolio manager for multiple institutional funds investing in various specialty finance and real estate derivative strategies.

From 1996 to 2003, Mr. Bren was a partner of Best Property Fund L.P., an investment vehicle of KBS Realty Advisors, a private equity real estate company and an SEC-registered investment advisor that has achieved over $44 billion of transactions since its inception in 1992. During this tenure, he ran the daily operations of its Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities investment portfolio.

Prior to joining KBS in 1996, Mr. Bren was a partner of Onyx Partners, Inc. He was a managing general partner of Onyx Opportunity Fund, which acquired operating real estate assets and distressed mortgages from the Resolution Trust Company.

Prior to joining Onyx, Mr. Bren was an associate at Morgan Stanley Realty in New York and Los Angeles where he participated on project teams providing various real estate financial services to developers, financial institutions, pension funds and corporations.

Mr. Bren started his career at Drexel Burnham Lambert in Beverly Hills, California in 1986, where he worked extensively with the Commercial Mortgage Capital Markets Group.

Mr. Bren earned an MBA at The Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA with a concentration in real estate finance. Mr. Bren graduated with honors from Tufts University in 1985.

Mr Bren does not presently hold any other directorships in any other listed company.

Ms Wu is Executive Vice-President of Corporate Development at Cuscaden Peak Investments Pte Ltd. She leads its M&A and Investments teams in mergers and acquisitions, capital re-cycling and portfolio management. Ms Wu has held various positions across functions with active involvement in legal advisory work, corporate planning, risk management and analytics.

She is a director of SGX listed iFast Corporation Ltd, a Fintech wealth management platform and Cuscaden's joint venture boards including MobileOne Ltd, Memphis 1 Pte Ltd, Woodleigh Mall Pte Ltd and Woodleigh Residences Pte Ltd. She chairs the board of Seletar Mall Pte Ltd.

Ms Wu holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) degree from the National University of Singapore and was admitted as an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore. She has attended the Executive Development Program at Kellogg School of Management, the Business Sustainability Management Program by Cambridge Centre for Sustainability Leadership and the Advanced Management Program at Wharton Business School.