Board of Directors

Mr. Melvyn Pun was appointed as Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director in July 2015. He was re-appointed to the Board of Yoma Strategic on 24 July 2019 and is a member of the Nominating and Governance Committee of Yoma Strategic.

Mr. Pun was the Alternate Director to Mr. Serge Pun at Yoma Strategic and the Chief Executive Officer of SPA, an affiliate of the Group, between 2012 and 2015. Since 2015, Mr. Pun spearheaded the move to diversify the Group’s businesses along its core businesses whilst also building streams of recurring revenues and profits. He has been extensively involved in developing the Group’s relationships with key partners, including Mitsubishi Corporation, IFC, ADB, Yum! Brands, New Holland, JCB, Dulwich College International, Telenor and Pernod Ricard, amongst others.

Prior to joining SPA, Mr. Pun spent 12 years at Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong SAR, where he was Managing Director, Head of Asia Ex-Japan Corporate Solutions Group. He has extensive financial and corporate experience in various corporate markets across Asia such as Greater China, Southeast Asia, and Korea where he provided corporations and non-profit organisations with financial services that included fund raising, investments and risk management. Beyond Yoma Strategic, Mr. Pun is also an executive committee member of the Myanmar Institute of Directors and Non-Executive Director of Yoma Bank Limited.

Mr. Pun holds a Bachelor of Arts, Masters of Engineering and Masters of Arts from University of Cambridge.

Re-appointed to the Board of Yoma Strategic on 29 January 2021, Ms. Wong Su Yen is a Non-Executive Independent Director of Yoma Strategic and the Chairman of the Remuneration Committee, and a member of the Audit and Risk Management Committee of Yoma Strategic.

Ms. Wong Su Yen brings over 30 years of experience in driving business strategy, strategic talent development, organisational transformation, operations re-design and risk management. She is an Independent Director at CSE Global Ltd, First Resources Ltd, and Pegasus Asia. She also serves on the board of Kemin Industries. She is a Fellow and Chairperson of the Governing Council of Singapore Institute of Directors.

Ms. Wong holds a Bachelor of Arts (summa cum laude) in Music and Computer Science from Linfield College and Master of Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Re-appointed to the Board of Yoma Strategic on 24 July 2019, Dato Timothy Ong is a Non-Executive Independent Director of Yoma Strategic and a member of the Audit and Risk Management Committee, and the Nominating and Governance Committee of Yoma Strategic.

Dato Timothy Ong is a leading Brunei businessman who served as the Acting Chairman of the Brunei Economic Development Board (BEDB) from 2005 to 2010.

Dato Ong is a member of a number of leading boards including Baiduri Bank and National Insurance of Brunei; PHINMA Inc and PHINMA Education in Philippines.

Dato Ong has represented Brunei in regional councils including as a council member and Chair of the APEC Business Advisory Council.

He is a recipient of the Most Honourable Order of Seri Paduka Mahkota Brunei (DPMB) conferred by his Majesty, the Sultan of Brunei and the Grand Cross of the Order of Bernardo O’Higgins conferred by the President of Chile.

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).

Appointed to the Board of Yoma Strategic on 29 January 2021, Professor Annie Koh is a Non-Executive Independent Director of Yoma Strategic.

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. She has recently been appointed board member of Singapore Food Agency with effect from April 1st 2023.

Professor Koh is currently Chairman of Prime US REIT and an independent director of AMTD IDEA Group, Prudential Assurance Company Singapore Pte 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, and the HR Industry Transformation Advisory Panel from 2018 – March 2023. 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.

Appointed to the Board of Yoma Strategic on 10 November 2022. Mr. Jaime Alfonso is the Head of Business Development and Digital Ventures Group of Ayala Corporation. He is a Board of Director of ACEN Corporation, Globe Telecom, Mynt (Gcash), Ayala Land Logistics, and First Myanmar Investment Public Company Limited, among others.

He is a member of the Investment Committee of Kickstart Ventures Inc., the corporate venture vehicle of Ayala Group and 917Ventures, Globe Telecom’s corporate incubation vehicle.

Prior to this, he was previously the Head of Fixed-Mobile Convergence (Product Management) and Head of Business Development (Prepaid Division) of Globe Telecom.

He graduated from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA with a Primary Concentration in Government in 2013, and his Masters of Business Administration from Columbia Business School in New York in 2019.

Mr. Cyrus Pun was appointed to the Board of Yoma Strategic as an Alternate Director to Mr. Serge Pun on 1 January 2022.

Mr. Pun started his career working in the export industry in China and worked for Hutchison Port Holdings’ South China Commercial Division. Mr. Pun joined SPA in 2007 to develop a mixed-used real estate project in Dalian, China.

Mr. Pun currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Memories Group Limited. Prior to Mr. Pun’s appointment as an Executive Director and the Chief Executive Officer of Memories Group Limited, he was an Executive Director of Yoma Strategic and headed the Group’s Real Estate business from 2012 to 2018. During this time, he led the Group’s real estate activities, including some of Myanmar’s largest and most prominent projects, and was responsible for bringing in international partners and investors for these developments. His last initiative at Yoma Strategic was to launch the Group’s expansion into the affordable housing segment.

Mr. Pun holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the London School of Economics.

Appointed to the Board of Yoma Strategic on 20 April 2023, Mr. Alberto is the alternate director to Mr. Jaime Alfonso, a Non-Independent Non-Executive Director of Yoma Strategic.

He is the Chief Financial Officer, Chief Risk Officer, and Chief Sustainability Officer of Ayala Corporation. Mr. Alberto has over two decades of extensive experience as a senior executive in Finance, Business Development, Treasury Operations, Joint Ventures, Mergers and Acquisitions, as well as Investment Banking and Investor Relations.

Prior to joining Ayala Corporation, Mr. Alberto served as Chief Commercial Officer and Chief Financial
Officer of Globe Telecom, a business unit of Ayala Corporation. Before he joined Globe Telecom, he held
positions such as Vice President and Head of the Consumer Sector of JP Morgan, Hong Kong, and Senior
Vice President and CFO of San Miguel Corporation.

His other directorships include First Myanmar Investment Public Company Limited (Myanmar), Integrated
Micro-Electronic, Inc. (Philippines), ENEX Energy Corporation (Philippines) and Manila Water Company,
Inc. (Philippines).

Mr. Alberto obtained his degree in BS Industrial Management Engineering from De La Salle University
Manila in 1978, and is a member of the Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines