People: Noble Group Ltd (NOBGF.PK)

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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position

Richard Elman

 2012 Executive Chairman of the Board

Yusuf Alireza

 2012 Chief Executive Officer, Executive Director

Robert van der Zalm

 47 2011 Group Chief Financial Officer

Louis Tang

 2010 Group Finance Director - Controlling

William Cronin

 50 2012 Chief Operating Officer

Jeffrey Alam

 2005 Group General Counsel

Wildrik de Blank

 2003 Group Treasurer

William Randall

 2012 Head - Hard Commodities, Executive Director

Stephen Brown

 2011 Director - Corporate Affairs

Chee Ying Lim

 2011 Company Secretary

David Eldon

 66 2013 Lead Non-Executive Director, Senior Independent Director

Milton Au

 2003 Non-Executive Director

Rongrong Li

 2011 Non-Executive Director

Iain Bruce

 72 2002 Independent Non-Executive Director

Tze Leung Chan

 1996 Independent Non-Executive Director

Yun Lien Lee

 59 2012 Independent Non-Executive Director

Burton Levin

 1996 Independent Non-Executive Director

Edward Rubin

 1999 Independent Non-Executive Director

Alan Smith

 68 2002 Independent Non Executive Director
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Biographies

Name Description

Richard Elman

 Mr. Richard Samuel Elman is an Executive Chairman of the Board of Noble Group Ltd. Mr. Elman first arrived in Asia during the mid-1960s from England and has 50 years of experience in the physical commodities trading industry. Prior to setting up the group in 1986, he spent 10 years with Phibro as Regional Director of their Asia operations, including two years in New York as a Board Director. He is responsible for strategic issues facing the Company and to ensure that it retains its focus on Shareholder value.

Yusuf Alireza

 Mr. Yusuf Alireza is Chief Executive Officer, Executive Director of Noble Group Ltd., effective April 16, 2012. Prior to becoming Noble Group’s Chief Executive Officer and Board Member in April 2012, Mr. Alireza was Co-President of Asia (ex Japan) for Goldman Sachs and a member of that firm’s Global Management Committee. He joined Goldman in 1992 in New York, moved to London in 1997 where his last position was Head of EMEA sales and structuring efforts. In mid 2008 he moved to Hong Kong to lead Goldman’s Asia Pacific securities division. Mr. Alireza also serves on the Global Board of Room to Read.

Robert van der Zalm

 Mr. Robert van der Zalm is Group Chief Financial Officer of Noble Group Limited, since January 1, 2011. He has 26 years’ finance management experience in Consumer Products, Speciality Chemicals, Agricultural, Downstream Oil and Gas as well as Metals Sectors. Prior to joining Noble, Mr. van der Zalm was CFO of BHP Billiton’s Global Aluminium business. Starting his career at Unilever, he held a number of Finance positions in Europe, Russia and SE Asia. He then joined Shell, holding a number of senior management positions in Finance and M&A in the Downstream business, before becoming CFO of its Gas and Power Trading business. Mr. van der Zalm holds a Chemistry degree from Oxford University.

Louis Tang

 Mr. Louis Tang is Group Finance Director - Controlling of Noble Group Ltd. Before joining the Group on August 1, 2001, Mr. Tang had been the Chief Financial Officer of SCMP Group Limited since 1993 and held senior accounting positions in the Kerry Group since 1988. He has 30 years’ experience in Hong Kong, the PRC and France in accounting, auditing, taxation, financial management and corporate finance matters. He is a fellow member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants and The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and has an MBA from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

William Cronin

 Mr. William (Bill) J. Cronin has been appointed as Chief Operating Officer of Noble Group Ltd., effective December 14, 2012. Mr. Cronin has 30 years in the commodity business and has held senior positions of President, General Manager, EVP, CFO, COO, CRO, CCO, Head of Business Development. Mr. Cronin has worked for Noble for over 18 months and is well known in the industry and to the Board. He served as EVP and COO North America for Noble (approximately 2 years) and prior to this at Direct Energy (wholly owned subsidiary of the Centrica Group). Mr. Cronin held positions of increasing responsibility. Initially as Sr. VP and General Manager U.S. Retail. Thereafter EVP and COO of North America. Finally President of Direct Energy-Wholesale.

Jeffrey Alam

 Mr. Jeffrey M. Alam is Group General Counsel of Noble Group Ltd., since August 2005. He served as General Counsel to AIG’s Asia investment businesses before becoming Executive Director in the Law Division of Morgan Stanley, responsible for all merchant banking, fund management and real estate businesses in Asia. He holds an LLB Hons (Manchester) and is qualified to practise law in Hong Kong and England.

Wildrik de Blank

 Mr. Wildrik de Blank is Group Treasurer of Noble Group Ltd., since September 2003. He began his career in Financial Management with Shell Jakarta, followed by syndication, commodity finance and senior management roles at MeesPierson/Fortis Bank in the Netherlands, Sydney, Shanghai and Hong Kong. At Noble, he is responsible for all treasury and debt capital markets related activities, including funding and liability management, trade finance, cash & liquidity management and financial risk management. He holds a Master’s degree from the Rotterdam School of Management at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He joined Noble in August 2001.

William Randall

 Mr. William James Randall is Head - Hard Commodities, Executive Director of Noble Group Ltd. His career started with Noble Group in Australia in February 1997, transferring to Asia in 1999 where he established Noble’s coal operations, mining and supply chain management businesses. He served as a Director of Noble Energy Inc. before being appointed Global Head of Coal & Coke in 2006, and a member of the Noble Group internal management Board in 2008. He was appointed an Executive Director and Head of Hard Commodities in 2012, prior to which he was Head of Energy Coal & Carbon Complex. He holds a Bachelor degree in Business from the Australian Catholic University, majoring in international marketing and finance.

Stephen Brown

 Mr. Stephen Brown is Director - Corporate Affairs of Noble Group Ltd. Mr. Brown is responsible for Noble’s investor and media relations and for ensuring implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives. Mr. Brown began his career with Cazenove & Co. in London. He brings three decades of experience in the Asian equity markets, having advised and acted on behalf of global institutional investment clients at senior levels. Mr. Brown is a Director of the Civic Exchange, a Hong Kong-based not-for-profit public policy think tank, a member of the Securities and Futures Commission’s Dual Filing Advisory Group and a former member of the Main Board Listing Committee of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited. He joined Noble in August 2007.

Chee Ying Lim

David Eldon

 Mr. David Gordon Eldon, CBE, is Lead Non-Executive Director, Senior Independent Director of Noble Group Limited. He has been appointed as Lead Independent Director of the Company effective February 28, 2013. He retired as Chairman of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, and as a main Board Director of HSBC Holdings plc, in 2005 after 37 years with the HSBC Group, all of which were spent in the Middle and Far East. He is Senior Adviser to PricewaterhouseCoopers, Non-Executive Chairman of HSBC Bank Middle East Limited and a Consultant for the Korea National Competitiveness Council - Office of the President. He is a Director of Hong Kong listed company SOCAM Development Limited, as well as a number of unlisted companies. He was previously Non-Executive Chairman of the Dubai International Financial Centre Authority (“DIFCA”), and is presently a member of the DIFC main Board. He is a Past Chairman of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce. He is a Founding Member and a Past Chairman of the Seoul International Business Advisory Council, an Adviser to the Kuwait China Investment Company and Southern Capital Group, in addition to a number of Government and community appointments in Hong Kong and overseas. Mr. Eldon is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, and was conferred an Honorary Doctor of Business Administration by the City University of Hong Kong in November 2003. He was named the DHL/SCMP Hong Kong Business Person of the Year for 2003, and in 2004 was awarded the Gold Bauhinia Star by the Government of the Hong Kong SAR. In 2005 he was made a Commander of the British Empire for his contribution to banking, and awarded Honorary Citizenship of Seoul in recognition of his work for the city.

Milton Au

 Mr. Milton M. Au is a Non-Executive Director of Noble Group Limited. Mr. Au was, until December 2003, an Executive Director and the Chief Financial Officer of the Company. He was the Managing Director of Noble Grain from April 2001 to December 2002. He had worked for a number of listed companies including Hang Seng Bank Limited before he joined the Company in 1995. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Alberta in Canada and is a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants. Mr. Au is an Independent Non-Executive Director of K. Wah International Holdings Limited. Mr. Au was first appointed as a Director of the Company on December 1, 1995 and was last re-elected at the Annual General Meeting on April 27, 2009.

Rongrong Li

 Mr. Rongrong Li is Non-Executive Director of Noble Group Ltd., since May 3, 2011. Mr. Li served as Chairman of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China (2003-2010) and Chairman of State Economic and Trade Commission of the People’s Republic of China (2001-2003).

Iain Bruce

 Mr. Iain Ferguson Bruce is an Independent Non-Executive Director of Noble Group Limited, since April 9, 2002. He joined KPMG in Hong Kong in 1964 and was elected to its partnership in 1971. He was the Senior Partner of KPMG from 1991 until his retirement in 1996 and served as Chairman of KPMG Asia Pacific from 1993 to 1997. Since 1964, he has been a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, and is a fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He is a fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Directors and a member of the Hong Kong Securities Institute. Mr. Bruce serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director on the Boards of several publicly listed companies in Hong Kong, namely Goodbaby International Holdings Limited, Paul Y. Engineering Group Limited, Sands China Ltd., Tencent Holdings Limited, Vitasoy International Holdings Ltd. and Wing On Company International Limited. He is an Independent Non-Executive Director of China Medical Technologies, Inc., a company whose shares are traded on Nasdaq, and Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited, a company whose shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange. He is an Independent Non-Executive Director of Citibank (Hong Kong) Limited and is the Chairman of KCS Limited.

Tze Leung Chan

 Mr. Robert Tze Leung Chan is an Independent Non-Executive Director of Noble Group Limited, since August 16, 1996. He is an experienced banker with 39 years experience in both commercial and investment banking having worked in London, Malaysia and Singapore. He retired from United Overseas Bank at the end of 2011 after 35 years of service, 25 years of which he was the Chief Executive Officer of United Overseas Bank, Hong Kong. He is an Independent Non-Executive Director of Hutchison Port Holdings Management Pte Limited and Quam Ltd. He is a Senior Adviser to Long March Capital Ltd, a fund management company based in Beijing and Shanghai in partnership with Chinese institutions including the CITIC Group. He holds a Bachelor of Science (Econ) Hons. and a Master of Business Administration degrees, and is a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Directors.

Yun Lien Lee

 Ms. Irene Yun Lien Lee is an Independent Non-Executive Director of Noble Group Ltd., since March 1, 2012. She is the non-executive Chairman of Hysan Development Company Limited, and a non-executive Director of Cathay Pacific Airways Limited (both listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange); and is the non-executive Chairman of Keybridge Capital Limited as well as a non-executive Director of QBE Insurance Group Limited (both listed on the Australian Stock Exchange). She is a member of the Advisory Council of JP Morgan Australia and a Director of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. She has held senior positions with financial institutions involved in investment banking and funds management over the past thirty years. She has been an Executive Director of Citibank in New York, London and Sydney; and Head of Corporate Finance at Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Chief Executive Officer of Sealcorp Holdings Limited, both based in Sydney. She served as a member of the Australian Government Takeovers Panel and numerous listed and unlisted companies in Australia. Ms. Lee was educated at Smith College, Massachusetts, U.S.A. and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History of Art. She is a Barrister-at-Law in England and Wales and a member of the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn, London, U.K.

Burton Levin

 Ambassador Burton Levin is an Independent Non-Executive Director of Noble Group Limited, since August 16, 1996. He has 38 years experience in the diplomatic service for the United States in Asia. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brooklyn College, the United States and a Master of International Affairs degree from Columbia University, the United States. Ambassador Levin is an advisor to Sit Investment Associates and also the Chairman Emeritus of the Hopkins-Nanjing center.

Edward Rubin

 Mr. Edward Walter Rubin is an Independent Non-Executive Director of Noble Group Limited, since December 6, 1999. Mr. Rubin was, until December 1989, Managing Partner of Phillips & Vineberg, Canadian Lawyers, Hong Kong Office (now Davies, Ward, Phillips & Vineberg). Since January 1990, he has been Chairman and Managing Director of a private investment company. For 16 years, Mr. Rubin served as a Board Member of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, and for over 5 of those years as the Vice Chairman. Mr. Rubin is a member of the Boards of the Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre and the Alliance Francaise de Hong Kong. He is a member of the South-East Asia Advisory Board of Rolls-Royce Group, Plc.

Alan Smith

 Mr. Alan Howard Smith is an Independent Non-Executive Director of Noble Group Limited, since March 22, 2002. Mr. Smith was the Vice Chairman — Pacific Region of Credit Suisse First Boston, Hong Kong (“CSFB”) from 1997 until he retired in 2001. Before joining CSFB, he was the Chairman from 1994 to 1996 and Managing Director from 1983 to 1994 of the Jardine Fleming Group, which he joined in 1972. He graduated with an LLB (Hons) degree from Bristol University in 1964, and was admitted as a Solicitor in England in 1967, and in Hong Kong in 1970. Mr. Smith is a Director of Asian Credit Hedge Fund, Genting Hong Kong Limited, Global Investment House, KSC, Kingway Brewery Holdings Limited and VXL Capital Limited. He is the Chairman of the CQS Global Advisory Forum, and a member of the Euromoney Asian Advisory Board and of the Hang Seng Index Advisory Board.

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