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StarHub Ltd Annual Report 2015

11 Rachel Eng Yaag Ngee 13 Takeshi Kazami Last Re-elected Overview
28 April 2015
Independent Director | Member: 1 Non-Executive Director

Date of Appointment Date of Appointment
4 May 2015 13 April 2012

Ms Rachel Eng Yaag Ngee is the Joint Managing Mr Takeshi Kazami is the President and CEO of NTT Strategy
Partner at WongPartnership LLP. She also serves on Singapore Pte. Ltd., the regional headquarters of
the Board of SPH Reit Management Pte. Ltd., Certis NTT Communications Ltd for the Asia Pacific region.
CISCO Security Pte. Ltd., the Public Utilities Board He also serves as a director of Emerio GlobeSoft
and the Singapore Accountancy Commission, and the Pte Ltd. He started his career with NTT in 1986 and
Board of Trustees of Singapore Institute of Technology held various positions, including Area Manager
and the Council of the Singapore Business Federation. – NTT America. He was seconded to StarHub, as
Ms Eng is a corporate lawyer with vast experience Head of Japanese Sales Sector in 2000. He went
and expertise in equity and debt capital markets, real on to become the Head of Arcstar, the flagship
estate investment trusts and corporate finance. She brand of NTT Communications Ltd’s range of global
has been involved in major transactions such as the communication services. Upon his return to NTT
$2.8 billion public listing of CapitaMall Asia Limited Communications Ltd in 2005 and after serving as
in 2009 – then the largest initial public offering in Director, Corporate Sales, he was appointed to his
Singapore since 1993 – and the $10 billion merger current position in July 2010. He holds a Bachelor
of Overseas Union Bank and United Overseas Bank of Arts, International Relation Course (Chinese and
in 2001. Ms Eng holds a Bachelor of Law (Honours) Sociology), from the Tokyo University of Foreign
from the National University of Singapore. Studies, Japan. He was a visiting scholar at the Asia
Pacific Research Center of Stanford University, USA.

12 Nasser Marafih Last Re-elected Performance
14 April 2014
Non-Executive Director

Date of Appointment
9 July 2007

Dr Nasser Marafih is a Member of the Ooredoo Group Governance & Sustainability
Board and Advisor to the Ooredoo Group Board’s
Chairman. He was the CEO of Ooredoo Group from Financials
2006 until November 2015. He also served as CEO of
Ooredoo Qatar (formerly known as Qatar Telecom)
from 2002 to 2011, a subsidiary of Ooredoo Q.S.C.
(formerly known as Qatar Telecom (Qtel) Q.S.C).
Dr Nasser began his professional career at Ooredoo
Qatar in 1992 as an expert advisor from the University
of Qatar, and later joined Ooredoo Qatar as the
Director of Strategic Planning and Development.
He was instrumental in many strategic initiatives and
landmarks in Ooredoo Qatar’s history, including the
introduction of the first GSM service in the Middle East
in 1994 and thereafter, the Internet service in Qatar
in 1996, and the privatisation of Ooredoo Qatar in
1998. Under Dr Nasser’s leadership, Ooredoo Qatar
has evolved from being a local telecom provider to
an international player, with strategic investments in
the Asia Pacific region. Dr Nasser holds a Bachelor
of Science in Electrical Engineering, a Master of
Science and a PhD in Communication Engineering
from the George Washington University, USA.