ASIA

SINGAPORE

SingTel WINNER:

CEO Profile...

Ms Chua was appointed Group CEO on 1 April 2007. She is responsible for SingTel's three key businesses - Group Consumer, Group Digital L!fe and Group Enterprise.

Ms Chua joined SingTel in June 1989 as Treasurer and was made CFO in April 1999. She held the positions of Group CFO and CEO, International from February 2006 to October 2006, when she was appointed Deputy Group CEO.

Ms Chua sits on the Boards of Bharti Airtel Limited, Bharti Telecom Limited and key subsidiaries of the SingTel Group. She is also a member of the Singapore Management University Board of Trustees and the Public Service Commission. She is a former Board member of JTC Corporation and the Casino Regulatory Authority of Singapore, and also a former member of the Corporate Governance Council established by the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

Ms Chua holds a Bachelor of Accountancy (First Class Honours) from the University of Singapore. She is a Certified Public Accountant in Singapore and a CFA charterholder.

The SingTel Group is Asia's leading communications group.

We provide a wide spectrum of multimedia and infocomms technology (ICT) solutions, including voice, data and video services over fixed and wireless platforms.

Our main operations are in Singapore and Australia. Headquartered in Singapore, SingTel has more than 130 years of operating experience and has played a pivotal role in the country's development as a major communications hub. Today, we continue to lead and shape the local digital consumer market and the enterprise market. Our Australian arm, Optus is a leader in integrated telecommunications, constantly raising the bar in innovative products and services.

We are a major communications player in Asia and Africa through our strategic investments in five regional mobile operators, namely Telkomsel (Indonesia), Globe Telecom (the Philippines), Advanced Info Service (Thailand) and PBTL (Bangladesh). The

Group also has investments in Bharti Airtel (India), which has significant presence in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Africa.

We are a long term strategic investor and work closely with our associates to grow the business, by leveraging our scale in networks, customer reach and extensive operational experience. As at 31 March 2013, the Group served 468 million mobile customers around the world.

SingTel is the largest listed company on the Singapore Exchange by market capitalisation. We are also listed on the Australian Securities Exchange following our acquisition of Optus in August 2001. To serve the needs of multinational corporations, SingTel has a vast network of offices in countries and territories throughout Asia Pacific, in Europe and the USA while Optus has a network of offices around Australia. The Group employs more than 21,000 staff worldwide.

Chua Sock Koong

SingTel is the largest listed company on the Singapore Exchange by market capitalisation.

62 Finance Monthly CeO AwArdS 2013