MS. TAN SIOK CHOO

Independent Non-Executive Director

A Malaysian, Ms Tan Siok Choo, aged 59, is a Independent Non-Executive Director who was appointed to the Board on 8 December 1988. She is a member of the Audit Committee, the Remuneration Committee, the Nomination Committee and the Employee Share Scheme Committee.

She holds a Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Bristol, U.K. and was admitted as a Barrister at Lincoln’s Inn, London in 1976 and to the Malaysian Bar in 1977.

She has had a varied career in corporate finance, stockbroking, executive search and journalism. She was head of Corporate Finance in Southern Bank Berhad, worked as an investment analyst for two stockbroking firms - Rashid Hussain Securities as well as Morgan Grenfell Asia & Partners’ Securities, did a short stint with the world’s largest executive search firm, Korn Ferry International, and was employed as a business and economic journalist with Business Times and The Sunday Star.

She was appointed a Visiting Fellow of the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia on 1st September 1998 and was appointed a Director of OCBC Bank (Malaysia) Berhad on 27th July 2000 and a Director of OCBC AL-AMIN Berhad on 1 August 2008. She is currently a Director several private companies.

She is not related to any Director and/or major shareholder of United Malacca Berhad and has no personal interest in any business
arrangement involving the Company. She has attended all the six Board Meetings held in the financial year ended 30 April 2011. She has never been convicted of any offence.