01-Mar-2010

APPOINTMENT

Non-Executive Director

Independent & Non Executive

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Canadian

MBA Degree at the Graduate School of Business of Columbia University, New York, USA

Mr Maurice Lam is the founding partner of Stewardship Consulting, a strategy consulting firm working with senior executives in the area of corporate strategy, corporate and industry restructuring, financial strategy, corporate finance and risk management, with offices in Singapore and Paris, France.

Born in Mauritius and presently a Canadian citizen, Mr Lam serves as the Chairman of the Board of Investment, Mauritius, the Government Agency responsible to market Mauritius to foreign investors, make policy recommendations to Government and implement these in order to transform Mauritius into a regional business centre so as to provide a good standard of living in terms of employment, business opportunities, and social mobility for the population of Mauritius. He also works with the investment promotion agencies of Burkina Faso, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Tanzania Uganda, and Zambia to assist them in improving their business climate and attract foreign investors.

Mr Lam is also a member of the Presidential Investors’ Advisory Council of Burkina Faso in West Africa, Chairman of Axyss Leasing Co. Ltd in Mauritius, a director on the Board of AfrAsia Bank Ltd of Mauritius as well as a member of the Consultative Group on the Employing Workers Indicator of the Doing Business Index of the World Bank and IFC.

Prior to Stewardship Consulting, Mr Lam was in investment banking where he accumulated 18 years of experience in the areas of financial strategy, money management, and treasury and risk management. He has worked in the major financial centers: Singapore, New York, Tokyo and London advising multinationals, government agencies, fund management companies.

AfrAsia Bank Ltd, Mauritius

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