Board of Directors
Mr. CHEA Sok, Chairman. Cambodian, joined the Board October 2000. Born in 1943, he obtained a Licence-es-Science Commercials in 1967 (specialising in banking, finance and accounting). He joined the Banque Khmere pour le Commerce (Commercial Bank) in 1965 as Branch Manager in Sihanoukville, Deputy Branch Manager in Phnom Penh and Battambang until 1975. Branch Manager of National Bank of Battambang 1979-1990. From 1990-1999: Deputy Governor, Director of the Bank Supervision & Examination Department, Director of the Economic Research Department, General Director of the National Bank of Cambodia (Central Bank). From 1992, he attended numerous courses and seminars on macro-economic management and microfinance in several countries and in Cambodia. He retired from the National Bank in 1999 after 20 years in banking, finance, legal and management. In 2006 he undertook the International Company Directors Course in Perth, WA, organised by Australian Institute of Company Directors. Mr. CHEA Sok is also Chairman of the Board of ACLEDA Bank (Lao) Ltd.
Board Committees: Compliance and Ethics (Chair), Assets and Liabilities, Audit and Risk, Credit, International.
Mr. John BRINSDEN, OBE, Vice-chairman. British/New Zealand. Born in 1942, he has lived in Asia for 41 years the last 18 of which were in Vietnam and Cambodia. He previously worked for the Standard Chartered Bank from 1961 until retiring in 1999 as Resident Director, Mekong Sub-region. He assumed his present role on joining the Board of ACLEDA Bank in October 2000. He has particular responsibility for advising the bank on commercial banking and governance and international relations. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of England and a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Married with one daughter to Chuang Pi-Feng, Taiwanese, he now lives with his family in Phnom Penh but travels widely in the Asia-Pacific region and Europe. Mr. Brinsden also sits on the Board of ACLEDA Bank (Lao) Ltd.
Board Committees: Assets and Liabilities (Chair), International, Audit and Risk, Credit.
Mrs. Femke BOS, Director. Dutch, born in 1969. Board member since August 2002. Mrs. Femke Bos joined Triodos Bank in 2002 and is currently Fund Manager of the Triodos-Doen Fund, a EUR44 million microfinance investment fund and Senior Investment Officer for Asia and the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region. Prior to that she held several management positions with ABN AMRO Bank in the Netherlands. She received her master's degree in Law from the University of Amsterdam in 1994. During her career she gained experience in retail and commercial banking, legal affairs, management, microfinance and investment banking. In addition, Mrs. Femke Bos serves on the Board of Directors of ACLEDA Bank (Lao) Ltd. and XacBank in Mongolia. She attended the Australian Institute of Company Directors' International Company Directors Course in Perth, Western Australia, in 2006.
Board Committees: Credit (Chair).
Mr. Joseph J. HOESS, Director. American, born in 1966, Mr. Hoess is Director and Chief Financial Advisor of APG World Inc. since February 2006. He previously worked as a career expatriate for ABN AMRO Bank NV from 1991-2006. While with ABN AMRO, he held senior management positions in both commercial and investment banking capacities while posted in the United States, Europe, Brazil, China and Thailand. Mr. Hoess received his B.A. in History with honors from Northern Illinois University in 1988 and an MBA from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1992. He is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and is a regional consultant to Enterprise Bank Inc. of the Philippines under the Bankers for Bankers Program founded by FMO, Triodos Bank, PUM and NFX (Netherlands Financial Sector Development Exchange). Mr. Hoess is also Vice-chairman of ACLEDA Bank (Lao) Ltd.
Board Committees: Audit & Risk (Chair), International.
Drs. Peter KOOI, Director. Dutch, born in 1958, joined the Board in October 2000. Drs. Kooi studied corporate finance and sociology at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. From 1993, he advised ACLEDA as a microfinance consultant over a period of seven years in its course from a development program into a commercial bank. From 1999, he worked as a short-term microfinance consultant for microfinance institutions and projects located mainly in Africa and Asia. From September 2002 until December 2005, Drs. Kooi was Director of the Microfinance Unit of UNCDF in New York. Since then has been a resident Director of the Board of ACLEDA Bank. He is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Drs. Kooi also sits on the Board of ACLEDA Bank (Lao) Ltd.
Board Committees: International (chair), Credit.
Mr. Syed Aftab AHMED, Director. Pakistani, born in 1945, joined the Board in March, 2008. Mr. Ahmed obtained his M.A. in Economics from Karachi University, in 1973. Mr. Ahmed has worked for the International Finance Corporation, since 1989, in several positions, including as Senior Manager in charge of IFC's Global Micro and Small Business Finance Group. In this capacity, he led the development of IFC's global microfinance business practice and related investment portfolio. Mr. Ahmed has been instrumental in defining IFC's microfinance strategy and, in 1996, designed a new institutional model, Greenfield Commercial Microfinance Bank, for the delivery of a full range of financial services, including credit, to the micro and small businesses, on commercial terms. The institutional model has since been successfully replicated in many countries, and today is the provider of the bulk of the credit and other financial services to the micro entrepreneurs around the world. Recognised for his contributions to the development of the global commercial microfinance industry, Mr. Ahmed has spoken extensively at international conferences on expanding the frontier of commercial microfinance, and integrating it into the formal financial systems of the developing countries. Presently, he represents IFC on the board of directors of several commercial banks and microfinance institution in Asia and Europe.
Prior to joining IFC in 1989, Aftab held several senior management positions in a number of top-tier financial institutions in Pakistan, including Pakistan Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation (PICIC), and Investment Corporation of Pakistan (ICP).
Mr. LONH Thol, Director. Cambodian, joined the Board October 2000. Born in 1961. After studying management marketing he joined ILO in 1992 and moved to ACLEDA in 1993 where he now works in the Division for Branch Administration as Assistant Vice President and Manager of the Security Unit.
Mrs. SOK Vanny, Director. Cambodian, joined the Board October 2000. Born in 1966, she obtained a master's degree of business administration majoring in finance and banking from the National University of Management, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in September 2006. She graduated with a bachelor's degree of business administration majoring in management from the National Institution of Management, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in 2001. She joined ACLEDA NGO in 1993 and now works as Vice President and Manager of ACLEDA Bank's Tuol Kork branch.
Mrs. Jutta WAGENSEIL, Director. German, joined the Board July 2001. Born in 1953, she has more than 28 years of business experience in the Far East. She obtained a master's degree of economics and business administration at Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany in 1978. She then participated in a trainee program of the reputed German Development Institute, Berlin, Germany. In 1979 she joined Klöckner Industrie-Anlagen GmbH, Duisburg, Germany (1979-1988) where she worked on heavy industry projects with a regional emphasis on Southeast Asia. She left the company as Deputy Head of the Department for Economic Studies and Project Development. In 1988 she joined DEG - Deutsche Investitions-und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH working in the Business Cooperation Program of the German Government (1988-1991) and in the Regional Department East and Southeast Asia (1991-2000). Since 2000 she has been working in DEG's Portfolio Management as Vice President and Senior Investment Manager responsible for DEG's portfolio in Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and the Philippines. She serves on the Board of Directors of several companies in Thailand and the Philippines. She attended the Australian Institute of Company Directors' International Company Directors Course in Perth, Western Australia, in 2006.
