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Lawson, who last held the position of General Manager for Middle East and Levant, will now handle business development of the Asia/Pacific, Middle East and Africa region. He had worked for ANZ Bank in Australia for more than 12 years before joining MasterCard in 2002 to lead its sales and business development for Africa, Middle East and South Asia.

Eddy Tai's role in Asia & Middle East strengthens bank's regard to Singapore as Asia hub.

Sino-Environment Technology Group Ltd announced Wednesday the appointment of Sam Chong Keen as Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer for two years.

Dr Francis Goh, who holds a management degree from Preston University, will report to Fujitsu Asia Regional Chief Executive Officer Mr Lawrence Wee.

Peter succeeds Tan Sock Hwee who has transferred to UPS’s headquarters in Atlanta in the role of international communications coordinator.

*Singapore Post Limited announced that its Board of Directors has accepted the resignation of Mr Wilson Tan as Group Chief Executive Officer. Mr Tan, who is leaving SingPost to pursue other opportunities, will step down as Director of the SingPost Board. Mr Tan said: “It is gratifying to see SingPost develop from strength to strength and indeed to be part of its exciting transformational journey. The postal and logistics landscape has been evolving in tandem with changes in customers’ lifestyles and SingPost has been adapting and reinventing itself to stay relevant to its customers.” SingPost has since initiated a search for a new GCEO to lead the Group in its next phase of sustainability and growth.

The Singapore Tourism Board has announced the appointment of Mrs Diana Ee-Tan and Mr Vinodh Coomaraswarmy to its board.

Business communications solutions Avaya announced the appointment of Francois Lancon as president for Avaya Asia Pacific.

AXA Insurance Singapore has appointed Alain Adiceom Chief Executive Officer in place of Henri Gurs.

The Substation, Singapore’s first independent contemporary arts centre, has appointed Noor Effendy Ibrahim as their new Artistic Director.

Exploit Technologies, the commercialisation arm of Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) appointed Mr Tan Gee Paw and Mr Philip Lim as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer respectively.

Tiger Airways today announced the appointment of its Chairman Gerard Ee Hock Kim and three additional Independent Directors to its Board of Directors. Mr. Gerard Ee Hock Kim is an experienced independent director and has a background with auditing firms such as Price Waterhouse and Ernst & Young where he was an audit partner. Mr. Ee was awarded the Public Service Medal (PBM) in 1993, the Public Service Star (BBM) in 2003 and the Meritorious Service Medal (PJG) in 2007. He has been a Fellow certified public accountant of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore since 2005. Mr. Po’ad Bin Shaik Abu Bakar Mattar has been appointed as an Independent Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee. Mr. Mattar was with Deloitte & Touche and its predecessor firms from 1971, holding various positions before becoming a senior partner in 2002. He also sits on other bodies in both the private and public sectors.

Standard Chartered Bank today announced the appointment of Judy Hsu as Group Head, Wealth Management, with immediate effect.

Dr William Fung Kwok Lun will assume the post of independent director with Singapore Airlines’ Board with effect from 1 December this year.

MasterCard Worldwide has appointed Kevin Goldmintz as Senior Business Leader, Corporate Payment Solutions, Asia/Pacific, Middle East & Africa.

Ms Goh will Chair the the Accounting Standards Council from 1 November 2009 to 31 October 2011. 14 other members representing various sake holder groups such as the government, education and accounting were also appointed as Council members.