Canadian citizen, aged 70. Mr Lai was first appointed as a Commissioner of the Company in May 2018 pursuant to the resolution of the shareholders of the Company as stipulated under Deed No. 141 dated 28 May 2018 drawn up before Jose Dima Satria, S.H., M.Kn., Notary in Jakarta. He was reappointed to the same position at the AGMS on 21 May 2021.
Mr Lai has over 40 years of management experience in different industries. He is an executive director and deputy managing director of CK Hutchison Holdings Limited ("CKHH"). He was finance director and chief operating officer of the AS Watson Group, the retail arm of the CKHH group, from 1994 to 1997, and group managing director of the Harbour Plaza Hotel Management group, the former hotel business of Hutchison Whampoa Limited ("HWL"), from 1998 to 2000. Since 2000, he has been a director of HWL which was formerly listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited ("SEHK") and became a wholly-owned subsidiary of CKHH in 2015. Mr Lai is also a non-executive director of Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong Holdings Limited ("HTHKH"), a director of Hutchison Telecommunications (Australia) Limited ("HTAL") and an alternate director to directors of HTHKH, HTAL and TOM Group Limited ("TOM"). CKHH, HTHKH and TOM are listed on the SEHK and HTAL on the Australian Securities Exchange. In addition, Mr Lai is a director of the controlling shareholder of the Company. Total Alliance Holdings Limited. CKHH is the ultimate holding company of the Company. The other aforementioned companies are either subsidiaries or associated companies of CKHH of which Mr Lai has oversight as director of CKHH. He does not hold any other positions in the Company or any other Indonesian issuers or public companies. Mr Lai holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons) degree and a Master's degree in Business Administration.