Mr James Beeland Rogers, Jr. (“Mr Rogers”) was appointed as the Non-Executive and Non-Independent Director of the Company on 26 June 2023. Mr Rogers is a shareholder holding 8.55% interest in OOWAY Group Ltd., a controlling shareholder of the Company. Mr Rogers is also a co-founder and Chief Strategy Architect of OOWAY Technology Pte. Ltd. and its subsidiaries.

Mr Rogers is the author of several books and is a globally renowned financial commentator as well as a successful international investor. He is currently the Chairman of Beeland Interests, Inc. and he holds several companies’ directorships. In 1998, he started the Rogers International Commodity Index to track the value of commodities consumed in the global economy, ranging from agricultural to energy and metal products.

He obtained a Bachelor’s degree cum laude in History from Yale University in 1964 and a second Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Balliol College, Oxford University in 1966.