Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd.

Chia Song Hwee was appointed president and CEO of Chartered in June 2002. He also sits on the company's board of directors. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Chia served as senior vice president, chief financial officer and chief administrative officer. As a principal member of the Office of the President from August 2000 to June 2002, Mr. Chia broadened his involvement in the strategic, customer and technology aspects of the business and played a leadership role in forming Chartered's key business collaborations. After joining the company in 1996, Mr. Chia's responsibilities steadily expanded to include finance, strategic development, technology alliances and legal. Mr. Chia joined Chartered from Schlumberger, a global services company, where he quickly moved through control and finance positions of increasing responsibility. Mr. Chia received his Bachelor of Business (Accountancy), with distinction, from Edith Cowan University, Australia and is a member of CPA Australia.

Chartered appointed Mr. Baskara Rao, vice president and chief information officer (CIO), in July 2007. In this role, Mr. Rao manages the company's global information technology (IT) and is responsible for driving Chartered's strategic initiative to establish an IT business systems network for supporting the business requirements of customers, partners, suppliers and employees. He reports directly to the president & CEO. Mr. Rao brings more than 18 years of IT expertise to Chartered. Previously, Mr. Rao served as CIO for Philips Lighting Asia Pacific based in Hong Kong, with responsibility for IT excellence in the Asia Pacific region. Mr. Rao managed several key projects, driving improvement processes contributing to efficiency in operational and IT spend. Mr. Rao holds a Bachelor of Science (Computer) from the University Science of Malaysia, and an MBA from Herriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.

George Thomas has served as our Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since March 2005 and oversees our company's finance, investor relations and legal functions. He also served as our Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since August 2002 and Vice President of Finance since September 2000. He joined our Company in May 2000 as Group Controller. Mr. Thomas began his Finance/Accounting career with Canadian Met-Chem, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel Corporation as Internal Auditor and Senior Accounts Executive in 1978. From June 1983 to April 2000, he held various positions at Schlumberger's Sedco Forex Division, including Controller, Operations-Worldwide, Regional Controller, Asia & Australia, Controller, Indonesia Operations, and Finance Manager of Arabian Drilling Company, a joint venture between Schlumberger and Petromin. He has served on the Board of Directors of Chartered Silicon Partners Pte Ltd since April 2001 and the Board of Directors of Silicon Manufacturing Partners Pte Ltd as an alternate director since July 2003. Mr. Thomas received his Bachelor Degree in Commerce and in General Law. He is also a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

Chartered appointed Dr. Simon Yang to the dual role of senior vice president of fab operations and chief technology officer in April 2007, in a move that forges tighter integration between the Company's technology development and manufacturing. He reports directly to the president & CEO. Dr. Yang joined Chartered in October 2005 as senior vice president and chief technology officer, with responsibility for developing and driving strategic programs in support of Chartered's corporate objectives and long-term strategic direction. In his current role, he also has responsibility for driving the manufacturing strategy and operational excellence across all of Chartered's fabs, including its latest, fully automated 300mm facility. Dr. Yang brings more than 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. He previously held key positions in technology development and advanced fab operations. Dr. Yang was a senior vice president for logic technology development and manufacturing at Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) and prior to that, a director of logic device and process integration at Intel. Prior to joining Chartered, he was president and CEO of Ciwest, a semiconductor start-up based in China. Dr. Yang has been awarded 12 U.S. patents and is the author or co-author of more than 30 technical papers. Dr. Yang holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Shanghai University of Science and Technology, and a master's degree in physics and doctorate degree in materials engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.

Sun Shi-Chung has served as our Senior Vice President, Technology Development since December 2001. Dr. Sun has the overall responsibility for technology development and execution according to the competitive technology roadmap. Dr. Sun has more than 29 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. He joined us from Promos Technologies in Taiwan, where he was the head of research and development. During his career, he has held various positions with TSMC, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Catalyst Semiconductor, Hewlett-Packard and AT & T Bell Labs. Dr. Sun received his PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University, his M.S. in electrical engineering from the State University of New York and his B.S. in electrical engineering from National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan. Dr. Sun has been awarded several U.S. patents with several more pending, and his work has been featured in more than 100 technical publications.

Chartered appointed Ang Kay Chai "KC" senior vice president of sales and marketing in April 2007. In this role, Mr. Ang has overall responsibility for global sales, marketing, services, customer support, and regional business operations. Previously, Mr. Ang served as senior vice president of fab operations, with responsibility for the manufacturing strategy and operational excellence across all of Chartered's fabs, including the ramp of Chartered's fully automated 300mm facility, Fab 7, which was named as "Fab of the Year" in 2006 by Semiconductor International. With his deep knowledge of manufacturing and operations, Mr. Ang is well-positioned to forge tight intergration between customer service and operations to better address the needs of Chartered's customers. Mr. Ang first joined Chartered in 1989 and led the initial conception, development, and ramp up of Chartered's Fab 2 and Fab 3. Mr. Ang left Chartered in 1998 to join Silterra Malaysia Sdn Bhd, where he was responsible for green field fab startup and was involved in technology transfer activities, before rejoining Chartered in 2002. Mr. Ang holds a master's degree in engineering from the University of Texas and a bachelor's degree in engineering from the National University of Taiwan.

Dr. Liang-Choo "LC" Hsia has served as our Senior Vice President, Technology Development since June 2005. He is responsible for Chartered's technology development organization and directing the company's efforts toward technology leadership in the foundry industry. From October 2000 to May 2005, Dr. Hsia served as our Vice President of Advanced Module Development and led Chartered's collaborative development efforts at 90 nanometer (nm) and 65nm. Dr. Hsia draws on nearly 25 years of experience in semiconductor technology development. Prior to Chartered, Dr. Hsia was director of technology development at United Microelectronics Corporation in Taiwan. He also spent over a decade with IBM as an advisory scientist in various divisions. Dr. Hsia was awarded 25 US patents with 16 more pending, and his work was featured in more than 80 technical publications. Dr. Hsia holds a doctorate degree in physics from Ohio State University.

Ang Kay Chai has served as our Senior Vice President, Fab Operations, since September 2002. Mr. Ang is responsible for manufacturing strategy and operational excellence across all of Chartered's fabs. Mr. Ang returned to Chartered after spending four years at Silterra Malaysia Sdn, Bhd., where he was responsible for fab operations. There, he led teams in technology partner selection, green field fab startup, transfer of 0.25um and 0.18um technology and developing foundry-compatible process capabilities. Prior to that, Mr. Ang spent nine years at Chartered where he led the initial conception, development and ramp up of Fab 2 and Fab 3. Mr. Ang first joined Chartered in 1989 and was one of the pioneers on Chartered's Fab 1 team. Mr. Ang holds a Master of Science degree in Engineering from the University of Texas and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the National University of Taiwan.

Ang Tang Yong has served as our Vice President, Fab Support Operations since July 2002. He reports to the President and Chief Executive Officer and has overall responsibility for facilities and supply management. Mr. Ang first joined our company in 1993 as Facilities Director and during the next seven years served consecutively as Vice President and Operations Manager of our Fab 1, General Manager of Silicon Manufacturing Partners (SMP or Fab 5), and as General Manager of Chartered Silicon Partners (CSP or Fab 6). Mr. Ang has more than 20 years of working experience in the semiconductor industry. Prior to joining our company, Mr. Ang held positions in the United States and Singapore with AT&T, Hitachi and Texas Instruments. From March 2001 to July 2002, he was president of Ellipsiz, a provider of semiconductor engineering and manufacturing services, headquartered in Singapore. Mr. Ang received a diploma in electrical engineering from Singapore Polytechnic and a master's degree in business administration from the State University of New York.

Chartered appointed industry veteran Kevin Meyer as vice president of industry marketing and platform alliances in June 2007, reporting directly to the CEO. In this role, Mr. Meyer leads the team working with IBM and Samsung to drive an industry platform initiative for single-design, multi-sourcing solutions based on designs down to 32nm, building on a collaborative development relationship which also includes Infineon, Freescale and STMicroelectronics. Previously, Mr. Meyer was vice president of worldwide marketing and services, leading the global organization that drove the Company's strategy, as well as its product, corporate and regional marketing initiatives. Mr. Meyer has more than 25 years of broad IDM, foundry, and systems experience in the industry and has been with Chartered for a total of seven years. Four years ago, he returned to Chartered after almost two years as the vice president of marketing for MIPS Technologies, an intellectual property company specializing in microprocessors. Mr. Meyer also draws on over 15 years of experience at Motorola, where he held a number of global executive positions in sales, marketing, operations and engineering. In the early 1990s, he was the head of RISC marketing at Motorola when Apple, IBM, and Motorola formed the AIM alliance for PowerPC. He was also the general manager of Motorola's Computer Group in Asia/Pacific & Japan in the mid 1990s when Motorola licensed the MacOS and built Mac & Windows NT-compatible computers in Nanjing, China. There, he was chairman of one of Motorola's five joint ventures. Mr. Meyer has degrees in business administration and industrial technology.

Leow Kim Keat was appointed vice president, customer support operations and supply management organization (SMO) in November 2006. Previously vice president of customer support operations, Mr. Leow took on the added role of SMO leadership in November 2006, overseeing the company's relationships with vendors and turnkey partners. Meanwhile, Mr. Leow continues to lead the customer support operations, as he has since February 2002, with responsibilities for corporate factory planning, industrial engineering, factory capacity; business planning and planning systems as well as tapeout operations and pricing. Mr. Leow has over 21 years of experience in semiconductor manufacturing, including more than 14 years with Chartered. Prior to Chartered, Mr. Leow spent over seven years at Texas Instruments Singapore where he held various manufacturing positions. Mr. Leow holds a Bachelor of Science from the National University of Singapore and a Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from the Singapore Institute of Management.

Ng Seng Huwi has served as our Vice President, Human Resources since July 2003. Mr. Ng is responsible for the overall development and implementation of policies and processes in our company's human resources management system. Mr. Ng brings with him extensive work experience in a number of large multi-national companies. He joined us from Praxair Inc., where he was vice president of Asia Human Resources with responsibilities that included ensuring organizational effectiveness, improving productivity and managing performance. During his 22 year professional career, Mr. Ng has lived and worked around the world, holding a variety of human resources, engineering and operations positions in global companies, including Schlumberger, Unilever and ICI. Mr. Ng holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Honors) from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland and an MBA from the University of Sheffield, England.

Seungil Kim has served as our Vice President, Quality and Reliability Assurance (QRA) since March 2005.Mr. Kim is responsible for Chartered’s quality control and reliability assurance management initiatives, for continually enhancing the company’s global standards of quality excellence in operational and business best practices across its fabrication facilities and regional offices worldwide. Mr. Kim brings more than 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, and has held management positions in QRA, sales and marketing, and fab operations. Before joining Chartered, he was senior advisor of QRA with United Microelectronics Corporation in Taiwan. Prior to that, Mr. Kim spent 15 years with Hynix Semiconductor in the United States and Korea. His last position was president and CEO of Hynix Semiconductor Manufacturing America and was responsible for the region’s activities, including manufacturing, QRA, engineering and facilities management. Previously in Korea, he served as senior vice president of Hynix Semiconductor Manufacturing Division and vice president of corporate quality and reliability division. He started his career with IBM Corporation in East Fishkill, New York, as a senior associate engineer responsible for semiconductor product quality assurance testing. Mr. Kim holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.

Ang Tang Yong has served as our Vice President, Fab Support Operations since July 2002. He reports to the President and Chief Executive Officer and has overall responsibility for facilities and supply management. Mr. Ang first joined our company in 1993 as Facilities Director and during the next seven years served consecutively as Vice President and Operations Manager of our Fab 1, General Manager of Silicon Manufacturing Partners (SMP or Fab 5), and as General Manager of Chartered Silicon Partners (CSP or Fab 6). Mr. Ang has more than 20 years of working experience in the semiconductor industry. Prior to joining our company, Mr. Ang held positions in the United States and Singapore with AT&T, Hitachi and Texas Instruments. From March 2001 to July 2002, he was president of Ellipsiz, a provider of semiconductor engineering and manufacturing services, headquartered in Singapore. Mr. Ang received a diploma in electrical engineering from Singapore Polytechnic and a master's degree in business administration from the State University of New York.

Tony Tsai was appointed vice president, quality and reliability assurance in October 2006, reporting directly to the president and CEO. In this role, Mr. Tsai leads Chartered's ongoing efforts in quality control management, operational best practices and business excellence throughout the company. Mr. Tsai has over 30 years of experience in driving quality in manufacturing operations. Before joining Chartered, he spent more than 10 years with Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation, where he last held the position of chief quality officer. Prior to that, Mr. Tsai was head of reliability and QA operations at Motorola Taiwan. He also held quality control and assurance positions in Bourns (Electronics) Taiwan and Precision Monolithic Incorporation, an analog IC testing company which has since been bought over by Analog Devices Inc. Mr. Tsai holds a Bachelor of Electronics Engineering from Tamkang University, Taiwan, and an Executive Master of Business Administration from the National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.

Philip Tan has served on our Board of Directors and as our Chairman of the Audit Committee since October 2003. He also currently sits on the board of various companies including Guthrie GTS Ltd and Singapore Food Industries Ltd. Mr. Tan was in the commerce and industry sector for 11 years prior to entering the banking and financial sector. He joined the Overseas Union Bank in 1979 holding various senior positions and retired in 2002 as Executive Vice President, Corporate Services. Mr. Tan holds a Bachelor of Accountancy from the University of Singapore and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Wolverhampton, UK. He also holds a post-graduate diploma in Business Administration from the Manchester Business School, UK. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore, CPA (Australia), Chartered Association of Certified Accountants, UK and an Associate of the Chartered Insititute of Management Accountants, UK.

and as our Chairman of the Board since August 1, 2002. Mr. Norling also served as interim Chief Executive Officer from May 2002 to June 2002. He has 37 years of working experience in the electronics industry. Mr. Norling was with Motorola Inc. from 1965 to 2000 holding various positions, including President of the Semiconductor Products Sector in 1986, President of the Europe, Middle East and Africa region in 1993, Deputy to the Chief Executive Officer in 1998 and President of the Personal Communications Sector in 1999 until his retirement. He has previously served as a board member and the Chairman of the Semiconductor Industry Association. Mr. Norling is currently a board member of Harley-Davidson, Inc. Mr. Norling holds a B.Sc and a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois.

Philip Tan has served on our Board of Directors and as our Chairman of the Audit Committee since October 2003. He also currently sits on the board of various companies including Guthrie GTS Ltd and Singapore Food Industries Ltd. Mr. Tan was in the commerce and industry sector for 11 years prior to entering the banking and financial sector. He joined the Overseas Union Bank in 1979 holding various senior positions and retired in 2002 as Executive Vice President, Corporate Services. Mr. Tan holds a Bachelor of Accountancy from the University of Singapore and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Wolverhampton, UK. He also holds a post-graduate diploma in Business Administration from the Manchester Business School, UK. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore, CPA (Australia), Chartered Association of Certified Accountants, UK and an Associate of the Chartered Insititute of Management Accountants, UK.

Andre Borrel has served on our Board of Directors since July 1998 and is currently working as a consultant in the semiconductor industry. Prior to joining our Board of Directors, Mr. Borrel was Senior Vice President and General Manager of Communications, Power and Signal Technology Group at Motorola Inc. Mr. Borrel is also an Officer of the French National Order of Merit and holds a Master Degree in Electronics from "Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications" in Paris, France.

Maurizio Ghirga has served on our Board of Directors as an independent director and a member of the Audit Committee since November 2006. Mr. Ghirga brings to Chartered more than 40 years of experience in the electronics and oil industries. Mr. Ghirga held various senior positions with ESSO Italy and ESSO Chemical Italy, both subsidiaries of EXXON Co. prior to joining SGS Microelectronics in 1983 as the chief financial officer. After a merger of SGS Microelectronics and Thomson Semiconductors and the formation of SGS-Thomson (now known as ST Microelectronics) in 1987, Mr. Ghirga was appointed as the corporate vice president and chief financial officer. He contributed to the initial public offering of ST Microelectronics on the New York Stock Exchange in 1994. After his retirement in 2003, Mr. Ghirga served as the senior advisor to the president of ST Microelectronics. From early 2005 to the middle of 2006, Mr. Ghirga was the president and CEO of Accent, a silicon-design joint venture company between ST Microelectronics and Cadence. Mr. Ghirga holds degrees in economics and finance at the University of Genoa.

Peter Seah has served on our Board of Directors since January 2002. Mr. Seah is currently a member of the Temasek Advisory Panel. Prior to the cessation of operations of Singapore Technologies Pte Ltd on December 31, 2004, Mr. Seah was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Singapore Technologies Pte Ltd. Before joining Singapore Technologies Pte Ltd, he was a banker for 32 years, 22 of which were with the Overseas Union Bank Ltd and before that with Citibank. He retired from his position as Vice Chairman and CEO at Overseas Union Bank Ltd in September 2001. Mr. Seah currently sits on the board of various companies including SembCorp Industries Ltd, CapitaLand Ltd, ST Engineering Ltd and STATS ChipPAC Ltd (formerly known as ST Assembly Test Services Ltd). Mr. Seah graduated from the University of Singapore in 1968 with an honors degree in Business Administration. For his public service, he was awarded the Public Service Medal (1995) as well as the Public Service Star (1999) by the Singapore Government.

ROBERT E. LA BLANC was appointed as Chairman of the Board in 2008 and has served as one of our directors since 2003. He is President of Robert E. La Blanc Associates, Inc., an information technologies consulting and investment banking firm, and is active in the field of venture capital. Prior to founding La Blanc Associates, in 1981, Mr. La Blanc was Vice Chairman of Continental Telecom, Inc., a diversified telecommunications company providing service to over three million customers in 2,000 communities in 37 states and the Caribbean. Prior to joining Continental, he spent ten years with the major investment banking firm of Salomon Brothers Inc. where he was a General Partner and the founder of the firm s telecommunications team. Mr. La Blanc is currently a director of the following public companies: CA Inc. and more than 75 Prudential Mutual Funds. Mr. La Blanc holds the degrees of Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from Manhattan College and Master in Business Administration from New York University. He is also a graduate of an extensive technical training program at the Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Tay Siew Choon has served on our Board of Directors since July 2001. Mr. Tay was formerly a corporate advisor to Singapore Technologies Pte Ltd which ceased operations on December 31, 2004. Prior to that, he was Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer in Singapore Technologies Pte Ltd. From 1998 to 2000, Mr. Tay was the Managing Director and Deputy Chief Executive Officer of SembCorp Industries Ltd and has held various senior positions in Singapore Technologies Industrial Corporation Ltd. Mr. Tay currently also sits on the board of various companies including Straco Corporation Limited, Pan-United Corporation Ltd, TauRx Therapeutics Ltd and Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore. Mr. Tay received his Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) (Honors) from Auckland University and his Masters of Science in Systems Engineering from the former University of Singapore (now National University of Singapore).