Leon Ng

Global ownership of all strategic direct & indirect procurement, supply chain, and procurement policy for RGE's resource-based manufacturing portfolio. Annual spend of more than US$1bn across 5 major categories across Indonesia, China, Malaysia, Brazil & others • Led the procurement and supply chain integration of Vinda Group in 2024, — one of Asia's largest consumer-hygiene M&A transactions, covering supplier rationalisation, contract migration, and operating model alignment • Promoted to take on all functions of Global Operation Procurement unit – Category Management, Procurement policies, Finance and Logistics & Supply Chain • Strengthened global procurement operating model from decentralised BU ownership to hybrid centre-led design — improving spend visibility, clearer ownerships, compliance, and negotiation leverage across US$1bn+ annual spend • Navigated supply continuity through four major geopolitical disruptions: Russia-Ukraine war (2022), Red Sea crisis (2024–25), US Tariffs and ongoing Middle East conflict — zero plant shutdowns attributable to procurement failure • Expanded remit from chemicals category to full global procurement function: Category Management, Procurement Policy, Finance, Logistics & Supply Chain • Currently leading AI and sustainability transformation agenda for the procurement function • People manager and developer of more than 20 people across all functions in Singapore & APAC

• Within 2.5 years, promoted to manage all direct and indirect raw material categories in the Global Operation Procurement unit to support the growing 15 RGE plants in China, Indonesia, Malaysia & Brazil, with a team of 8 • Directly responsible for 3mn mt of strategic raw materials in energy, chemicals, fertilisers, MRO and production consumables etc (more than US$1bn spend). • Revamped market analysis to streamline focus and achieved additional savings of US$1mn in procurement strategy • Rolled out digitalization projects like E-procurement systems (SAP Ariba) and spend analytics systems (Zycus), playing key roles in troubleshooting, training and ensuring the new systems achieved value add for all stakeholders

• Head of chemicals team which directly manages more than 650,000mt of chemicals worth more than US$160mn and growing • Management of bulk chemicals (caustic soda, hydrogen peroxide, sulphur, agriculture starches, salt etc) and specialty chemicals (paper, pulp and rayon related specialty chemicals etc) – including analysis, forecasting, sourcing, e-tendering, inventory management, logistics, quality control etc • Heavily involved in strategic make-vs-buy and logistics consolidation projects, resulting in savings of US$3mn annually from 2024 onwards and US$2mn annually since 2020 respectively • Part of pioneer super user group when SAP Ariba was implemented in RGE that was heavily involved in supplier onboarding & training, UAT, train-the-trainer programmes etc

Non-Executive Board of Director for privately held natural resources company

• Sell-side foundation that now informs how I negotiate, design supplier strategy, and read commodity cycles as a buyer • Covered Asia Pacific (excl South Asia) for 3rd party sales and purchases of cementitious and non-cementitious and solid fuels products • Procurement of all product requirements for regional group companies • Secured trades totaling 200,000mt of clinker within 4 months of joining the company from a new customer

• Sell-side foundation that now informs how I negotiate, design supplier strategy, and read commodity cycles as a buyer • Critical member of 2-man commercial team in Singapore covering global container and bulk sales of PhosAgro's production, achieving sales of almost 1mn mt annually • Achieved significant double-digit sales growth in key markets like India, Thailand and Vietnam annually • Ensured drafting and execution of global contracts to PhosAgro’s advantage • Covered duties for Executive Director of Singapore office whenever required • Launched SAP Business One for better management tracking and reporting

• Responsible for commercial procurement and key analysis Points-of-View (POVs) of all fertilizer products from China • Management and development of two product analysts in Beijing • Ensured all activities and communications carried out in the Beijing office adhere to Koch’s strict compliance standards 100% of the time • Responsible for all government and administrative related document submissions • Legal Representative-to-be for Koch Fertilizer Beijing WOFE

• Responsible for Asia Pacific’s phosphate fertilizer book for all trading opportunities and built new customer relationships in key markets like India, China, Australia and New Zealand • Identified opportunities to create uplifts and deal optimization in existing deals and shipments by additional CFR sales, co-shipments, saving port costs resulting in additional profits of close to USD 3mn in FY2013 • Managed all submissions for India tenders amounting to 200,000mt • Responsible for all of Australia’s 3 terminals’ procurement needs for all products like urea, phosphates, potash and ammonium sulphate, including market outlook, profitability and optimization analyses and long-term strategies

• Developed key actionable POV/forecast models which allowed commercial team to make good trading decisions • Analyzed market conditions closely and took responsibility for Supply & Demand balance sheets for all fertilizer products across Asia Pacific, ex-China • Responsible for future price and volume calls for key markets like India, including views which were contrary to the market’s POV then, allowing Koch to make aggressive trades resulting in USD 5mn of profits in 2011-2012

• Responsible for 2009 raw sugar positions for North Asian Markets’ targeted growths, volume & market share • Closed first deal worth USD 4 million with a new customer within 2 months of joining Louis Dreyfus

• Supported 2 traders in steel trading operations – deal operations, trade financing, pricing and documentations etc

Global Executive Development Programme.