Mr Colm Martin McCarthy joined the Wheelock Properties (Singapore) Board on 26 September 2008. Mr McCarthy serves as Chairman of the Company's Remuneration Committee and as a member of the Company's Audit & Risk Management and Nominating Committees. Mr McCarthy was re-elected as Director at the Company's Annual General Meeting on 27 April 2009.

Mr McCarthy's career has been in banking. He joined Bank of America's Dublin office in 1979 and was later transferred to London. In 1991, he moved to Asia to become Country Executive Officer of the Singapore office. He was named President, Bank of America Asia, in 2003 and retired from the bank in June 2008. Currently, Mr McCarthy is a non-executive director of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited.

Mr McCarthy received the Public Service Medal (PMB) from the Singapore Government in 2003 for his contribution to the financial services industry.

Mr McCarthy graduated from University College Dublin with a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) and a Master of Business Studies (First Class Honours).