Chuah Hoon Hong

Independent Non-Executive Director

Mr Chuah Hoon Hong was appointed to the Board on 30 June 2023 as an Independent Non-Executive Director. He holds a Degree of Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours in Applied Accounting, Oxford Brookes University. He is also a fellowship member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), and a practicing member of Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA).

Mr Chuah has more than 16 years of extensive and varied experience in audit, accounting, consultancy and other financial matters. He started his career in audit firm in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Apart from audit assignments, he also involved in the provision of Consultancy and Advisory services such as financial due diligence, forensic accounting, and etc. He also involved as a Reporting Accountant in the IPO exercise.

Subsequent to that, he joined a Singapore-based consulting firm as Managing Consultant of Corporate Finance Department, involved in fund raising, merger & acquisition, and restructuring exercise in Singapore, PRC as well as Malaysia. He is currently a Director of CNP Group and Silver Ocean Consulting Sdn. Bhd.

At present, he also sits on the board of directors of Mlabs Systems Berhad, Vsolar Group Berhad and Sinaran Advance Group Berhad.

He is presently a member of the Audit Committee and Nomination and Remuneration Committee of the of the Company.

Ms Karina Bt Idris Ahmad Shah

Independent Non-Executive Director

Ms Karina Shah was appointed to the Board on 28 March 2022 as an Independent Non-Executive Director. She holds a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B. Hons) from University Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM).

She has over 15 years of in house experience in a wide variety of disciplines with emphasis in   telecommunication, construction, fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) and the oil and gas industry.

She began her career in the Attorney Generals Chamber in 1994 and later progressed to a legal firm and various organisations in Kuala Lumpur. In 2007 she joined Iskandar Regional Development Authority (IRDA) a statutory body to develop Iskandar Malaysia in Johor and was instrumental in setting up the legal and secretarial unit for IRDA.

In 2011, she took a legal role in Doha, Qatar for WCT Berhad and upon her return she joined Zico Insource Kuala Lumpur as Legal Consultant providing consultancy to Time dot com, Heng Yuan Refining Co. (fka Shell Refining Co.), Dutch Lady Milk Industries Bhd, Genting Bhd, Bumi Armada, Maxis Bhd and Axiata Business Services Sdn Bhd.

Other directorship include Mlabs Systems Berhad.

She is presently a member of the Audit Committee and Chairman of Nomination and Remuneration Committee of the Company.

Mr Roy Ho Yew Kee

Executive Director

Mr Roy Ho Yew Kee was appointed to the Board on 22 March 2019 as Non-Independent Non-Executive Director, and as the representative of Key Alliance Group Berhad, the major shareholder of the Company. On 16 March 2020, he was re-designated as Executive Director of the Company. He obtained his Bachelor of Commerce from the Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. Mr Roy brings over 20 years of financial service and restructuring experience both locally and abroad in various capacities.

Mr Roy started his career in Australia in 1998, in the financial services industry, joining Hartley Poynton Ltd, a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada, where he was trained as a financial advisor, specialising in derivatives and first generation fintech products.

He then moved to a boutique trading firm, Tricom Futures Ltd, in 2003, where he set up a trading desk in greenfield markets, specialising in debt instruments, capital raising, equity linked structures and derivatives.

In 2011, Mr Roy returned to Malaysia where he joined Key Alliance Group Berhad as an Executive Director overseeing corporate strategy and in 2017, he was redesignated as Managing Director of Key Alliance Group Berhad, the major shareholder of the Company.

At present, he also sits on the board of directors of Key Alliance Group Berhad, Cheetah Holdings Berhad, Komarkcorp Berhad and Nexion Technologies Limited.

He is presently a member of the Employees’ Share Option Scheme Committee and Investment Committee of the Company.

Mr Andy Liew Hock Sim

Independent Non-Executive Director

Mr Andy Liew Hock Sim was appointed to the Board on 1 March 2020 as an Independent Non-Executive Director. Mr Andy is a Chartered Accountant with Malaysian Institute of Accountants (“MIA”) and member of Certified Practising Accountant (“CPA”) Australia.

Mr Andy has 20 years of experience with major audit firms in audit, taxation and accountancy that gained from both Malaysia and oversea. He was involved in numerous successful initial public offering (“IPO”) in Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Germany throughout his career.

Mr Andy started his career with a local audit firm in Malaysia. He then joined KPMG Kuala Lumpur after obtained his professional qualifications, i.e. MIA and CPA Australia in 2006. In KPMG Kuala Lumpur, he started to involve in the audit of multinational corporation and public listed company. He also involved in the IPO of a financial services company in the Main Market of Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange.

In 2008, he ventured to China and since then, spent 8 years in China. From 2008 to 2012, he worked in KPMG Beijing as Manager and actively involved in audit and IPO engagements. In 2012, he joined a China-based manufacturing company in the capacity of Chief Financial Officer, and listed the company in Frankfurt Stock Exchange in 2014 prior to his return to Malaysia.

Upon his return to Malaysia in 2016, he joined Baker Tilly Malaysia as the Director of the Transaction Reporting department. He was then promoted to Partner in 2017 and led a team of 40 specialise in IPO engagements and actively involved in various corporate exercises, e.g. business restructuring, merger and acquisition, reverse takeover, transfer listing, financial due diligence, regularisation plan for PN17 company, fund raising and etc.

In 2019, he started his own public practice and assumed the role of Managing Partner.

At present, he also sits on the board of directors of XOX Networks Berhad, Perak Corporation Berhad and Oversea Enterprise Berhad.

He is presently the Chairman of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee and Investment Committee and a member of Audit Committee of the Company.