Mr. Chuah Hoon Hong was appointed to the Board on 30 June 2023 as an Independent Non-Executive Director. Mr. Chuah holds a Bachelor of Science degree with First Class Honours in Applied Accounting from Oxford Brookes University. He is a Fellowship Member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and a practicing member of the Malaysia Institute of Accountants (MIA).
Mr. Chuah, currently serving as a Director of CNP Group and Silver Ocean Consulting Group, with over seventeen (17) years of extensive and diverse experience in financial advisory and consultancy, brings a wealth of expertise to his role.
Mr. Chuah founded CNP in 2014 and has been actively involved in its growth and development since then. He specializes in pre- and post-IPO exercises & compliances and merger & acquisitions for both local and international financial markets.
Mr. Chuah embarked on his professional journey in the audit firm in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In addition to handling audit assignments, he actively participated in providing advisory and consultancy services, including IPO exercises, financial due diligence, and forensic accounting. Following this, Mr. Chuah joined a Singapore-based consulting firm that focused on fundraising, merger & acquisitions, and restructuring initiatives for public-listed and private companies in Singapore, the People’s Republic of China, and Malaysia.
Currently, Mr. Chuah also serves as an Independent Director for Mlabs Systems Berhad, Vsolar Group Berhad, and Sinaran Advance Group Berhad, all of which are listed on Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad.
He is presently a member of the Audit Committee and Nomination and Remuneration Committee of the Company.
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 Tan Sik Eek was appointed to the Board on 25 August 2016 as an Independent Non-Executive Director. On 17 August 2018, he was re-designated as Executive Director of the Company. He majored in Economics and Political Science from University of Sydney, Australia.
He has more than two decades of experience ranging from corporate finance advisory to private equity investments. He was previously a partner in a private equity firm focused on investing in companies seeking growth funding and pre-IPO capital. Prior to that, he was specialising in securing funding from a series of established North America global opportunity fund, for companies listed on the regional capital markets.
Since 2013, he has been engaged as the Director of several public companies to provide management strategy, day to day operational oversight, fund raising and business development planning of the various companies.
He is also a Director of Fintec Global Berhad, Mlabs Systems Berhad, NetX Holdings Berhad and Symphony Life Berhad.
He is presently the Chairman of the Employees’ Share Option Scheme Committee and a member of Investment Committee of the Company.
Ms. Karina Shah was appointed to the Board on 28 March 2022 as an Independent Non-Executive Director. She holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB Hons) from the National University of Malaysia (UKM).
She has over 15 years of extensive in house experience as a legal consultant in a wide variety of disciplines namely telecommunication, construction, fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) and 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 Enterprise Sdn Bhd.
She is also a Director of Mlabs Systems Berhad.
She is presently the Chairperson of Nomination and Remuneration Committee and a member of the Audit Committee of the Company.
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.
Dato’ Seri Abdul Azim bin Mohd Zabidi, was appointed to the Board on 30 June 2010. He graduated with a Masters of Arts in Business Law from the London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom in 1983. He is also a Fellow of The Chartered Institute of Secretaries and Administrators, United Kingdom.
Dato’ Seri Azim was Chairman of Bank Simpanan Nasional (BSN), Malaysia’s National Savings Bank, a position he held for 10 years from 1999 – 2009. He had quickly risen through the ranks of the Malaysian financial industry, having started his banking career in 1984.
Growing from his work with BSN, Dato’ Seri Azim was also active in the work undertaken by the Brussels based World Savings Banks Institute (WSBI). In 2000, he was appointed President (Asia Pacific) for WSBI and in 2003, he was elevated to its Board of Directors. In 2007, he became the first non-European since WSBI’s inception, to be appointed to the dual post of Vice President and Treasurer.
A long association with the unit trusts/mutual funds and fund management industry culminated in Dato’ Seri Azim’s election as President of the Federation of Malaysian Unit Trust Managers, a post he held from 1998 to 2003. During this period, he was appointed Member of the Board of Directors of the International Investment Funds Association (IIFA), with headquarters in Montreal, Canada, a post he relinquished in 2008. The year prior to that, he was also appointed Chairman of the Board’s Audit Committee.
His love for the arts and being an avid collector of Malaysian art works saw him being appointed Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Art Gallery, Malaysia in March 2009 until 2010.
In the field of sports, he was appointed Chairman of the National Sports Institute in May 2017 and subsequent to that appointed Malaysia’s Chef-de-Mission to the Asian Games 2018 in Jakarta and Palembang, Indonesia. On 5 May 2018, Dato’ Seri Azim was elected Deputy President of the Olympic Council of Malaysia, a position he held until September 2021.
He now sits on numerous local and foreign Boards of Companies, both public and private, amongst which are Fintec Global Berhad, LYC Healthcare Berhad and Seacera Group Berhad.