About Us

Tan Sri Lim Siew Choon was appointed to the Board on 2 November 2016. He received his tertiary education in the United States of America and graduated with a Degree in Business Administration and Finance from University of Central Oklahoma.

He has more than 41 years of management experience in property development, construction, retail design, retail development as well as corporate management. He is currently the Non-Independent Non-Executive Chairman of Malton Berhad, the Chairman and Non-Independent Executive Director of Pavilion REIT Management Sdn Bhd, the Manager of Pavilion Real Estate Investment Trust as well as a director of WCT Berhad and Pavilion REIT Bond Capital Berhad. Both Malton Berhad and Pavilion Real Estate Investment Trust are listed on the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad. He has no conflict of interest with the Company and its subsidiaries save for the related party transactions as disclosed in Section 4 & 5 under Other Disclosures of this Annual Report.

He is a major shareholder of the Company through his direct shareholdings in the Company and indirect equity interest held by Dominion Nexus Sdn Bhd.

Dato’ Lee Tuck Fook was appointed to the Board on 2 November 2016 as a Non-Independent Non-Executive Director and subsequently re-designated as Group Managing Director of the Company on 3 April 2017. He is a member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants and the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He also holds a Master Degree in Business Administration from the International Management Centre, Buckingham.

Dato’ Lee began his career with KPMG in 1974 under articleship, was subsequently admitted as a partner in 1985 until he left the practice in 1990. From 1990 to 1992, he was appointed the Vice President of Samling Group in Sarawak. He later joined the Renong Berhad Group as the Managing Director of Renong Overseas Corporation. Between 1994 and 2000, he was the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the board of Peremba-Kentz Ltd. He was the Managing Director of Cement Industries of Malaysia Bhd from 2001 to 2002.

From 2002-2006, he was the Managing Director of Paracorp Berhad. In 2003, he was appointed as an Executive Director of Malton Berhad and was re-designated as its Managing Director in December 2003. He resigned from the board of Malton Berhad in 2009.

He is currently a Non-Independent Executive Director of Pavilion REIT Management Sdn Bhd, the Manager of Pavilion Real Estate Investment Trust as well as a director of Pavilion REIT Bond Capital Berhad and WCT Berhad. He is also the Independent Non-Executive Chairman of Pesona Metro Holdings Berhad and sits on the board of directors in several private limited companies which are involved in property development, retail management and operations. He has no conflict of interest with the Company and its subsidiaries save for the related party transaction disclosed in the notes to the financial statement of the Company.

Dato’ Lee chairs the Management Committee of the Company.

Datuk Chow Ying Choon was appointed to the Board on 19 August 2020. He holds a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) Degree from the University of Malaya.

Datuk Chow began his career in D&C Bank Berhad (now RHB Bank Berhad) in October 1978. During his tenure with the bank, he held positions as Head of Credit Supervision and Control, Head of Local Corporate and Head of Commercial Banking at its Head Office.

In February 1995, Datuk Chow joined EON Bank Berhad as Head of Corporate Banking and was promoted through the ranks to Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Group Business and Investment Banking. In 2011, upon the merger of EON Bank Berhad and Hong Leong Bank Berhad, he was appointed Chief Operating Officer, Group Business and Corporate Banking until his retirement in February 2014. During his banking career, he held senior management positions with revenue and profit accountability and had implemented business transformation strategies to continually drive business and revenue growth.

Prior to joining the Company, Datuk Chow was the Managing Director of Global Oriental Berhad, a company with its principal activities in property development and construction.

Datuk Chow serves as a member of the Management Committee of the Company.

Tan Sri Marzuki Bin Mohd Noor was appointed to the Board on 2 November 2016. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Degree from the University of Malaya.

Tan Sri Marzuki started his career in the Administrative and Diplomatic Service of Malaysia in 1972 and retired in August 2006. From 1972, he served at various Malaysian Diplomatic Missions abroad before being appointed as Ambassador to Argentina with concurrent accreditation to Uruguay and Paraguay in 1992.

In 1996, he was appointed High Commissioner of Malaysia to India (concurrently accredited as Ambassador to Nepal). Prior to his retirement, he was the Ambassador of Malaysia to Japan from 1999 to July 2006. Subsequently, he was a Director in various companies within the DRB-Hicom Berhad Group until 2016.

Tan Sri Marzuki is the chairman of the Audit Committee and serves as a member of the Board Risk and Sustainability Committee and Nomination & Remuneration Committee of the Company. He is also the Senior Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company.

Datuk Ab Wahab Bin Khalil was appointed to the Board on 2 November 2016. He is a holder of a M.Litt from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Anthropology and Sociology from University of Malaya. He also holds a Certificate in Education from the Teachers Training College, Singapore.

Datuk Ab Wahab started his career as a management trainee in Lever Brothers (M) Sdn Bhd before moving to Warner Lambert (M) Sdn Bhd as a Product Manager. He subsequently joined Yardley of London as a Marketing and Sales Manager and subsequently Cold Storage (M) Bhd as a Business Manager where he rose to the position of General Manager of Bakeries, Ice & Meat Division. In 1990, he joined Perbadanan Perwira Niaga Malaysia (PERNAMA), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lembaga Tabung Angkatan Tentera (LTAT) which specializes in the running of retail chain stores in military camps as the General Manager until 2015.

Served as Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Business and Management UiTM and Arshad Ayub Graduate Business School UiTM. Adviser to the Institute of Business Excellence UiTM.

Datuk Ab Wahab chairs the Nomination & Remuneration Committee and is a member of the Audit Committee and Board Risk and Sustainability Committee of the Company.

Dato’ Ng Sooi Lin was appointed to the Board on 3 April 2017. He holds a Bachelor in Engineering from the University of Liverpool and a Full Technology Certificate from the City & Guild’s London.

Dato’ Ng is an engineer by profession with extensive working experience in the field of property development and management. He started his career in the property consultancy in Kuala Lumpur before moving on to play key roles in various development companies in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei.

He joined Berjaya Land Berhad in November 1994 and was the Senior General Manager (Group Properties & Development) prior to his appointment as Executive Director of Berjaya Land Berhad in March 2003. He was subsequently appointed the Chief Executive Officer of Berjaya Land Berhad from 21 December 2006 until 31 December 2016 and re-designated as Non-Independent and Non-Executive Director with effect from 1 January 2017 till 11 December 2020.

Dato’ Ng chairs the Board Risk and Sustainability Committee and is a member of the Audit Committee and Nomination & Remuneration Committee of the Company.

Mr. Ng Soon Lai @ Ng Siek Chuan was appointed to the Board on 1 February 2017. He is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.

Mr. Ng has had several years of experience in the accounting profession with Coopers & Lybrand in London and Kuala Lumpur before moving on to the financial sector in 1980. Prior to joining Alliance Bank in July 1991 as General Manager of Credit, he had served in various positions in a leading local merchant bank and finance company. He was appointed as the Chief Executive Director of Alliance Bank Malaysia Berhad in 1994 and to the Board of Alliance Merchant Bank Berhad in 2002 until his resignation in 2005. Since then, he has held the post of Independent Director in several public listed companies. He is currently an Independent Non-Executive Director of ELK-Desa Resources Berhad and Eco World Development Group Berhad.

Mr. Ng serves as a member of the Audit Committee and Board Risk and Sustainability Committee of the Company.

Puan Rahana Binti Abdul Rashid was appointed to the Board on 1 January 2019. She completed her studies with a Bachelor of Science (Economics and Finance) in 1983 from Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana, United States of America and continued her studies to receive a Master in Business Administration from the same university in 1984.

Puan Rahana started her career as Trainee Officer, Corporate Services Department with Raleigh Berhad (now known as Inter-Pacific Industrial Group Berhad) in 1984 before she extended her career into investment banking by joining Aseambankers Malaysia Berhad (now known as Maybank Investment Bank Berhad) in 1985. She joined Puncak Niaga (M) Sdn Bhd in 1996 as the General Manager, Corporate Finance. In 2001, Puan Rahana took a break from the corporate sector and undertook several consultancy assignments from various entrepreneurs.

In 2014, Puan Rahana took up the position of Chief Financial Officer in ORO Financecorp Ltd, a licensed microfinance corporation in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Upon her return to Malaysia, Puan Rahana joined Tass Tech (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd, an IT specialist company, as the Finance Consultant in July 2016 and subsequently promoted to Director of Finance before she resigned from this company in 2019. She is currently an Independent Non-Executive Director of Asian Pac Holdings Berhad.

Puan Rahana is a member of the Audit Committee as well as Board Risk and Sustainability Committee of the Company.