Chuah Chong San was appointed to the Board as Executive Director on 25 January 2022 and was subsequently redesignated as Managing Director on 21 September 2023. He is responsible for the implementation of the Board’s decisions, strategies and corporate direction. He graduated in 1989 from University of Malaya with a Degree in Electrical Engineering. In 1998, he obtained his Master of Business Administration from Universiti Sains Malaysia.
He started his career in Motorola Solutions Malaysia Sdn Bhd (“Motorola”) as Test System Engineer in 1998 and subsequently transferred to the Internal Control function, focusing on Information Technology (“IT”), Information Security Protection & Compliance. He was promoted to an Engineering management role in 2000. He led a team to digitise and transform key supply chain business processes and was promoted to Motorola Penang IT lead in 2005 to manage the simplification and consolidation of Enterprise Resource Planning (“ERP”) system across multiple businesses within Motorola.
During his service at Motorola, he managed IT lead roles in multiple Merger, Acquisition and Divesture projects. Furthermore, he had successfully migrated regional IT Business system to Global Enterprise System in 2013.
In 2016, he was promoted to be the Asia Pacific IT lead, focusing on modernising the IT Infrastructure, partnering with Third-Party Logistics (“3PL”) and Electronics Manufacturing Services (“EMS”) to deliver IT solution and supporting IT services in 12 Asia Pacific countries. He left Motorola in 2020.
He joined Luster Industries Berhad as an Alternate Director in 2020 and was appointed as Executive Director in 2021.
Chuah Chong Ewe was appointed to the Board as Executive Director on 25 January 2022 and as Group Managing Director on 30 September 2022. He was subsequently redesignated as Executive Chairman on 21 September 2023. He graduated from University of Malaya with a degree in LLB (Hons). He was admitted to the Malaysian Bar Council on 26 February 1993 and in the same year started his career as an advocate and solicitor. He practiced for approximately 20 years.
In 2005, he joined Seal Incorporated Berhad as Advisor before being assigned as its Group Chief Executive Officer. He spearheaded the strategic move and transformational restructuring in Seal Incorporated Berhad from a heavily indebted position into a profitable net cash corporation with diversified earnings base before leaving in October 2014.
He then joined Pentamaster Corporation Berhad in 2015 as its Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director. However, he resigned in 2021 but remains its major shareholder.
In 2018, he joined Luster Industries Berhad as Executive Director and is now its Group Managing Director and major shareholder.
On 30 May 2023, he was appointed as Executive Chairman in LFE Corporation Berhad.
Law Lee Yen was appointed to the Board as Independent Non-Executive Director on 1 October 2018. She graduated from the University of Melbourne, Australia in 2006 with a Bachelor of Commerce. She has been a member of CPA Australia and the Malaysian Institute of Accountants since April 2010 and August 2010 respectively. In October 2012, she joined the Chartered Tax Institute of Malaysia as a member. She has more than 16 years of working experience in the field of audit, corporate advisory and taxation services.
She started her career in 2007 with KPMG LLP Singapore as an Audit Associate. In 2010, she left KPMG LLP Singapore and joined Terry Law & Co, Malaysia as a Manager, responsible for tax advisory services. She was promoted as Partner of the firm in 2011.
In January 2017, she set up her own firm, LY Law & Associates as a partner after obtaining her audit practice license from the relevant ministry in Malaysia, providing audit and tax advisory services. In May 2017, she resigned as a partner of Terry Law & Co.
Currently, she also serves as a Director for BCB Berhad.
Professor Dato’ Ir. Ts. Dr. Ruzairi bin Abdul Rahim was appointed to the Board as Independent Non-Executive Director on 1 November 2018. He graduated with a Degree in Electronic System & Control Engineering in 1992 from Sheffield City Polytechnic and Ph.D in 1996 from Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He was awarded as a Professional Technologist (Ts.) by the Malaysia Board of Technologists in 2018 and as a Professional Engineer (Ir.) on 17 November 2022 by the Board of Engineers Malaysia. He has over 30 years of experience in the field of Research and Development (R&D) management.
He started his career with Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) in 1992 as a Tutor at the Department of Control & Instrumentation Engineering in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and subsequently appointed as the Head of Instrumentation Engineering Laboratory in 1997 to manage and operate lectures, tutorials, practical as well as reviewing examination papers. In June 1998, he was promoted as the Head of Department (Control & Instrumentation Engineering), where he was responsible for overseeing the planning, development programme, distribution of academic workload and staff coordination. He was then made Associate Professor of UTM in 1999.
In 2006, Professor Dato’ Ir. Ts. Dr. Ruzairi was promoted as the Professor of UTM and appointed the Deputy Dean (Corporate) at the Research Management Centre (“RMC”) of UTM. He was then promoted to the position of Director of RMC in 2009, a position which he held until November 2016. RMC is the research arm of UTM responsible for managing and facilitating various R&D activities, intellectual property creation and management, technological development, promotion and exploitation of R&D findings.
From December 2016 to November 2019, Professor Dato’ Ir. Ts. Dr. Ruzairi held the position of Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research & Innovation) at Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), where he was mainly responsible for the management of research, innovation and publications.
In 2020, Professor Dato’ Ir. Ts. Dr. Ruzairi was appointed as Professor for the School of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and was the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering UTM from July 2021 to June 2024.
During his service at UTM, he received 45 awards in recognition of his excellence among which are Indexed Journal Writer Award, UTM Quality Award - Research Management Center, Vice Chancellor’s Innovation Award - Research Management Center, Outstanding UTM Academician 2022 (Tokoh Akademik UTM 2022), Outstanding Scientist Award (MOHE), Malaysia’s Research STAR Award 2019, Research and Innovation Excellence in Technology and Engineering area and Top Research Scientist Malaysia (TRSM) by Academy Science Malaysia.
On 9 May 2022, he was appointed as Vice Chancellor of UTHM and has held the post until today.
Khoo Boo Keong was appointed to the Board as Independent Non-Executive Director on 21 September 2023. He completed his Bachelor of Economics (Hons.) from Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) in 1993 and in 2005 attained his Master of Business Administration, Marketing (E-Commerce) from the University of Leicester, UK.
He started his career in 1991 as a Sales Executive and subsequently Sales Manager at Texchem Trading, Malaysia before joining GE Plastics SEA, Singapore in 1993. In 1998, he joined Toho Tenax Co. Ltd, Singapore as the Regional Sales Manager and in 2010 moved to Zoltek Corporation, Singapore also in a similar position.
From 2012 till 2017, he was the Managing Director with Teijin Carbon Singapore Pte. Ltd and was promoted as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Teijin Carbon America, USA of which he served until September 2020.
Currently, he is a Certificate of Employment Intermediaries (CEI) certified Human Resource and Recruitment consultant at Union Manpower Services Pte. Ltd., Singapore of which he had joined in March 2021.