Mr Yong Voon Kar was appointed to the Board on 2 January 2020. The position held by him in the Board Committees are as follows:
Audit Committee – Member
Nomination Committee – Member
Remuneration Committee – Chairman
He holds a Bachelor of Business Studies degree majoring in Accounting from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. He has been a Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Australia and New Zealand and is a Member of the Malaysia Institute of Accountants since 1984.
Mr Yong is a Chartered Accountant by profession.
He was the Managing Partner of Ernst & Young (EY) East Malaysia office from 2002 to 2018 when he retired from the partnership of EY, Malaysia. He joined EY Malaysia in 1984, was admitted as a Partner in 1996, and has extensive experience in assurance, corporate recovery and corporate finance. He had been the lead audit partner of major East and West Malaysia public and non-public listed companies covering a wide range of industries.
Mr Yong had served in various governance and advisory roles in the EY global and regional network from 2008 to 2015. During this period, he served as a member of the Asia Pacific Governance/Advisory Council and was its Finance Sub Committee Co-Chair from 2010 to 2015. He had also served at EY’s highest governance level - the Global Governance/Advisory Council from 2013 to 2015.
Currently, Mr Yong serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director of KKB Engineering Berhad. He is also a Trustee of Yayasan Sin Chew, a foundation carrying out charitable activities.
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