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FRONTKEN CORPORATION BERHAD
(651020-T)
ANNUAL REPORT
2015
Principle 4 – Foster commitment (cont’d)
4.1 The Board should set expectations on time commitment for its members and protocols for accepting new directorships (cont’d)
Details of the Directors’ attendance at Board meetings for the financial year ended 31 December 2015 are set out
below:
Directors
Designations
Attendance
%
Ng Wai Pin
Executive Chairman and Managing Director
6/6
100
Dr Tay Kiang Meng
Executive Director / Chief Scientist
6/6
100
Dato’ Haji Johar bin Murat @ Murad Independent Non-Executive Director
5/6
83
Aaron Sim Kwee Lein
Independent Non-Executive Director
5/6
83
Dr Jorg Helmut Hohnloser
Non-Independent Non-Executive Director
3/6
50
Mr. Timo Fabian Seeberger, the Alternate Director to Dr Jorg Helmut Hohnloser, attended two (2) Board meetings
by invitation.
4.2 The Board should ensure members have access to appropriate continuing education programme
The Board encourages its members to enrol in appropriate continuing education programme to equip them to
serve the interests of the Company.
The Directors were updated on an ongoing basis by way of circulars on matters relating to changes to the Listing
Requirements. For the financial year under review and up to the date of this Statement, the training courses,
forums and briefings attended by the Directors are as follows:-
Ng Wai Pin
•
GST Insight
•
Malaysian GST Mechanism and Treatment v2
•
Future of auditor reporting – The Game Changer for Boardroom
•
Proposed Companies Bill 2015
Dr Tay Kiang Meng
•
SEMICON West 2015 and Intersolar North America, Material Session:
Contamination Control in the Sub-20nm Era
•
Proposed Companies Bill 2015
Dato’ Haji Johar bin Murat @ Murad
•
Effective Board Evaluations Workshop
•
Proposed Companies Bill 2015
Aaron Sim Kwee Lein
•
GST Conference 2015
•
Proposed Companies Bill 2015
Dr Jorg Helmut Hohnloser
•
National Hardware Show Las Vegas
•
IAA Frankfurt
•
Biotechnica Hannover
•
Proposed Companies Bill 2015
Timo Fabien Seeberger
•
Financial planning and audit preparation in general and with the help of
the Software Package Lucanet
•
Proposed Companies Bill 2015
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
STATEMENT
(cont’d)