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GHL Systems Berhad
(293040-D)
directors’
Profile
NG KING KAU
Non-Independent Non-Executive Director
(
Redesignated on 1 January 2015)
Mr. Ng, 65, a Malaysian, was appointed as Executive Director on 29 April 2011,
he was redesignated as Non-Independent Non-Executive Director on 1 January
2015. He began his career as a manager in an electrical chain store in Malaysia
between 1975 – 1978 before joining American Express as the Country Manager of
Malaysia & Brunei. He was the Vice President – General Manager for American
Express in Malaysia and Brunei before being promoted to Vice President – Business
Development for American Express Asia Pacific Australia Division based in Hong
Kong. He was instrumental in building and making the American Express Card the
leading payment card in Malaysia.
Mr. Ng, known as ‘KK’ in the payment and loyalty card industry in Asia, has a total
of over 30 years of experience in building, operating and turning around payment
and loyalty card businesses.
He left American Express in 1986 and joined MBf Group Malaysia where he
organized and built MBf‘s Card business and led it to become the largest card
company in Malaysia and the largest MasterCard issuer in ASEAN region in 1993.
He left MBf as President of Card and Payment Services in 1995 and founded
InterPay International Group which has investments in payment and loyalty card
businesses.
He was a Director of Maestro International Inc. from 1993 to 1995, which is a
subsidiary of MasterCard International Inc. From 2006 to 2009, Mr. Ng became
the Chief Executive Officer of Cardtrend International Inc., a public listed holding
company in the US which was involved in the payment and loyalty card businesses
in China and other Asian countries. Prior to his resignation on March 1, 2011, Mr.
Ng was the Managing Director of Payment Business Solutions Bhd. which was spun
off from Cardtrend International Inc. and is the holding company for a group of
payment and loyalty related business, including Cardtrend Systems Sdn. Bhd., a
MSC status company in Malaysia.
