Directors' Profile

Age : 70 years old
Nationality : Malaysian
Gender : Male

Datuk Chin Goo Chai was appointed to the Board on 2 November 2015 as an Independent Non-Executive Chairman. He attended all four (4) Board meetings of the Company held during the financial year. He has more than thirty (30) years of working experience in hospital facility engineering and project, financial and personnel management, which he has accumulated during his years of service with the Ministry of Health.

He graduated in 1978 with a bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical) from University Teknologi Malaysia. Upon his graduation, he joined the Malaysian public service as a Mechanical Engineer at the Ipoh General Hospital, Perak in 1978. In 1984, he was promoted as a Senior Mechanical Engineer and was then transferred to the Engineering Services Division of the Ministry of Health. In 1990, he was posted to Sultanah Aminah Hospital, Johor Bahru, as the Chief Engineer. In 1991, he returned to the Engineering Services Division of the Ministry of Health as the Chief Mechanical Engineer and was subsequently promoted as the Principal Assistant Director (1995), Deputy Director (2002) and Director of Engineering Services of the Ministry of Health in 2007. In November 2014, he retired from the Malaysian public service.

Throughout his tenure with the Ministry of Health, he has accumulated vast experience relating to hospital project, facility, financial and personnel management which include construction of new hospitals, clinics and healthcare facility upgrading projects, maintenance of hospital facilities and equipment as well as the implementation and maintenance of ISO 9000:2008 quality assurance system for engineering services. He was also serving as member of various government councils including being a member of the National Measurement Council in 2011 to 2012.

He does not hold directorships in any other public companies and listed issuer in Malaysia. He does not have any family relationship with any Director and/or major shareholder of the Company, nor does he have any conflict of interest with the Company. He has also neither been convicted for any offences within the past five (5) years other than traffic offences, if any, nor received any public sanctions or penalties imposed by the relevant regulatory bodies during the financial year ended 31 December 2023.

Chairman of Remuneration Committee and Risk Management Committee
Member of Audit Committee and Nomination Committee

Age : 74 years old
Nationality : Malaysian
Gender : Female

Datin Latiffah Binti Endot was appointed to the Board on 2 November 2015 as an Independent Non-Executive Director. She attended all four (4) Board meetings of the Company held during the financial year. She has more than thirty (30) years of working experience in various areas such as procurement, human resources management, hospital management as well as policy and development sectors in which she accumulated during her service in different departments and ministries within the Malaysian public service.

She graduated in 1973 with a Bachelor of Arts (Anthropology and Sociology) from the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. She began her career in 1974 as an Administrative and Diplomatic Service Officer in the procurement and administrator division of the Ministry of Defence, Malaysia where she was responsible for the procurement of all types of rations that were required by the Malaysian Armed Forces. In 1980, she joined the Ministry of Works, Malaysia as a Senior Officer in the Contract and Bumiputera Division, where she was responsible for the development of Class D, E and F contractors as well as the development of Bumiputera contractors. Between 1982 to July 1983, she took a career and sabbatical break from the Malaysian public service. She returned to the Malaysian public service in 1983 where she became the Senior Officer of the Services Division (Human Resources) in the Ministry of Health, where she was responsible for its human resources (except for doctors and paramedics) related matters which include amongst other, the training programmes for healthcare officers and staffs and their welfare rights and benefits.

In 1989, she was posted to the Contracts Division of the Ministry of Finance, Malaysia and was responsible for the registration of Bumiputera companies participating in Government contracts. In November 1991, she left the Ministry of Finance, Malaysia and joined University Malaya Medical Centre as its Deputy Director of Administration where she was responsible for managing the non-clinical aspects of the hospital which includes amongst other, training programmes for its staff, implementation of its ISO quality system and staff welfare system.

In April 2006, she retired as the Deputy Director of Administration, University Malaya Medical Centre. Since her retirement, she has been actively involved as a volunteer with the Malaysian Information Network on Disabilities (also known as BAKTI-MIND Project), an organisation established to promote the use of information and communication technology related to healthcare, rehabilitation, education, employment, adaptive technologies and equipment, government and non-government assistance to persons with disabilities.

She does not hold directorships in any other public companies and listed issuer in Malaysia. She does not have any family relationship with any Director and/or major shareholder of the Company, nor does she have any conflict of interest with the Company. She has also neither been convicted for any offences within the past five (5) years other than traffic offences, if any, nor received any public sanctions or penalties imposed by the relevant regulatory bodies during the financial year ended 31 December 2023.

Member of Risk Management Committee

Age : 40 years old
Nationality : Malaysian
Gender : Male

Mr. Hoo Jien Shiung was appointed to the Board on 1 November 2024 as an Executive Director. He holds a Degree of Bachelor of Commerce & Administration from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Mr. Ho Jien Shiung (Mr. Ho) started his career as Foreign Administration Executive with the Inland Revenue Department of New Zealand after graduation in 2008. In 2009, he returned to Malaysia and joined a construction piping company as South East Asia Region Marketing Manager. In 2010, he left and joined an advance technology printing manufacturer as Business Development Manager principally in charge of the business development of Malaysia central region.

Currently, Mr. Ho sits on the Board of DGB Asia Berhad, PNE PCB Berhad, PDZ Holdings Bhd. and several private limited companies.

He does not have any family relationship with any Director and/or major shareholder of the Company, nor does he have any conflict of interest with the Company.

Member of Risk Management Committee

Age : 40 years old
Nationality : Malaysian
Gender : Male

Mr. Ho Kee Wee was appointed to the Board on 4 January 2021 as an Executive Director. He attended all four (4) Board meetings of the Company held during the financial year. He obtained his bachelor’s degree of Information Technology from Edinburgh Napier University in year 2004.

He has vast experiences in property development industry for the past 15 years. He started his career in an established real estate company and managed to achieve top performer and soon be given the opportunity to lead the sales team.

He was then appointed as Sales Department Head over seeing the Sales & Marketing Department since year 2014. Under his supervision, he has been involved in multiple projects worth more than RM300 million Gross Development Value (“GDV”).

He is also involving in strategic planning, product branding, project management, costing, human resource management and sales and marketing. He is currently sits on the Board of few private limited companies.

He does not hold directorships in any other public companies and listed issuer in Malaysia. He does not have any family relationship with any Director and/or major shareholder of the Company, nor does he have any conflict of interest with the Company. He has also neither been convicted for any offences within the past five (5) years other than traffic offences, if any, nor received any public sanctions or penalties imposed by the relevant regulatory bodies during the financial year ended 31 December 2023.

Chairman of Nomination Committee
Member of Audit Committee, Remuneration Committee and Risk Management
Committee

Age : 65 years old
Nationality : Malaysian
Gender : Male

Dato’ Rahim Bin Suboh was appointed to the Board on 12 July 2023 as an Independent Non-Executive Director. He attended two (2) Board Meetings of the Company held since his appointment to the Board. He completed his high school education in 1977.

Dato’ Rahim’s career spans over 40 years across numerous industries that include banking and finance, transport operation, mechanical and electrical, automobile, trading, telecommunication, construction and landscape, property development, and foreign currency exchange.

Dato’ Rahim first joined the Central Bank of Malaysia in 1979 as an Officer involved in bank and currency operations. Almost 2 decades later he moved on to Airport Coach Sdn. Bhd. where he managed transport operations to Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA). In 2004, Dato’ Rahim became the Chairman of Hanitek Sdn. Bhd., a company that provides mechanical and electrical services to Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB), automobile servicing, trading local and international, and telecommunication.

While maintaining his Chairman position with Hanitek Sdn. Bhd., Dato’ Rahim was offered a position by the Ministry of Finance in 2013 as Special Officer to the Deputy Minister of Finance. Concurrently, he has also been serving as an International Advisor for Koperasi Pendidikan Islam Malaysia Bhd (UKHWAH) since 2009. Dato’ Rahim left the Ministry of Finance in 2017.

With his wide range of knowledge and exposure has assisted Crewstone International’s venture into peer-to-peer provider while as a Director of the company.

Currently, Dato’ Rahim is a Director of ACE Money Exchange. He is also a Director of Timbunan Pelangi (M) Sdn. Bhd., Advisor to the Board of Directors of Auto Mastercop Sdn. Bhd., Director of Nik Hussain Holding Sdn. Bhd., Chairman of Teroka Idaman Resources, Independent Director of ACE Investment Bank and Special Officer to Minister of Minister of Community Development and People Well-Being.

In recognition of his services to the nation, Dato’ Rahim was conferred the Darjah Indera Mahkota Pahang (D.I.M.P.) in 2011.

Dato’ Rahim is also an Independent Non-Executive Director of Computer Forms (Malaysia) Berhad and Berjaya Assets Berhad. He does not have any family relationship with any Director and/ or major shareholder of the Company and any conflict of interest with the Company. He has also neither been convicted for any offences within the past five (5) years other than traffic offences, if any, nor received any public sanctions or penalties imposed by the relevant regulatory bodies during the financial year ended 31 December 2023.

Chairman of Audit Committee
Member of Nomination Committee, Remuneration Committee and Risk Management Committee

Age : 49 years old
Nationality : Malaysian
Gender : Male

Mr. Khor Ben Jin was appointed to the Board on 8 January 2021 as an Independent Non-Executive Director. He attended all four (4) Board meetings of the Company held during the financial year.

He is a Fellow Member of the Association of the Chartered Certified Accountants, United Kingdom (FCCA), a Chartered Accountant registered with Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA), a Certified Internal Auditor recognised by United States of America (CIA) and a Chartered Member of the Internal Auditors Malaysia (CMIIA). He has extensive experience in internal audit consulting services, risk management exercises and corporate governance review with public listed companies involved in both industrial and consumer products manufacturing, integrated livestock farming activities, property development, and construction and trading services. He was a Manager of one of the big 4 accounting firms. He also had 3 years’ experience in external audit at another international accounting firm.

He has been trained in Internal Audit methodologies which enabled him to identify risks and establish an internal control structure which covers the roles and functions and scope of work to assist the Audit Committees and Board of numerous public listed companies to discharge their responsibilities in relation to ensuring good systems of internal controls.

Some of his project experiences include:

• Quality Assurance Review for an in-house internal audit function of a major public listed telecommunication company • Secondment to one of the largest Malaysian general insurers, a public listed company to perform internal audit/ lookback review on Know Your Customer (KYC) procedures (i.e. Customer due diligence and transaction monitoring system), underwriting and general insurance claims procedures • FRS accounting standard review for a public listed company • Financial due diligence review in the acquisition exercise of business entities

He does not hold directorships in any other public companies and listed issuer in Malaysia. He does not have any family relationship with any Director and/or major shareholder of the Company, nor does he have any conflict of interest with the Company. He has also neither been convicted for any offences within the past five (5) years other than traffic offences, if any, nor received any public sanctions or penalties imposed by the relevant regulatory bodies during the financial year ended 31 December 2023.