Male, 44 years old, Malaysian
Length of Services (as of 30 September 2024)
3 years 11 months
Mr. Andy Liew Hock Sim was appointed to the Board as the Independent Non-Executive Director on 27 October 2020.
He is the Chairman of the Audit & Risk Management Committee and a member of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee and Employee Share Options Scheme (“ESOS”) Committee of the Company.
He is a Chartered Accountant with Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA) and a member of Certified Practising Accountant (CPA) Australia. He has over sixteen (16) years of experience with major audit firms in audit, taxation and accountancy that gained from both Malaysia and overseas. He was involved in numerous successful initial public offerings (“IPO”) in Malaysia, Singapore, Germany and Hong Kong throughout his career.
He started his career with a local audit firm in Malaysia. He then joined KPMG Kuala Lumpur after obtaining his professional qualifications, i.e. MIA and CPA Australia in 2006. In KPMG Kuala Lumpur, he started to be involved in the audit of multinational corporations (MNC) and public listed companies. He was also involved in the IPO of a financial services company in the Main Market of Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (now known as Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad).
In 2008, he ventured to China and since then, spent eight (8) years in China. From 2008 to 2012, he worked in KPMG Beijing and was actively involved in audit and IPO. In 2012, he joined a China-based manufacturing company in the capacity of Chief Financial Officer and listed the company in Frankfurt Stock Exchange in 2014 prior to his return to Malaysia in 2016.
Upon his return to Malaysia, he joined Baker Tilly Malaysia and led a team of forty (40) which specialise in IPO and was actively involved in various corporate exercises such as business restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, reverse takeover, transfer listing, financial due diligence, regularisation plan for PN17 company, fundraising, etc.
In 2019, he started his own public practice and assumed the role of Managing Partner.
At present, he also sits on the Board of XOX Bhd, Perak Corporation Berhad and Oversea Enterprise Berhad as an Independent Non-Executive Director.