Pan Kum Wan, a Malaysian, male, aged 73, is our Non-Independent Executive Director and General Manager. He was appointed to our Board on 2 August 2021.
Mr Pan obtained a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the Loughborough University of Technology, United Kingdom in 1976. He brings with him approximately 47 years of working experience, of which approximately 25 years were in palm oil refinery operation and 22 years in the construction of palm oil mills and facilities.
He started his career in 1977 when he joined Tampoi Oil Products Sdn Bhd, a company involved in palm oil refinery as Production Engineer. In 1979, he left and joined Sawit Oil Industries Sdn Bhd, a company in palm oil refinery as a site engineer. He was then promoted to the post of Factory Manager in 1982, a position he held until he left the company in 1984. In 1985, he joined Felda Refinery Corporation, a palm oil refinery and food manufacturing company, as Factory Manager. In 1994, he left Malaysia to work in the People’s Republic of China where he joined Beijing King Voray Edible Oil Co. Ltd, an edible oil refining company as General Manager.
Subsequently, he left in 1997 to join Yantai Thian Sheng Edible Oil Co Ltd, a vegetable oil refinery company as General Manager. He subsequently returned to work in Malaysia in 2001 to take up the position of Project Manager for Sahamas Sdn Bhd, a company involved in the fabrication and installation of palm oil milling equipment. In 2004, he left the company to work in Singapore where he joined Novo Environment Technology Services Pte Ltd, a provider of environmental engineering products as Senior Manager responsible for product development in water filtration systems and heat economiser systems. He left Novo Environment Technology Services Pte Ltd in 2005.
In 2006, he joined EMESB as General Manager and since then, he has been contributing significantly to the growth and development of our Group including the expansion of our business operations to serve foreign markets. He is responsible for the management and implementation of projects to ensure timely delivery to customers. He is also involved in implementation of business strategies and business development.
Save for his directorship of the Company, he does not hold any other directorship in public companies and listed corporations.
He does not have any family relationship with any other Directors or major shareholders of the Company.
He attended all five (5) Board of Directors’ meeting held during the financial year ended 31 December 2023.