Working Experience
Mr. Lim, a Chartered Accountant with a broad based business experience, spent the early part of his professional career with Ernst & Whinney in Dublin, Ireland and Price Waterhouse in Kuala Lumpur / Penang for approximately 12 years. Mr. Lim was the Branch Manager of Price Waterhouse, Penang when he left the firm in 1983.
He joined Malaysian Tobacco Company Berhad (MTC) - a subsidiary of British American Tobacco Company Ltd (BAT), in June 1983, where he held various senior finance positions over a 15 year-period, including the position of Financial Controller from 1990 to June1996. From July 1996, he assumed the Regional Audit role, responsible for facilitating and identifying the key business risks and evaluating the respective control environment in all the key BAT operations in the Asia Pacific Region with the top management and ensuring that the business risks and weaknesses in the control environment were properly addressed, managed or minimized.
In 1998, he joined a local company, also quoted on Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad, as its Chief Financial Officer. His finance and regional audit portfolios in both MTC and the local company provided him with the wide experience covering financial and management accounting and control, formulation of corporate policies and strategies, risks management, corporate governance, business and tax planning and the role of internal audit under the ever changing corporate environment.
He left his last company in September 2001 in order to focus on his business advisory and consultancy work. To-date, Mr. Lim has undertaken corporate exercises involving IPO, mergers & acquisitions, rights issue, project financing and others.
He is currently an Independent Non-Executive Director and the Chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Nomination, Remuneration and Tender Board Committees of HeveaBoard Berhad, a company quoted on the Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad. He was appointed to the Board on 1 October 2004.
On 9 January 2012, he was also appointed as the Independent Non-Executive Director of Jordone Group Berhad.