DATO' SIEW MUN WAI (EDWARD)

Malaysia

Male

63

Independent Director

Independent and Non Executive

Dato' Edward Siew, is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW), Business Finance Professional (ICAEW) and a Chartered Accountant of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA).
After completing his ICAEW with over 8 years public practice in London, he returned to Malaysia and worked briefly for Southern Bank Berhad (now CIMB) before moving to Hong Kong to join HSBC.
This was followed by over 26 years of international expatriation in C-suite roles at the LO'real Group and the Ciba-Geigy (now Novartis) Group, managing their subsidiaries in Melbourne, Seoul, Paris, Bangkok, Singapore, Jakarta, Taipei and Hong Kong.
He was on the Boards of these subsidiaries representing the public listed parent company's interests. Most recently, he was the Acting Global CEO/Global CFO of Crabtree & Evelyn London.
From 2011-2014, he was an Independent Director and Audit Committee Chairman of an ASX-listed junior mining company.
He was Vice-Chairman of the Taipei English School and Board member of the Taipei European Schools, Associate Faculty Member of the Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business at Universiti Utara Malaysia, current member of the Sunway University Business School Industry Advisory Board and a frequent guest speaker at various local Universities and the Malaysian Institute of Corporate Governance.

Presently, Dato' Edward Siew also sits on the Board of Malton Berhad as an Independent Non-Executive Director.

Dato' Edward Siew has no family relationship with any of the Directors and/or major shareholders of Karex Berhad.

Dato' Edward Siew does not hold any shares in Karex Berhad.

Dato' Edward Siew does not have any conflict of interest with Karex Berhad.