MR DANG TAI LUK

Malaysia

Male

63

Executive Chairman

Executive

Mr Dang Tai Luk ("Luk") was appointed to the Board of Mynews Holdings Berhad ("Mynews") on 5 February 2015 and re-designated as Chief Executive Officer from Managing Director on 3 January 2017. He was again re-designated as Group Chief Executive Officer on 1 August 2019.
Luk was engaged in information technology industry from 1985 to 1996, mostly in banking applications, mainframe systems and computer network support. During those years, he was attached to the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank Malaysia, the Development Bank of Singapore and Gendis Inc Canada.
Luk left employment to be an entrepreneur and together with his family opened their first newsstand under the name of MAGBIT on 25 December 1996. This 200 sq. ft. run-of-the-mill newsstand evolved to become the largest homegrown convenience chain store in the country today, known as myNEWS. Under his leadership the Group operates several popular retail brands and diversified into bakery and fresh food production.
Luk was awarded the title of EY Entrepreneur of The Year 2019 Malaysia.

Luk is a brother to Dang Tai Hock and Dang Tai Wen, Directors of Mynews. Luk and his siblings are shareholders of D&D Consolidated Sdn Bhd, a major shareholder of Mynews.

Direct interest - Nil.
Indirect interest - 401,695,600 (53.53%) in Mynews.

None.