MR YONG VOON KAR

Malaysia

Male

65

Nomination Committee

Independent and Non Executive

Mr. Yong Voon Kar is a Chartered Accountant by profession.
He served as Managing Partner of Ernst & Young East Malaysia offices from 2002 to 2018 when he retired from the partnership of Ernst & Young, Malaysia. He joined Ernst & Young, Malaysia (formerly Ernst & Whinney) in 1984 and was admitted as a Partner in 1996. His professional career in Ernst & Young spanned over 34 years in the assurance, corporate recovery and corporate finance service lines. He had been the lead audit partner of major East and West Malaysia public and non-public listed companies covering a range of industries such as manufacturing, processing, trading, construction and engineering services, plantations, timber, property development, services, media publishing and utilities
He had served in various governance and advisory roles in the Ernst & Young global and regional network from 2008 to 2015. During this period he served as a member of the Asia Pacific Governance/Advisory Council and was its Finance Sub Committee Co-Chair from 2010 to 2015. He had also served at Ernst & Young's highest governance level - the Global Governance/Advisory Council from 2013-2015.
Currently, Mr. Yong serves as a Trustee of Yayasan Sin Chew, a company incorporated under the Companies Act, 1965 (predecessor to the Companies Act 2016) for the main purpose of carrying out charitable activities.

1. Yayasan Sin Chew
2. Jaya Tiasa Holdings Berhad