MR WONG KOON WAI

Malaysia

Male

46

Member of Remuneration Committee

Mr. Wong graduated from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University in Melbourne, Australia in 1999 with a Bachelor of Business (major in Accountancy). He is a member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA) and CPA Australia.

Mr. Wong Koon Wai graduated with a Bachelor Degree in Business (Accountancy) from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 1999. He started his professional career in audit and assurance in 2000. He left Crowe Malaysia in 2011 as Senior Manager. Throughout his professional tenure, he has gained vast knowledge and experience in audit and assurance and corporate transactions.
He joined a private company in 2011 as its Financial Controller where he was responsible to oversee the finance and accounting functions of the company and its group of companies in Malaysia, Singapore, China, Vietnam and Indonesia. He left the company in 2012 and joined the Malaysian Institute of Accountants as its Director of the Professional Standards & Practices Division, where he was responsible for the overall leaderships, direction and coordination of all activities of the said division.
In 2014, he left the Malaysian Institute of Accountants and joined an IT start-up as
its Chief Operating Officer and is responsible on planning, directing and coordinating the company's operational policies, rules, initiatives and goals. In September 2018, he co-founded another IT start-up specialising in blockchain related projects like development, implementation, project management, etc.
He holds directorship as Independent Non-Executive Director of HLT Global Berhad since 8 January 2016, and several other private companies. He also serves as Chairman of the Board of a public limited liability company.

HLT Global Berhad