MR YONG VOON KAR

Malaysia

Male

64

Chairman of Remuneration Committee

Independent and Non Executive

Mr Yong Voon Kar is a Chartered Accountant by profession.
He was the Managing Partner of Ernst & Young East Malaysia office from 2002 to 2018 when he retired from the partnership of Ernst & Young, Malaysia. He joined Ernst & Young, Malaysia in 1984, was admitted as a Partner in 1996, and has extensive experience in assurance, corporate recovery and corporate finance. He had been the lead audit partner of major East and West Malaysia public and non-public listed companies covering a wide range of industries such as plantations, timber, property development, construction, manufacturing, processing, media and publishing, trading 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 to 2015.
Currently, Mr Yong is a Trustee of Yayasan Sin Chew, a foundation carrying out charitable activities.

Yayasan Sin Chew