Lim Kah Poon

Director, holding a non-executive and independent position since 27 February 2015. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland and a member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA). Mr. Lim, a Chartered Accountant with a broad based business experience, spent the early part of his professional career with Ernst & Whinney in Dublin, Ireland and Price Waterhouse in Kuala Lumpur / Penang for approximately 12 years. Mr. Lim was the Branch Manager of Price Waterhouse, Penang when he left the firm in 1983.He joined Malaysian Tobacco Company Berhad (“MTC”) – a subsidiary of British American Tobacco Company Ltd (“BAT”), in June 1983, where he held various senior finance positions over a 15 year-period, including the position of Financial Controller from 1990 to June 1996. From July 1996, he assumed the Regional Audit role, responsible for facilitating and identifying the key business risks and evaluating the respective control environment in all the key BAT operations in the Asia Pacific Region with the top management and ensuring that the business risks and weaknesses in the control environment were properly addressed, managed or minimized.

In 1998, he joined a local company, also quoted on Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad, as its Chief Financial Officer. His finance and regional audit portfolios in both MTC and the local company had provided him with the wide experience covering financial and management accounting and control, formulation of corporate policies and strategies, risks management, corporate governance, business and tax planning and the role of internal audit under the ever changing corporate environment.

He left his last company in September 2001 in order to focus on his business advisory and consultancy work. To-date, Mr. Lim has undertaken corporate exercises involving IPO, mergers and acquisitions, rights issue, project financing and others.

Mr. Lim is also an Independent Non-Executive Director in Pineapple Resources Berhad, Heveaboard Berhad and Imaspro Corporation Berhad.