Yong Yew Wei

Ir. Yong is a Professional Engineer in his career since 1984. He obtained a New Zealand Certificate in Mechanical Engineering from Wellington Polytechnics in 1974, and a New Zealand Certificate in Production (Industrial) Engineering in 1975. In 1978, he graduated from The University of Auckland, New Zealand, with a Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering. In 1999, he completed the course requirements of a local MBA programme.

Upon graduation, he worked in Auckland as a design engineer in the field of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration for about 2 years, before his return to Malaysia in late 1979. Having qualified with adequate working experience and compliance with the requirements of The Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM, Lembaga Jurutera Malaysia), he became a member of BEM and corporate member of The Institution of Engineers Malaysia (MIEM) in 1984.

Ir. Yong founded Ismail Dan Rakan-Rakan, an engineering consultancy firm in Kuala Lumpur with his partner in 1985. Since then, he has been in practice as a consulting engineer for 36 years. As the principal partner, he was active in the design and management of building services installation for numerous modern high-rise commercial and government buildings in Malaysia. He specialized in installation of facilities of advanced technology, and of intensive information technology facilities for various manufacturing industries and for smart office buildings. He has been involved in many prestigious buildings such as the RHB Head-Quarter building in 1996, the Bunga-Raya Reception Building for VVIP in KLIA, the Flight Crew Briefing and Management Control Centre in KLIA in 1998.

Ir. Yong was responsible for the design of advanced building internal services installation for a number of new government office buildings in Putrajaya. The new buildings were completed for several Ministries in Putrajaya. The ministerial buildings that Ir. Yong rendered engineering consultancy services include smart office premises for The Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs, The Ministry of Entrepreneur Development & Immigration, The Ministry of Higher Education, The Ministry of Tourism, The Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development. These prestigious projects developed in Putrajaya were completed respectively before 2010.

Ir. Yong has also served as consulting engineer in the development of new Township in urban and rural areas. Those developments comprised of High-Raised residential Apartments and Condominiums. Besides his involvement in commercial and residential building construction, Ir. Yong also rendered engineering service specifically to the development of high-tech industrial factory facilities such as for high quality Clean Rooms, comprehensive Data Centers and semiconductor production industries. Recently, Mr. Yong also participated in housing developments as joint-venture partners.

He is one of the founding committee members of the newly established (formed in August 2015) China-ASEAN Business Association (CABA) Malaysia, an organisation that promotes multi-lateral trades, culture, health-care and tourism industries among ASEAN countries and with China.

He was appointed as an Independent and Non-Executive Director to the Board of Directors of Farlim Group (Malaysia) Bhd. on 18 August 2011. In April 2015, he was appointed as an Executive Director of Farlim Group (Malaysia) Bhd. until 2017. During the period, he acted as member of the Executive Committee and Employees’ Share Option Scheme Committee of the Company.