Patrick Yong Mian Thong

Dato’ Dr. Ir. Patrick Yong Mian Thong was appointed to as a Chief Executive Officer of the Company on 7 October 2016. Subsequently, he was appointed to the Board of the Company as a Non-Independent Executive Director on 1 June 2018 and re- designated as Group Chief Executive Officer on 1 January 2019.

He started his career as an engineer with the National Electricity Board of Malaysia (“LLN”), as a condition of his scholarship contract. In 1989, Dato’ Dr. Ir. Patrick Yong left LLN to pursue his career as a consultant in the field of electrical engineering.

Dato’ Dr. Ir. Patrick Yong founded Sulfarid Technologies in 2004 and was its Managing Director. The Company was subsequently acquired by the Hup Soon Global Corporation Group in November 2007 and renamed Borid Technologies. Throughout his line of work, Dato’ Dr. Ir. Patrick Yong established his proficiency in electrical distribution systems and pursued research in the field of efficiency in energy conversion leading to a PhD in Electrical Engineering.

He was the Chief Operating Officer of Tai Kwang Yokohama Industries Berhad from 2007 to 2010 and was subsequently appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of Yokohama Industries Berhad from 2010 to 2015, managing a secondary lead smelter and SLI battery manufacturing.

Dato’ Dr. Ir. Patrick Yong does not hold any other directorship in other public companies and listed issuers in Malaysia.