Ng Soon Lai @ Ng Siek Chuan

Mr. Ng Soon Lai @ Ng Siek Chuan was appointed to the Board on 1 February 2017. He is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.

Mr. Ng has had several years of experience in the accounting profession with Coopers & Lybrand in London and Kuala Lumpur before moving on to the financial sector in 1980. Prior to joining Alliance Bank in July 1991 as General Manager of Credit, he had served in various positions in a leading local merchant bank and finance company. He was appointed as the Chief Executive Director of Alliance Bank Malaysia Berhad in 1994 and to the Board of Alliance Merchant Bank Berhad in 2002 until his resignation in 2005. Since then, he has held the post of Independent Director in several public listed companies.

He is currently an Independent Non-Executive Director of Tune Protect Group Berhad and ELK-Desa Resources Berhad as well as a director of a public company, China Construction Bank (Malaysia) Berhad.

Mr. Ng is the chairman of the Options Committee and serves as a member of the Audit Committee of the Company.