Annual Report 2016
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Board Of Directors’ Profile
(Cont’d.)
DR. CHIA SONG KUN
Dr. Chia Song Kun
, aged 66, male, Malaysian, was appointed as the Group
Managing Director of QL Resources Berhad on 3 January 2000. He is also a
member of the Remuneration Committee.
Dr. Chia was born and raised in Sungai Burong, an impoverished fishing village
on the northern coast of Selangor. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science
(Honours) degree majoring in Mathematics from the University of Malaya in 1973
and obtained a Masters in Business Administration in 1988 from the same
university. He started his career as a tutor and subsequently joined University
Teknologi Mara as a lecturer where he served for 11 years until 1984.
During his lecturing years, Dr. Chia, along with his brothers and his brothers-in-
law, began trading in fish meal and feed meal raw material. The business they
founded was subsequently incorporated as QL Resources Berhad. Today QL is
a sustainable and scalable multinational agro-food corporation with interests in
Integrated Livestock Farming, Marine Products Manufacturing and Palm Oil
Activities. The company has a market capitalisation of approximately five billion
ringgit.
Dr. Chia is a founding member of INTI Universal Holdings Berhad, which operates
one of the leading private university colleges in Malaysia. On 5 July 2008, he was
conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (Hon LLD) by the Honorary
Awards Board of the University of Hertfordshire in recognition of his outstanding
contribution to the development of business and education in Malaysia. He is also
the Chairman of Boilermech Holdings Berhad, a company listed on the ACE
Market of Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad on 5 May 2011, which then
transferred to the Main Market on 4 December 2014.
Dr. Chia’s leadership has been recognised by a number of noted organisations.
In 2005, The Edge selected him as one of ‘20 CEOs We Admire’. In July 2011,
Dr. Chia led the Group to new heights when QL Resources won the prestigious
The Edge Billion Ringgit Club Company of the Year award. In 2012, Dr. Chia was
awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2012 for Malaysia.
Dr. Chia Song Kun is the brother of Mr Chia Song Swa and Mr Chia Song Kooi.
He is also the brother-in-law of Mr Chia Seong Pow and Mr Chia Seong Fatt. He
is the director and substantial shareholder of CBG Holdings Sdn. Bhd., a major
shareholder of QL.
He attended all five board of directors’ meetings held for the financial year.
He has no conflict of interest with the Company and he has no convictions for
any offences within the past five years, other than traffic offences (if any).
