Profile of Board of Directors Dr. Chia Song Kun Executive Chairman Mr. Chia Song Kooi Group Managing Director Board Meeting Attendance in the Financial Year Board Meeting Attendance in the Financial Year 73 6/6 63 6/6 Dr. Chia Song Kun, aged 73, male, Malaysian, was appointed as the Group Managing Director of QL Resources Berhad on 3 January 2000 and redesignated as the Executive Chairman on 1 April 2018. He is also a member of the Risk Management Committee and subsequently, resigned as a member on 1 December 2022. 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 Master 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. Mr. Chia Song Kooi, aged 63, male, Malaysian, was appointed as an Executive Director of the Company on 3 January 2000. He was re-designated as the Deputy Managing Director of the Company on 21 November 2016 and then as the Group Managing Director on 1 April 2018. He is also a member of the Risk Management Committee. He holds a bachelor of Agricultural Science from University Putra Malaysia (1985). In 2005 he has completed the Premier Business Management Programme which was aimed to equip business leaders with the skills and competencies necessary for navigating uncertainty, adversity and to lead change in the global economy. Profile of Board of Directors After 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, Palm Oil and Clean Energy and Convenience Store Chain. The company has a market capitalisation of approximately fourteen billion ringgit. Dr. Chia 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. Boilermech became a subsidiary company of QL Resources Berhad in March 2022. On 5 July 2008, Dr. Chia 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. On 28 June 2019, he was then conferred Honorary Doctorate of Management by INTI International University in acknowledgement of his professionalism and exemplary leadership in building businesses and propelling QL Resources from a local trader to a recognised multinational corporation. Dr. Chia’s leadership has been recognised by a number of noted organisations. In 2012, Dr. Chia was awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2012 for Malaysia. In October 2018, Dr. Chia was awarded the Sin Chew Business Lifetime Excellence Achievement Award 2018. In September 2019, Dr. Chia won The Edge Billion Ringgit Club Value Creator: Outstanding CEO of Malaysia. Dr. Chia Song Kun is the brother of Mr. Chia Song Swa and Mr. Chia Song Kooi. He is the brother-in-law of Mr. Chia Seong Pow and Mr. Chia Seong Fatt and also Mr. Chia Lik Khai’s father. He is the Director and beneficial shareholder of CBG (L) Pte Ltd via CBG (L) Foundation, a major shareholder of QL. Dr. Chia has no conflict of interest or potential conflict of interest, including interest in any competing business, with the Company or its subsidiaries (other than related party transactions) and he has no convictions for any offences within the past five years (other than traffic offences, if any), nor any public sanction or penalty imposed by the relevant regulatory bodies during the financial year. Mr. Chia began his career as a Product and Market Development Executive for agro-chemical products with Ancom Berhad, a company listed on the Main Market of the Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad and eventually headed the Product and Market Development Division in 1987. Mr. Chia joined QL Feedingstuffs Sdn. Bhd. as an Executive Director on 21 September 1988. He has more than 20 years of experience in farmmanagement and in trading of rawmaterials for farm use, as well as more than 10 years of experience in marine products processing. He was the Deputy Chairman of Sabah Livestock Poultry Association from 2012 to 2016. In view of the restructuring of the QL Group, he has resigned as a Director of QL Feedingstuffs Sdn. Bhd. and has been re-appointed in year 2017. Prior to being the Group Managing Director, he was overall in charge of the group’s operations in Kota Kinabalu since 1990 to 2016. Mr. Chia Song Kooi is the brother to Dr. Chia Song Kun and Mr. Chia Song Swa. Mr. Chia has no conflict of interest or potential conflict of interest, including interest in any competing business, with the Company or its subsidiaries and he has no convictions for any offences within the past five years (other than traffic offences, if any), nor any public sanction or penalty imposed by the relevant regulatory bodies during the financial year. QL RESOURCES BERHAD INTEGRATED ANNUAL REPORT 2023 SEC. L E A D E R S H I P & G OVERNANCE 6 079 078 PG. PG.
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