Profile of Board of Directors Ms. Kow Poh Gek Independent NonExecutive Director Ms. Chan Wai Yen, Millie Independent Non-Executive Director Board Meeting Attendance in the Financial Year Board Meeting Attendance in the Financial Year 65 6/6 67 6/6 Ms. Kow Poh Gek, aged 65, female, Malaysian, was appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company on 1 April 2018. She is also a member of the Audit, Risk Management, Nominating and Remuneration Committees. On 1 December 2022, she resigned as a member of the Risk Management and Nomination Committees and was redesignated as Chairman of the Remuneration Committee. Ms. Chan Wai Yen, Millie, aged 67, female, Malaysian, was appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company on 1 April 2018. She is a member of the Risk Management Committee. She served as a member of the Audit Committee until 1 December 2022 when she resigned from the Audit Committee. On 1 December 2022, she was appointed as a member of the Remuneration Committee. She graduated with a Bachelor of Laws Degree with First Class Honours from the University of Malaya, 1980. Ms. Chan was admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor to the High Court of Malaya in 1981. She commenced legal practice in Maxwell, Profile of Board of Directors She graduated with a Diploma In Commerce (Cost & Management Accounting) from Tunku Abdul Rahman College and a fellow member of The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK. Ms. Kow started her career as a Financial Assistant in April 1982. She has more than 35 years of experience in finance and management accounting, financial reporting, taxation, treasury, budgetary control, internal control systems and risk management within the investment holding, banking, hotel and resorts, direct selling, manufacturing and trading/ services sectors. In January 2010, she joined EITA Holdings Sdn. Bhd. (now known as EITA) as the Finance cum Investors Relation Manager. She was later designated as the Chief Financial Officer in EITA in January 2012, a position she held till 31 December 2017. During her tenure in EITA, she was involved in the preparation of EITA prospectus for its listing on the Main Board of Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad in April 2012, formulation and documentation of accounting standard operating procedures, evaluation of financial position of companies targeted for merger and acquisition, overseeing the company’s financial reporting and entire accounts department, investor relations and risk management functions. She is also an Independent Non-Executive Director of GDB Holdings Berhad since 14 December 2017. Ms. Kow Poh Gek has no family relationship with any director and/or major shareholder of the Company. She has no conflict of interest or potential conflict of interest, including interest in any competing business, with the Company or its subsidiaries and she 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. Kenion, Cowdy & Jones, a law firm in Ipoh. In 1984, Ms. Chan co-founded the legal firm W Y Chan & Roy, and continued to practice law in Malaysia until 2007. Ms. Chan’s practice focus in Malaysia during the first seven years of practice was in civil and commercial litigation. In the following 2 decades, her practice concentrated on corporate securities and finance, and commercial matters. In 2010, Ms. Chan was admitted to the Law Society of British Columbia, Canada. She practiced in the Vancouver office of Borden Ladner Gervais (BLG), a national law firm in Canada, and was a member of BLG Tax Group and the Corporate & Commercial Group. She was also BLG Senior Consultant for Asia Pacific Market. She advises high net worth families, particularly business families in Asia, in the area of holistic global estate planning, involving inter-generational wealth transfer, asset protection, and capital preservation. In addition, she assists families to establish strategies and processes to promote family governance, maintain family unity, and uphold family identity and integrity. She works with an extensive contact base of financial institutions and offshore service providers for trust, foundations, and corporations. Ms. Chan ceased her legal practice with Borden Ladner Gervais and applied to be a non-practicing lawyer in British Columbia in 2018 in order to concentrate on consulting with business families and individuals, particularly in Asia, in the area of holistic global estate planning under Legacy 127 Consulting Inc. Ms. Chan is also an Independent Non-Executive Director of Gamuda Berhad. Ms. Chan Wai Yen, Millie has no family relationship with any director and/or major shareholder of the Company. She has no conflict of interest or potential conflict of interest, including interest in any competing business, with the Company or its subsidiaries and she 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 6 089 088 PG. PG.
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