Chia Gek Liang
Independent Non-Executive
Chia Gek Liang, a Malaysian male, aged 64, is our Independent Non-Executive Director and was appointed to our Board on 1 July 2025.
He graduated with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering and a Master of Business Administration from the National University of Singapore, in 1985 and 1993 respectively. He also holds a Degree of Bachelor of Laws with Second Class Honours (Upper Division) from the University of London, which he obtained in 2010 and a Certificate in Legal Practice in 2011. He was admitted as an Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in 2012.
He began his career in 1985 as a Product Engineer with SGS-Thomson Microelectronics Pte Ltd in Singapore (now known as STMicroelectronics Pte Ltd) where he was responsible for the product engineering and manufacturing processes of memory products. He left the engineering field in 1990 to pursue his Master of Business Administration.
In January 1992, he returned to Malaysia and joined the then Rakyat Merchant Bankers Berhad as an Assistant Manager (Corporate Banking and Syndication Department) and was involved in the marketing of financial products, credit evaluation, project feasibility evaluation and credit syndication. He left Rakyat Merchant Bankers Berhad in June 1992.
In August 1992, he joined the corporate finance division of Commerce International Merchant Bankers Berhad (now known as CIMB) as an Executive. During his 9 years tenure in the bank, he was involved in a wide variety of corporate advisory assignments which include initial public offerings, debt and equity funding raising, mergers and acquisitions, reverse take-overs, corporate and debt restructuring and privatisation exercises. He left the bank in January 2001 as Associate Director and in February 2001, he joined Intelligent Edge Technologies Berhad as the Chief Financial Officer, where he was responsible for the overall financial management of the company until his departure in December 2001.
Between 2002 and 2012, he mainly did freelance consulting work such as general management, formulating long-term organisational plans and performing projects evaluation in Malaysia, while pursuing his professional qualification as a lawyer.
In 2013, he started practising law as an Associate with Deol & Gill where he was involved in providing advisory on legal matters and left the firm in 2014. From 2014 to 2015, he undertook various general management consulting work on a freelance basis. From 2015 to 2018, he was attached with Mai & Co as an Associate, where he was primarily involved in providing corporate legal services. Since 2019, he has resumed performing general management consulting works through Siri Mesra Sdn Bhd.
He was an Independent Non-Executive Director of Mobif Berhad (then listed on the ACE Market of Bursa Securities) from 2004 to 2007 and CWorks Systems Berhad (now known as Aldrich Resources Berhad, listed on the ACE Market of Bursa Securities) from 2005 to 2007, QES Group Berhad (listed on the Main Market of Bursa Securities) from 2015 to 2022 and Aimflex Berhad (listed on the ACE Market of Bursa Securities) from 2018 to 2020.
Presently, other than our Company, he is also the Independent Non-Executive Director of MSB Global Group Berhad (listed on the ACE Market of Bursa Securities) since 2023 and he is also the Independent Non-Executive Director of AMS Advanced Material Berhad (seeking listing on the ACE Market of Bursa Securities) since 2025.