Board Meetings of Farmiera Berhad held during the financial year ended 2025
Attended 3/3
Tang Yuen Kin, a Malaysian aged 54, is our Independent Non-Executive Chairman. He was appointed to the Board on 3 March 2025. He graduated with a Bachelor of Accounting (First Class Honours) degree from the University of Malaya, Malaysia in August 1995. He obtained his Master of Business Administration (Banking & Finance) (“MBA”) from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (“NTU”) in August 2000. He also obtained his Master of Law Executive (Business Law) from International Islamic University Malaysia in August 2006 and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States of America in December 2025. He has been a member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants and the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants since July 2000 and May 2015, respectively. He has more than 26 years of experience in the areas of audit, accounting and finance, corporate finance and corporate planning.
He began his career in May 1995 as an Audit Assistant with Price Waterhouse (now known as PricewaterhouseCoopers PLT) (“PW”) where he was involved in audit works mainly for public listed and multi-national companies. He was promoted to the position of Audit Senior in January 1997. He then left PW in October 1997 and joined the Securities Commission Malaysia (“SC”) in November 1997 as an Executive Officer in the Securities Issues Department. During his tenure with the SC, he was involved in evaluating and assessing corporate proposals, such as initial public offerings, restructurings, rights issues and other fund-raising proposals undertaken by public companies. He was also involved in compliance monitoring.
He took a sabbatical leave from the SC in October 1998 to pursue his MBA at NTU and re-joined the SC in March 2000. He then left the SC in November 2004 as a Senior Executive Officer and joined KPMG Corporate Services Sdn Bhd as a Principal Consultant in the same month where he was involved in providing clients with corporate finance advisory services in areas such as valuations, financial modelling, mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings and other corporate exercises. In September 2005, he was transferred to KPMG Corporate Advisory Sdn Bhd and was subsequently promoted to the position of Director, Corporate Finance in 2006.
In January 2008, he left KPMG Corporate Advisory Sdn Bhd and co-founded MainStreet Advisers Sdn Bhd (“MainStreet Advisers”). As an Executive Director of MainStreet Advisers, he provided corporate finance advisory services to clients mainly in the areas of initial public offerings and restructuring. Subsequently, he joined AmInvestment Bank Berhad (“AmInvestment Bank”) in January 2010 as an Associate Director in its Corporate Finance Department. During his tenure with AmInvestment Bank, he was involved in providing advisory services to clients mainly for initial public offerings, in areas such as structuring, project management, co-ordination, execution and implementation of listing proposals. He then left AmInvestment Bank in September 2011.
In January 2012, he joined ZJ Advisory Sdn Bhd as a Director, where he continued to provide corporate finance advisory services to clients. Thereafter, he joined Alliance Investment Bank Berhad (“Alliance Investment Bank”) in May 2012 as Vice President in its Capital Market – Origination Department. During his tenure with Alliance Investment Bank, he was re-designated to the position of Vice President, Head in the Capital Market – Equity Execution Department in April 2013 and then promoted to the position of Senior Vice President, Head in the same department in October 2013. In these roles, he administered and managed the running of the Capital Market – Equity Execution Department, comprising the overall management and execution of corporate finance mandates for, among others, initial public offerings, independent advice and listing sponsorships. He was also in charge of the department’s risk management, liaising with clients and regulators on the execution of secured mandates, staff management and development and overall office administration.
In August 2014, he left his tenure in corporate finance / investment banking advisory services and joined Sasbadi Holdings Berhad (a public company listed on the Main Market of Bursa Securities) (“SHB”), an education solutions provider as a Group Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) in November 2014. As the Group CFO of SHB, he was responsible for overseeing financial, accounting and tax management and reporting functions, risk management and internal control system, corporate planning, legal matters and investor relations activities of SHB and its group of companies. He left SHB in April 2018 and joined Artius Dental Sdn Bhd (“Artius Dental”), a company providing dental care and other related services, in May 2018 as a Group CFO for a short period of time. He then left to join Dancomech Holdings Berhad (a public company listed on the Main Market of Bursa Securities), a company principally involved in the trading and distribution of process control equipment, measurement instruments and industrial pumps, as its Group CFO in November 2018. In his present position with Dancomech Holdings Berhad, his job responsibilities are similar to those undertaken by him in SHB.
He has also been appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Chairman of Powerwell Holdings Berhad (a public company listed on the ACE Market of Bursa Securities), Independent Non-Executive Director of SHB (a public company listed on the Main Market of Bursa Securities) and an Independent Non-Executive Director of Wellspire Holdings Berhad (a public company listed on the ACE Market of Bursa Securities) since January 2019, May 2021 and March 2022 respectively.
He has no family relationship with any Director and/or major shareholder of the Company and does not hold any shares in the Company and its subsidiary companies. He has not entered into any transaction, whether directly or indirectly, that has a conflict of interest with the Company. He has no conviction for any offences within the past five years (other than traffic offences, if any), nor has had any public sanction or penalty imposed by the relevant regulatory bodies during the financial period.
He attended all three (3) Board meetings of the Company held during the financial year 2025.