Directors' Profile

DATUK DR. FOONG WENG SUM

Executive Director
Male, Malaysian, aged 86

Datuk Dr. Foong Weng Sum was appointed to the Board on 7 May 1982 as Vice Chairman. On 23 October 1986, he also assumed the position of Group Chief Executive. He took over as Chairman of the Board on 1 December 2000. On 1 November 2016, he relinquished his position as Group Chief Executive and he was redesignated as Executive Chairman.

Datuk Dr. Foong Weng Sum is a graduate in medicine from the University of London’s Guy’s Hospital Medical School. He has considerable business experience in various business sectors, including manufacturing, property development, financial management and investment.

MR. TSEN KENG YAM

Deputy Chairman/Independent Non-Executive Director
Male, Malaysian, aged 75

Mr. Tsen Keng Yam was appointed to the Board on 27 August 2021 and was appointed as the Deputy Chairman of the Board on 25 February 2022. He was also appointed as the Chairman of the Remuneration Committee on 25 February 2022 and member of the Audit Committee on 27 May 2022. On 29 November 2022, he was appointed as a member of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee due to the combination of the Nomination Committee and Remuneration Committee into a single committee.

Mr. Tsen is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (England and Wales) and a member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants.

In 1978, he joined Hanafiah Raslan & Mohamed as a consultant and was subsequently promoted to Senior Consultant in 1980. He was a principal of Hanafiah Raslan & Mohamed from 1984 to 1987 and was a partner of Arthur Andersen & Co. for more than 14 years from 1988 to 2003. He was formerly a Director of Talam Transform Berhad and Riverview Rubber Estates Berhad, both listed on Bursa Malaysia and Narborough Plantations Plc.

MR. FOONG LEON CHIEW

Executive Chairman
Male, Malaysian, aged 45

Mr. Foong Leon Chiew was appointed to the Board on 25 November 2024.

He holds a Master of Business Administration degree from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and an undergraduate degree in Engineering, Economics and Management from the University of Oxford, Balliol College.

Mr. Foong Leon Chiew began his career in 2001 with McKinsey & Company in Singapore, where he focused on strategic advisory projects for clients in various industries across Southeast Asia. In 2007, he joined Goldman Sachs (Asia) L.L.C. in Hong Kong as an Associate in the Investment Banking Division before being promoted to Executive Director in 2011, a role he held until 2018. He then joined Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong and served as Managing Director and Co-Head of Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) Asia within their Investment Banking Division, prior to joining Hexza Corporation Berhad in November 2024.

MR. OOI YING HONG

Non-Independent Non-Executive Director
Male, Malaysian, aged 59

Mr. Ooi Ying Hong was appointed to the Board on 12 July 2011 as an Independent Non-Executive Director (INED) and was re-designated to Non-INED on 29 November 2022. He is also a member of the Audit Committee and was appointed as a member of the Nomination Committee and Remuneration Committee on 2 December 2020. On 29 November 2022, he was appointed as a member of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee due to the combination of the Nomination Committee and Remuneration Committee into a single committee.

Mr. Ooi Ying Hong holds a Bachelor of Business (Accounting) degree from University of Southern Queensland, Australia. He started his career in auditing with KPMG and subsequently joined Matsushita Television Co. (M) Sdn. Bhd. He has many years of experience in various industries, including logistics, international trading, information technology, service and automotive. He also sits on the Board of Directors of various private limited companies.

MS. CHONG YOKE SENG

Independent Non-Executive Director
Female, Malaysian, aged 67

Ms. Chong Yoke Seng was appointed to the Board as a Non-Independent Non-Executive Director on 1 March 2016 and was appointed as a member of the Audit Committee on the same day. She was re-designated as Independent Non-Executive Director on 1 March 2018. Ms. Chong Yoke Seng was appointed as the Chairman of the Audit Committee on 18 February 2021. She was also the Chairman of the Nomination Committee and a member of the Remuneration Committee. On 29 November 2022, she was appointed as the Chairman of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee due to the combination of the Nomination Committee and Remuneration Committee into a single committee.

She is a member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants and a member of the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

She has over 33 years of working experience. She began her career in auditing for about 7 years. She then joined a management services company for about a year before she joined Hexza in 1990. She was the Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary of Hexza for more than 26 years until her retirement in February 2016. She holds directorships in several private limited companies.

MR. FOONG LEON KAH

Non-Independent Non-Executive Director
Male, Singaporean, aged 43

Mr. Foong Leon Kah was appointed to the Board on 1 June 2022.

Mr. Foong Leon Kah graduated from the University of Manchester with a Bachelor of Arts, Economic & Social Studies. He completed his Master of Business Administration (MBA) specialising in Management Consultancy from Grenoble Ecole De Management.

He has considerable working experience in various industries such as sales and marketing, advertising, hospitality and financial technology (“Fintech’).

MR. FOONG LEON SING

Non-Independent Non-Executive Director
Male, Malaysian, aged 37

Mr. Foong Leon Sing was appointed to the Board on 3 February 2025.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Management (First Class Honours) from the University of Oxford, St Peter’s College.

Mr. Foong Leon Sing has extensive entrepreneurial and management experience in leadership roles across technology, mobility, and digital asset sectors in Asia. He is currently the Co-Founder of Mythos Group and Managing Partner of Mythos Venture Partners, an early-stage crypto fund with a strong presence in Asia-Pacific and active investor in Digital Asset Treasury (DAT) companies across major global capital markets. Prior to that, he served as Head of Asia-Pacific at Binance Holdings Limited from January 2022 to August 2023. He was also the Chief Executive Officer of SOCAR Mobility Malaysia from October 2017 to October 2021.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Foong Leong Sing was the General Manager for Uber Malaysia and Thailand from December 2013 to October 2017 and held a corporate business development role with YTL Communications between 2011 and 2013. He began his career as an investment banking analyst with Perella Weinberg Partners in London from 2009 to 2011.

MS. DING JIA JIA

Independent Non-Executive Director
Female, Hong Kong, PRC, aged 45

Ms. Ding Jia Jia was appointed to the Board on 3 February 2025.

She holds a LLB in Law from Peking University and an LLM in Law from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. In addition, she completed her CPE and LPC qualifications at the College of Law in the United Kingdom. Ms. Ding is qualified in England and Wales and Hong Kong SAR. She currently does not hold directorships in other public listed companies.

Ms. Ding has over 20 years of legal experience, specialising in corporate and commercial law, advising clients on a wide variety of public and private offerings of debt and equity securities, as well as providing counselling concerning corporate governance issues.

Ms. Ding commenced her legal career in 2005 with CMS Cameron McKenna in London. She subsequently joined Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Hong Kong in 2007 before moving to Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in 2011, where she became a Partner in the firm’s Hong Kong corporate practice, focusing on capital markets. Ms. Ding joined Zhong Lun Law Firm’s Hong Kong office as a partner in September 2025.