Malaysian, Aged 72, Male

Prof. Dr. Paul Cheng was appointed to the Board of PeterLabs Holdings Berhad on 1 November 2010. Currently he serves as a Senior Independent Non-Executive Director and as the Chairman of the Audit Committee.

Prof. Dr. Paul Cheng distinguished himself in practice as an auditor and a tax consultant. He is the founder and currently the senior partner of Cheng & Co, a Chartered Accountants Firm established in 1993.

He is also an Adjunct Professor in the University Tun Abdul Razak since February 2011. In addition, he lectures on Mandatory Accreditation Program (MAP) for directors of public listed companies in Malaysia.

Prof. Dr. Paul Cheng holds a Bachelor of Business degree (1990) from the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. He also possesses a Master of Business Administration degree (1991) and a Doctor of Commercial Sciences degree (1996) both from the Oklahoma City University, USA. In addition, he holds a Doctor of Business Administration degree (2007) from the University of Newcastle, Australia.

He is a Chartered Accountant of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA), a member of the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants (MICPA), a member of the Malaysian Institute of Management (MIM), and a member of the Malaysian National Computer Confederation (MNCC). He is a fellow member of CPA Australia and The Chartered Tax Institute of Malaysia (CTIM), a Chartered Management Accountant (CIMA, UK), a Chartered Tax Practitioner with the Chartered Tax Institute of Malaysia, and a Chartered Member of the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA Malaysia).

He has attended all seven (7) Board Meetings held during the financial year.

Malaysian, Aged 60, Male

Lim Tong Seng was appointed to the Board on 28 July 2010 as a Director and subsequently redesignated as the Managing Director of our Group on 1 September 2010. He completed his secondary school education in 1977 and has since accumulated over 33 years of experience in the livestock industry, mainly in the animal health and nutrition sector. He is also a committee member of the Malaysian Animal Health and Nutrition Industries Association.

Mr Lim’s career in the livestock industry began when he joined the feedmill division of Industrial Farm Pte Ltd, a Singapore commercial pig farm in 1978 as a Feedmill Executive. In 1984, he assumed the position of Production Executive at Agrinuser (M) Sdn Bhd, a feed additive premix manufacturing company. In 1989, he founded Benuser and spearheaded the company’s operations in manufacturing various feed additives and premixes for the livestock industry.

In 2002, Mr Lim left Benuser and co-founded PeterLabs, Osmosis Nutrition and PLON Synergy together with two (2) directors from Chern Tek, namely Teo Chin Heng and Dr. Teo Kooi Cheng. Mr Lim was appointed as the Executive Director of PeterLabs in 2002 and subsequently was promoted to Managing Director in 2008.

In 2019, Mr Lim was awarded by The Socrates Committee, Oxford, UK being the Best Manager of the Year for high achievements and professionalism in the company management. He also awarded by the World Confederation of Business – The Bizz, being the World Leader Businessperson for being a successful leader who works in an innovative, knowledgeable and systematic manner.

He has attended all seven (7) Board Meetings held during the financial year.

Malaysian, Aged 67, Male

Teo Chin Heng was appointed to the Board on 1 September 2010 as an Executive Director and is currently heading the Supply Chain Department. He graduated from National Chengchi University in Taiwan with a Bachelor of Economics in 1978 and has since accumulated over 30 years of experience in the animal health and nutrition industry.

Mr Teo began his career in his family’s porcelain manufacturing business in 1979 and subsequently joined Wellchem (M) Sdn Bhd in 1981 as a Sales Executive in the veterinary division. In 1986, he co-founded Chern Tek, a company involved in trading of animal health and nutrition products, where he assumed the position of Executive Director and was responsible for the company’s sales and marketing activities.

In 2002, Mr Teo left Chern Tek and co-founded PeterLabs, Osmosis Nutrition and PLON Synergy. Mr Teo was appointed as the Executive Director of PeterLabs and Sales and Marketing Director of Osmosis Nutrition in 2002.

He has attended all seven (7) Board Meetings held during the financial year.

Malaysian, Aged 47, Female

Yap Siaw Peng was appointed as an Executive Director on 1 March 2016. She was appointed as member of Remuneration Committee on 28 November 2019. She obtained her Bachelor Degree of Accounting with Honours and internship practices from The University of Hull in United Kingdom in 1998.

She began her career with few multinational companies in various industry. In 1998, she joined Digi Telecommunication Sdn Bhd as an Accounts Officer. From year 2000 to 2003, she served as a Senior Accounts Executive and Credit Controller in RS Components Sdn Bhd. Prior to joining PeterLabs Sdn Bhd, she worked for 7 years with an American Fortune 500 Company, Avery Dennison Materials Sdn Bhd as a Finance Manager to responsible on the day-to-day operations, she also participated in the South East Asia financial project and to oversee the operational activities at the distribution center in Johor Bahru.

She joined PeterLabs Sdn Bhd in 2010 as a Financial Controller to assist the Group in the Initial Public Offering exercise and was promoted to General Manager in 2012. She is currently responsible for the Group’s corporate services function inter-alia, treasury, accounting, corporate planning, finance, human resources, information technology and day-to-day operations of the Group.

She has attended all seven (7) Board meetings held during the financial year.

Malaysian, Aged 60, Male

Lau Yeng Khuan is one of our Group’s Sales and Marketing Director and was appointed as an Executive Director on 1 September 2010. He completed his high school education in 1977 and has since accumulated over 30 years of sales and business development experience in the livestock industry.

Mr Lau started his career with N.A.M Trading (Ipoh) Sdn Bhd as a Sales Executive in 1978 and subsequently joined Chern Tek in 1997 as a Sales Manager. He left the company to join our Group in 2002 as an Area Sales Manager. He is responsible for overseeing our Group’s sales and business development activities in Perak where his roles include sales, co-ordinating and liaising with customers. He is also responsible for providing professional advice to our customers in the swine and poultry sector.

He has attended all seven (7) Board Meetings held during the financial year.

Malaysian, Aged 80, Male

Dr. Vijaya was appointed to the Board on 1 November 2010 as our Independent Non-Executive Director. He is the Chairman of Remuneration Committee and member of Nomination Committee. He is a veterinarian with a Degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from East Pakistan Agricultural University (currently known as Bangladesh Agriculture University). He graduated with a first class degree in 1970. In 1974, he obtained a PhD in Animal Nutrition from the Royal School of Veterinary Medicine in Hannover, Germany.

After his return from Germany, Dr. Vijaya started his career as a Research officer at the Institut Haiwan, Kluang, Johor for two years. He then joined the feed milling industry as a nutritionist and worked for two (2) related companies, namely Sin Heng Chan (M) Sdn Bhd and Federal Flour Mills Bhd for 35 years before becoming a freelance consultant for a few multinational companies in the field of poultry production, nutrition and staff training.

As a nutritionist, he has pioneered various research projects that are published in various international journals. Dr. Vijaya is also the Chairman of the Technical Committee of Animal Feeds of Standards and Industrial Research Institute of Malaysia (“SIRIM”). In SIRIM, he spearheaded the development of various types of animal feed for the livestock industry. Dr. Vijaya was awarded the Livestock Asia 2013 Award by the Ministry of Agriculture on his outstanding contribution to Malaysian Feed Milling Industry. This is the third award which he has received from the Ministry of Agriculture ever since the Livestock show started in 2001. He was also honoured by the Malaysian Society of Animal Production for his contribution to the feed industry in 1996 and by our Ministry of Science and Technology for his contribution in the development of various standards for feeding livestock in 1997.

Dr. Vijaya’s other achievements include the Livestock Industry Achievement Award and Lifetime Achievement Award, both awarded by the Ministry of Agriculture in 2002 and 2007 respectively. In 2006, he was appointed as the speaker of the Bureau of World Poultry Science Association, in which he delivered lectures and conducted research papers in various international meetings. In 2008, he was made a fellow by the World Poultry Science Association for the Malaysian Branch. He is also a member of various professional bodies both locally and internationally.

Aside from being a freelance consultant, Dr. Vijaya currently lectures in several local and foreign universities.

He has attended all seven (7) Board Meetings held during the financial year.

Malaysian, Aged 59, Male

Encik Azman was appointed to the Board on 1 November 2010 as our Independent Non-Executive Director. He is the Chairman of Nomination Committee and member of Audit Committee. He obtained his Bachelors of Pharmacy (Honours) from University of El-Mansourah, Egypt, in 1983. He is a registered pharmacist with the Malaysian Pharmacy Board since 1984. Upon graduation, he joined the Ministry of Health of Malaysia as a Pharmacy Enforcement Officer.

In 1992, he left the Ministry of Health of Malaysia and joined Xepa Soul Pattinson (M) Sdn Bhd as a pharmacist. In 1995, he joined Kotra Pharma (M) Sdn Bhd, a pharmaceutical manufacturer and distributor, as a Quality Assurance Manager and was later promoted to Plant Manager in 2001. He left the company in 2003, and thereafter he joined Applied Chemie (M) Sdn Bhd as a Technical and Training Director.

In 2006, Encik Azman started his own consultancy firm, A1 Consultancy & Integrated Services Sdn Bhd, specializing in providing pharmaceutical consultancy services as well as training and registration of medicinal drugs, traditional (herbal) medicines, health supplements, cosmetics, and veterinary medicinal products.

Encik Azman is a life member and vice-chairman of Malaysian Pharmaceutical Society, Melaka branch. He is also a member of the International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) of the Malaysian Affiliate.

He has attended all six (6) out of seven (7) Board Meetings held during the financial year.