Gender: Male
Nationality: Malaysian
Age: 70
No. of Board Meetings Attended in Financial Year 2023 (“FY2023”) during his tenure in office
2/2
Membership of the Board Committee: None
Dato’ Ooi Boon Chye, was appointed to the Board as an Independent Non-Executive Director on 15 May 2023 and was re-designated as Chairman on 25 August 2023.
Dato’ Ooi was a former Senior Vice President (“SVP”) of Global Operations at Broadcom Limited (previously known as Avago Technologies (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd). He was responsible for managing its worldwide manufacturing, manufacturing engineering, outsourcing, procurement, logistics, central planning and quality programs during his tenure there. He retired in 2021 after 12 years with the company.
Prior to joining Broadcom Limited, Dato’ Ooi had served as an SVP of Worldwide Operations and Business Process Re-engineering at Xilinx, Inc from 2003 to 2009. Dato’ Ooi has more than 25 years of experience at Intel Corporations (“Intel”) and has served as its Vice President (“VP”) of the Systems Original Equipment Manufacturer (“OEM”) Products Group, Corporate Technology Group, and its Director of Operations. His experiences at Intel included Intel Technology Sdn Bhd (“Intel Penang”) from 1976 to 1980 and from 1984 to 1986. He was also the General Manager (“GM”) for Intel Barbados Limited (“Intel Barbados”) from 1980 to 1983. He had served in several operational management positions, Assembly Operations Manager, Plant Manager, and GM during his stint with Intel.
In 1986, Dato’ Ooi moved to the United States of America (“USA”), where he served Intel Corporation as its Assistant GM of worldwide logic components fabrication sort (“Fab Sort”) and assembly/test (“Assy/Test”) manufacturing; Director of Component Planning and Plant Manager for A4/T11 in Chandler, Arizona. He had also served as the GM for worldwide systems manufacturing, with Intel plants in Puerto Rico, Ireland, Washington, Malaysia and Oregon in 1990. Other than our Company, Dato’ Ooi does not hold any other directorship in public companies or public listed companies in Malaysia.
Dato’ Ooi is an affiliate member of Chartered Management Accountants, UK and also holds a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration from the University of Phoenix, Arizona.