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Management Team


Chief Executive Officer
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Yeap Kong Chean , is the Chief Executive Officer of Ygl. He graduated with a Bachelor degree in Commerce from University of Melbourne in 1984, with a double major in Accounting and Computer Science. He is an Associate member of the institute of Chartered Accountant in Australia & the Malaysian Institute of Accountants.


He commenced his career in 1985 with Ernst & Young Malaysia, and had spent 7 years in serving Ernst & Young Malaysia and Australia. He had consulted both local and foreign companies of various industries and sizes whilst with Ernst & Young. He was appointed as a consultant on advisory role with Ygl Consulting Sdn. Bhd. in 1993, assisting Ygl consultants in business re-engineering and ERP deployment work.

Steven Lim HOO TECK (C.A. (M), C.P.A., A.T.I.I.)
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Steven Lim HOO TECK (C.A. (M), C.P.A., A.T.I.I.) qualified as an accountant in 1988. He was a straight-passer in the Malaysian Association of Certified Public Accountants (now known as MICPA) examinations and finished all the three levels within three years. Steven was also awarded the Best Performance prize for the Law II (Company Law) paper.


His accounting profession began in 1984 as an audit assistant with Messrs Mustapha Law, a six-partner auditing firm, where he served for five years.Having qualified as a Certified Public Accountant (C.P.A.), he joined the international accounting firm of Price Waterhouse (now known as PricewaterhouseCoopers) Kuala Lumpur, where he worked for two years. He also has three years experience working for Coopers Lybrand, Singapore as an Audit Manager. He is currently the Managing Partner in his two-partner audit practice, Messrs Steven Lim & Associates. During his more than seventeen years of public accounting experience, he has handled large audits of multinational and public-listed companies as well as small and medium-sized audits of companies engaged in trading, manufacturing, banking, plantation, hotel, construction, property holding and service industries. He has also been responsible for initial public offer (IPO) assignments, acquisition reviews and investigations works.


Steven is a member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA), the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Malaysian Institute of Taxation. He is currently a member of the Accounting & Auditing Committee, Financial Statements Review Committee and the Small & Medium Practices Task Force of MIA. Steven acts as an Adjudicator for the 2007 National Annual Corporate Report Awards (NACRA) competition and a speaker for the Companies Commission of Malaysia's Corporate Directors' Training Programme. He is also a member of the Disciplinary Committee Panel (Lembaga Tatatertib Peguam-Peguam) pursuant to the Legal Profession Act 1976.


Steven currently also acts as Independent Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee for Malaysia Steel Works (KL) Berhad and as Independent Director of YGL Convergence Berhad, a main board company and MESDAQ company respectively, both listed on Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad.

TAN HOAY LENG
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TAN HOAY LENG graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Commerce from University of Western Australia in 1990. She is a member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants and the Australian Society of Certified Practicing Accountants.


She commenced her career in 1991 with Coopers & Lybrand where she served for three years. Madam Tan Hoay Leng was subsequently involved in public practice, providing consultation services to customers in various industries. She has vast experience in public accounting, taxation, outsourcing and human resource management.

AHMAD FUAD BIN MOHD ALI Independent and Non Executive Director

Ahmad Fuad Bin Mohd Ali was appointed to the Board on 29 October 2010. He is also a member of the Audit Committee of the Company. He has over 30 years of Consumer and Corporate Banking experience with Standard Chartered Bank, a leading International Bank. He is a strong business-oriented banker with in-dept knowledge of the Malaysian market, who successful led various creative initiatives to increase market share in key business areas particularly Mortgages and Wealth Management products. He is highly skilful and innovative marketing person who led a team in developing creative and award winning products, brand positioning initiatives and introduced numerous highly successful marketing techniques and concepts. He is also an accomplished strategist who was key in developing and implementing the strategic plans for the consumer bank and ensures its leading role in the industry. A self-motivated, innovative, result oriented with excellent management and leadership skills. He is an effective "change manager" who contributed significantly in changing the organizational culture from operations to sales and service oriented. Currently, he is a budding businessman involved in the manufacturing and the assembly of office furniture. He is also a Director of a Marketing company involved in the general supply of premium and promotional items.