Chief Executive Officer

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.

Chief Operating Officer

Mr. Yeap Kong Tai is the Chief Operating Officer of Ygl. He graduated with Bachelor of Commerce degree from University of Melbourne in 1985, with a double major in Accounting and Computer Science. He is an Associate member of the institute of Chartered Accountant in Australia & the Malaysia Institute of Accountants.

He commenced his career in 1986 with Price Waterhouse Malaysia and was subsequently seconded to Price Waterhouse Australia. Throughout the 7 years in Price Waterhouse, he had consulted a number of companies, both local and foreign of various sizes and industries. He joined Ygl Consulting Sdn. Bhd. in 1993 as a Director, initially overseeing the Consulting business, and thereafter directing Ygl own software development and deployment.

Independent Non-Executive Director

DATO’ MUHAMMAD FARID BIN HAJI AHMAD RIDHWAN (DPTJ, PJK) graduated as a mechanical engineer with a marketing degree from the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. Dato’ Farid is the founder and director of Farid Associates Group Sdn Bhd. The said company comprises of several subsidiaries that is involved in a variety of industries, amongst others, telecommunications, R&D and a production house. He was previously a Director of LB Aluminium Berhad and played a key role in the listing of the company on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange in 2001. Dato’ Farid was awarded the Anugerah “Usahawan Cemerlang 2001” by Bank Pembangunan & Infrastructure Malaysia Berhad.

Dato’ Farid is the inventor of the Prefix phone, the world’s first line powered chip-card based prepaid fixed line telephone which won PIKOM Computimes ICT Award “Product of the Year 2004” and which is the first locally developed product with 2 patents already granted. One of his companies, Alif R&D won the MSC-APICTA Award 2006 for Best in Research and Development.

Dato’ Farid is an Independent Non-Executive Director of Ygl Convergence Berhad, a Mesdaq listed company. Ygl is one of the leading Business Solutions providers in the Enterprise Solutions environment in Asia-Pacific.

Chong Kai Min was appointed to the Board on 1 June 2005. He is also a member of the Audit Committee of the Company.

He holds a Bachelor of Science (Information Technology and Computer Science) from the National University of Singapore. In 1990, he joined Microsoft Singapore Pte Ltd as one of its pioneer employees and was with Microsoft for more than eight (8) years culminating as the Regional Marketing Manager for the Windows Platform. After that, he served as the Vice-President for Investment at OptixLab, a Malaysia venture capital company and he is currently a Director at I-Futures Malaysia Sdn Bhd, a business consulting company.

He has no family relationship with any Directors and/or substantial shareholders of the Company, nor any conflict of interest with the Company and has never been charged for any offence other that traffic offences, if any, within the past ten (10) years.

He has attended all the five (5) Board Meetings of the Company held in the financial year ended 31 December 2007.

Independent Non-Executive Director

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.