Phang Sze Fui, a Malaysian, aged 50, is our Independent Non-Executive Director. She was appointed to our Board on 15 March 2021, and is also the chairman of our Audit and Risk Management Committee and member of our Remuneration Committee and Nomination Committee.
She obtained her Diploma in Commerce (Financial Accounting) from Tunku Abdul Rahman College in May 1997. She has been a member of The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants since November 2000, a fellow member of The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants since November 2005 and a member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants since July 2009. Further, since September 2019, she has been an Audit Committee Member of the Institute of Internal Auditors Malaysia. In addition, she has been a member of Institute of Corporate Directors Malaysia since November 2021.
She began her career as Accounts Executive in Seawood Trading Company in November 1992. She subsequently started working with the company on a part-time basis from 1993 when she enrolled for her tertiary studies with Tunku Abdul Rahman College. She left in January 1995 to focus her studies. During her tenure with the company, she was involved in the handling of accounting records and related administrative matters.
Upon obtaining her diploma, she returned to work in July 1997 when she joined Monteiro & Heng (now known as Baker Tilly Monteiro Heng) as Graduate Assistant, where she was primarily involved in various statutory audit assignments. She was subsequently promoted to Senior Audit Manager, Associate Director of Transaction Reporting Division and Executive Director of Transaction Reporting Division in 2005, 2008 and 2011 respectively. During her tenure, she undertook various responsibilities including leading the audit team to conduct audit and special assignments, liaising with stakeholders, conducting training, ensuring compliance with auditing and accounting standards as well as regulatory requirements and expanding the growth of the Transaction Reporting Division. She left the firm in October 2015 and took a career break.
In May 2016, she joined Dolphin Applications Sdn Bhd (a subsidiary of Dolphin International Berhad, a company listed on Main Market of Bursa Securities) as Corporate Affairs Director responsible for supervising corporate exercises, handling special projects, overseeing investor relations and public relations matters, improving internal control systems and reporting structure, overseeing compliance matters and liaising with stakeholders.
She left Dolphin Applications Sdn Bhd in July 2017 to pursue her own business venture, Avia Alliance Sdn Bhd which specialises in the provision of business and accounting consultancy, a business that she is presently involved. In December 2019, she established Dynamic Aqua Evolution Sdn Bhd which specialises in aquaponic farming, a business that she is presently involved. In June 2020, she established 1Advisory Sdn Bhd which specialises in the provision of business consultancy, a business that she is presently involved.
She was appointed as Independent Non-Executive Director of Kim Teck Cheong Consolidated Berhad, SDS Group Berhad and Flexidynamic Holdings Berhad (companies listed on the ACE Market) in September 2018, September 2018 and January 2021 respectively, the positions she presently assumes. In October 2018, she was appointed as Independent Non-Executive Director of Mestron Holdings Berhad and resigned in March 2021. In February 2021, she was appointed as Independent Non-Executive Director of TUC Holdings Berhad and resigned in October 2021.