A Malaysian citizen, is the Independent Non-Executive Director of ATS. He is a Fellow Member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales. He did his accountancy articleship in London and qualified as Chartered Accountant in 1969. His career started when he joined Peat Marwick. Mitchell & Co., London (now known as KPMG, London).

In 1972, he joined Standard Telephone & Cables Ltd., London (a subsidiary of International Telephone & Telegraph, USA) as Manager of Business Planning & Budgeting. He was then transferred to Malaysia in 1974 to take up the position of Financial Controller of ITT Transelectronics (M) Sdn Bhd, a manufacturer and exporter of consumer electronic products. He then left and joined Palmco Holdings Berhad in 1981 as Group Financial Controller and was promoted to Group Finance Director in 1983.

Subsequently he left in 1987 to join KPMG Peat Marwick Consultants Sdn Bhd as Director of the company. In 1989, he left Malaysia to join his family in London and took up the position as Group Finance Director of Marshall Cavendish Limited, a major publishing group with head- quarters in London. In 1992, he was promoted to Chief Executive Officer and was instrumental in the formulation of the Group’s global strategy, developing new markets and restructuring of the publisher’s operations in London, Paris, Hamburg and Sydney.

He returned to Malaysia in 1997 and is currently working as a senior consultant undertaking engagements in company restructuring, turnaround and general financial advisory services in Malaysia.