DATO' SERI MOHD SHARIFF BIN OMAR

(Chairman / Independent Non-Executive Director)
Chairman of Nomination Committee and Remuneration Committee
Member of Audit Committee

Malaysian, aged 70, was appointed to the Board of Cymao on 22 November 2013. He graduated from University of Malaya in 1972 with a Bachelor Degree in Economics majoring in rural development. He began his civil service in 1972 as the Assistant District Officer of Pekan, Pahang and continued to serve the state of Perak and Penang until 1982. His political career started when he won the state seat of Sungai Dua in the 1982 General Election. He served the Penang State Legislative Executive Council (EXCO) from 1982 until 1990. He then served as the Parliamentary Secretary for Ministry of Agriculture from 1990 until 1995. He held the position as Deputy Chief Minister of Penang from 1995 to 1999. He was a Member of Parliament from 1999 until 2008 and during that stint he was appointed a Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Agro-based Industry.

MR LIN, KAI-MIN

(Managing Director)

Taiwanese, aged 47, was appointed to the Board of Cymao on 13 November 2003. He graduated from Fu-Jen University, Taiwan, with a Bachelor of Science majoring in Accounting in 1993. He joined CPSB in 1994 as a Production Line Foreman and was given extensive production training. He became the Log Purchasing Manager from 1997 to 1998 in CPSB and subsequently headed its Finance Department. Armed with extensive training and experience from all aspects of production, raw materials and accounting, he was in-charge of the Finance and Marketing Department prior to his promotion in 2016 to take over the role of Managing Director.

MR LIN, KAI-HSUAN

(Executive Director)

Taiwanese, aged 49, was appointed to the Board of Cymao on 13 November 2003. He graduated from University of California Los Angeles, USA, with a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics and a minor in economics in 1991. He subsequently obtained a Master of Science in Forest Science with emphasis in Expert System from Texas A & M University, USA in 1993. He joined CPSB in 1994 as the Quality Controller, then took on the post of Factory Manager in 2000 and in the same year he was made the R&D Director. He was made the Vice President of CPSB in 2001.

MR HIEW SENG

(Independent Non-Executive Director)
Chairman of Audit Committee
Member of Remuneration Committee and Nomination Committee

Malaysian, aged 66, was appointed to the Board of Cymao on 25 February 2004. He is a Chartered Accountant by training. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales and the Malaysian Institute of Accountants. He began his accountancy training as an articled clerk in 1974 with a firm of Chartered Accountants in London, United Kingdom. Upon his qualification as a Chartered Accountant, he joined an international accounting firm as a qualified assistant for two (2) years and pursued his career in a public listed print media company, as Internal Auditor heading the Internal Audit Department for five and a half years (5?) and was promoted to Manager, Organisation & Method, a department created to conduct efficiency and productivity study during the economic crisis in 1986. He held the position for three (3) years. Thereafter, he joined an advertisement production house as a financial consultant for four (4) years before he joined Messrs. SK Hiew & Associates in 1996, where he became the Principal-In-Charge of the Kajang Branch of the firm.

MR SYED IBRAHIM BIN SYED ABD.RAHMAN

(Independent Non-Executive Director)
Member of Audit Committee, Remuneration Committee and Nomination Committee

Malayisan, aged 74, was appointed to the Board of Cymao on 29 June 2016. He is a lawyer by profession with a Degree of Barrister-at-Law by the Honourable Society of Inner Temple, London in 1970 and also an Associate of Malaysian Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators. He was the General Manager in charge of unit trust management and investment for MARA unit trusts scheme group of companies from 1971 to 1974. His responsibilities was to oversee MARA's portfolio management, savings and investments, management of overnight money markets, joint venture negotiations, capital and stock market management. He was appointed as a Director in Kelantan State Economic Development Corporation from 1996 to 2003. He is the Founder of Syed Ibrahim & Co, Advocates & Solicitors in 1975 and actively ran his legal firm until he retired in 2012.