Board Of Directors
DATO' KIEW KWONG SEN
Chairman / Independent Non-Executive Director
Dato' Kiew Kwong Sen [Malaysian / Age 59] is the Chairman and Independent Non-Executive Director of ViTrox. He was
appointed to the Board of Directors of ViTrox on 8 July 2005. He is also the Chairman of the Audit Committee of the
Company.
Dato' Kiew graduated from National Taiwan University with Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering Degree in 1972 and
later received his Master of Science in Industrial Engineering Degree from the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He worked
in various technical and management positions at Advanced Micro Devices, and Hewlett Packard Malaysia and Hewlett Packard
California.
He is now the Chairman and President of Mini-Circuits Technologies Malaysia, President of Gibraltar Semiconductor, San Jose,
California, President of Blue Cell Technologies, Sacramento, California, Executive President of Mini-Circuits New York, and
Chairman of Mini-Circuits Taiwan Ltd. He is also the board member of ACX Ceramic Taiwan.
Dato' Kiew is very active in community services including sponsor of various charitable and educational projects. He had
donated a hydraulic operated van and built a workshop for Spastic Children School, set up Computer Lab for Salvation Army,
built children's playground for Ramakrishnan School in Penang and donated beds to all orphans in the Wisma Yatim, Penang. He
is the founder and Chairman of the Mini-Circuits Scholarship Foundation. This Foundation has been awarding two full scholarships
a year for deserving University students for a full 4-year degree programme at local Universities.
He has been serving as a member of Penang Competitiveness Committee since 2003. He is also the Advisor for the Young
Entrepreneurs' Association of Malaysia, Penang Alumni Association of Taiwan and Penang Automation Cluster. He is also a
popular speaker at seminars and conferences both in Malaysia and overseas.
He is also an Independent Non-Executive Director of Pentamaster Corporation Berhad; and a Director and Deputy Chairman
of the Executive Committee of Invest-In-Penang Berhad.
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CHU JENN WENG
Managing Director
Chu Jenn Weng [Malaysian / Age 37], is a promoter and substantial shareholder of ViTrox. He is the Managing Director of ViTrox
Group and currently leads the technical team of ViTrox Group, which includes Research and Development (R&D), application
development, project implementation and system service and supports. He was appointed to the Board of Directors of ViTrox
on 7 July 2005. He is the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Company.
Mr Chu has more than 11 years experience in machine vision and related field. He started his first project in machine vision back
in 1992 while he was still studying in Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) majoring in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Upon
graduation from the University, he was employed as an instrumentation engineer in Hewlett-Packard Malaysia (HPM) (now
known as Agilent Technologies Sdn Bhd), where he initiated and led the in-house 4-person machine vision team for more than
5 years. During his 5 1/2-year career in HPM, he was directly involved in the R&D of machine vision systems, system set-up and
support, as well as setting objectives and development plan for the entire team.
Mr Chu completed his part-time post graduate study in image processing from USM in 1998. While learning the fundamental
and required techniques in this field, he traveled to countries like Singapore and the United States of America (USA), to study
and evaluate the need of those technologies and its potential for growth. He left HPM in 1998 to start-up his own business with
his partner/co-founder, Siaw Kok Tong in machine vision. Thereafter, the partnership was then converted into a private limited
company in March 2000 and was officially named ViTrox Technologies Sdn Bhd (VTSB).
During the start-up phase of VTSB, Mr Chu was involved in every aspect of the business, starting from sales and marketing, R&D
of vision system, part purchasing, finance as well as service and support.
As the Managing Director of ViTrox Group, he oversees the entire operations of the business including company objectives,
goals and directions.
Mr. Chu received the certificate of merit under the Business, Economic and Entrepreneurial Accomplishment category from
The Outstanding Young Malaysian (TOYM) Awards 2005 organized by the Junior Chamber International Malaysia. He was also
the top nominee under the Technology Entrepreneur of the Year from Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of The Year - Malaysia
2005.
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SIAW KOK TONG
Executive Director
Siaw Kok Tong [Malaysian / Age 36], is a promoter and substantial shareholder of ViTrox. He is the Executive Director of ViTrox
Group and currently responsible for Administration, Human Resource, Finance, Sales & Marketing and Service & Support
departments of the ViTrox Group. He was appointed to the Board of Directors of ViTrox on 7 July 2005. He is a member of
the Executive Committee and Audit Committee of the Company.
A co-founder of VTSB, Mr Siaw graduated with a Bachelor degree (First Class Honours) in Computer Science from USM in
1995. Mr Siaw commenced his career with HPM as an instrumentation engineer in the Automation Department, where he was
involved in the development of machine vision systems. During his 4 1/2- year tenure in HPM, he was promoted to Senior
Engineer and subsequently left the company in 1999 upon completion of his scholarship bond. In 2000, Mr Siaw co-founded
VTSB with Chu Jenn Weng, where during the early stages of the company set-up, he was involved in application development
and installation, system support and servicing, as well as the general administration and management of VTSB. With the
subsequent addition of new engineers, he went on to head the development of non-standard vision applications.
Mr Siaw played a key role in the establishment of ViTrox Group's customer base in Malaysia, China, Taiwan and the USA.
As an Executive Director of ViTrox Group, Mr. Siaw is responsible in promoting ViTrox Group's vision systems locally and
globally, and involved in the management decision making and planning.
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YEOH SHIH HOONG
Executive Director
Yeoh Shih Hoong [Malaysian / Age 35], is a promoter, substantial shareholder and Executive Director of ViTrox. He was
appointed to the Board of Directors of ViTrox on 7 July 2005. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Company.
Mr Yeoh graduated with a Bachelor degree (First Class Honours) in Computer Science from USM in 1997. During his third year
of tertiary study, he underwent industry training in HPM where he was assigned to work on machine vision projects.
Mr Yeoh joined VTSB since its inception and has played a pivotal role in the product development of the company. He successfully
co-developed many products for the company, such as Mark Lead Inspection System, IC Package Inspection System, Object
Verification System and Die Counting System and the 4-in-1 Integration Solution. Mr Yeoh played a key role in the development
of the sub-pixel technology and VSCL platform of VTSB. He is currently involved in the R&D of new machine vision products,
supporting existing products as well as training new engineers on the machine vision technologies.
As an Executive Director of ViTrox, he is involved in management decision making and planning.
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DR AHMAD FADZIL BIN MOHAMAD HANI
Independent Non-Executive Director
Dr Ahmad Fadzil Bin Mohamad Hani [Malaysian / Age 47], is an Independent Non-Executive Director of ViTrox. He was
appointed to the Board of Directors of ViTrox on 8 July 2005. He is a member of the Audit Committee of the Company.
He graduated in 1983 from the University of Essex, United Kingdom with a Bachelor degree (Honours Class I) in Electronic
Engineering. He completed his Masters degree in Telematics in 1984 and Doctorate in Image Processing in 1991 at the same
university.
Dr Fadzil has been a lecturer in signal processing and researcher in image processing at USM since 1984. Between 1988 and 1991,
he was a senior research officer in image processing and subsequently as a lecturer at his Alma matter, University of Essex. Upon
returning to Malaysia, he was made the Dean of the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at USM from 1992 and 1996.
In 1997, he became the Dean of the Engineering Faculty at the newly established Petronas University of Technology, Malaysia. He
served as the Director of Academic Studies at Petronas University from 1999 till 2003. From 2003 till 2006, he served as the
Director of Postgraduate Studies.
Dr Fadzil is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Malaysia. He served as a Council Member of the institution from 2001 to
2004. He is a registered Professional Engineer with the Board of Engineers, Malaysia and a Senior Member of the Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA. His research interests include image compression, image processing and
computer vision applications in healthcare, telemedicine, petroleum exploration, inspection systems and artificial intelligence.
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CHUAH POAY NGEE
Independent Non-Executive Director
Chuah Poay Ngee [Malaysian / Age 37], is an Independent Non-Executive Director of ViTrox. She was appointed to the Board
of Directors of ViTrox on 15 November 2006 and is a member of the Audit Committee of the Company.
Ms. Chuah graduated in 1994 from the Deakin University, Australia with a Bachelor Of Business (Accountancy) and qualified as
Certified Practicing Accountant of the Australian Society Of Certified Practicing Accountants in 1996.
Upon graduation, Ms. Chuah joined Matthew & Partners (formerly known as Russ Ooi & Associates) as Tax and Audit Assistant.
She then joined Grand Circuits Industry Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of Grand United Holdings Berhad as Accounts Executive in 1995
and was subsequently promoted to Group Accountant.
In 2001, she worked for Golden Fresh Sdn Bhd as Finance & Administration Manager and was later promoted to Senior Finance
& Administration Manager. She left the company in 2006 to join Mini-Circuits Technologies (M) Sdn Bhd as Financial Controller.
Ms. Chuah is a Chartered Accountant of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants and also qualified as Certified Corporate
Secretary with the University Malaya Centre of Continuing Education in 1998.
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Additional Information on Directors
- Conflict of interest and family relationships with any Director and /or major shareholder: None of the Directors have any conflict of interest with
the ViTrox Group. None of the directors has family relationship with any other director and/or major shareholder of ViTrox.
- Material contracts involving Directors: There were no material contracts involving Directors during the financial year.
- Convictions for offences (within past 10 years, other than traffic offences): None of the Directors have any convictions for offences other than
traffic offences.
- Securities held in the Company: The details are disclosed on page 77 of this Annual Report.
- Directorship in other public company: Save for Dato' Kiew Kwong Sen (as disclosed in his profile above), none of the Directors have any
directorship in other public company in Malaysia.
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