Tea Sor Hua Independent Non-Executive Director

Tea Sor Hua, Malaysian, aged 53 is our Independent Non-Executive Director and Chairperson of the Nomination Committee. She was appointed to our Board on 1 July 2023.   She obtained a Diploma in Cost Accounting with the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry Examination Board in 1991. She subsequently obtained a Diploma in Business Accounting from the Delta Institute, Malaysia in 1992.   She is a professionally certified and qualified company secretary and was issued with a practicing licence by the Companies Commission of Malaysia in 1996. She subsequently became a member of the Malaysian Association of Company Secretaries (“MACS”) in 2005 and is currently a member as at to date. Upon becoming a member of the MACS, she relinquished her license issued by the Companies Commission of Malaysia. She possesses over 30 years of experience in corporate secretarial practice, including the formation of companies, corporate affairs, consultancy, advisory and management services for both private and public listed companies.   She commenced her career as a secretarial assistant in 1993 with Cospec Management Services Sdn Bhd (“Cospec”), a corporate secretarial and management firm that provides a comprehensive range of advisory and corporate secretarial services to private and public listed companies. She left Cospec in 1995 to join CH Tan Tax Consultancy Sdn Bhd (now known as William CH Tan Consultancy Sdn Bhd) as a Tax Assistant before re-joining Cospec in 1996 as Assistant Secretarial Manager. She was then promoted to Secretarial Manager in 1997 and subsequently further promoted to Senior Manager in 1999. In 2005, she was promoted to the position of Director of Corporate Secretarial and to the position of Chief Executive Officer of Cospec in 2015, a position that she currently holds to date.   In her current role as Chief Executive Officer of Cospec, she holds the primary responsibility of overseeing its overall business operations. Her duties include supervising the day-to-day activities of Cospec in addition to acting as the designated company secretary for a diverse range of private and public listed companies across various industries. Her core responsibilities include providing corporate secretarial advice and training to clients in respect of compliance with various regulatory legislation such as the Act, Listing Requirements, and the MCCG, among others.