TAN SRI DATUK LING CHIONG HO
A Malaysian citizen, aged 68, was appointed as Director on 16 June 1995. In 1999, he was appointed as the Group Non-Executive Chairman and was subsequently redesignated as Group Executive Chairman in 2003. He is also the Chairman of the Group Management, ESOS and MRGF Committees. In addition to being the current Deputy Chairman of Sarawak Timber Association, he also serves as Chairman/Deputy Chairman of several school boards and charitable organizations in Sarawak.
Tan Sri Datuk Ling is the founder and Chairman of the diversified Shin Yang Group of companies involving in reforestation, wood-based downstream activities, domestic and international shipping, shipbuilding, property development, infrastructure projects, oil palm, public transports, hypermarket and hotel business. He is also the Non-Executive Chairman of Shin Yang Shipping Corporation Berhad, a company listed on Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad.
Tan Sri Datuk Ling is the brother of Ling Chiong Sing, a director of SOPB. Tan Sri Datuk Ling is deemed connected to Shin Yang Plantation Sdn Bhd, one of the substantial shareholders of SOPB. He is deemed interested in various transactions between the SOPB Group and certain companies carried out in the ordinary course of business by virtue of his common directorship and/or shareholdings in these companies.
Tan Sri Datuk Ling has attended all five Board Meetings held during the financial year ended 31 December 2019. He has not been convicted of any offence within the past 5 years and has not been imposed with any public sanction or penalty by the relevant regulatory bodies during the financial year.
LING CHIONG SING
A Malaysian citizen, aged 63, was appointed as Non-Independent Non-Executive Director on 1 December 2006. He is also a member of MRGF Committee.
He graduated from Taiwan in Accounting and is currently the Chief Executive Director of a well-diversified Shin Yang Group of Companies in Sarawak. He has more than 30 years of managerial experience and is very hands on in the business of logging, plywood, shipping and shipbuilding, quarry operations, transportation, construction and project fields. He is the Group Managing Director of Shin Yang Shipping Corporation Berhad, a company listed on Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad.
He is the brother of Tan Sri Datuk Ling Chiong Ho who is the Group Executive Chairman of SOPB and is deemed connected party to Shin Yang Plantation Sdn Bhd, a substantial shareholder of the SOPB. He is deemed interested in various transactions between the SOPB Group and certain companies carried out in the ordinary course of business by virtue of his common directorships and/or shareholdings in these companies.
He has attended four out of the five Board Meetings held during the financial year ended 31 December 2019. He has not been convicted of any offence within the past 5 years and has not been imposed with any public sanction or penalty by the relevant regulatory bodies during the financial year.
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