HeveaBoard Berhad announced the appointment of Miss Chin Pik Yuen as Independent and Non Executive Director. Age: 57. Date of change is November 1, 2022.

She started her career with Hanafiah Raslan & Mohamad/Arthur Andersen & Co. as a statutory auditor in 1988. Thereafter she took up an internal audit role in Commerce Asset Holdings group and headed the Professional Practices and Head Office & Subsidiaries Audit functions till 1996.

Her focus was on audit of commercial banking and capital market activities, as well as the professional practices of internal auditors within the group. Ms Chin moved on to establish the internal audit function of a public listed company which operates in the capital market sector. Her role subsequently progressed to various other functions within the group, including Special Projects, Systems & Methods and Human Resources & Administration.

She was with the company for over 7 years till 2004. She then joined a US-based Outsourcing company. In her governance role, she supported the Hong Kong operations, and implemented change management costing protocols in Malaysia and Hong Kong.

She then joined Consumer Banking Risk & Compliance at Standard Chartered Bank, and subsequently OSK Investment Bank as head of group Compliance, covering Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and Cambodia. Vietnam was added to her portfolio post-merger with RHB Investment Bank in 2013. Ms. Chin joined Securities Commission Malaysia in 2014 where she served until her retirement in 2021.

She headed the Managed Investment Schemes Department and subsequently the Authorisation & Licensing function. Her final role was General Manager of Corporate Planning and Strategy Department. Ms Chin held various management positions in audit, risk and compliance.

While governance was the mainstay, she had taken various diverse roles, giving meaningful grounding on business functions over which she held governance and controls oversight in the organizations she served.