About WCT

Group Managing Director
Malaysian/Male/Age: 63

Dato’ Lee Tuck Fook was appointed to the Board on 2 November 2016 as Non-Independent Non-Executive Director and subsequently re-designated as Group Managing Director of the Company on 3 April 2017. He is a member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants and the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He also holds a Master Degree in Business Administration from the International Management Centre, Buckingham.

Dato’ Lee began his career with KPMG in 1974 under articleship, was subsequently admitted as a partner in 1985 until he left the practice in 1990. From 1990 to 1992, he was appointed the Vice President of Samling Group in Sarawak. He later joined the Renong Berhad Group as the Managing Director of Renong Overseas Corporation. Between 1994 and 2000, he was the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the board of Paremba-Kentz Ltd. He was the Managing Director of Cement Industries of Malaysia Bhd from 2001 to 2002.

From 2002-2006, he was the Managing Director of Paracorp Berhad. In 2003, he was appointed as an Executive Director of Malton Berhad and was re-designated as its Managing Director in December 2003. He resigned from the board of Malton Berhad in 2009.

He is currently an Executive Director of Pavilion REIT Management Sdn Bhd, the Manager of Pavilion Real Estate Investment Trust and a director of Pavilion REIT Bond Capital Berhad. He is also an Independent Non-Executive Director of SAM Engineering & Equipment (M) Berhad and the Independent Non-Executive Chairman of Pesona Metro Holdings Berhad.

Dato’ Lee is a member of the Options Committee.

Deputy Managing Director
Malaysian/Male/Age: 58

Goh Chin Liong was appointed to the Board on 21 January 2011. Mr Goh was the Deputy Managing Director of WCT Berhad before the WCT Group undertook an Internal Restructuring exercise where WCT Berhad had ceased listing on the Main Market in July 2013.Currently, he is a Director of WCT Berhad. A civil engineer by training, he graduated from the University of Malaya with a Bachelor in Engineering (Hons) Civil and has over 30 years of experience in the construction industry.

Mr Goh started his career as a project engineer/ manager and was involved in several construction projects before joining WCT Berhad in 1991 as a senior project manager. He became General Manager (Construction Division) in 1995 with expanded responsibilities for the Group’s overall construction activities. He was promoted to Executive Director of WCT Berhad in 1996 and became its Deputy Managing Director in July 2001, responsible for the Group’s strategic business direction, operational performance, strategic management of the Group’s resources as well as project cost efficiency and profitability.

Mr Goh chairs the Management Committee and is a member of the Options Committee.

Executive Director
Malaysian/Male/Age: 56

Liang Kai Chong was appointed to the Board on 21 January 2011. Mr Liang was the Executive Director of WCT Berhad before the WCT Group undertook an Internal Restructuring exercise where WCT Berhad had ceased listing on the Main Market in July 2013. Currently, he is a Director of WCT Berhad. He graduated in 1986 with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Mathematics from the University of Malaya and holds a postgraduate Diploma in Quantity Surveying from the Royal Institution of Surveyors, Malaysia. He is a member of the Royal Institution of Surveyors, Malaysia and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyor, United Kingdom.

Mr Liang has over 30 years of experience in the construction industry. He spent his early career with a prominent Malaysian construction group, where he was actively involved in the negotiation, tendering, construction and completion of challenging projects in Malaysia. He was its Head of Contracts before he left to join WCT Group in 1997.

He started his career in WCT Group also as its Head of Contracts. With his extensive experience and in-depth knowledge in the construction industry, his role in WCT Group quickly expanded and he was entrusted with more and more responsibilities, first as General Manager in 2001 and not long thereafter as Executive Director of WCT Berhad in 2004. Presently he is responsible for WCT Group’s Engineering & Construction Division operations for all local and overseas projects, ranging from contracts procurement to project implementation, execution and delivery. He also sits on the Executive Committees of all construction projects and is a member of the Management Committee.

Independent Non-Executive Director
Malaysian/Male/Age: 69

Tan Sri Marzuki Bin Mohd Noor was appointed to the Board on 2 November 2016. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Degree from the University of Malaya.

Tan Sri Marzuki started his career in the Administrative and Diplomatic Service of Malaysia in 1972 and retired in August 2006. From 1972, he served at various Malaysian Diplomatic Missions abroad before being appointed as Ambassador to Argentina with concurrent accreditation to Uruguay and Paraguay in 1992.

In 1996, he was appointed High Commissioner of Malaysia to India (concurrently accredited as Ambassador to Nepal). Prior to his retirement, he was the Ambassador of Malaysia to Japan from 1999 to July 2006. Subsequently, he was a Director in various companies within the DRB-Hicom Berhad Group until 2016.

Tan Sri Marzuki is the chairman of the Audit Committee and Options Committee, a member of the Nomination & Remuneration Committee and an Advisor to the Risk Management Committee. He is also the Senior Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company.

Independent Non-Executive Director
Malaysian/Male/Age: 68

Datuk Ab Wahab Bin Khalil was appointed to the Board on 2 November 2016. He is a holder of a M.Litt from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Anthropology and Sociology from University of Malaya. He also holds a Certificate in Education from the Teachers Training College, Singapore.

Datuk Ab Wahab started his career as a management trainee in Lever Brothers (M) Sdn Bhd before moving to Warner Lambert (M) Sdn Bhd as a Product Manager. He subsequently joined Yardley of London as a Marketing and Sales Manager and subsequently Cold Storage (M) Bhd as a Business Manager where he rose to the position of General Manager of Bakeries, Ice & Meat Division. In 1990, he joined Perbadanan Perwira Niaga Malaysia (PERNAMA), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lembaga Tabung Angkatan Tentera (LTAT) which specializes in the running of retail chain stores in military camps as the General Manager until 2015.

He is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Business Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) and also lectures at the Arshad Ayub Graduate Business School, UiTM, Shah Alam. He is a business council member of Perbadanan Usahawan Nasional Berhad (PUNB).

Datuk Ab Wahab chairs the Nomination & Remuneration Committee and is a member of the Audit Committee.

Independent Non-Executive Director
Malaysian/Male/Age: 62

Dato’ Ng Sooi Lin was appointed to the Board on 3 April 2017. He holds a Bachelor in Engineering from the University of Liverpool and a Full Technology Certificate from the City & Guild’s London. He is also a member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers, U.K. (M.I.E.E.) Chartered Engineers.

Dato’ Ng is an engineer by profession with extensive working experience in the field of property development and management. He started his career in the property consultancy in Kuala Lumpur before moving on to play key roles in various development companies in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei.

He joined Berjaya Land Berhad in November 1994 and was the Senior General Manager (Group Properties & Development) prior to his appointment as Executive Director of Berjaya Land Berhad in March 2003. He was subsequently appointed the Chief Executive Officer of Berjaya Land Berhad from 21 December 2006 until 31 December 2016 and re-designated as Non-Independent and Non-Executive Director with effect from 1 January 2017. He also holds several directorships in Berjaya Corporation Group of Companies.

Dato’ Ng is a member of the Audit Committee and Nomination & Remuneration Committee.

Independent Non-Executive Director
Malaysian/Male/Age: 63

Ng Soon Lai @ Ng Siek Chuan was appointed to the Board on 1 February 2017. He is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.

Mr Ng has had several years of experience in the accounting profession with Coopers & Lybrand in London and Kuala Lumpur before moving on to the financial sector in 1980. Prior to joining Alliance Bank in July 1991 as General Manager of Credit, he had served in various positions in a leading local merchant bank and finance company. He was appointed as the Chief Executive Director of Alliance Bank Malaysia Berhad in 1994 and to the Board of Alliance Merchant Bank Berhad in 2002 until his resignation in 2005. Since then, he has held the post of Independent Director in several public listed companies.

He is currently an Independent Non-Executive Director of Hiap Teck Venture Berhad, Tune Protect Group Berhad and ELK-Desa Resources Berhad as well as a director of a public company, China Construction Bank (Malaysia) Berhad.

Mr Ng is a member of the Audit Committee.

Independent Non-Executive Director
Malaysian/Female/Age: 57

Puan Rahana was appointed to the Board on 1 January 2019. She holds a Masters in Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science (Finance/Economics) from the Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana, United States of America.

Puan Rahana started her career as Trainee Officer, Corporate Services Department with Raleigh Berhad (now known as Inter-Pacific Industrial Group Berhad) in 1984 before she extended her career into investment banking by joining Aseambankers Malaysia Berhad (now known as Maybank Investment Bank Berhad) in 1985.

In 1996, she joined Puncak Niaga (M) Sdn Bhd as the General Manager, Corporate Finance. In 2001, Puan Rahana took a break from the corporate sector and undertook several consultancy assignments from various entrepreneurs.

In 2014, Puan Rahana took up the position of Chief Financial Officer in ORO Financecorp Ltd, a licensed microfinance corporation in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Upon her return to Malaysia, Puan Rahana joined Tass Teck (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd, an IT specialist company, as the Finance Consultant in July 2016 and subsequently promoted to Director of Finance in March 2017 and holds the position till now.