Board Of Directors
Tan Sri Datuk Amar
Steve Shim Lip Kiong
Chairman ( Independent Director )
Tan Sri Datuk Amar Steve Shim Lip Kiong
Chairman ( Independent Director)
Tan Sri Datuk Amar Steve Shim Lip Kiong began his service with the Judiciary on 1 March 1992 when he was appointed a Judicial Commissioner in the Sibu High Court. On 1 August 1992, Tan Sri was appointed a High Court Judge and served in both the Kuching and Kuala Lumpur High Courts. Tan Sri is a panel member of the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration as well as the Panels of Conciliators & Arbitrators, International Centre for Settlement of Investment disputes.
Tan Sri is the former chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak. He was appointed to this position on 1 September 2000 and served until he retired from service on 19 July 2006.
Tan Sri has been appointed as an Independent Director and Chairman of Pacific Trustees Berhad on 20 October 2009.
Ms. Ong Kim Eng
( Non-Independent Director )
Ms. Ong Kim Eng
(Non-Independent Director)
Ms. Ong Kim Eng completed her Form 5 at Sekolah Menengah Convent Butterworth, Penang and obtained Malaysian Certificate Education (MCE) equivalent to the Cambridge General Certificate of Education (GCE) in December 1971. Ms. Ong Kim Eng joined Pacific Aerospace Sdn Bhd as Personal Assistant arranging appointment for the Managing Director to meet up with foreign aerospace and aircraft suppliers. Liaising with the Company Manager to sign agreement and contract for service.
She is currently one of the Non-Executive Directors of Pacific Trustees Berhad.
Mr. George Cheah Ken-Lee
( Non-Independent Director )
Mr. George Cheah Ken-Lee
(Non-Independent Director)
Mr. George Cheah Ken-Lee (“George Cheah”) graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from Cardiff University in 2012. In 2013, he was called to the Bar in England and Wales with a Bar Professional Training Course in Cardiff University.
George Cheah joined Messrs. Paul Cheah & Associates as an intern in 2008. On November 2013, he underwent a one year Management Trainee Programme with Pacific Trustees Berhad. Thereafter, he continued to pursue his legal career by chambering in Adnan Sundra & Low (“ASL”), the top banking and finance/ capital market law firm in Malaysia. He was subsequently called to the Malaysian Bar in 2015 and was employed by ASL as a legal assistant.
He is well conversant and familiar with the structuring, documenting, executing and advising on a comprehensive range of transactions and products, both in Ringgit and foreign currencies, including corporate debt issuances, Malaysian law.
He returned to Pacific Trustees Berhad in 2017 as a Manager, in the Managing Directors’ office whereby he is involved with the day to day operations of the Company which covers Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), Interest Scheme, Private Debt Securities (PDS), Collective Investment Scheme including for Wholesale Funds, Custodian, Escrow Services including for RMO P2P Finance, Robo Advisor and Digital Crypto Exchange and also the Private Trust Division in the Company. He also works very closely with the managing director of the Company on the day task and also with the senior managers of the Company. He also has organised and hosted various seminars for Bonds, REITS, Trust Funded ESOS and Private Wealth Services and events for the Company. He is also the editor for the Company quarterly newsletter.
He is currently one of the Directors of Pacific Trustees Berhad and Pacific Trustees (Singapore) Ltd.
Mr. Edward Cheah Ken-Sze
( Non-Independent Director, Resident Manager )
Mr. Edward Cheah Ken-Sze
(Non-Independent Director, Resident Manager)
Mr. Edward Cheah Ken-Sze (“Edward Cheah”) graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Finance from Oxford Brookes University in 2016. He also graduated from a web-development boot camp with NEXT Academy in 2016, where he is able to do front and back end in web development. He also received an Entrepreneurship certificate from Bond University Australia “Innovation as Strategy” in 2016. And has also attended and received training from Dr. Heldi Heron from the worldwide Institutes of Neuro-Linguistics Programming (NLP).
Edward Cheah joined Pacific Trustees Berhad as an intern on the 30th July 2012 and since then he was promoted to Management Trainee on the 28th January 2014 and on the 28th May 2014 he was promoted to Management Executive, and finally on the 20th April 2015 he was promoted to be the Manager in Managing Director’s Office, a position he held until 3rd March 2020.
He has experience in front and back end in Web Development which includes Ruby on Rails, Html5, javascript, database & SQL, CSS3, Sinatra and Github, Marketing and Operations, Human Resource, Administration and Finance.
He is currently one of the Non-Executive Directors of Pacific Trustees Berhad.