Speakers

Dr. Ch’ng Huck Khoon, pursued his PhD studies in Finance at the Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM); He also holds an MBA (Finance) from the University of Stirling (UK), he is an Associate Member for Centre for Business and Management (CBM) University Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR). He is also the Honorary Lecturer at USM (2018 to 2021).

He is the Independent Non-Executive Director of CNI Holdings Berhad, YGL Convergence Berhad and AT Systematization Berhad. All of which are listed on Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad.

Dr Ch’ng is the Founder and CEO of CHK Consultancy Sdn Bhd. He conducts seminar for Bursa Malaysia, Securities Commission approved Training Providers, local and foreign banks on current economic issues, corporate strategies, Sun Tsu Art of War for traders and investors, wealth management, AMLA and digital economy related topics. He has conducted more than 1000 sessions face-to-face CPE seminar in the last 15 years.

He is columnist in internet media on stock market matters, apart from being interviewed on financial related topics by local media. He is a HRDF Certified Trainer and Academic Council and Examination Board for SDH Institute (Singapore). Dr. Ch’ng is the author for “How to Select a Winning Stock”

Dr. Ch’ng was an Assistant Professor at the Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) and Senior Lecturer at Wawasan Open University (WOU). He lectured on Financial Management, Financial Strategy, Money and Banking, Financial Planning and Corporate Strategy related modules. He was also a Capital Markets Services Representative License holder for 15 years with A. A. Anthony Securities Sdn Bhd. One of his research papers entitled ‘How Many Securities Make A Diversified Portfolio: KLSE Stocks?’, was selected as the winner of the Security Commission Capital Market Award 2000. His main research interests are in investment and behavioral finance and his research papers have not only been published in Malaysian journals but also those in India and Australia.

Mr. Phua Lee Kerk, CFA, is currently the Chief Strategist of Phillip Research. He has wide and varied experience in the financial advisory and portfolio management fields, having worked in Japan, Malaysia and Singapore for more than 33 years with companies like Smith Barney (now Salomon Smith Barney), Barings Securities (now ING Baring), Vickers Ballas, Jupiter Research, APS Asset Management and Pheim Unit Trusts Berhad.

He has presented various papers on investment (equity, bond, derivatives, risk management, financial planning and others), corporate finance and M&A both locally and overseas in conferences and seminars organized by World Bank, UNESCO, UNIDO, Securities Commission, Bursa Malaysia, Bank Negara, MII, FPAM and others.

He served as Director of the Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall, director for Centre for Malaysian Chinese Studies, Malaysia-China Chamber of Commerce and ASJA International. He was also Governor of ASCOJA, President of Japan Graduates’ Association in Malaysia and working member of Malaysia Plan of Actions. He is committee member of the Economic Research Board of The Federation of Chinese Associations Malaysia (FeCAM). He is the co-writer of the book “A Practical Approach To Mergers And Acquisitions In Financial Services Industry”.

Dr. Choong Chee Keong is a Professor (Tan Sri Dato' Sri Dr Teh Hong Piow Chair in Banking and Finance) in the Faculty of Business and Finance, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia. He obtained his Bachelor of Economics (Hons) and Master of Economics from the Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Management, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Malaysia in 2000 and 2002, respectively. Then, he received his Ph.D. in Economics (Financial Economics) from the Faculty of Economics and Management, Universiti Putra Malaysia in 2007. Courses that he has taught include Economics, Business Finance, and Statistics for Economics and Management, History of Economic Thought, Quantitative Techniques, Basic Econometrics, Econometrics, Research Methods, Business Research Methodology (master and doctorate levels).

He is actively involving in research covering the areas of applied and monetary economics (public finance, stock market, monetary and fiscal policies) and international economics (private capital flows, exchange rate, remittances, trade) and financial economics (financial sector development and institutional quality). He has more than 130 papers accepted / published so far in national and international journal articles including those ranked by Thomson Reuters (ISI) (17 articles) and indexed in SCOPUS (14 articles), chapters in books, conference or seminar proceedings and international newspapers. He was also awarded 5 Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS) from the Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) Malaysia; 4 UTAR Research Fund; and 4 collaborations with local public and private universities (Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Universiti Teknologi MARA and Monash University Sunway Campus).

He acts as an editorial referee or book reviewer to few referred journals such as Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, Economic Modeling, Singapore Economic Review, Contemporary Economic Policy, African Journal of Business Management and World Applied Sciences Journal. He is the Associate Editor of two international journals, namely: Journal of Arts Science and Commerce and The Indian Journal of Commerce and Management Studies.

His biography is included in the 2009 and 2011 Premier Edition of Who's Who in the World , which profiles the most accomplished persons in 215 countries. Moreover, some of his articles are available at IDEAS (Internet Documents in Economics Access Service, http://ideas.repec.org/ ) and have attracted a couple of interested readers. In August 2012, he ranked top 13% (out of 149 registered economists) and 14% (out of 2789 registered economists) in Malaysia and Asia, respectively. His articles published in Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies and Japan, and the World Economy have been cited as one of the Top Requested and/or Most Downloaded Papers in the years 2010, 2011 and 2012, respectively

Dr. Tee Chee Wee obtained his Doctor of Philosophy (Human Resource Management), Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Bachelor of Human Resource Management (Hons) from Universiti Utara Malaysia.

Dr. Tee has worked as a lecturer in Faculty of Business and Finance at Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman since 2010. He has been leading and teaching Sun Zi’s Art of War & Business Strategies this subject for more than 10 years. He had been lectured more than 20,000 students. Other than that, he was also lecturing other subjects like human resource management, management principles, leadership and team building, organizational behavior, organizational development and etc. Talent Management was his main research interests. He also interested on others area like human resource management, talent management, employee retention, employee engagement, strategic management, environmental responsible behavior, green environment practices and Sun Zi’s Art of War. He had published a few journals not only in Malaysia but was internationally.

In 2015, he has collaborated with Dongseo University, Korea under Global Access Asia (GAA) project, to create an elective subject. It was an online learning course named Sun Zi’s Art of War in Business Strategies. In 2016, Dr. Tee was invited by the MOCC team to create a full course of Sun Zi’s Art of War in Business Strategies in an open learning platform. He hopes that it will be more people around the world can gain a particular ancient intelligence and knowledge through this platform and apply it in today’s business environment. He is a member of Malaysia Sun Zi’s Philosophy Strategic Research Association. Also, an Associate member of Malaysia Institute Human Resource Management (MIHRM) and closely collaborates with them to provide training and talk in any topic which relevant to Sun Zi’s Art of War. He also granted as certified train the trainer for Alibaba GDT Network. Dr. Tee used to exchange his Sun Zi’s Art of War’s knowledge with different group of people through giving several workshops as well as students and staffs from different countries and from different industries of people.

Mr. Alex Siew Wee Chai holds a Master in Information Technology in Business from Lincoln University, United Kingdom. Prior to that, he obtained his Bachelor ofCommerce (double major in Accounting and Marketing) from Deakin University, Australia. He is currently a certif ied HRDF trainer.

Starting his career at PwC, he pursued the path of a Derivative analyst over the course of 10 years since graduation. Alex has extensive experience in Equity and Derivative investment, audit, corporate finance and Private Equity Funding. • Alex has served as a fund manager for VCB Capital, a boutique asset management company for more than 5 years. Combining his knowledge of fundamental market analysis, quantitative research methodologies, finance, equity markets, derivative markets and programming skills, he has played a key role in VCB Capital in the areas of investment research, strategies formulation, development of investment framework, identification of new potential markets for investment, as well as Capital Risk Monitoring using cutting edge technological tools.

Currently Alex is Fund Director of SC licensed Robo Advisory firm BH Global Fintech Solutions Sdn Bhd. Over the course of his career, Alex has developed his own proprietary software in automated industrial analysis of Derivative and Equity markets, Derivatives hedging and investment by utilizing his IT skills combined with his knowledge in Derivatives markets. His technical analysis skills are recognized by world class Technical Analysis association MTA (Market Technician Association) of United States. He has previously served as the first Chairman for MTA MalaysianChapter.

Alex has held part time lecturing position in various colleges for more than 10 years. He has lectured in the field of applied computerized statistics, deploying Quantitative Models generated from statistical software like Matlab, Eviews, Revolution R Analytics and IBM SPSS software packages. He is well versed with different approaches towards investment and risk management including Fundamental Analysis, Technical Analysis, Sentimental Analysis and Quantitative Analysis methodologies. He is currently an advisor to a quantitative trading academy, BH Global Algorithmic Academy, where professional workshops on Fundamental Analysis, Technical Analysis, Sentimental Analysis and Quantitative Analysis methodologies were offered to working professionals in the financial industry. He has also authored an e-book in Capital Market trading and investment and is still continuing his passion in conducting research and development in the related capital market area in collaboration with academicians from various local and internationaluniversities.

Mr. Chia Gek Liang graduated with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering and Master of Business Administration from the National University of Singapore in 1985 and 1993, respectively. He also holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of London, UK which he obtained in 2010 and a Certificate in Legal Practice in 2011. He was admitted as an Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in 2012.

In 1992 joined the corporate finance division of Commerce International Merchant Bankers Berhad (now known as CIMB Investment Bank Berhad) as an Executive. He was involved in a wide variety of corporate advisory assignments which includes initial public offerings, debt and equity fund raising, mergers and acquisitions, reverse take-overs, corporate and debt restructuring and privatisation exercises. He left the bank in 2001 and joined Intelligent Edge Technologies Berhad as its Chief Financial Officer, where he was responsible for the overall financial management of the company up until his departure in 2002.

From 2002 to 2012, he mainly did freelance consulting work and conducting training to private company, while pursuing his professional qualification as a lawyer. He started practising law as an Associate with Deol & Gill in 2013 where he was involved in providing advisory on legal matters. He left Deol & Gill in 2014 to undertake various general management consulting works on a freelance basis. From 2015 to 2018, he was attached with Mai & Co as an Associate, where he was primarily involved in providing corporate legal services. Presently, he is the Independent Non-Executive Director of a local public listed company as well as director and shareholder for a number of private companies.

Mr. Thamil Durai Chelliah obtained his Bachelor of Laws – LL. B (Hons) at Anglia Ruskin University of Essex (APU), United Kingdom. He also holds a Master of Arts majoring in Corporate and Business Administration from the Anglia Ruskin University (APU), United Kingdom. Professionally, he is also a Graduate Member of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA) in UK.

He started his career as a Legal Assistant at Alan Jones Solicitor (UK) in 2003, then joint Barclays Bank Plc (UK) as a Team Manager in 2004. He returned to Malaysia in 2007 and appointed as Business Manager at Global Vision Research Sdn Bhd. He is the new breed of “Dynamic” Lecturer employed to bring forth wisdom to the Faculty of Business & Finance, University Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), Malaysia. He is teaching Organization Behaviour, Company Law, Business Law, Entrepreneurship Law, Human Resources Management, Business Ethics related subjects at UTAR and his main research interest are Law, Business and Corporate Ethics, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Comparative Law .