About

Chiau Haw Choon

Mr Chiau Haw Choon was appointed to our Board on 23 January 2015. He reports to our Deputy Group Executive Chairman as well as the Board. As our Group Managing Director, his responsibilities are ensuring Board decisions and directions are implemented, providing strong leadership, communicating the vision, management, philosophy and business strategies to our employees, keeping our Board fully informed of all important aspects of our Group’s operations and ensuring sufficient information is disseminated to our Board, as well as ensuring the day-to-day business of our Group are effectively managed. He is in charge of the day-to-day operational matters and decisions of the Group. Working closely with all the Business Unit Heads, he oversees our Group’s overall execution and implementation of the strategies and corporate policies of our businesses and operations, and is also responsible for the execution and implementation of short term and long term business plans, strategic planning and continuing growth of our Group. He is also responsible for our Group’s corporate social responsibility activities. He graduated from Deakin University, Australia with a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance and Marketing in April 2009.

Upon graduation in 2009, he joined our Group as Group Managing Director to assist Datuk Seri Chiau Beng Teik in transforming our Group from a family owned business to a professionally-run corporation.

His vision is to grow our Group into a major player in the building materials industry and under his leadership together with the help of a team of professionals recruited by him, he diversified our Group’s building materials distribution business by moving upstream into manufacturing of building materials products. He was instrumental in our successful transformation from merely distribution of building materials into an integrated building materials provider. He contributed to the rapid growth of our Group’s annual revenue, which in 2011 exceeded a billion Ringgit Malaysia, making us one of the major building materials traders in Malaysia. Whilst expanding the business, he also played an instrumental role in the establishment of proper procedures, systems and controls for all the business units to ensure proper corporate governance as the business grows.

He was the winner of the EY Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year 2017 and was also awarded the 2017 EY Entrepreneur of the Year, breaking the 16 years’ history of EY Entrepreneur Award Malaysia as the youngest country winner at age 33.

Mr Chiau is presently the Chairman of Remuneration Committee of the Company.

He is the son of Datuk Seri Chiau Beng Teik, the Deputy Group Executive Chairman and a major shareholder of the Company, and Datin Seri Wong Mee Leng, a major shareholder of the Company. He also sits on the Board of Chin Hin Group Property Berhad and Solarvest Holdings Berhad. He has no conflict of interest with the Company other than those disclosed in the Company’s Circular to Shareholders dated 16 June 2020 and has not committed any offences within the past five (5) years other than traffic offences, if any.