Directors' Profiles

Andrew Smith - Executive Chairman

Mr Smith has spent his working career in financial services in the Asia Pacific region. Over the past 10 years he has been Chief Executive of Intersuisse Limited, and Executive Director of Phillip Asset Management Ltd, the funds management arm of the Intersuisse Group.

The Intersuisse Group comprises three businesses: a stock broking business, focussing on both retail investment advisory services and institutional broking; an investment banking and corporate advisory business, with an emphasis in the small to mid cap ASX listed companies; and a funds management business with managed funds in resources, life sciences and private equity.

He was formerly the Chairman of the Sedgwick Group in the Asia Pacific and Australia from 1990 to 1999. Sedgwick had operations in 15 countries in the Asia Pacific focussed on Risk Management, Insurance Broking and Superannuation Administration and Employee Benefits consulting.

Kit Foo Chye - Managing Director

Mr Chye is an accountant by profession with more than 15 years experience in the management and administration of publicly listed companies in Malaysia and Australia. Mr Chye is a director of Synergy Metals Limited, Rocklands Richfield Limited, Voltage IP Limited and Hudson Resources Limited, all of which are listed on the ASX.

Mr Chye specialises in advising both public and private companies on acquisitions, mergers, capital raisings and balance sheet restructurings. He has managed a significant number of initial public offerings and secondary market capital raisings for public and private companies. His expertise lies in the restructuring and financing of entities, including the preparation of prospectuses and other requirements for listings on the Bursa Malaysia (formerly called the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange) as well as on ASX.

Woon Ooi Jin - Non-executive Director

Mr Woon has been a chartered accountant in Malaysia since 1989 and has held positions as a financial controller with international firms for more than 10 years. Mr Woon has been the financial controller for Amplefield Limited, a publicly listed company on the Singapore Stock Exchange, since 1999. He was later appointed as a director of Amplefield Limited in 2010.

Mr Woon has previously held a number of managerial and financial positions. From 1990 to 1991, Mr Woon served as Regional Accountant and Branch Manager of Hong Leong Finance Berhad. He was then appointed Finance Manager of Textile Corporation Malaysia Sdn Bhd, a major Malaysian textile manufacturer, from 1992 to 1993. From 1994, he held the post of Group Finance Manager and subsequently Financial Controller for CAM Precision Components (Johor) Sdn Bhd.

Early in his career from 1984 to 1989, Mr Woon served as senior audit executive at Pricewaterhouse Coopers.

C. N. Lee Non-Executive Director

Mr. Lee graduated from Loughborough University of Technology, United Kingdom in 1985 with an honours degree in Production Engineering and Management. He proceeded to set up Pan-Merchant Industries Sdn Bhd in 1986, which has since developed into a successful manufacturing company with operations based in Malaysia. Mr. Lee currently sits on the Board of Pan-Merchant and its subsidiaries, including Pan-Merchant Industries Technology Sdn Bhd. More recently, Mr. Lee has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of ZH Energy Co. Ltd., a company registered in Hong Kong. Mr. Lee further holds directorships in other companies such as Zirrus Corporation (British Virgin Islands).

Sophie Karzis - Company Secretary

Ms Karzis is a member of the Law Institute of Victoria and of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries. She is a practising lawyer with over a decade of experience as a commercial lawyer, and company secretary and in-house counsel for a number of private and public companies.

Ms Karzis is currently the company secretary of a number of listed and unlisted entities including Adacel Technologies Limited (ASX: ADA), Beyond Sportswear International Limited (ASX: BSI), Gale Pacific Limited (ASX: GAP), Midway Limited (public unlisted) and TAFMO Limited (public unlisted).

Ms Karzis holds a Bachelor of Jurisprudence and a Bachelor of Laws.

Dato Tan Tiong Hong - Former Executive Chairman

The late Dato Tan was the Executive Chairman of Zheng He Global Capital Ltd until his death in March 2011.

Dato Tan was an economic adviser to the Jilin Provincial Government, People's Republic of China and the Chairman of the Association of Business Executives (ABE) in the United Kingdom, a post he held since 2000. He was also the founding Chairman of the International Society of Business Administrators (ISBA) in the United Kingdom.

Dato Tan served as a Member of the Malaysian Parliament from 1978 to 1986 during which time he held the posts of Deputy Minister of Education, Deputy Minister of Finance and Deputy Minister in the Malaysian Prime Minister's Office. He was also Senior Associate Member at St Antony's College, Oxford University for six years.

The Directors and staff of Zheng He Global Capital Ltd extend their condolences to Dato Tan’s family on his passing.