Foong Pek San, a Malaysian, aged 42, is the Head of Finance of our Group. In 1996, he obtained a Certificate in Accounting with Business Computing from Tunku Abdul Rahman College. In 2003, he was admitted as a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and the Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA).
Upon graduation from Tunku Abdul Rahman College, he began his career with Ernst & Young in 1999 as Senior Executive where his role was to lead teams over the audit field work and to compile industry information and financial risk analysis on medium to large companies. He later left Ernst & Young in 2003. Subsequently, he joined Alliance Merchant Bank Berhad (now known as Alliance Investment Bank Berhad) in 2003 as a Deputy Manager in Corporate Finance where he was responsible for corporate finance advisory until his resignation in 2006. Subsequently in 2007, he joined EPC Technology (M) Sdn Bhd / Kendall Court Mezzanine (Asia) Investment Managers Pte Ltd (“Kendall Court”) as Manager in the Finance Engineering Department where he was responsible for the deployment of expansion funds and direct reporting on financial initiatives to Kendall Court, as well as taking the role of treasury function and banker liaison officer until he left EPC Technology (M) Sdn Bhd / Kendall Court Mezzanine (Asia) Investment Managers Pte Ltd in 2008.
He later joined ACFL Advisory Sdn Bhd / ACFL Sdn Bhd in 2008 as an Executive Director in Corporate Finance & Corporate Transactions where he was responsible for the provision of corporate finance advisory services to clients. He left ACFL Advisory Sdn Bhd / ACFL Sdn Bhd in 2013. Thereafter, he joined Tropicana Corporation Berhad (“Tropicana”) in 2013 as the general manager of Corporate Finance, Compliance & Corporate Transactions. His responsibilities included corporate finance/regulatory compliance responsibilities, group investor relations responsibilities and business development and special projects. He left Tropicana in June 2017.
He joined Mattan Engineering in July 2017 as Chief Financial Officer and was redesignated as the Head of Finance on 1 January 2018, where he assumes primary day-to-day responsibility for planning, implementing, managing and controlling all financial-related activities of the company.