OUR TEAM
Anthony Joseph Skelchy
Partner, Assurance
•Founding Partner of Skelchy Su Lim & Associates.
•Chartered Accountant with the Malaysian Institute of Accountants, and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales.
•Member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Singapore (CPS(S)), Institute of Taxation (ATI), and Institute of Co-operative Auditors (FICA)
•Vice-President & Treasurer of the National Cancer Society.
•Former council member of Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants (MICPA)
•Former secretary to the Capital Issues Committee.
•Entered service with Bank Negara Malaysia for over 10 years.
Vincent Chew
Partner, Recovery and Corporate Finance
•A Chartered Accountant with the Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA), New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants, and CPA with the Khmer Institute of Certified Public Accountants & Auditors (KICPAA)
•Previous Head of BDO Capital Consultants Malaysia, and Asia Pacific head of corporate finance
•Previous Head of Corporate Finance for Schroders Malaysia and Perdana Merchant Bankers, Malaysia
•Presently serving as director and Chairman of Audit Committee of the Country Heights Group
•Attached with Ernst Young Melbourne Australia and Malaysia in his career since the 80s, with comprehensive experience and expertise in insolvency and corporate rescue, audits, due diligences, and specialized advisory, especially in respect of Australian businesses investing in Asia and vice versa, including assisting Asian Companies to list on the Australian Stock Exchange
•Track record of success for several merger and acquisition transactions, various restructuring exercise for initial public offers.
Loh Chye Teik
Partner, Assurance
•A Chartered Accountant with the MIA
•Fellow member of the Chartered Tax Institute of Malaysia.
•Graduate with a Bachelor (Honours) of Accounting degree from the University of Malaya.
•Former Managing Partner of Parker Randall Loh, and his own accounting/auditing firm known as Tan & Loh, Chartered Accountants. He has extensive experience in audit, corporate strategy, business development, financial and tax planning, spanning from multi-national companies, manufacturing companies, property development, construction and trading companies
•Former Councillor and Audit Committee member of the Municipal Council of Pulau Pinang (“MPPP”).
•Acted as Director for few public listed companies.
Brian Wong
Partner, Assurance and Business Risks
•A Chartered Accountant with the MIA, a Fellow with CPA Australia, and a registered auditor with KICPAA.
•Certified Financial Planner with the Financial Planning Association of Malaysia.
•PKF International Governance Risk & Compliance group executive committee member
•Director of a technology based company listed on Bursa Malaysia Securities and director and audit committee chairman of a specialist steel engineering company listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange.
•Head of Corporate Affairs with a public listed company for 4 years, and actively involved in a wide array of corporate, legal, financial, tax, internal audit, IT, operations and administration.
•Attached with KPMG Peat Marwick in 1994, with involvement in statutory and non-statutory audits, due diligences, and specialized advisory.
•Australian graduate with a Bachelor of Commerce degree (Accounting & Finance) from the University of Western Australia.
David Chuah
Partner, Assurance
•A fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and a Chartered Accountant with MIA.
•Began his career with Arthur Andersen where he was involved in the audit and corporate exercises of major public-listed companies, and consulting works with Andersen Consulting.
•Carries with him commercial experience having acted as Financial Controller for GE Engine Services Malaysia, and CFO of a furniture manufacturer corporation listed on Bursa Malaysia.
•His practice career has involved him as head of an audit unit in Horwath, where he acted as team lead on assurance related assignments of public listed companies and large SMEs covering a wide range of industries, initial public offering exercises, technical and training matters and other special assignments.
•Has been called on to conduct seminars on accounting standards for external clients as well as internal trainings on audit methodology and accounting standards.
•A member of the ACCA FRS Committee and has co-written a book on Private Entity Reporting Standards in Malaysia.
Sharinah Datuk Hj MD Iqbal
Director, Assurance
•A member of the ACCA and MIA
•Obtained her initial training with PricewaterhouseCoopers and has been involved in lecturing in accounting and auditing subjects in various colleges
•Her audit experiences includes wide range of companies engaged in oil and gas, gaming, power generation, plantation, information technology, telecommunication, construction, manufacturing, logistics, retail trading and services
•Graduated with Bachelor degree in Science majoring in Accounting and Finance from the University of London.
•Currently pursuing her Masters in Forensic Accounting and Financial Criminology with University Teknologi Mara.
Chau Man Kit
Partner, Assurance
•A Chartered Accountant with the MIA, and MICPA
•Member of the Chartered Tax Institute of Malaysia (CTIM)
•Chairman of PKF Asia Pacific Professional Standards Committee and a member (APPSC) of PKF International Professional Standards Committee (IPSC)
•Founding Partner of his own auditing firm, CMK, Chartered Accountants
•With KPMG and Horwath previously, has more than 20 years of practice experience involving audit, tax planning, company secretarial and management consultancy assignments for various clients from a wide array of industries which include plantation, property development, manufacturing, construction, transportation and logistic, timber and various services
•Has also acted as auditor for several government related agencies in East Malaysia and undertaken various special assignments, include corporate exercise involving floatation of shares, bonus and right issue for public listed company review of profit and cash flow forecasts, due diligent and other review assignments
•Acted as an expert witness and undertaken assessment of damages by the High Court of Malaya, Sabah, in relation to a claim of damages approximately RM90 million.
Ramli Mohamed
Partner, Assurance
•Chartered Accountant with the Malaysian Institute of Accountants, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales, the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants, a Fellow of CPA Australia and a Fellow of the Association of Chartered and Certified Practising Accountants, and a Fellow of the Malaysian Institute of Taxation.
•Over 35 years of vast professional exposure through attachments with Delloite Touche Tomatsu, Arthur Young (predecessor to Ernst & Young) and various other accounting practices in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Malaysia.
•Auditor of various government and government-linked corporations and agencies and non-profit organizations in addition to commercial enterprises.
•Currently a divisional Council Member of CPA Malaysia, and has previously held positions as Council Member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants, and member of the EXCO of the Malay Chamber of Commerce Malaysia and Malaysian Chamber of Islamic Business.
•Graduated with a Bachelors of Business (majoring in Accounting and Computer Science) from the Southern Queensland University Australia and holds an MBA from Leicester University UK.
Manharlal Bhaichand Gathani
Director, Taxation
•Fellow member of the Malaysian Institute of Taxation.
•Former Tax Commissioner of the Inland Revenue Board in Sabah, Malaysia until 1978.
•Long & celebrated civil service career with the IRB of Malaysia, and awarded with title of “ADSK” by the Yang Di Pertua Sabah.
•A reputable and well regarded tax practitioner in industry.
•Adjunct Professor with Universiti Tun Abdul Razak
•Graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Malaya .
Dawin Tang
Partner, Recovery & Corporate Finance
•A qualified advocate and solicitor, having practised law with Messrs Skrine before joining BDO Capital Consultants Sdn Bhd (BDOCC), the corporate finance and insolvency division of BDO Binder.
•Extensive experience in legal and corporate finance and insolvency advisory assignments with clients, which include multi-national corporations, public listed and owner-managed corporations in banking, trading, manufacturing, plantations, construction and property development.
•Involved in numerous corporate advisory assignments in Thailand and Vietnam, in collaboration with BDO International's member firms in these countries.
•Australian graduate with a Bachelor of Commerce degree (Accounting & Finance) and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Western Australia.
Marilyn Ngu
Director, Assurance
•A Fellow of the ACCA and a Chartered Accountant with the MIA.
•Has gained significant practice experience in her previous attachment with Horwath and commercial exposure as an accountant with a public listed company in Malaysia.
•Has undertaken various audit assignments including audit and reporting work for public listed companies and small and medium sized entities, from various industries such as manufacturing, trading, construction, logistic, timber and other service industries.
•Graduated with Master of Arts in Political Economy (Social Science) from University of Glasgow (UK).
Lau Chin Chin
Director, Taxation
•Chartered Accountant with the Malaysian Institute of Accountant and member of CTIM and CPA Australia.
•Over 13 years of working experience in audit, tax compliance, tax advisory /planning and has experienced in assisting clients in various tax audit and investigation as well as tax appeal in Special Commissioners.
•Previously attached with PricewaterhouseCoopers specializing in tax defense and dispute resolution and tax advisory jobs.
•Australian graduate with a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Southern Queensland.