About Us

Incorporated in 2003, Ge-Shen Group is focused in the South-East Asian region specialising in design, development and technology-driven manufacturing. We are building ourselves to be leader in the precision components segment, providing superior capabilities in innovative mould design, fabrication, stamping, injection moulding, surface finishing and sub-assembly. We serve many business sectors including automotive, medical devices & consumables, industrial applications, consumer electronics, office automation, home appliances and aerospace. We aim to partner with customers, providing a one-stop manufacturing solution and accelerating product speed to market.

In order to serve our customers better and remain competitive, Ge-Shen Group continually invests in technical capabilities, automation, infrastructure and staff. We also look to offering services in more locations around the world, broadening our geographical reach.

Headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. Ge-Shen Group has a combined workforce of over 1,500 staff across 4 factories located in Malaysia and Vietnam and 1 global sales location in Singapore. Ge-Shen Corporation Berhad is listed on the main market of Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad (“Bursa Securities”).

Mission, Vision and Sustainability

OBJECTIVE / MISSION: GROWING TOGETHER

Our priority is to provide innovative and uncompromising quality services to our clients. We are committed to develop human capital and career development opportunities for our people. Ge-Shen Group strives to deliver long term sustainable value-creation for the community and stakeholders of the company.

OUR PHILOSOPHY

We are a company that looks forward and embraces change, redesigning ourselves to face tomorrow’s big issues. Our core principals of Integrity, Transparency, Ownership, Respect and Speed continues to guide our growth and maintain our success. We focus on bringing our customers’ ideas to life. Facing highly demanding environments, well-engineered manufacturing solutions are critical for smooth delivery of products to the marketplace.

With our engineering expertise, GS CORP aims to deliver a hassle-free uncompromised experience, letting our customers focus on designing and selling their products.

Our vision is to be a global components manufacturer that provides the best customer experience.

SUSTAINABILITY

We believe that the Environment, Social and Governance ‘ESG’ aspects of our business are crucial to our success. We strive to create long term value for our customers, employees, communities and shareholders through a careful process driven approach to ESG.

ENVIRONMENT

We believe in the principles of environmental stewardship and strictly enforce environmental rules and regulations. We manufacture economically through an internal policy of reducing, reusing and recycling. We are always looking at ways of reducing the consumption of materials and energy.

GOVERNANCE

Good governance is the balance of management executives and an experienced, independent board to ensure that the interests of shareholders and stakeholder are upheld. We remain focused on sustainable growth through sound management decisions.

Our Culture

Integrity

Maintain high levels of personal and professional values in business interactions and decisions

Transparency

Uphold honesty and openness without compromising the truth to enable better analysis and decision making

Ownership

Being responsible and accountable for actions, products, services, decisions and policies made

Respect

Respect for the individuals we interact with and the environment that we operate in (internally and externally) and committing to being responsible in all our actions

Speed

Accelerating value creation in fulfilling customers’ requirements and business goal

Group of Companies

GE-SHEN CORPORATION

Leadership

Chan Choong Kong

CHAN CHOONG KONGMalaysian,
(Managing Director)

Mr. Chan Choong Kong was appointed to the Board on 23 April 2015 as an Executive Director. On 9 September 2015, he was appointed as Joint Managing Director and was subsequently redesignated as Managing Director on 29 February 2016. He is a member of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee of the Company. Effective 11 August 2016, he was appointed as a member of the Employees’ Share Options Scheme Committee. Mr. Chan obtained his BA in Economics from Trinity College, Cambridge University, England in 1984. He started his career in First National Bank of Boston, Hong Kong from 1984 to 1985 in the Shipping and International Banking division.

Subsequently, he joined Wardley Investment Services (Hong Kong) Ltd. (presently known as HSBC Asset Management) in 1985, and his last position in HSBC Asset Management when he left in 1992 was Director and Chief Regional Strategist (Asia ex Japan markets). In 1993, he established the Asian business of TCW Asia Limited, a US based asset management company where he was responsible for introducing Asian and Emerging markets capability to US pension funds. In 1996, he left Hong Kong and returned to Malaysia to establish Gadek Asset Management where he built the company into a full fledge asset management company with multi asset class capabilities. Gadek Asset Management was later sold to Phileo Allied Bank and continued to manage the business as Managing Director until 1999. In 1999, he co-founded Pan Asia Capital Management Ltd, a pan Asia private equity firm that has offices in Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Seoul and Bangkok. He was the Co-Principal and Director of the firm until 2006. At the same time in 2002, he co-founded Sakura Management Limited (based in Hong Kong), a private equity business that focused on Japanese real estate. He has since exited these businesses to concentrate on his Malaysian based activities. He founded Opus Asset Management Sdn. Bhd. in 2006. Presently, Mr. Chan is the non-executive chairman and principal shareholder of an asset management company in Malaysia that specialises in the management of fixed income assets; he is also an adviser to a Malaysian based private equity management company. Aside from these, he is also a director of several other private companies but not of any public listed companies either in Malaysia nor elsewhere. He has no conflict of interest with the Company and neither has he been convicted of any offence within the past 5 years (other than traffic offences, if any), nor any public section or penalty imposed by regularoty bodies during the financial year.

Hoy Ping Chew

CHEW HOY PINGMalaysian,
(Independent Non-Executive
Chairman)

Mr. Chew Hoy Ping was appointed to the Board on 28 June 2017. He is a member of both the Nomination and Remuneration Committee and the Audit and Risk Management Committee. He was subsequently appointed as the Independent Non-Executive Chairman of the Company, Chairman of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee and also Chairman of the Employees’ Share Option Scheme Committee on 28 May 2021. He is a member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA) and the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants (MICPA).

Mr. Chew had a professional career with Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) spanning 30 years, including 15 years as a partner of the firm. Whilst at PwC, he was involved in a diverse range of professional services including auditing, corporate finance and business recovery. He held several leadership roles in PwC including Asia Pacific Chairman of Financial Advisory Services, Risk Management & Independence Leader, Deputy Chairman of the Governance Board, and a member of the Country Management Team. He also served work experiences with PwC Houston, Texas (1982-1984) and Bank Negara Malaysia (1986-1988).

Mr. Chew is currently an Independent Non-Executive Director of Mulpha International Berhad, Carlsberg Brewery Malaysia Berhad and Mudajaya Group Berhad where he is also the chair of their respective Audit Committees. He does not have any family relationships with any member of the Board or major shareholder of the Company. He does not have any conflict of interest with the Company and neither has he been convicted of any offence within the past 5 years (other than traffic offences, if any), nor any public sanction or penalty imposed by regulatory bodies during the financial year.

Tee Boon Hin

TEE BOON HINMalaysian,
(Independent Non-Executive
Director)

Mr. Tee Boon Hin was appointed to the Board on 20 April 2009. He was appointed as the Chairman of the Audit Committee on 31 May 2013. He is also a member of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee of the Company. Mr. Tee is a Chartered Accountant in public practice for over 20 years. He is currently in public practice in Johor Bahru. Mr. Tee graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand in 1985. He is a member of the Chartered Accountants of Australia and New Zealand, an associate member of the Governance New Zealand Incorporated, a Chartered Accountant with the Malaysian Institute of Accountants and a fellow member of the Chartered Tax Institute of Malaysia. Mr. Tee does not hold directorships in other public companies, and he does not have any family relationships with any member of the Board or major shareholder of the Company. He does not have any conflict of interest with the Company and neither has he been convicted of any offence within the past 5 years (other than traffic offences, if any), nor any public section or penalty imposed by regularoty bodies during the financial year.

Louis Lau Puong Kiet

Louis Lau Puong KietMalaysian,
(Executive Director)

Mr. Louis Lau was appointed to the Board on 08 November 2018. He is also a member of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee and Audit Committee of the Company. Mr. Louis graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce from University of Western Australia in 2007. He joined CIMB Investment Bank Berhad in 2008 as a Management Trainee and was attached in CIMB Private Equity & Venture Capital from 2009 until 2012. He was with CMS Opus Private Equity from 2012 to 2015. He joined Ge-Shen Group in April 2015 as Head of Group Strategy & Monitoring team and currently sits on various subsidiary Board.

Mr. Louis does not have any family relationships with any member of the Board or major shareholder of the Company. He does not have any conflict of interest with the Company and neither has he been convicted of any offence within the past 5 years (other than traffic offences, if any), nor any public section or penalty imposed by regulatory bodies during the financial year.

Suresh Thirugnanam

SURESH THIRUGNANAMMalaysian,
(Independent Non-Executive
Director

Mr. Suresh Thirugnanam was appointed to the Board on 15 April 2021. Mr. Suresh graduated with a Bachelor and Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 1989.

He started his career in 1988 with Digital Equipment Corporation, Massachusetts and later on joined MaxOptix Corp, California in 1992. In 1993, he moved back to Malaysia to join Motorola Malaysia for a year before joining Maxis in 1994 to lead the network operations for Maxis mobile, data and fixed-line businesses. In 2000, he became the Chief Operating Officer (“COO”) of JobStreet. In November 2014, SEEK acquired JobStreet and merged it with jobsDB to create SEEK Asia. He then joined SEEK Asia as the COO. In 2016, he became the Chief Executive Officer of SEEK Asia.

After retirement, he joined HSBC Bank Malaysia Berhad as a Director of Strategic Business Development, South Region for a year. Currently, Encik Sa’adon is engaged in some consultancy and advisory assignments with a few private and listed corporations.

Mr. Suresh does not hold directorships in other public companies and listed issuers. He does not have any family relationships with any member of the Board or major shareholder of the Company. He does not have any conflict of interest with the Company and neither has he been convicted of any offence within the past 5 years (other than traffic offences, if any), nor any public section or penalty imposed by regulatory bodies during the financial year.

Ian Chan Tze Liang

Ian ChanMalaysian,
(Senior Vice President)

Ian Chan was graduated with a Bsc in Economics and Finance from University of Bristol in 2012. He has experience working as an investment manager for a boutique London based investment fund covering UK wide assets. He joined Ge-Shen Group in April 2015 as a Vice President and now he is the Senior Vice President of Research & Development. He is also holding the directorship of GS Lapis Labs and Ezec Technology.

Tan Yee Cheong

YC TanMalaysian,
(Senior Vice President)

YC Tan was graduated with a Master Degree in Business and Administration from National University of Malaysia in 2010. He has more than 10 years experiences in FMCG and Oil & Gas Industry as Manufacturing Cost Controller. He was previously attached with multinational company such as JTI, Nestle & Aker Solutions. He joined Ge-Shen Group in Nov 2015 as a Vice President and now he is holding position as Senior Vice President of Business Development & Costing.

Andrew Teoh

Andrew Teoh Chee WooiMalaysian,
(Senior Vice President)

Andrew Teoh was graduated with a Bachelor Degree of Mechanical in Manufacturing from University of Technology Malaysia in 2010. Before joining Ge-Shen Group, he built his career in Hanoi, Vietnam; where he focused on Quality Management & Manufacturing Operation. He joined Ge-Shen Group in May 2016 as a Vice President and now he is holding position as Senior Vice President of Operational Improvement.

Gary Har Yeow Cheong

Har Yeow Cheong Malaysian,
(Managing Director,
Metal Division)

Har Yeow Cheong was graduated with a MBA from Nottinghamshire Of New University in 2014. He joined Stamping Industries Pte. Ltd. in 1988 and moved on to Stamping Technology Pte. Ltd. in 1989 until 1993. He later joined GP Manufacturing Pte. Ltd. in 1993 until 1998. He founded Demand Options Sdn. Bhd. in 1997.

Sam Mok Wai Sum

Mok Wai SumMalaysian,
(Operation Director,
Metal Division)

Mok Wai Sum was graduated from Institute of Technical Education Singapore in 1993. He joined Stamping Industries Pte. Ltd. in 1988 and moved on to Stamping Technology Pte. Ltd. in 1989 until 1993. He later joined GP Manufacturing Pte. Ltd. in 1993 before leaving the company in 1998. He founded Demand Options Sdn. Bhd. in 1997.

Edwin Lim

Edwin Lim Ee TeowSingaporean,
(Director, Metal Division)

Edwin Lim was graduated from Institute of Technical Education Singapore in 1993. He has more than 27 years of experience in various metal stamping and fabrication company. He founded Demand Options Sdn. Bhd. in 1997.

Takeo Yamamoto

Takeo YamamotoJapanese,
(Marketing Director)

Takeo Yamamoto was graduated with Bachelor of Engineering from Kyoto Institute of Technology in 1964. He worked in various plastic injection moulding company for 38 years before he joined Ge-Shen Group in 2004 with the title of Marketing Director.