Board of Directors

DATUK LIM CHAI BENG, male, age 60, Malaysian, was appointed to the Board on 3 February 1999.

He is one of the founders of C.B. Industrial Product Sdn. Bhd. and also the Managing Director of this subsidiary company, a position he holds until today.

He is also the Managing Director of the subsidiary companies, Modipalm Engineering Sdn. Bhd. and PalmitEco Engineering Sdn. Bhd. He has vast experience in the engineering industry. He is the driving force behind the Group’s growth and responsible for the overall management and formulation of the Group’s strategic plans and policies. He possesses strong inter-personal and management skills, which inculcates a good rapport with the highly motivated and dedicated workforce.

On 28 July 2009, Datuk Lim was awarded the Outstanding Entrepreneurship Award 2009 by Enterprise Asia.

Y.D.M. TENGKU DATO’ ARDY ESFANDIARI BIN TENGKU ABDUL HAMID SHAH ALHAJ TENGKU SERI PADUKA SHAHBANDAR (SELANGOR), male, age 59, Malaysian, was appointed to the Board on 3 February 1999.

He is an established business entrepreneur with extensive networking and great public relations skills. He was previously the Director/Project Director of Worldwide Holdings Berhad for more than 8 years and was involved in the restructuring exercise of the Company in the year 1990.

He was appointed as a director of C.B. Industrial Product Sdn. Bhd. in 1994 and is responsible for the public affairs and government liaison of this subsidiary company. He is also the Managing Director of the subsidiary company, AVP Engineering (M) Sdn. Bhd., principally involved in the retrofitting of special purpose vehicles.

He was bestowed with the Darjah Kebesaran Dato’- Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah (D.S.I.S.) award in conjunction with the 67th birthday of the Sultan of Selangor.

MAK CHEE MENG, male, age 64, Malaysian, was appointed to the Board on 3 February 1999.

Prior to joining C.B. Industrial Product Sdn. Bhd. in 1994, he was the Manager (Industrial Division) from 1982 to 1989 for Centrimax Engineering Sdn. Bhd., a company principally involved in the supply of palm oil mill equipment and related services, where he was responsible for the sales and marketing division. He is the founder of AV-Ecopalms Sdn. Bhd. and Avecpalm Marketing Resources Sdn. Bhd. He is instrumental in developing the export market in the West African countries, Papua New Guinea and the South American tropical belt countries.

From 2010 to 2012, he was appointed as the Plantation Director of Sachiew Plantations Sdn. Bhd. to oversee the operations of Sachiew Plantations Sdn.
Bhd. and Empresa Estate Sdn. Bhd. and Palm Oil Milling. He is currently the Managing Director of the subsidiary company, AV-Ecopalms Sdn. Bhd., managing the green field development of 32,000 ha potential landbank for oil palm cultivation in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.

LIM CHAI HUAT, male, age 58, Malaysian, was appointed to the Board on 3 February 1999. He is a member of the Audit Committee and Nomination and Remuneration Committee.

He is one of the founders of C.B. Industrial Product Sdn. Bhd. He joined Chin Beng Engineering Works in 1980 as the Operations Manager. When Chin Beng Engineering Works was incorporated into a private limited company under its present name of C.B. Industrial Product Sdn. Bhd. in 1983, he was promoted to Production Manager due to his vast experience and track record in the manufacturing division. In 1985, he was further promoted to Project Director where he headed the project team and managed the Project Division e.g. construction of the plants in Telok Panglima Garang currently housed as Head Office of CBIPH Group. He is currently acts as an advisor for palm oil mill projects and the administration of the factory and Property Division.

He is the Managing Director of Freiberg (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. (“Freiberg”), a company which was granted a license from Australia to manufacture environmental office furniture and partitions. He is also a Director of Office 2 Go (M) Sdn. Bhd. and Freiberg Properties Private Limited Company which involved in trading of office furniture and properties leasing businesses.

WONG CHEE BENG, male, age 65, Malaysian, was appointed to the Board on 23 May 2002. He is the Chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee.

He is a member of the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants and a member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants. He also holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Brunel University, United Kingdom and is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP).

He has more than 30 years of experience in the areas of auditing, accounting, financial management, business entrepreneurship and company secretarial work.

DATUK MOHAMAD NAGEEB BIN AHMAD ABDUL WAHAB, male, age 64, Malaysian, was appointed to the Board on 19 March 2018. He is the Chairman of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee and a member of the Audit Committee.

Datuk Mohamad Nageeb holds a Diploma in Natural Rubber Processing and Applied Science (Rubber Research Institute of Malaysia).

He began his career with Kuala Lumpur Kepong Berhad in 1979 as Cadet Planter and was exposed to various crop mix such as cocoa, rubber and oil palm including processing facilities.

In 1992, he joined Kumpulan Guthrie Berhad Head Office as Manager, Estates Department overseeing the Rubber Processing & Strategic Management Unit. In 1996, he was seconded to an associate Company in Thailand whose primary business is in rubber processing and served there for 11 years in various capacities including as Managing Director from 2001. At the end of 2007, upon the merger of the 3 entities, Kumpulan Guthrie Berhad, Golden Hope Plantations Berhad and Sime Darby Berhad, he returned back to Kuala Lumpur to take up a new role in Sime Darby Plantation Berhad as Senior Vice President, Plantation Upstream, heading the Group, Rubber/Other Crops Operations and Mechanisation Unit as well as being involved in the Upstream rubber expansion plans of the Company. In January 2014, he was promoted as Senior Vice President 1 and assumed the role as Head, Upstream Malaysia, taking charge of all estates totaling 340,000 hectares, 34 oil mills and 2 rubber factories. He retires from Sime Darby Plantation Berhad in September 2017.

Presently, he is the Chief Executive of Malaysian Palm Oil Association (MPOA) and the Chairman of Felcra Berhad.

Throughout his long career span, he held various positions in the Industry, including Deputy President of Malaysian Agricultural Producers Association (MAPA), Member of the National Labour Advisory Council (NLAC) and Malaysia’s representative to the International Tripartite Rubber Council (ITRC) amongst others.

For his service to the Industry, he was conferred the Panglima Jasa Negara (PJN) by his Majesty Yang Di Pertuan Agong in 2017.

LIM ZEE PING, male, age 33, Malaysian, was appointed as an Alternate Director to Datuk Lim Chai Beng, the Managing Director of the Company, on 6 June 2014.

Mr Lim graduated from Monash University of Australia with a Bachelor of Engineering in the field of Mechanical Engineering. He has worked in Modipalm Engineering Sdn. Bhd. after his graduation since year 2010. Having spending his time at the production, he is currently involving in the sales & marketing department, where he oversees the overseas market such as Africa, Central America and Papua New Guinea.