Board of Directors

Datuk Kenny Liew is the founder of our Group and the Chief Executive Director. He was appointed to our Board on 27 March 2018. He is responsible for the overall management of our Group’s operations, strategic planning and development of our business strategies and direction. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Civil Engineering in 1983, a Master in Science (Operational Research) in 1985 and a Master in Business Administration in 1986, with all three qualifications from the University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom.

Soon after his graduation in 1986, he started his early career as a marketing assistance in Yee Lee Trading Co. Sdn Bhd in 1986 where he was responsible in promoting the consumer products of the company to retailers. In 1988 he was given the opportunity to grow and develop the new division of the Yee Lee Oils Industries Bhd’s glove manufacturing entity, Cranberry (M) Sdn Bhd. During that period, he was responsible for promoting latex exam gloves to the healthcare and medical industries worldwide especially the USA, Canada and the European gloves Markets. A year later, he was based in San Francisco, USA as Vice President, tasked to set up the group’s office and warehouses in San Francisco, New Jersey and Houston, establish brandname for the group’s proprietary latex exam gloves named “Cranberry” and aggressively market “Cranberry” gloves in the USA via international events, conferences, products launch and exhibitions under the entity Malaytex USA, Inc, where he stayed for about four (4) years.

He returned to Malaysia in 1993 and joined Seal Polymer Industries Sdn Bhd as a Marketing Manager to oversee the international trade of exam gloves for that company and subsequently joined Sime Darby Plantations Sdn Bhd (Sime Latex Division) in 1994, and subsequently SJ Medical Products (M) Sdn Bhd in 1995. He was the Marketing Manager at both Sime Latex and SJ Medical Products (M) Sdn Bhd and was tasked to develop and explore new markets for gloves for these companies. He was actively involved in promoting products, services or brands and oversees all marketing and business development activities of these companies.

In 1997, he ventured into the property development sector and joined Tiaraview Sdn Bhd as an Assistant Project Manager. He became part of the team which developed housing projects for the company. During his time as an Assistant Project Manager, he was involved in oversee the property development projects by ensuring appropriate services are delivered through technical, engineering, project controls and commercial support function. In the second half of 1999, he established a partnership in glove manufacturing business named Flexitech Sdn Bhd (“Flexitech”), manufacturing high premium specialty cleanroom gloves for usage in the semi-conductor, pharmaceutical and medical sectors. He was the Marketing Director responsible in overseeing the domestic and international markets especially the USA, European countries, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan and Philippines for the company. Flexitech was subsequently listed in Singapore under it holding company, called Medi-Flex Limited in 2004.

He left Flexitech in 2007 to join Hup Lek Engineering & Trading Sdn Bhd, a gloves machine fabricator as the company’s Marketing Manager with the responsibility to promote its gloves machines for domestic gloves factories. In 2010, he set up our first TOPVISION Eye Specialist Centre in Banting, Selangor as he views that significant reforms are needed in the medical eye care industry where the complicated eye surgeries such as retinal detachment can be carried out under day care arrangement. Under his leadership, our Group’s centres expanded to current five (5) centres with a fifth centre opened in the May 2018. From 2010 until 2015, he also served as the General Manager at HL Rubber Industries Sdn Bhd on a part time basis to help the company develop its gloves business.

Dr. Peter Chong is our Medical Doctor as well as an Executive Director. He was appointed to our Board on 27 March 2018. Dr. Peter graduated from University of Malaya with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery in 2001.

He developed a strong interest in ophthalmology and was awarded a certification by the International Council of Ophthalmology, United Kingdom in May 2005.

He joined TOPVISION Eye Specialist Centre, Banting in 2010 as our first Consultant Ophthalmologist and Eye Surgeon in our Banting centre. 

Besides providing medical eye care consultation and carrying out treatment and surgical procedures, Dr. Peter is also involved in the management of clinical and operational matters of our Group’s eye specialist centres, supervising resident doctors and other practitioners in TOPVISION Group, setting up of new centres as well as recruitment of qualified doctors with the appropriate skills and experience to join the Group.

He is a registered medical practitioner with the Malaysian Medical Council since 2001, and the National Specialist Registry since 2012. He is also an ordinary member of the Academy of Medicine Malaysia and a lifetime member of the Malaysian Society of Ophthalmology since 2010.

Lee Yit Chin is an Independent Non-Executive Director. She was appointed to our Board on 12 June 2018. Ms. Lee is a Barrister-at-Law of the Middle Temple and was admitted to the Malaysian Bar on 14 October 1994.

She studied in the chamber with Messrs Raja Elena Siew Ang & Tan, Advocates and Solicitors, before she was called to the Bar. Thereafter she practiced law as a legal assistant for Messrs Michael Chen & Lee, Advocates and Solicitors (now dissolved) from 1994 to 1995 and for Messrs J.M. Chong Vincent Chee & Co, Advocates & Solicitors, from 1997 to 1999 and she subsequently joined Messrs Michael Chen, Gan, Muzafar & Azwar, Advocates and Solicitors, as legal assistant until July 2001.

In August 2001, she joined Messrs Joseph Ting & Co as a partner at the Puchong office from July 2001 till November 2002. In order to serve her clients who are located in city centre of Kuala Lumpur better, she set up an office in Kuala Lumpur on 1 December 2002 under the same firm name and running the Kuala Lumpur office as the administrative partner until November 2005.

In December 2005, Ms. Lee set up her own law firm under the name of Messrs Yvonne Lee & Co where she practices until today.

Throughout her tenure as a practicing advocate and solicitor, she has the opportunity to provide a wide range of services to her clients including commercial work and conveyancing matters. She has been handling banking, conveyancing and commercial matters. She is familiar with the preparation of all types of conveyancing agreements, documents and instruments and banking security documents for all classes of clients whether they are individuals, corporate or body unincorporated and for all types of properties be it residential commercial, industrial or retail. Apart from all area of law relating to property conveyance, Ms Lee is also conversant with legal intricacies of drafting various commercial contracts for a variety of commercial transactions. She has participated in many developer’s project launch and she is well versed with the process of conveyance of landed properties in Malaysia.