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Datuk Tony Tiah Thee Kian
Non-Independent Non-Executive Chairman
Yg Bhg Datuk Tiah Thee Kian holds a Bachelor of Science from University of Malaya and a Master in Business Management from Asian Institute of Management, Philippines.
He started his career as a manager of Malaysian International Merchant Bankers Bhd from year 1972 to year 1978. He then joined Credit Leasing Corporation Sdn Bhd as an Executive Director from year 1978 to 1987. He joined Othman & Ng Sdn Bhd as a General Manager in September 1987. In January 1988, he initiated the change of name of Othman & Ng Sdn Bhd to TA Securities Berhad to reflect the change of management. Subsequently, he was appointed as its Managing Director in November 1988 and Executive Chairman in July 1995.
He is the substantial shareholder and co-founder of TA Enterprise Berhad. In 1990, he initiated the public listing of the stockbroking business of TA Securities Sdn Bhd under TA Enterprise Berhad and took over the helm as the Executive Chairman and Managing Director of TA Enterprise Berhad in October 1990, a position that he held till May 2002. On 16 August 2007, he resumed his position as the Executive Chairman of TA Enterprise Berhad and is primarily responsible for the overall direction of TA Enterprise Berhad. He was then re-designated as the Non-Independent Non-Executive Chairman of TA Enterprise Berhad on 5 October 2009, a position he holds to-date. He also sits on the Board of TA Global Berhad, a public listed company and a number of companies within the TA Global Berhad Group.
He is the visionary leader of TA Enterprise Berhad Group. Armed with a vision in developing a Malaysian ‘one-stop supermarket’ of financial products and services, he propelled TA Enterprise Berhad’s extraordinary growth in retail broking and in a short period of 5 years, TA Enterprise Berhad’s turnover grew to RM1.2 billion in 1995 and became one of the largest retail broker in Malaysia.
In the mid-nineties, he embarked TA Enterprise Berhad Group into property development and was instrumental in amassing the strategic land banks and investment properties of TA Enterprise Berhad. He has spent a major portion of his time in nurturing, developing and transforming the property development and property investments activities of TA Enterprise Berhad and was instrumental in the demerger of the financial services and property business of TA Enterprise Berhad to improve the execution capacity of the property business in pursuing its strategies in a more focused way.
Under the stewardship and leadership of Yg Bhg Datuk Tiah, TA Group became a dynamic and diversified conglomerate with businesses in stockbroking, asset and unit trust management, futures and derivatives trading, credit lending, hotel operations, property development, property management and property investments spread over Malaysia, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong and China.
Datuk Tony Tiah Thee Kian
Datin Alicia Tiah
Dato’ Sri Mohamed Bin Abid
Puan Zainab Binti Ahmad
Mr. Yaw Chun Soon
Mr. Peter U Chin Wei
Mr. Jory Leong Kam Weng
Mr. Christopher Koh Swee Kiat
Pn. Rahmah Binti Mahmood
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