LIANG GUO ZHAN is the founder and Executive Chairman of the Group. As Executive Chairman, he has played a pivotal role in the growth and expansion of our Group. He is currently responsible for the overall management, formulation and implementation of business strategies and investments of our Group. Prior to joining our Group, he was the director and general manager of Chaozhou Huafeng Refining Co., Ltd ("Huafeng Refining"). Prior to establishing Huafeng Refining, he was a director and the general manager of Chaozhou Huafeng (Group) Incorporation Ltd. ("Huafeng Incorporation") from 1997 to 2000, and the general manager of Chaozhou Huafeng (Group) Ltd ("Huafeng Group") from 1994 to 1997. Prior to 1994, he established Chaozhou City Anbu Foreign Investment Services Company in 1992 and a petrol station affiliated to Huafeng Group in Anbu Town, Chaozhou City in 1990.
He obtained a diploma in Business Management from the Beijing Society Academic Institute. He has also completed a corporate strategy and pricing management program conducted by the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business in January 2005. He is currently the Vice President of Guangdong Oil and Gas Association, President of Chaozhou Gas Industry Association. He was also recognised as one of The world's Top Ten Great Chaozhou Businessman in 2017.
ROSS YU LIMJOCO was appointed as Independent Non-executive Director of our Company on 22 April 2021.
Mr. Limjoco is the Managing Director of Anchorage Consulting Private Limited and TMS Capital Advisory Ltd as well as Technical Advisor to Shangyew Public Accounting Corporation. He has more than 25 years of commercial and audit experience both domestic and international markets where he led audit engagements in various companies, assisting companies with, inter alia, initial public offering, mergers and acquisitions, financial due diligence, corporate advisory & restructuring and valuation. His professional experience gained includes those from the Big 5 international accounting firms, mid-tier accounting firms and the commercial industry.
Mr Limjoco holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a major in accountancy from the Philippine School of Business Administration. He is a practising member of Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountant, member of Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountant, member of Certified Fraud Examiner and International Association of Certified Valuation Specialists. He is a Singapore Chartered Valuer and Appraiser.
ZHANG JINMING was appointed on 22 April 2021 as Executive Director of our Company. Mr Zhang is currently the Standing Vice General Manager of Chaozhou Ouhua Energy Co., Ltd., our wholly-owned subsidiary in China. Prior to this, he has served various positions such as Engineer, Terminal Manager and General Manager in several other companies. He has more than 20 years of experience in the marine oil and gas industry, particularly in the area of LPG and LNG. Mr Zhang graduated with a bachelor degree in Oil and Gas Storage and Transportation from the China University of Petroleum in 1995. He has also completed a course in Parttime International Trade with the University of International Business and Economics in 2007.
LIANG YALING was appointed as Non Executive Director of our Company on 30 April 2020. She is currently the General Manager of Human Resources Department at Chaozhou Huafeng Group Co. Ltd and has been in this position and other positions since 1999. She founded Hong Kong Huaye International Trade Co. Ltd and served as Chairman from 1996 to 1999. Prior to founding Hong Kong Huaye Inernational Trade Co. Ltd., she worked as General Manager for Chaozhou Anbu Foreign Investment Service Company.
She has been serving as the Vice-President of Chaoan District Young Entrepreneurs Association since 2015 and had previously served as founding director and director of the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce in Singapore from 2014 to 2019. She is also a member of the 9th Chao'an CPPCC. She was awarded the Shantou Professional Managers Association 2018 Annual Special Achievement Award and China's Outstanding Professional Manager (CEO) on the 40th Anniversary of Reform and Opening Up.
MS KANG SHWU HUEY (AGNES) is currently Group CFO and Head of overseas development of Econ Healthcare (Asia) Limited ("EHG"), which is listed on the Catalist board of the SGX-ST. She was the Group CFO who led the IPO project for EHG, and within 6 months of her tenure, EHG is listed on April 2021. Report to founder and executive chairman, Agnes is responsible for the Group matters such as corporate finance including mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures, legal, risk and compliances, investor relations, full spectrum of finance accounting functions, procurement functions as well as overseas business development. In her new added responsibility as head of overseas development, Agnes partner with executive chairman on overseas expansion opportunity for the Group. Agnes has just completed a m&a project where EHG acquired a medical transport company Ambulance Medical Service Pte Ltd on 5 March 2024, consequently, Agnes is appointed as Director of AMS. She is now leading the transition and integration of this new BU into EHG.
Agnes brings with her almost 2 decades experience in management leadership in 3 SGX listed companies. Prior to joining the Group in November 2020, she was the Group financial controller in the mainboard listed lifestyle F&B Group, Breadtalk Group Limited (now known as Breadtalk Group Pte. Ltd.). Agnes began her career in 2004 as an audit cum tax assistant at audit firm K. H. Lim & Co in Malaysia. She was then employed by BDO Raffles (now known as BDO LLP) in Singapore as an associate consultant where she exposed with overseas IPO projects and then an audit senior from 2007 to 2010.
From 2010 to 2012, Agnes served as the group assistant finance manager of Excelpoint System (Pte) Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Excelpoint Technology Ltd, which is listed on the Mainboard of the SGX-ST. In 2012, Agnes became the finance manager of Breadtalk Group Pte. Ltd., which was then listed on the Mainboard of the SGX-ST, and was later promoted to group senior finance manager in 2014 and group financial controller in 2016. For close to 9 years' time with Breadtalk, Agnes managed a few project ie SAP implementation, finance transformation, group tax planning, raised fund through bond issuance, corporate action such as M&A food junction, divestment of Breadtalk IHQ as well as privatisation of Breadtalk Group Limited.
Agnes is a qualified Chartered Accountant of Malaysia. She holds a Bachelor of Accounting with Honours from National University of Malaysia. Agnes is well-verse with 4 languages, English, Chinese, Malay and Korean. She also speaks dialect such as Hokkien and Cantonese.