Mr. See Toh Kean Yaw (“Mr. See Toh”) was appointed to the Board on 22 December 2023 as an Executive Director.
Mr. See Toh is a Chartered Accountant of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants since June 2001 and a fellow member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, United Kingdom since May 2004. He holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration from University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom. He spent the early years of his career with BDO Binder Public Accountants, where he specialised in auditing, taxation and consultancy. In 1999, he left the auditing profession and joined Ire-Tex Group as an Accountant, responsible for the financial management, corporate finance and accounting functions. He was eventually promoted to Group Accountant, Financial Controller and Chief Financial Officer before being appointed as Executive Director of Ire-Tex Corporation Berhad (“Ire-Tex”) (Stock code: 7183) after Ire-Tex’s successful initial public offering (“IPO”) on the Bursa Malaysia Stock Exchange in 2004.
Over the past fifteen (15) years in Ire-Tex, he was responsible in the formulation and implementation of the Ire-Tex Group’s corporate strategies as well as overseeing the corporate finance, investment management, merger and acquisition aspects of the Group. From 2010 to 2014, he served as an Independent and Non-Executive Director and an audit committee member of Eka Noodles Berhad (Stock code: 7182), a company listed on Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad.
As a founding partner of Kairous Capital Group since year 2015, he has acquired more than nine (9) years of experience in private equity and venture capital field including fundraising, deal sourcing, investment portfolio monitoring and value creation. So far, he has concluded several technology and non-technology investments into several companies based in China and Southeast Asia and also successfully assisted portfolio companies exiting via IPO onto the Shanghai Stock Exchange and Hong Kong Stock Exchange.