Management
Datuk Idris Bin Abdullah
Chairman, Non Exec. Director
Datuk Idris Abdullah joined the Board as an Independent Non-Executive Director in May 2008 and was appointed Non-Executive Chairman on 21 August 2008. He was also appointed Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and member of the Audit Committee and Nominating Committee on 4 July 2008.
Datuk Idris Abdullah is the Senior Partner of Idris and Company (Advocates and Solicitors) handling general legal practice comprising Banking practice (both drafting and litigation), land matters, general corporate work including due diligence, corporate restructuring and corporate insolvency litigation, Construction and Building work, Exchange Control work, Criminal litigation, Intellectual Property Litigation and general Civil litigation since 1989. He is also the Chairman and shareholder of Industrial Power Technology Pte Ltd, and Advisor to a number of Sarawak companies. He was appointed Non-Executive Chairman of Apac Coal Limited on 13 August 2010.
Datuk Idris Abdullah is an appointed member of the Companies Commission of Malaysia (SSM) as well as member of an Audit Committee SSM and member of the Advisory Panel for the SSM training Academy (Comtrac). He is also a member of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission.
Datuk Idris Abdullah graduated with First Class Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from Faculty of Law University Malaya in 1981. He was admitted to the Roll of Advocates of the High Court of Malaysia in Sabah and Sarawak in year 1982. He was also admitted to the Roll of Advocates of Malaysia in Malaya in year 2007.
Phuah Cheng Hock
Executive Director
Mr Phuah Cheng Hock is proven administrator with 15 years experience in finance, general management and retail
Sam di Giacomo
Non Executive Director
Mr di Giacomo brings 17 years of experience to APAC. He has been involved in numerous capital raisings at all stages from seed to IPO, and has been involved in a number of technology and distribution licensing deals. He is also a founder of a number of Australian life science companies including pSimedica Ltd, Australian Cancer Technology (now Avantogen Limited), Resonance Health Ltd, and founding director of Advance Healthcare Group Limited.
Mr di Giacomo is an Associate member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute Australia. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and a member of the Australian Biotech Association. In addition, Mr di Giacomo is a Certified Public Accountant.
During the past 3 years Mr di Giacomo acted as Executive Director of Advance Healthcare Group Limited until his resignation on 29th September 2005 and for Rockeby Biomed Limited since 5th April 2006.
Koh Teng Kiat
Non Executive Director
Mr Koh is a skilled financial expert with skills honed over almost 20 years in business in the Asia Pacific region. He has extensive experience in company financial system restructuring and has worked in the manufacturing sector, the construction sector and the petroleum sector, among others. He has worked in public companies and in multi-national businesses.
Mr Koh is also the Chief Operating Officer of Magnus Energy. He joined the company in July 2004. He currently oversees Magnus Energy’s operational aspects of crude oil production in China and coal mining activities in Indonesia. As such he addresses compliance issues, and supervises funding arrangements.
He is also a director of Mid-Continent Equipment Group Pte Ltd, Antig Investments Pte Ltd and Bridging Resources Ltd, all subsidiaries of Magnus Energy.
Mr Koh holds a degree from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants of the United Kingdom. He is a Fellow member of both the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants of the United Kingdom and Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore.
Lim Kuan Yew
Non Executive Director
Mr Lim is currently the managing director of APAC's parent, Magnus Energy Group Limited.
Mr Lim has held senior positions in general management and strategic planning in a number of private and public listed companies in Singapore and Malaysia. He was also a founding member of a Company which provided corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, operations review and strategic planning and has held various directorships of publicly listed companies in Singapore and Malaysia.
Quah Boon Ban
Non Executive Director
Mr Quah has over ten years experience in a variety of roles across diversified industry sectors including, engineering, I.T, insurance, real estate and the resource sector.