Management
Sam di Giacomo
Interim Chairman for the board
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
Managing 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.
Shyun Kon
Non Executive Director
Mr Shyun Kon has spent more than 25 years of his career as a consultant and director within the private sector in Singapore and Malaysia and predominantly in the areas of Strategic Planning, Business Development and Operations Management. He has developed extensive experience and networking in most of the ASEAN countries, China and Hong Kong and in many different industries such as mining, manufacturing, plantations and services. He has served as an executive director on the boards of Ipco International Ltd in Singapore and Kuantan Flour Mills in Malaysia. Currently, in addition to being a consultant to several listed companies, he is also an executive director of Industrial Power Technology Pte Ltd, a leading EPC Contractor in Biomass power plants in the ASEAN region. Mr Kon graduated with an Honours Degree in Economics and a Masters in Management from England.
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.
Boon Ban Quah
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.