Council

Datin Kathleen Chew is the Group Legal Adviser of YTL Corporation Berhad, a diversified conglomerate listed on the Main Board of Bursa Malaysia. She holds a LL.B (Hons) Degree from the University of Birmingham and is a member of the English Bar and the Malaysia Bar. Prior to joining YTL, she was a partner in the law firm of Abdul Aziz, Ong & Co in Kuala Lumpur.

Datin Kathleen is the Chairperson of Alpha Malaysia, a non-denominational Christian organization. She also takes an active interest in education in Malaysia and sits on the Board of Governors of the Assunta Secondary School, a mission school founded by the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary and the Board of Trustees of the Benenden School Trust in the UK. She is married to Dato’ Yeoh Seok Hong and has seven lovely children.

Ms. Ho Chee Kit is one of the founding partners of a law firm in Kuala Lumpur in which she is currently a consultant. She has been called to both the English Bar and Malaysian Bar and is experienced in corporate, banking, intellectual and industrial property laws and related matters. Ms. Ho currently serves as a legal advisor to a number of associations and sits on the board of a company listed with Bursa Securities Malaysia as an independent director and she is also a council member of Yayasan De La Salle.

Mr. Tho Tuck Woh is a member of Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA) and Malaysia Institute of Certified Public Accountants (MICPA) since 1986. He received his professional training with Mssrs Ernst & Young from 1981 to 1990. He later joined Inter Pacific Communications as General Manager. He then held executive roles in large fashion and retail companies such as Jerasia Capital Berhad, CK Tangs, Hytex and Cheetah for 12 years till 2008. He then joined, and has been with the Redberry Media Group as the Managing Director of the group’s Cinema and Digital Advertising Division and was appointed as Redberry Media Group CEO in Jan 2018.

Mr. James Armand Menezes joined the Council in 1996. He is a qualified accountant and served for 25 years with Ernst & Whinney (now known as Ernst & Young) and retired as a Senior Partner in 1990. He holds directorships and plays advisory roles in companies in Malaysia and Australia besides doing voluntary work in other organisations.

A graduate of the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London and an MBA graduate from the London School of Business, Dr. Chong began her early career in the National Health Service, UK. Upon return to Malaysia, she joined Subang Jaya Medical Centre (now Ramsay Sime Darby HealthCare) as an Administrative Resident and then Director of the Division of Ancillary/Allied Health Services.

Dr Chong later became CEO for Sunway Medical Centre and Prince Court Medical Centre, and Executive Director at Beacon International Specialist Centre, with a short stint as Project Director with IMU. At the launch of Malaysia’s ‘National Economic Transformation Programme’ in 2010, she was appointed leader of the working ‘laboratory’ for the Healthcare National Key Economic Area and was subsequently appointed as the NKEA Industry Advisor to the then Minister of Health.

She now runs her own healthcare-focused management consultancy.

Wai Yee has more than 25 years experience in brand building, integrated marketing communications and customer relationship management, and currently runs her own boutique creative agency, Smalltimer Sdn Bhd. Throughout her career, she has worked on building brands and helping corporates achieve their corporate objectives through communications. She has bagged numerous awards and led the agencies she managed increase ranking in the creative and business effectiveness portfolio.

Her involvement with Hospis Malaysia started in 2014 when she led her team to develop a campaign to create greater awareness for palliative care through the introduction of the palliative care symbol. Wai Yee is a strong advocate for ensuring wider knowledge of palliative care and how it can benefit patients and their caregivers when professionally delivered with good clinical practices. She feels therefore that her contribution towards the governance of an organization such as Hospis Malaysia is therefore important.