Management Team

Tan Sri Ong Leong Huat – OSK Group

Executive Chairman

Tan Sri Ong Leong Huat @ Wong Joo Hwa (“Tan Sri Ong”), aged 78, Male, a Malaysian, is the Executive Chairman of the Company. He was the former Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Company and was re-designated as a Non-Independent Non-Executive Director on 4 May 2007. Tan Sri Ong was then re-designated as the Chief Executive Officer/Group Managing Director on 9 November 2012 and re-designated as Executive Chairman on 19 April 2017. He is also a Key Senior Management team member of the Company. He has led the Company from a small stockbroking company and expanded its reach into diversified business interests in property development and investment, construction, industries, hospitality, and financial services.

Tan Sri Ong holds a Capital Markets and Services Representative’s licence issued by the Securities Commission Malaysia under the Capital Markets and Services Act, 2007 for dealing in securities. Tan Sri Ong was a Director of Malaysian Exchange of Securities Dealing and Automated Quotation (MESDAQ) from July 1999 to March 2002, a member of the Capital Market Advisory Council appointed by the Securities Commission Malaysia in 2004 to advise on issues relating to the implementation of the Capital Market Master Plan. He was previously a member of the Securities Market Consultative Panel of Bursa Malaysia.

Since 1969, Tan Sri Ong was attached to a leading financial institution where he last held the position of Senior General Manager. He became the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of OSK Securities Berhad (which was later known as OSK Investment Bank Berhad) from July 1985 to January 2007 and was thereafter appointed as the Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of OSK Investment Bank Berhad. Tan Sri Ong was then re-designated as a Non-Independent Non-Executive Director of OSK Investment Bank Berhad (which was later known as OSKIB Sdn. Bhd.) on 18 January 2011, a position he held until 30 April 2013.

In 2003, Tan Sri Ong also established OSK Ventures International Berhad (“OSK Ventures”), a venture capital company based in Malaysia. OSK Ventures subsequently supported and incubated a number of successful technology companies in Malaysia, many of which were groomed from start-ups to be subsequently listed on various stock exchanges. He was appointed as a Non-Independent Non-Executive Director of OSK Ventures International Berhad from December 2003 to April 2010 and re-appointed as a Non-Independent Non-Executive Director from February 2013 to April 2017.

Tan Sri Ong is also the Executive Chairman of PJ Development Holdings Berhad and OSK Property Holdings Berhad, a Non-Independent Non-Executive Director of RHB Bank Berhad, the Non-Independent Non-Executive Chairman of RHB Investment Bank Berhad, a Trustee of OSK Foundation and a Director of KE-ZAN Holdings Berhad.

Tan Sri Ong is a major shareholder of the Company. He is the father of Mr. Ong Ju Yan, the Group Managing Director of the Company, Mr. Ong Ju Xing, the Deputy Group Managing Director of the Company and Ms. Ong Yee Ching, the Non-Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company. He has no conviction for any offences within the past five years other than traffic offences, if any. There was also no public sanction or penalty imposed by any regulatory body against him during the financial year ended 31 December 2022.

Tan Sri Ong has no conflict of interest with the Company other than disclosed under Related Party Disclosures Notes to the Financial Statements of this Annual Report.

Tan Sri Ong attended all the five Board Meetings of the Company held during the financial year ended 31 December 2022.