Datuk Ali Abdul Kadir appointed as JobStreet Chairman

KUALA LUMPUR ñ JobStreet.com, a leading online
recruitment company in the region announces that it has appointed Datuk Ali Abdul Kadir, 55, as the Independent Non-Executive Chairman of JobStreet Corporation Berhad, the holding company for JobStreet.comís current operations in Malaysia, Singapore, India and Philippines. At the same time, JobStreet also announces the appointment of Tan Sri Tan Sri Dato’ Dr Lin See Yan, 65, as an Independent Non-Executive Director of JobStreet.

Mark Chang, CEO of JobStreet Corporation Berhad says of the
Chairmanís appointment, ìAs JobStreet moves to our next growth phase with our pending listing on the Mesdaq market, we are very pleased to welcome Datuk Ali Abdul Kadir to our Board of Directors as our Chairman. We look forward to his mentorship as he brings with him a wealth of experience in corporate governance, finance and industry contacts that we know will add tremendous value to our operations here in Malaysia and regionally. î

Datuk Ali Abdul Kadir says, ìIíve followed the progress of the Group and its management team for a while and when the founders invited me on board, I was more than happy to accept, as The Group and its subsidiaries represents the kind of high growth, profitable, technology companies with a regional footprint that the Mesdaq market was developed to accomodate. I must say JobStreet has managed its growth very well, with integrity and by building public trust and its brand name through its many useful services. I want to nurture it further, to help it develop corporate finesse and be the kind of public company that creates good shareholder value.î

Datuk Ali Abdul Kadir is the Senior Advisor of Ernst & Young, Malaysia and presently sits on the board of the Labuan Offshore Financial Services Authority. Previously, he was appointed by the Minister of Finance as Chairman of the Securities Commission (SC) on 1 March 1999. Datuk Ali Abdul Kadir also chaired the Capital Market Advisory Council and was a member of a number of national committees including the National Economic Consultative Council II, the Foreign Investment Committee and the Oversight Committee of Pengurusan Danaharta Nasional Berhad. He was also a trustee of the Financial Reporting Foundation, which oversees the financial reporting framework in Malaysia, and had served on the Finance Committee on Corporate Governance. In addition, Datuk Ali Abdul Kadir was also a Trustee of the Accounting and Auditing Organisation for Islamic Financial Institutions from November 2000 to October 2003.

Datuk Ali Abdul Kadir was also actively involved in international regulatory circles. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the International Organisation of Securities Commission (IOSCO), Chairman of IOSCO’s Asia-Pacific Regional Committee and chaired the Islamic Capital Market Task Force.

Prior to his appointment as Chairman of SC, Datuk Ali Abdul Kadir was the Executive Chairman and Partner of Ernst & Young and its related firms. He was also the former President of the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants, chairing both its Executive Committee and Insolvency Practices Committee, and co-chairing the Company Law Forum. Datuk Ali Abdul Kadir is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), qualifying as member in 1974.

Tan Sri Dato’ Dr Lin See Yan is currently Chairman and CEO of Charles River Associates Sdn Bhd, an independent strategic and financial consultancy firm. Prior to 1998, Tan Sri Lin was the Chairman and CEO of the Pacific Bank Group of companies involved in banking, insurance and related financial services and for 14 years since 1980, he was the Deputy Governer of Bank Negara Malaysia. Tan Sri Lin continues to serve the public interest as Member of the National Economic Action Council (NEAC) Working Group; Pro-Chancellor of the Universiti Sains Malaysia; Trustee of the Malaysia University of Science & Technology; Director of the Monash University (Sunway Campus) Malaysia; and Governor of the Asian Institute of Management, Manila, as well as Member of the Asian Financial Regulatory Shadow Committee which is based in the US.

In addition, he advises and sits on the Board of a number of publicly listed and private business enterprises in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. He is the Chairman, Graduate School Alumni Council at Harvard University in Cambridge, USA as well as Regional Director for Asia, Harvard Alumni Association at Harvard University in addition to being Member, Visiting Committee on Asian Studies at the University. Tan Sri Lin is also the President of Harvard Club in Malaysia, Professor of Economics (Adjunct) of the Universiti Utara Malaysia and Member of the Eisenhower Fellowships’ International Advisory Council in Philadelphia. He is also a Trustee of Tun Ismail Ali Foundation, Harvard Club of Malaysia Foundation, Malaysian Economic Association Foundation, and MAKNA (National Cancer Council).

Professionally qualified in the UK as a chartered statistician, Tan Sri Lin is also a banker, economist and venture entrepreneur. He received 3 post-graduate degrees (including Ph.D in Economics in 1977) from Harvard University, USA, where he was a Mason Fellow and Ford Scholar. He is an Eisenhower Fellow and Fellow; of IMF Institute (Washington D.C); Royal Statistical Society (London); Malaysian Institute of Management and Malaysian Economic Association. He is also Distinguished Fellow of the Institute of Strategic and International Studies.