Yang Berhormat Chia Chu Fatt, aged 53, was appointed as our Independent Non-Executive Director on 29 February 2008. Yang Berhormat Chia is an accountant by profession and is the proprietor of Andy Chia & Co. He is a Fellow member of the Chartered Association of Chartered d Accountants (UK) and a Chartered Accountant of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants and an Associate member of the Institute of Taxation, Malaysia. He has thirty (30) years of working experience in Chartered Accountants firms, of which approximately four (4) years were in a medium size firm in London. He is also a Director of Koperasi Sebaguna Miri Berhad and Miri Transport Company Sdn Bhd and a Board member of Sarawak Land Development Board. Yang Berhormat Chia is also a Sarawak State Legislative Council Assemblyman since 2006 and was a Councillor of Miri Municipal Council from 1988 to 1999.