Details
Date of Appointment:30 June 2025
Membership of Board Committee(s):
  • Member of Audit and Examination Committee
Qualifications:
  • Member, The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, United Kingdom
  • Member, Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA)
  • Member, Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants (MICPA)
  • ESG Expert, European Business School (EBS University), Germany
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Data Science, EMERITUS in collaboration with Columbia Engineering Executive Education, Singapore
Directorship(s) in Malaysia:

Listed Issuers

  • None

Public Companies

  • None
Experience:
  • Chan Siew Mei joined KPMG Malaysia’s Audit division in 1986 and moved to the Advisory (Transaction Services) practice in 2000. She became the Head of Advisory for KPMG in Malaysia in 2015 and retired from the firm on 31 December 2024.
  • She started from a junior position, pursued the professional exams of MICPA and qualified as an accountant in 1992. Her key clients included public listed companies (PLCs) involved in mining, manufacturing and industrial products.
  • She then moved into the deal advisory area, where she worked on assignments for multinationals investing locally and abroad, specialising in deal evaluation (due diligence), deal advisory and project management. She dealt with both senior management and Board/Audit Committee members in the assessment and evaluation of these proposals for more than 20 years. Her local clients ranged from some of the largest Malaysian conglomerates to Government-linked companies (GLCs) and private equity (PE) funds while her foreign clients included international PLCs and PE funds.
  • She managed multiple due diligence projects and deal advisory engagements for companies involved in corporate exercises and acquisitions in the financial service, oil and gas, infrastructure, plantation and hospitality sectors.
  • In 2015, she was elevated to be the Head of Advisory of KPMG Malaysia, which involved her being responsible for both deals and consulting. In the deals and consulting space, she provided oversight on projects such as due diligence, valuation, validation of processes and controls, strategic reviews, compliance reviews, and cybersecurity.
  • She was also the Chief Financial Officer of KPMG Malaysia from April 2022 until her retirement in December 2024.
Declaration:

She does not have any conflict of interest or potential conflict of interest, including interest in any competing business with AMMB or its subsidiaries.

She does not have any family relationship with any other Director and/or major shareholders of AMMB.

She has not been convicted of any offence within the past five years nor has she been subject to any public sanction or penalty by any relevant regulatory bodies during financial year ended 31 March 2025.