Datuk Seri Michael Yam Kong Choy

Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building

Datuk Seri Michael Yam, a Malaysian, aged 66, joined the Board of Paramount on 18 February 2010 and was designated as the Senior Independent Non-Executive Director on 27 February 2014. He is also the Chairman of the Nominating and Remuneration Committees. Datuk Seri Michael has had an illustrious career spanning more than 35 years in the construction, real estate and corporate sectors, helming two different award winning public listed property companies as the Managing Director and CEO before his early retirement in 2008. He was also voted the “CEO of the Year 2002” for Malaysia by American Express Corporate Services and Business Times. Trained as a building engineer in the United Kingdom with various companies and the British Civil Service after his graduation in Building and Management Studies from the University of Westminster, London, Datuk Seri Yam, upon his return to Malaysia, served in several large companies, such as Landmarks Berhad, Peremba Malaysia, Country Heights Holdings Berhad and Sunrise Berhad. He is currently appointed on the boards of various Government incorporated and non-government organisations serving as the Chairman of InvestKL Corporation and as a director of the construction Industry Development Board as well as Kwasa Land Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of the Employees Provident Fund. He is also the Immediate Past President and Patron of the Real Estate and Housing Developers’ Association of Malaysia and a trustee of the Standard Chartered Foundation, a charity body. Other than Paramount, Datuk Seri Yam’s directorship in public companies include Standard Chartered Bank Malaysia Berhad, Standard Chartered Saadiq Berhad, Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad, Sunway Berhad, and Cahya Mata Sarawak Berhad.