Foong Pik Yee

Bachelor of Commerce, University of Melbourne, Australia

Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand

Master of Business Administration, Monash University, Australia

Chartered Banker, Asian Institute of Chartered Bankers

Ms Foong Pik Yee, a Malaysian, aged 64,  joined the Board of Paramount Corporation Berhad on 22 August 2019.

Ms Foong began her career as an auditor at KPMG Singapore and moved to Australia in 1983 to pursue her professional qualification and a Master of Business Administration degree. She stayed on in Australia for another nine years acquiring skills at various organisations including PricewaterhouseCoopers, JP Morgan, HSBC and ANZ Banking Group.

In 1993 after returning to Malaysia, she joined Standard Chartered Bank (SCB). In the course of her 19 years at SCB, Ms Foong took on various leadership roles and across many geographies, including as Group Head of Credit Operations, Head of Sales for Corporate Banking in Hong Kong, Chief Operating Officer for Wholesale Banking and Chief Financial Officer of SCB Malaysia. She also served as the CEO of SCB Lebanon from 2008 to 2012.

She returned to Malaysia under the Talentcorp Returning Expert programme in 2013 and joined Hong Leong Bank Berhad as its Chief Financial Officer until her retirement in June 2019. Thereafter, Ms Foong remained active in the corporate world as an independent non-executive director of several public companies, listed and non-listed.

She was the chairperson of the Industry Advisory Board of Monash University Malaysia. She is also involved in the women in leadership mentoring programmes of the 30% Club, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and the Malaysia Australia Business Council. Ms Foong was also a recipient of the ‘Most Inspiring Woman’ in the ‘Great Women of Our Time’ awards from the Malaysian Women’s Weekly Magazine in 2007.