Personality Of The Day: Lau Yoke Leong

Aged 43, was appointed as an Executive Director of MAsteel on 16 April 2007.  He joined Masteel as an Accountant in July 2007 and was promoted as Chief Accountant in June 2004.  He is a Fellow Chartered Accountant and a member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants.  He has more than 13 years of experience in various fields of accounting, audit, taxation and management matters as well as in-house training instructor on updating of accounting standards and audit software program, corporate restructuring, corporate exercise and due diligence assignments.
He started his accounting profession in 1994 as an auditor with Messrs Ong & Wong. He completed the professional qualification from The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants in late 1995. Upon graduation in 1995, he joined another public accounting firm, Messrs T.H.Liew & Gan as an auditor before moving on to Messrs Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu as an auditor from 1996 to 1999.
From 1999 to 2000, he was an accountant with Bell Management Services Sdn Bhd before joining Masteel. Mr Lau also sits on the Board of Bio Molecular Industries Sdn Bhd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Masteel. He also sits on the Board of several private companies in Malaysia.