Experience and Expertise

Appointed to the Board on 5 April 1995. Chairman and Managing Director of Zicom Group Limited till 31 December 2018. From 1 January 2019, stepped down as Managing Director and remains as Executive Chairman of Zicom Group Limited and all its subsidiaries. Mr Sim was a board member of SPRING Singapore, a government agency for enterprise development, for 4 years until 2018 and a member of the Strategic Advisory Panel of Diagnostics Development Hub, A*Star for 5 years until 2019. He was also a former member of the Board of Governors, UOB-SMU Asian Enterprise Institute. Experienced in public accounting, corporate development, strategic management as well as international trade.

Member of Incubator Advisory Board, Singapore Eye Research Institute/ Singapore National Eye Centre

Singapore Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year (Industrial Products), 2008

Experience and Expertise

Made an Executive Director on 25 September 2014 and promoted to Group Chief Executive Officer on 1 January 2019. As the Chief Executive Officer of Sys-Mac Automation Engineering Pte. Ltd. (Sys-Mac), Mr Kok Yew Sim has been instrumental in Sys-Mac Group’s growth journey, focusing on providing customised automation solutions, building capabilities and market penetration. As the Group CEO, he is focused on transforming the Group’s existing core businesses to unlock new potential and maximise growth in a digitalised and highly competitive marketplace.

Mr Sim graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA (Summa Cum Laude). He is the second son of the Executive Chairman, Mr G L Sim and director of SNS Holdings Pte. Ltd., a substantial shareholder.

Experience and Expertise

Appointed to the Board on 13 November 2019, Ms Jenny Lim has been the Group’s Financial Controller since 2005. She is responsible for accounting, finance, tax and corporate secretarial matters of the Group. Ms Lim assumed the role of Joint Company Secretary since 6 June 2008. Before joining the Group, she was with an international public accounting firm for more than 10 years specialising in audit and tax. She is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

Experience and Expertise

Appointed to the Board on 24 July 2006. Mr Yian Poh Lim has more than 20 years of extensive experience in the banking and finance industry and is currently the managing director of Yian Poh Associates, a financial consultancy and investment firm. Mr Lim has built an extensive network of contacts, both in Singapore and in the region. Since 2000, he has been an Honorary Commercial Advisor to The Administrative Committee of Jiaxing Economic Development Zone, China.  Mr Lim holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Nanyang University, Singapore and a Master of Science degree from the University of Hull, England. In 1985, he completed the Stanford-NUS Executive Program offered by Stanford University and National University of Singapore and in 1990, the Senior Management Development Program organised by Harvard Business School Alumni Club of Malaysia.

Experience and Expertise

Appointed to the Board on 13 November 2019, Mr Douglas is an Audit Partner at Bentleys Queensland, an Australian national firm of public accountants. He has over 30 years of audit and professional experience in London, Singapore and Brisbane. Mr Douglas has assisted clients of various sizes across a broad range of sectors including manufacturing, financial services, agribusiness, government and listed companies. His experience blends technical expertise with a commercial perspective to accounting issues and allows him to provide sound business advice.  Mr Douglas holds a Bachelor of Business degree from Queensland University of Technology and is a member of the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand and a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He is also the Chairman of the Bentleys National Management Board.

Experience and Expertise

Appointed to the Board on 19 November 2025, Mr Lim has over two decades of experience shaping Singapore’s innovation and deep-tech landscape.  He has held senior leadership roles at the Singapore Economic Development Board and Enterprise Singapore where he led national and international initiatives that enabled more than 600 companies to scale globally through partnerships across over 40 countries including China, Japan, Israel and Europe.  With his deep understanding of the Asian markets, extensive global experience and international reach, Mr Lim founded Asia Venture Partners to help enterprises innovate, scale, improve efficiency and enhance competitiveness.  Mr Lim graduated from the University of Cambridge, UK with a Bachelor of Arts, Natural Sciences (Biochemistry) degree.

Experience and Expertise

Appointed to the Board on 30 November 2020, Dr Dean Tai is a co-founder, chief scientific officer (CSO) and director of HistoIndex Pte. Ltd. (“HistoIndex”). HistoIndex is a medical technology company providing optical medical imaging systems and services to aid pathologists in diagnostics, clinical trials and research studies for the assessment and staging of liver diseases. Dr Dean Tai brings with him many years of board experiences, global marketing exposure and collaborations in addition to his strong attributes in innovation, research and development. Dr Dean Tai earned both his Bachelor of Technology (with First Class Honours) and PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.