UMS Holdings appoints Chay Yiowmin as director

He has more than 14 years of public accounting experience in Singapore and the United Kingdom.

The Board of UMS Holdings announced the appointment of Chay Yiowmin as non-executive independent director.

Mr Chay, 39, will also be Renumeration Committee chairman, Audit Committee member and Nominating Committee member.

Mr Chay is currently an advisory partner of BDO LLP, heading the Corporate Finance, and the Financial Risk and Governance Practice. Prior to joining BDO LLP, Mr Chay gained his professional experience with a number of large multinational accounting and audit firms, including PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Deloitte & Touche LLP and Moore Stephens LLP, the latter of which Mr Chay was admitted as a partner in January 2010, according to a UMS Holdings report.

Mr Chay has accumulated considerable experience auditing large multinational corporations and financial institutions, and providing business advisory services in the areas of regulatory and compliance, corporate restructuring, and mergers and acquisitions. Mr Chay is also considered a specialist in the field of Financial Risk Management. Mr Chay holds a Bachelor of Accountancy and a Master of Business (MBus) from Nanyang Technological University, and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Birmingham.