Management Team

Board of Directors

Dato’ Zainal Abidin Bin Putih

Chairman, Independent Director

Membership of Board Committee:

• Member of Audit Committee
• Member of Nomination Committee
• Member of Remuneration Committee
• Member of Risk Management Committee

Dato' Zainal Abidin Putih, is a qualified Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW). He is a member of Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants (MICPA) and the Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA).

Dato' Zainal has extensive experience in audit, having worked as a practicing accountant throughout his career covering many principal industries including banks, insurance, energy, transport, manufacturing, government agencies, plantations, properties, hotels, investment companies and unit trusts. He also has a good working knowledge of taxation matters and management consultancy, especially in the areas of acquisitions, takeovers, amalgamations, restructuring and public listing of companies.

Dato’ Zainal plays an active role in the community and the corporate world being a past President of the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants and was Chairman of the Malaysian Accounting Standards Board (MASB). He was a member of the Malaysian Communication & Multimedia Commission, a body set up by the Malaysian Government to oversee the orderly development of the multimedia and telecommunication industry in Malaysia and also was Chairman of Pengurusan Danaharta Nasional Berhad.

Dato’ Zainal is currently Chairman of Land & General Berhad, Telekom Malaysia Berhad and Mobile Money International Sdn Bhd as well as an Adviser to the Board of Petron Malaysia Refining and Marketing Berhad. He is a Trustee of the National Heart Institute Foundation, MICPA Education Trust Fund and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Yayasan Telekom Malaysia. Dato’ Zainal is a member and Chairman of the Financial Reporting Foundation (FRF), an appointment by the Finance Minister of Malaysia.

Mr. Yeoh Chong Keng

Independent Director

Membership of Board Committee:

• Chairman of Nomination Committee
• Chairman of Risk Management Committee
• Member of Audit Committee
• Member of Remuneration Committee

Mr. Yeoh Chong Keng is the Managing Partner of a legal firm in Kuala Lumpur since it was established in 1992. He was admitted in 1980 as an Utter Barrister, Lincoln’s Inn, Bar of England and Wales. The following year, he was admitted as an Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya. Prior to studying law, he served with distinction as a senior officer in the Royal Malaysian Police Force from 1970 to 1979.

Mr. Yeoh is an experienced lawyer and has represented corporations and financial institutions in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Federal Court. He has also acted as counsel for the Government of Hong Kong in several cases in Malaysia. In corporate work, he is well versed in the field of mergers and acquisitions.

Currently, Mr. Yeoh is an independent Non-Executive Director of Land & General Berhad. He chairs the Remuneration Committee and is also a member of the Audit Committee of Land & General Berhad.

Mr. Yeoh was also appointed to the Board of Yoong Onn Corporation Berhad on 28 September 2009. He resigned as an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company on 31 May 2023 and was re-appointed as Non-Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company on 24 August 2023. He is a member of the Audit Committee, Remuneration Committee and Nomination Committee of Yoong Onn Corporation Berhad.

Mr. Yeoh is a Notary Public and a qualified mediator on the panel of the Malaysian Mediation Centre, Bar Council Malaysia. Apart from these two positions, he is an appointed member of the Disciplinary Committee under the Disciplinary Board, Bar Council Malaysia.

Datin Hayati Aman Binti Hashim

Independent Director

Membership of Board Committee:

• Chairman of Audit Committee
• Chairman of Remuneration Committee
• Member of Nomination Committee
• Member of Risk Management Committee

Datin Hayati Aman has 30 years of experience in Accounting, Audit, Financial Reporting, Regulations & Policies and Project Management. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and a Master in Business Administration specialising in Finance, both from Northern Illinois University, United States of America (“USA”). She qualified as a Certified Public Accountant in the USA (passed the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants examinations in 1988) and in Malaysia (passed the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants examinations in 1995).

Datin Hayati Aman started her career in the Audit department of Pricewaterhouse Kuala Lumpur in 1990. She then joined KPMG Malaysia’s Corporate Finance department in 1994 and subsequently moved to KPMG Houston where she was an Assurance Manager. After two years, she rejoined KPMG Malaysia in the Corporate Restructuring department and was involved in corporate restructurings, winding ups and liquidations including several Danaharta cases. Subsequently in 1999, Datin Hayati joined Land & General Berhad, a public listed company on the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia, and was responsible for all aspects of Finance, Accounting, Treasury and Taxation for the group of companies.

Datin Hayati Aman then joined the Securities Commission Malaysia (“SC”) in 2010 as Head of the Equities Department in the Corporate Finance & Investments Division. Throughout her close to 10 years of service at the statutory body, among others, she oversaw the evaluation of initial public offerings and reverse takeover applications and the relevant disclosure documents and provided recommendations to the authorised committee. In this role, she was also instrumental in formulating various regulations, strategic initiatives, policies and guidelines concerning the capital market.

Since leaving the SC in 2020, Datin Hayati Aman created and developed a series of capital market courses, specifically on securities law, requirements and conduct in submission of applications for initial public offerings and has been engaged to provide relevant training to corporate finance professionals. She was also co-opted as member of MICPA’s Commerce, Industry and Public Sector Committee effective 1 August 2020.

Currently, she also serves on the boards of AmInvestment Bank Berhad and Cement Industries of Malaysia Berhad.

Mr. Dang Kok Heng

Independent Non-Executive Director

Membership of Board Committee:

• Member of Audit Committee
• Member of Risk Management Committee

Mr. Dang graduated from University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) major in Computing & Information Science minor in Mathematics in 1983 and holds a Diploma in TQM (Total Quality Management) from Newport University USA in 1999. He also attended numerous courses such as Digital Transformation conducted by Boston Consulting Group and University of Virginia, Managing the Company of the Future conducted by London Business School and University of London during his career in IT.

Mr. Dang was appointed Chief Information Officer (“CIO”) of Sun Life Malaysia Assurance Berhad between 2013 to 2021 and subsequently appointed as Technical Advisor and acted as a mentor for the incoming CIO and supported management in advisory and direction on technology aspirations in relation to business strategies especially the Digital Enterprise until he retired in January 2022.

He has more than 30 years of experience in Information Technology (IT) in insurance industry, including role of a Vice President of IT at American International Assurance besides been appointed as its Head of Integration to lead and manage the integration of all aspects of IT in tandem with the amalgamation of business from the acquisition of another composite life insurer including its family takaful entity. Prior to that, he was the Head of Information Technology of Allianz General Insurance Company (Malaysia) Berhad.

Mr. Vezio Philippe Guy Stephane

Executive Director

Membership of Board Committee:

• Member of Nomination Committee

Mr. Philippe Vezio is the Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technical Officer at Tokio Marine Asia, where he has been a driving force since April 2019. With a distinguished career in the international insurance industry, Mr. Vezio has excelled in both operational and senior management roles.

Previously, he was the Managing Director at Tokio Marine HCC, leading the Financial Lines division. Currently, as Regional CTO, he oversees Underwriting, Risk Management, and Claims operations across the region, ensuring the delivery of top-tier insurance solutions.

Mr. Vezio also serves on the boards of Tokio Marine Insurance Singapore and Tokio Marine Insurance Indonesia, where he contributes to strategic decision-making and governance.

EXCO Members

Ng Hang Ming

Chief Executive Officer

Hang Ming is a financial services industry veteran with 30 years of experience in banking, insurance and reinsurance. Prior to joining TMIM, he had been a CFO, and later CEO, of a multinational insurer and a ReTakaful company. Before joining the insurance sector, Hang Ming was in the banking industry covering consumer, corporate and investment banking.

Masaaki Morimoto

Deputy Chief Executive Officer

Masaaki Morimoto has been with the Tokio Marine Group since 1998. He assumed his role as Deputy Chief Executive Officer in Tokio Marine Insurans (Malaysia) Berhad (TMIM) in March 2023. He will assist the CEO in the overall management of the Company and drive the Company towards meeting our objectives. Masaaki Morimoto has 24 years of experience in Tokio Marine Group of companies within Japan and United States of America (Guam).

Prior to joining TMIM, he spent the last four years as General Manager in Human Resources Department in Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co.,Ltd.

Evarine Low

Chief Operating Officer

Evarine joined Tokio Marine in Jan 2020 as Chief Technical Officer and effective 1 January 2022, she took on the role as Chief Operating Officer, responsible for the overall core operations of Underwriting, Reinsurance, Claims, Operations, Information Technology and Transformation Office of the company.

She has 20+ years of experience in the insurance industry having served in various capacity in leading conglomerate & multinational insurance companies and a successful track record of building scalable result driven culture with a passion to lead challenging change initiative. Prior to joining Tokio Marine, she was a CEO and Country Head of a global reinsurance broking company.

Evarine holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (Hons) degree majoring in Finance. She is a Chartered Insurer of the Chartered Insurance Institute, UK as well as an Associate of the Malaysian Insurance Institute.

Sim Chiang Han

Chief Distribution Officer

Sim rejoined TMIM on December 2018. He has more than 32 years of experience in the general insurance industry. Prior to TMIM, he held numerous senior positions in local and international insurance companies primarily responsible for developing of agency networks.

Tony Yong Heng Thong

Chief Financial Officer

Tony is a certified Chartered Management Accountant as well as a Chartered Accountant. He has held senior leadership roles across numerous industries – hospitality and services, oil and gas, and spent a major part of his career in the financial services sector. He leads the Finance Division managing, formulating, developing and implementing sound financial strategies to support the company’s business initiatives.

Loh Ka Weng

Chief Underwriting Officer

Ka Weng moved to his present position in 2022, prior to which he was the Head of Actuarial and Appointed Actuary. He joined TMIM in 2018 from Tokio Marine Asia in Singapore, where he was responsible for the oversight and risk management of Group Companies in the SEA region. Ka Weng started his career over 14 years ago in actuarial consulting, where he provided consulting services to companies across Asia. His experience spans all aspects of general insurance, including valuation and reporting, pricing and analytics, reinsurance, capital modelling as well as enterprise risk management. Ka Weng is a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, UK (IFoA), and also holds a Master of Commerce from Macquarie University, Australia.

Hans Kwek Soon Kuang

Chief Claims Officer

Hans Kwek joined TMIM in October 2016 as Head of Agency Strategy before moving to his present position in Jan 2019. He has more than 39 years of experience in the Financial Services Sector out of which 19 years was in the Insurance Industry. Prior to joining TMIM, his experience encompasses stints as Regional Head, Chief Claims Officer and Chief Agency Officer in a multinational Insurer.

Wong Yoke Yin

Head, Information Technology

Wong Yoke Yin assumes the pivotal position of Head of Information Technology, effective April 1, 2024, bringing with her an illustrious career spanning 23 years in IT-related functions within the insurance sector. In her new role, Yoke Yin assumes the crucial responsibility of driving the development and implementation of information technology initiatives that seamlessly align with the company’s overarching business strategy to steer TMIM towards greater technological advancement and strategic success.

Lai Pei Pei

Head, Human Resources

Pei Pei joined Tokio Marine on 1 October 2024 as Head of Human Resources, responsible for overseeing the company’s HR strategies and operations. With over 25 years of experience in various organisations, she has successfully led multiple HR functions across her career. Prior to her current role, Pei Pei served as HR Director for Southeast Asia at a leading management consulting firm.