Comfort Gloves announces new chief financial officer

TheEdge Mon, Apr 18, 2022 12:35pm - 1 year View Original


KUALA LUMPUR (April 18): Comfort Gloves Bhd announced Monday that Leong Wai Leong has replaced Choong Choon Keat as the group’s chief financial officer.

In a bourse filing, the glove maker said 50-year-old Choong had resigned as the group’s chief financial officer to pursue his own interests.

As such, Leong, 48, has been appointed as the group’s new chief financial officer, and the date of change was on April 15, noted the company. 

According to the filing, Leong started his career as audit assistant for Ernst and Young in 1993, and his involvement in gloves manufacturing industries started when he joined a glove manufacturing company named Asia Pacific Latex Sdn Bhd in 1998 as account supervisor.

It added that he was subsequently promoted as account executive and corporate affairs manager when the company was listed on Bursa Malaysia in 2000 and after he obtained his MIA membership, he joined Carsem Semiconductor Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of a PLC, as an accountant.

In 2002, he moved to China to join a company ventured by a PLC in Malaysia named Kanzen TPCO Ltd as financial controller, the filing noted. 

In 2005, he joined a gloves manufacturing company WRP Asia Pacific Sdn Bhd as internal audit manager and later was promoted to personal assistant to chief executive officer and became the president of the company before he left in 2015, it added. 

In 2016, he joined Trio-Tech (M) Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of a US PLC as finance manager, to take charge of the finance operation in Malaysia and China, the filing said.

It added that in 2020, he rejoined WRP Asia Pacific as president, and he joined Comfort Gloves in 2021 as vice president and would assume the position as vice president cum chief financial officer.

At the time of writing, Comfort Gloves fell one sen or 1.31% to 75.5 sen, valuing the group at RM445.95 million.

Year to date, the counter has fallen 26.7%.

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