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Profile of Management (Stamford College Group)




Dato' Haji Abdul Halim bin Haji Abdul Samad
(Executive Chairman)
Dato' Haji Abdul Halim bin Abdul Samad has been the Executive Chairman of Stamford College Bhd since 1 October 1999. He has held various posts, namely, Education Officer in Kelantan, Special Officer to the Deputy Education Minister in 1981, Principal Personal Secretary to the Deputy Education Minister, Senior Confidential Secretary to the Minister of Education in 1984 and Principal Private Secretary to the Minister of Youth, Culture and Sports in 1986, Minister of Defence in 1990 and Minister of Education in 1995. Dato' Haji Abdul Halim is on the board of several other private limited companies in Malaysia.

Dato' Chan Wing Mee
(President)
Dato' Chan Wing Mee was appointed as President of Stamford College Bhd in May 2001. He is the founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the General Industries Sdn. Bhd. Group of companies since 1988. A graduate of the University of Malaya, Dato' Chan is involved in education, iron and steel, housing development and other industries.


Mr. Andrew Choo
(Chief Operating Officer)
Mr. Andrew Choo is the Chief Operating Officer of Stamford College. He obtained his B.Sc (Hons) from the University of Malaya and his LL.B (Hons) from the University of London. In 1992, Mr. Choo gained the Certificate in Legal Practice and was called to the Malaysian Bar in 1997. He was a quality control engineer in a multinational semiconductor company, a Senior Police Officer in the Royal Malaysian Police Force and a Security Manager before joining Stamford.

Mr. Leong Kam Soon
(Chief Financial Officer)
Mr. Leong Kam Soon is the Chief Financial Officer. He is a Fellow of both the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. Prior to joining SCB, he worked as Finance Manager for a multi-national company and was posted to the People’s Republic of China for seven years. He returned to Malaysia in July 2001 and joined Stamford College Berhad in August 2001 as Deputy Director of Finance. Prior to the PRC employment, he was an accountant for a subsidiary of a listed plantation group for three years.


Dr. Chew Sing Buan
(Director, Centre for Academic Excellence)
Dr. Chew Sing Buan (B.A. (Hons) (Malaya), Dip.Ad. Ed. (Dist.), M.Ed., Ph.D.(Manchester)) was appointed Director of the Centre for Academic Excellence, Stamford College, in 2003. He has spent most of his working life in the field of education. Before joining Stamford College, he was Professor at the Faculty of Education and, prior to that, Head of the Department of Social Foundations in Education and Chairman of the Division of Development Studies in Education, University of Malaya. He is author of a good number of books on education and employment. Dr. Chew has also served as consultant to the World Bank, Unesco, IDRC and RIHED.


Dr. Chew Tek Ann
(Academic Advisor, School of Business and Marketing)
Dr. Chew Tek Ann is the Academic Advisor, School of Business and Marketing. A graduate from the University of Malaya, he was awarded a Colombo Plan Scholarship to pursue his Master of Philosophy degree at the University of Sussex, UK and received a sponsorship from the Agricultural Development Council, New York to pursue a Non-degree Graduate Programme at the North Carolina State University, U.S. He obtained his PhD. from Universiti Pertanian Malaysia. He is an academician with more than thirty years of experience, having served as Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Management, Universiti Putra Malaysia. He held various positions in the private higher education industry including the post of Dean in the School of Business and Law, Programme Director and Director of Quality Assurance and Standards Unit of one of the university colleges in the Klang Valley. He was one of the recipients of the Tun Razak Foundation Award for the Best Written Contributions in the Malaysian Economy.

Mr. Robert Cheong Kwang Hai
(Head, School of Business and Marketing)
The School of Business and Marketing is headed by Mr Robert Cheong Kwang Hai. Robert exemplifies corporate executives who eventually enter the private education industry principally to impart their knowledge and experience to young business undergraduates. With 24 years of corporate experience behind him i.e. 8 years in industrial marketing and 16 years in banking and finance, he ventured into private education 9 years ago by joining a private educational institute as Head of the Department of Management, School of Business, Accounting and Management. He had a short stint at another private university before deciding to continue his career in private education at Stamford College Petaling Jaya.
Robert had the better part of his tertiary education at California State University at Hayward, California, USA, in the early eighties and returned to Malaysia in late 1983 with an MBA (Finance) and a B. Sc. (High Honours) Business Administration (Marketing). He is also a holder of the Diploma in Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK.

Mr. Lawrence Chew
(Head, School of Economics, Accounting, and Finance)
Mr. Lawrence Chew Seng Chen (ICSA, CIMA, AIB, MIA (M), CA (England and Wales)) is the Head of the School of Economics, Accounting and Finance. His work experience relates to audit and accountancy, corporate planning and corporate finance. Mr. Chew was the Chief Internal Auditor of Alliance Bank, Corporate Planner of the MUI Group and General Manager (Finance and Corporate Planning) of the Lysaght Group.

Dr. Chua Tee Tee
(Head, School of Education and Law)
Dr. Chua Tee Tee is the Head, School of Education. With a certificate from the Malayan Teachers’ Training College, Kirkby, England and a B.A.(Hons) from the University of Malaya on a Federal scholarship, he completed his M.A. from Columbia University, New York on a Fulbright Travel Grant and a scholarship from The New York Institute for Special Education. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Malaya. Dr Chua had served as a secondary school teacher, an Education Officer with the Ministry of Education and as Lecturer, Associate Professor, Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Education, and Deputy Dean and Dean in the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Malaya. Following his retirement from the University of Malaya, Dr Chua taught at the Singapore Institute of Education and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Dr. Chan Kok Eng
(Head, School of Continuing Education and Training)
Dr. Chan Kok Eng (B.A (Hons), M.A (Malaya), Ph.D (Aberdeen)) is the Head of the School of Continuing Education and Training. He was a lecturer in the University of Malaya since 1969 and retired as an Associate Professor.

Dr. Kok Kim Lian
(Head, Postgraduate Programmes)
Dr. Kok Kim Lian is the Head, Postgraduate Programmes of Stamford College. Dr Kok graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (First Class Hons) degree in Economics from the University of Malaya. He was awarded the University Senior Scholarship for his performance in the first-year and second-year examinations and the University and Department Book Prizes for his overall examination performance by the University of Malaya. He was then awarded the Merdeka Scholarship by the British Government and completed a M.Sc degree in Statistics from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D degree in Statistics from the University of Edinburgh. He joined the Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya, as a lecturer and retired as a professor and Head of the Department of Applied Statistics. Dr. Kok has published about 40 papers in local and foreign journals. He has also presented more than 40 papers in local and overseas conferences.

Dr. Arichandran
(Advisor, School of Engineering)
Dr K. Arichandran has been appointed as Advisor to the Head of School of Engineering, Computing & Information Technology with effect from 2 January 2008. Dr Arichandran obtained his Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) degree in 1965 and Doctor of Philosophy in 1971 from the University of Malaya. He is a Professional Engineer registered with the Board of Engineers, Malaya and a Senior Member of the IEEE (USA).
Since 1996 he has been involved with the development of Satellite Engineering facilities, designs and systems including installation and commissioning of VHF/UHF/S -band ground station tracking facility and development of the X-Sat micro satellite space bus.
He was also the Academic Visitor (Imperial College, London in 1973), Visiting Scientist, (MIT,Boston, USA in 1979) and Academic Visitor, (University of Sydney in 1986).
Dr Ari has also published extensively in numerous overseas and local journals and conferences.

Dr. Lee Siew Eng
(Head, the North American Programme and A-Level Programme)
Dr Lee Siew Eng (B. Sc Hons (UM), Dip. Ed., M. Ed. (UM), Ph. D. (USM)) is the Head of the North American Programme and the A-Level Programme. Her work experience includes teaching in schools, as well as private and public institutions of higher learning. Dr. Lee has also served as a subject matter expert to the Open University, Malaysia (OUM) and other local universities. Dr Lee had worked as an educational consultant for the World Bank, the Ministry of Education, the Sabah State Government and the Multimedia Development Corporation Sdn. Bhd (MDeC) as well as other private institutions such as Intel. She had presented numerous papers on mathematics education in conferences at local and international levels. Prior to joining Stamford College, Dr Lee was a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Education, University of Malaya.

Mr Matthew Charles Keough
(Head, Stamford English Language Centre (SELC))
Mr Matthew Charles Keough is the Head, Stamford English Language Centre (SELC) effective January 2006. Prior to this appointment, he was a Senior Lecturer in the SELC and NADP. Matthew has a Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Arts from the Adelaide University, Australia. The B.A. Economics degree was taken with a double major in Economics and Psychology. The Bachelor of Arts degree was also taken with a double degree in Politics and Philosophy. Matthew joined Stamford in January 2001. He has a substantial number of years of teaching experience in large private educational institutions in the Klang Valley.



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