Hong Kean Yong

Hong Kean Yong, a Malaysian male aged 63, was appointed to the Board of Scicom on 1 January 2025. He became Chairman of the Risk and Sustainability Committee on 27 August 2025. He earned a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Malaya.

Between April 2011 and June 2018, he served as Senior Vice President of Strategic Planning and Technology Advisor at Taylor’s Education Group, where he advised the Group Chief Executive Officer on technology adoption and supervised the Chief Information Officer of the Higher Education Division.

Prior to that, he was the Group Chief Information Officer at Hong Leong Financial Group Berhad from April 2008 to March 2011. In this role, he was responsible for formulating the Group’s IT strategy and overseeing all subsidiaries’ IT functions. He contributed significantly to shaping the Group’s IT vision and architecture, aligning technology initiatives with business objectives.

He is currently an Independent Non-Executive Director of AMMB Holdings Berhad.