Richard Wong
Richard left Nylex Malaysia, part of the London-based worldwide BTR group in June 1994 as Managing Director/Group CEO after 18 years with the Group to found Vistage Malaysia (then TEC Asia Centre) which has licence to the internationally time-proven Vistage process. He also has licence to the territory of Singapore.
Armed with two business degrees from Australia and after working with multi-national companies both at home and overseas in senior finance positions in various industries, he was appointed as the Financial Controller/Company Secretary with Nylex in January 1976, General Manager/Director in 1980 and promoted to Group CEO / Managing Director in 1985.
He was instrumental in introducing the Adizes collaborative leadership methodology in 1983 starting with the Polymer business and later in Tamco Group and other subsidiaries within the Nylex Group. Under his leadership, Nylex not only won the country’s 1991 Quality Management Award from MITI, Malaysia but also became the FIRST company in Malaysia to be awarded the ISO 9001 certification by SIRIM in November 1991. He was also voted Boss-Of-The-Year 1991/92. Nylex (Malaysia) was ranked fifth in the top ten best managed companies in Malaysia by Asia Money & Finance in July/Aug 1992. Under his stewardship from 1986 to 1994, sales grew from RM20 million to >RM500 million from 1980-1994.
Whilst leading Vistage, he was sought to turnaround a large glove manufacturing company with subsidiaries and sales offices in 25 countries in August 1996. From 1997 – 2000, the annual sales doubled and PAT increased fourfold.
Richard is the Independent Non-Executive Director of Scientex Berhad and Khind Holdings Berhad and also serves as the Chairman of the Audit Committee of both the companies. At the Chairworld in early 2018, he was declared winner of the 2017 Don Cope Award by Vistage Worldwide for his selfless service to Vistage members and the community and is honored on the Vistage ‘Hall of Fame’.
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Vistage members represent nearly every industry across a range of small to large businesses. This diversity is key to furnishing advisory boards of members from non-competing industries, and providing you with relevant expertise, regardless of your industry or company size.
