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He also has licence to the territory of Singapore.<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-center\">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.<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-center\">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.\u00a0 Under his leadership, Nylex not only won the country\u2019s <strong>1991 Quality Management Award<\/strong> from MITI, Malaysia but also became the <strong>FIRST company in Malaysia<\/strong> to be awarded the <strong>ISO 9001 certification<\/strong> by SIRIM in November 1991.\u00a0\u00a0 He was also voted <strong>Boss-Of-The-Year 1991\/92<\/strong>. Nylex (Malaysia) was ranked <strong>fifth in the top ten <\/strong>best managed companies in Malaysia by Asia Money &amp; Finance in July\/Aug 1992. Under his stewardship from 1986 to 1994, sales grew from RM20 million to &gt;RM500 million from 1980-1994.<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-center\">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 \u2013 2000, the annual sales doubled and PAT increased fourfold.<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-center\">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. 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