Liw Chong Liong, a Malaysian male aged 62 is the Promoter, substantial shareholder and Non-Independent Non-Executive Chairman of our Company. He was appointed to our Board on 1 July 2022. He is also a director of MBN Enterprise, which is our wholly-owned subsidiary company.
Liw Chong Liong graduated with a Diploma in Technology (Building) in 1984 from Tunku Abdul Rahman College, Kuala Lumpur Main Campus (now known as Tunku Abdul Rahman University College).
After his graduation, he commenced his career in 1984 by joining a construction company known as Yusoff and Saw (Partnership) as a site coordinator.
Subsequently, in 1986, he left his first job and joined Modular-Puolimatka Sdn Bhd, another construction company as a site coordinator. He was mainly responsible for coordinating of construction project until its completion in 1987.
From 1987 to 1990, he worked at Alpine Development Sdn Bhd as project manager and was responsible for managing the construction projects.
From 1990 onward, Liw Chong Liong decided to venture into construction industry by setting up his first partnership company known as Finecon Building Construction which had subsequently ceased operation in 2011. He also started his other partnership company known as L C L Construction in 1994 to undertake the construction work, where the partnership was subsequently terminated in 1999. In 1997, he incorporated MLCL Construction with principal activities as general contractors. MLCL Construction is our Promoter and substantial shareholder. In MLCL Construction, he overseas the overall management of housing projects including tendering of the projects, site management and managing the company's financial, which assumed such role until present.
In 2005, he ventured into swiftlet farming business through a company known as Little Concord (M) Sdn Bhd, where he oversees the business operations of the company until present.
In 2006 he joined Melaka Bird's Nest Merchants Association (Persatuan Pedagang Sarang Burung Melaka) as a member until present.
In November 2012, Liw Chong Liong and his business partner, Lee Keng Lip acquired MBN Enterprise's (then known as Zaman Kuala Sdn Bhd) shares with the intention of venturing into property developement and land acquisition activities which the plans did not materialise. Hence, the company remained dormant from 2012 until 2016. in 2016, Liw Chong Liong approached Lee Wei Kong and Lavernt Chen to join MBN Enterprise to venture into the business of exporting RUCEBN.
Liw Chong Liong was the Vice President of Federation of Malaysia Bird's Nest Merchants Association (Persekutuan Persatuan Pedagang Sarang Burung Malaysia) from 2014 to 2018 and President of Melaka Bird's Nest Merchants Association (Persatuan Pedagang Sarang Burung Melaka) from 2012 to 2017. In 2021, he was appointed as an advisor to Melaka Bird's Nest Merchants Association (Persatuan Pedagang Sarang Burung Melaka) where he was involved in advising the association on matters relating to the bird's nest industry.
In addition, in 2015, he and Lavernt Chen participated as project committee member to develop the CoVP for the RUCEBN industry established by SIRIM Berhad among others, to provide guidelines on compliance in respect of the EBN harvested from caves and ranches including but not limited to sorting, pre-cleaning, drying, grading, trimming, weighing and packaging. The CoVP was adopted in the same year.
Save for his interest in MLCL Construction, he does not have any family relationship with any of our Promoters, Directors, substantial shareholders and/or key senior management.