Meet our Team
Who are the key people behind the company?
Roy Thean
Managing Director
Roy Thean is a member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants, Malaysian Institute of Certified Public
Accountants and Institute of Internal Auditors Malaysia.
He began his career in 1994 as an articled student with PKF, a mid-sized international professional services
firm. His span of more than 8 years with the firm included a brief overseas stint with PKF Sydney in 2001. He
left PKF as a manager in 2003 to join Russell Bedford Malaysia (“RB Malaysia”). In 2007 he was appointed as
executive director of Russell Bedford Business Advisory Sdn Bhd, which is part of the operating group of RB
Malaysia. In 2009, he left RB Malaysia to start his own business venture.
With over 20 years of working experience in the local and international professional services firms, he has
been involved in rendering a wide and diverse range of professional services to listed companies, multinational
and large national enterprises. His work encompasses a wide range of professional services with his core
practice being in corporate finance and advisory work for transaction support services including business
valuations, financial due diligence, preparation of business plans, financial modelling, internal controls,
business risk reviews, corporate governance, risk management, merger and acquisition related services and
internal and external auditing.
He is also an Independent Non-Executive Director of two Public Listed Companies (“PLCs”) and Chairman of
Audit Committee of both of the PLCs.
Hong Cheong Liang
Director of Corporate Advisory
Hong Cheong Liang is a member of Malaysian Institute of Accountants, Certified Practising Accountants of Australia and Institute of Internal Auditors Malaysia.
He commenced his career as an audit assistant with Russell Bedford LC & Company (“RBLC”) in 2004. He is well exposed in the area of internal audit for public listed companies (“PLCs”), external financial audit, taxation, liquidation, financial modeling and corporate advisory. His significant assignments include performing internal audit functions for various PLCs, conducting various financial due diligences for merger and acquisition exercises and developing financial models particularly for a national level high impact project.
He left RBLC to join a boutique investment advisory firm as an Assistant Vice President in 2008 where he garnered his corporate finance and management experiences. He was involved in diverse assignments ranging from advising on corporate finance matters in Malaysia as well as overseas, to assisting in the management of a leading shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur. After his stint in the firm, he moved on to provide corporate and management advisory services as well as internal audit and risk management services to small medium enterprises and PLCs.
Prior to joining Talent League, he was a Finance Manager of a large manufacturing corporation based in the Peoples Republic of China, a Group Accountant of a PLC, a Financial Controller of a company listed on AIMS. Currently, he is an Independent Non-Executive Director of 3 PLCs.
Leena Sim
Associate Director
Leena Sim, a Dean’s List graduate with a degree in Bachelor of Business Management from University of Queensland, and is an associate member of Institute of Internal Auditors Malaysia.
She started her career as a commercial accounting and HR executive for several private companies involved in the construction and facilities management industry.
Being one of the pioneer staff with Talent League, she decided to change her career path to be a professional member being involved in rendering a wide and diverse range of professional services specializing in internal audit, business process management and internal control processes.
To date, she has involved in more than 100 internal audit and internal control review assignments for various public listed companies.
Charlie Ong
Senior Consultant
Charlie Ong graduated with BA (Honours) from University of Greenwich, UK and Master of Science in Accounting and Financial Management from London Metropolitan University, UK. He has many years of experience in the manufacturing industry, providing consultation and performance improvement to clients of small and medium enterprises, public listed companies as well as multinational corporations.
He leads the internal audit team covering the South East Asia Region as well as Greater China and currently, he is involved in internal control reviews for companies seeking Initial Public Offering (IPO) on National Stock Exchange of Australia (NSX), Singapore Stock Exchange and Bursa Malaysia and developing Risk Management Structure, Sustainability Report and Framework in compliance of post or pre listing requirements.
He also provides advisory on Transfer Pricing policy assessment and reporting, Withholding Tax and International Tax advice and planning across Singapore, Hong Kong, UK, Republic of Korea (South Korea) and Thailand.
Currently, he is involved in the implementation of the Anti-Bribery and Corruption Policy, Programs and Training due to the amendment of BURSA Listing requirement on Malaysia Anti-Corruption Commission Act (Amendment) 2018 for listed companies in Malaysia.
He is also lecturing in private colleges for ACCA module, UK diploma and degree. He is a HRDF certified trainer and also a PECB certified trainer for ISO training.
His professional credentials include:
- Fellow Member of Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (FCMA)
- Member of Chartered Global Management Account (CGMA)
- Member of Malaysia Institute of Accountants (MIA)
- Certified ISO 37001 Implementer [Anti-Bribery Management Systems]
- Certified Lead Risk Manager in ISO 31000 [Risk Management]
- Lead auditor for ISO 14001 [Environmental Management Systems]
- Aero Space Standard, AS 9100 D Implementer
