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Profile Of Directors
DATO’ SERI KELVIN KIEW KWONG SEN
Chairman / Independent Non-Executive Director
Dato’ Seri Kelvin Kiew Kwong Sen [Malaysian / Age 61] is the Chairman and Independent
Non-Executive Director of ViTrox. He was appointed to the Board of Directors of ViTrox
on 8 July 2005. He is also Chairman of the Audit Committee of the Company.
He graduated from National Taiwan University with Bachelor of Science in Mechanical
Engineering Degree in 1972 and later received his Master of Science in Industrial
Engineering Degree from UC Berkeley. After graduation, he worked in various technical
and management positions at Advanced Micro Devices, Hewlett Packard Malaysia, and
Hewlett Packard California.
He is now the Chairman and President of Mini-Circuits Technologies Malaysia, President
of Gibraltar Semiconductor, San Jose, California, President of Blue Cell Technologies,
Sacramento, California, Executive President of Mini-Circuits New York, and Chairman of
Mini-Circuits Taiwan Ltd. He is also the Chairman of ViTrox Corporation Berhad and ACX
Ceramic Taiwan.
He is very active in community services including sponsors of various charitable and educational projects. He is the founder and Chairman of the
Mini-Circuits Scholarship Foundation. This Foundation has been awarding two full scholarships a year for deserving University students for a full
4-year degree programme at local Universities.
He has been serving as a member of Penang Competitiveness Committee since 2003. He was also the Vice Chairman and Board of Directors of
InvestPenang Berhad until March 2008. He is now the Co-Chairman of the Industrial Advisory Panel for Penang. He is also the Advisor for the Young
Entrepreneurs’ Association of Malaysia, Penang Alumni Association of Taiwan, Software Consortium of Penang, Penang RF Cluster and Penang
Automation Cluster. He is also a popular speaker at seminars and conferences both in Malaysia and overseas.
CHU JENN WENG
Managing Director
Chu Jenn Weng [Malaysian / Age 39] is a promoter and substantial shareholder of ViTrox.
He is the Managing Director of ViTrox Group and currently leads the technical team of
ViTrox Group, which includes the Research and Development (R&D), application
development, project implementation and system service and supports. He was
appointed to the Board of Directors of ViTrox on 7 July 2005. He is the Chairman of the
Executive Committee of the Company.
Mr Chu has more than 12 years experience in machine vision and related field. He
started his first project in machine vision back in 1992 while he was still studying in
Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) majoring in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Upon
graduation from the University, he was employed as an instrumentation engineer in
Hewlett-Packard Malaysia (HPM) (now known as Agilent Technologies Sdn Bhd), where
he initiated and led the in-house 4-person machine vision team for more than 5 years.
During his 5 ½ year career in HPM, he was directly involved in the R&D of machine vision
systems, system set-up and support, as well as setting objectives and development
plan for the entire team.
Mr Chu completed his part-time post graduate study in image processing from
USM in 1998. While learning the fundamental and required techniques in this field, he traveled to countries like Singapore and United States of
America (USA), to study and evaluate the need of those technologies and its potential for growth. He left HPM in 1998 to start-up his own business
with his partner/co-founder, Siaw Kok Tong in machine vision. Thereafter, the partnership was then converted into a private limited company in
March 2000 and was officially named ViTrox Technologies Sdn Bhd (VTSB).
During the start-up phase of VTSB, Mr Chu was involved in every aspect of the business, starting from sales and marketing, R&D of vision system,
part purchasing, finance as well as service and support.
As the Managing Director of ViTrox Group, he oversees the entire operations of the business including company objectives, goals and directions.
Mr Chu received the certificate of merit under the Business, Economic and Entrepreneurial Accomplishment category from The Outstanding Young
Malaysian (TOYM) Awards 2005 organized by the Junior Chamber International Malaysia. He was also the top nominee under the Technology
Entrepreneur of the Year from Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of The Year – Malaysia 2005.
