UCrest’s iMedic™ Cloud Hospital is currently used by renowned doctors and patients in US, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam and Middle East countries for the diagnosis, management and treatment of chronic diseases such as cardiovascular diseases (CVD), cancer, diabetes, hypertension, sleep apnea, stroke rehabilitation and other diseases.
The vision of the Company is that every home shall be a super clinic with wearable or home medical devices of the latest technologies that are capable of measuring or monitoring a large number of vital signs of the body regularly and wirelessly uploading the data to the iMedic™ Cloud Hospital and doctors at the iMedic™ Cloud Hospital would be able to provide online consultation and prescription.
Our mission is to enable patients with chronic diseases to be able to take measurement of their vital signs, ECG, Ultrasound and eventually blood tests on a chip at home that is currently done in the hospital and patients can then have these data uploaded and stored in iMedic™ Cloud Hospital. They can also upload test reports and CT Scan, X-Ray, Ultra Sound and MRI images done at the hospital to iMedic™ Cloud Hospital. Patients can manage their own health conditions under the proactive supervision and consultation of the doctors without having to visit the doctors in the clinic or hospital.
Mr. Eg Kah Yee started his career as System Analyst with Phoenix Data Systems Inc., a Silicon Valley company in Santa Clara, California USA, where he developed VLSI Layout Verification System. In 1985, he joined Daisy Systems Corporation; a Silicon Valley company listed on NASDAQ based in Mountain View, California which he was the R&D Project Manager responsible for the development of second generation Digital Logic Simulator (DLSII) where he designed and implemented the simulation engine and DBMS. In 1988, he was promoted to be the Director of North Asia Region responsible for business in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea.
In 1990, he left Daisy Systems Corporation and joined Synopsys Inc., a Silicon Valley based startup pioneer in logic synthesis and High Level Design for ASIC and VLSI design. He started as the Regional Manager for South Asia Pacific Operations where he was responsible for the starting and growing of the business in Taiwan, Asean countries, India,Australia and New Zealand. The Company was listed on NASDAQ in 1992. He was later promoted to be the General Manager for Asia Pacific Operation where he was responsible for global business operation excluding America, Europe and Japan.
In 1996, he left Synopsys Inc. and started to invest and groom companies. He started Canvas Technology Inc. in Taiwan,a company specialize in Real Time Operating System (RTOS) for embedded designs where the team has done numerous co-development of set-top-boxes, networking products, PDA and defense systems. He has also invested in Silicon Vision Inc., a Silicon Valley company specialize in optical products, in Freemont, California together with two Venture Capitalists from Taiwan and a few high net-worth individuals from USA.
Currently, he also sits on the board of Key ASIC Berhad and various private limited companies. Apart from his brother, Eg Kaa Chee, who is also a Non-Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company, he does not have any family relationship with any of the Directors or major shareholder of the Company. He is a major shareholder of the Company. He has no material conflict of interest with the Group other than that which has been disclosed to the Board of Directors. He has not been convicted of any offenses within the past 5 years and has not been imposed any publicly sanctions or penalty by the relevant regulatory bodies during the financial year.
Non Independent Non-executive Director
Mr. Eg Kaa Chee, a Malaysian, male, aged 53, was appointed as the Director of Palette Multimedia Berhad since 1997.
He obtained his LLB from University of Malaya in 1989. He started his legal practice in 1990. He specialized in litigation and conveyance. He is the senior partner of Rajah, Lau & Associates. Presently he is the Legal Advisor for several companies and non-governmental organizations.
Mr. Eg Kaa Chee does not hold any directorship in any other public companies. Apart from his brother, Eg Kah Yee, who is also a Managing Director of the Company, he does not have any family relationship with any of the Directors or major shareholder of the Company. He has no material conflict of interest with the Group other than that which has been disclosed to the Board of Directors. He has not been convicted of any offenses within the past 5 years and has not been imposed any publicly sanctions or penalty by the relevant regulatory bodies during the financial year.
Independent Non-Executive Director
N Chanthiran A/L Nagappan, a Malaysian, male, aged 57, was appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director of UCrest Berhad on 26 August 2022. He graduated with a Bachelor of Accounting (Honours) degree from University of Malaya in 1988. He is also a Chartered Accountant, Certified Public Accountant, Certified Risk Professional and Certified Financial Planner. He started his career as tax executive in Messrs Coopers & Lybrand in 1988. In 1994, he joined Arab-Malaysian Merchant Bank Berhad as Assistant Manager. In 1995, he worked as Corporate Finance Manager with Sadec Group. He started his audit practice in 2001. He served as an Independent Non-Executive Director of Key ASIC Berhad since 14 December 2007 for about 14 years until his resignation in August 2022. He has more than 20 years of corporate finance experience in the areas of listing, financial and corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisition. Currently, he is a partner of Chanthiran & Co. and CN & Associates. He is also a director of MR Tax Consultant (M) Sdn. Bhd. and Credience Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. He is the Chairman of the Audit Committee, Nomination Committee and Option Committee of UCrest. Mr N Chanthiran does not hold any directorship in other public companies. He does not have any family relationship with any of the other Directors and/or major shareholders of the Company. He has no material conflict of interest with the Group other than that which has been disclosed to the Board of Directors. He has not been convicted of any offences (other than traffic offences) within the past 5 years and has not been imposed any public sanctions or penalty by the relevant regulatory bodies during the financial year.
Independent Non-executive Director
Prof Dr. Low Teck Seng is currently the CEO of National Research Foundation (NRF) of Singapore , Manning Director of Agency of science, Technology and Research (A*), Professor at Nanyang Technology university and Professor at National University of Singapore. Some of the significant positions that he held before include CEO of parkway education Pte Ltd and Group SVP of Parkway Holdings, CEO of Republic Polytechnic and Dean of Faculty of Engineering at National University of Singapore. Additionally ,Prof Low also sits on the board of listed companies. Born and grew up in Malaysia, he received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of Southampton ,UK.
Non Independent Non-executive Director
En. Abdul Razak Bin Dato’ Haji Ipap, a Malaysian, male, aged 57, was appointed as the Director of Palette Multimedia Berhad on 1 June 2001. He was re-designated to a Non-Independent Non-Executive Director of Palette on 25 August 2010. On 8 September 2016, he was re-designated as an Independent Non-Executive Director of Palette. He graduated with Bachelor of Science in Agribusiness from Universiti Pertanian Malaysia (currently known as Universiti Putra Malaysia) in 1988. He started his career by joining Shell Chemical Sdn Bhd as Trainee Executive in year 1986, responsible for sales development for the Company. In 1988, he joined United Engineers (M) Bhd as Business Development Executive where he was responsible for developing new sales and managing the existing project portfolio. From 1993 to 1995, he was attached to Sime Logistics Sdn Bhd as Manager in Operations and Marketing. In 1995, he joined Celcom (M) Sdn Bhd as Senior Manager (Logistics) responsible for the smooth flowing of the entire company’s logistic and was subsequently promoted as the Vice president Logistics. He left Celcom in Year 2000 to start off his own career in IT business. He is a member of the Audit Committee and Nomination Committee of Palette. En. Abdul Razak Bin Dato’ Haji Ipap is also an Independent Non-Executive Director of M-Mode Berhad, a company listed on Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad. He does not have any family relationship with any of the Directors and/or major shareholders of the Company. He has no material conflict of interest with the Group other than that which has been disclosed to the Board of Directors. He has not been convicted of any offences within the past 5 years and has not been imposed any publicly sanctions or-penalty by the relevant regulatory bodies during the financial year.
Independent Non-Executive Director
Dato’ Dr. Mohd Fikri Bin Abdullah, a Malaysian, male, aged 56, was appointed as the Independent Non-Executive Director of UCrest Berhad on 16 May 2018. He is a member of the Remuneration Committee of UCrest. Dato’ Dr. Fikri is a principal consultant of the team for specialist Imperial Doctors in China. He is an outstanding Cardiovascular & Thoracic surgeon trained in United Kingdom from October 1986 until July 2000, specializing in adult surgery, he is in private practice at KPJ Ampang Puteri Hospital (a JCI accredited hospital). He is dedicated to teaching, new technology, new surgical technique as well as medical research. He initiated and submitted a proposal to the Ministry of Health, Malaysia; a structured curriculum for cardiothoracic surgery training leading to a postgraduate degree in cardiothoracic surgery in August 2000. He pioneered a few new techniques in cardiothoracic surgery at National University Hospital Malaysia between August 2000 and December 2003 such as: 1.Beating Heart Coronary Bypass Surgery (Off-Pump CABG), 2. Endoscopic Vein Harvesting (EVH), 3. Video Assisted Thoracoscopic (VATS) Lung Surgery, VATS Sympathectomy and VATS Thymectomy, 4. Blood Cardioplegia for myocardial protection, 5. Radial Artery conduit and Harmonic Scalpel harvesting technique, 6. Outpatient Treatment of Pneumothorax Using Pneumostat (Heimlich Valve) Device. In 2002, he performed the world’s first successful SVC Bypass surgery using Bovine Pericardium. In 2003, he performed the world’s first successful Off-Pump Coronary Bypass in a High Risk Dextrocardia patient. For these clinical achievement, he was awarded The Outstanding Young Malaysian (TOYM) Award in 2006. In 2009, a conjoint effort with National University Hospital of Malaysia (UKMMC) cardiac team, he introduced a new technique of endoscopic vein harvesting using a German made Vascular Micro Milling System (VMMS). In 2011, he pioneered the use of thermo reactive Nitinol sternal closure clips (Flexigrip) in Malaysia. In February 2012, he pioneered the use of Everpoint (tungsten-rhenium alloy) suture by Johnson & Johnson for Coronary Bypass Surgery cases in Malaysia. The first 72 successful cases were presented during Cardiac Review Symposium at University of Singapore in November 2012. Dato’ Dr. Mohd Fikri does not hold any directorship in other public companies, He does not have any family relationship with any of the other Directors and/or major shareholders of the Company. He has no material conflict of interest with the Group other than that which has been disclosed to the Board of Directors. He has not been convicted of any offences (other than traffic offences) within the past 5 years and has not been imposed any public sanctions or penalty by the relevant regulatory bodies during the financial year.
Independent Non-executive Director
Ms. Chuan Tsui Ju, a Malaysian, female, aged 56, was appointed as the Independent Non-Executive Director of Palette Multimedia Berhad on 22 November 2013. She completed the General Certificate of Education. She joined construction company, Lim & Chia Sdn Bhd as an Account Executive right after finishing her accounting courses in 1980 and subsequently in 1985, she left the Company and continues her career in construction and development industry with Ample’s group. In 1990, she was hired by Jujutsu Industries group initially as an Administrator and rose to the rank of Director responsible for the whole operation of the Group. She left Jujutsu Industry in 1996 to set up her own business in tutorial sector and sold it off in 1999. Currently, she is working as Director of Project Coordinator at A&P Solution Enterprise which specializes in advertising and promotion activities. She is a member of the Audit Committee of Palette. Ms. Chuan Tsui Ju does not hold any directorship in any other public companies. She does not have any family relationship with any of the Directors and/or major shareholders of the Company. She has no material conflict of interest with the Group other than that which has been disclosed to the Board of Directors. She has not been convicted of any offenses within the past 5 years and has not been imposed any publicly sanctions or penalty by the relevant regulatory bodies during the financial year.