About Us
VisionEthics is a leading consultancy specializing in integrity, governance, and anti corruption. Our team comprises seasoned professionals with vast experience in strategic consulting, corporate finance, audit, risk management, and business advisory. We are passionate about helping organizations create a culture of integrity and transparency.
VisionEthics achieves our mission by:
- Developing Innovative Solutions: We innovate continuously to provide cutting edge solutions that address the intricate dynamics of integrity and governance within organizations.
- Fostering Trust and Accountability: We prioritize building trust and fostering accountability in all our client engagements, ensuring transparency and reliability in our services.
- Navigating Complex Regulatory Landscapes: We specialize in helping organizations navigate and comply with the complexities of regulatory frameworks, offering clear guidance and strategic insights.
- Promoting Ethical Practices: Our approach emphasizes ethical standards and practices, guiding organizations to adopt and uphold principles that promote long term sustainability and reputation.
- Customizing Solutions: Each solution is tailored to meet the specific needs and challenges of our clients, ensuring relevance and effectiveness in diverse operational contexts.
- Educating and Empowering Clients: We empower our clients with knowledge and skills to independently manage and mitigate risks associated with integrity and governance issues.
- Monitoring and Adaptation: Continuous monitoring and adaptation of strategies enable us to stay ahead of regulatory changes and evolving industry standards, ensuring proactive compliance.
- Collaborative Partnerships: We foster collaborative partnerships with our clients, working closely to co-create solutions that align with their strategic objectives and operational realities.
- Measuring Impact: We assess and measure the impact of our solutions, providing actionable insights and recommendations for continuous improvement and enhancement of governance practices.
Our People
Our team of experts and partners have grown, so has the depth and expanse of our expertise. In 2020, the firm was established as VisionEthics Advisory Services Sdn Bhd (“VisionEthics”), led by the three partners and an experienced support team with diverse expertise.
Founder & Director – Mohd Rezaidi Mohd Ishak
Rezaidi specializes in Integrity Assessment Tool (IAT), Community Integrity Building (CIB), Corruption Risk Management (CRM), implementation of ISO 37001: Anti-Corruption Management System (ABMS), Guidelines on Adequate Procedures Section 17(A) Corporate Liability Provisions of MACC Act and also conducts training on instruments related to the Corporate Integrity System. Rezaidi also serves as an advisor in the task force in connection with the establishment of the Integrity and Governance Unit for the private sector and statutory bodies.
Mohd Rezaidi Mohd Ishak is a former Deputy Director and Lead Consultant from the Malaysian Institute of Integrity. He served 14 years of national service at the Institute. His primary scope there was promoting The National Anti-Corruption Plan agenda (NACP) and related instruments such as Anti Bribery Management System ISO37001, Corruption Risk Management, Integrity Assessment Tool and Corporate Integrity System training programme to promote corporate governance, business ethics and corporate sustainability.
He is also the former President of the Malaysian Certified Integrity Officer (ACEIO) from 2012-2016. During his tenure, ACEIO played a key role in initiating the cooperation of ACEIO and SIRIM to introduce ABMS ISO37001: 2016 certification. He is also actively involved in the development of standards (ISO and Standard Malaysia) with the Department of Standard Malaysia and has been a regular committee and associate member in the development of standards such as MS1900: 2015 Shariah Quality Management System, ISO26000 Social Responsibilities, ISO 37001: 2016 ABMS and ISO37000 Organisations the Government.
Founder & Director – Datin Radhika Nandrajog
Datin Radhika specializes in areas related to establishing Integrity and Anti-Corruption programmes, implementation of ISO 37001: Anti-Bribery Management System and implementation of Corruption Risk Management, S17A and Adequate Procedures Guidelines.
Datin Radhika Nandrajog has over 23 years of cross border experience in strategic consulting, corporate finance and audit, governance and integrity, and anti-corruption and risk management advisory services.
She was a former Consultant at Inspection and Advisory Division, Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC). Her primary role as Chief Operating Officer, was to establish the first Anti-Corruption and Ethics (ACE) Centre in Malaysia. This Centre acts as a centralised resource; knowledge and solution centre when dealing with corruption in Malaysia from an educative and preventive stand and is used to connect the MACC to the public and private sectors to help fight corruption. The fundamental objective was to enhance integrity, governance and address anti-corruption on the agenda of organisations. Her responsibilities included reporting directly to the Chief Commissioner and Board. Her roles also included providing support for developing MACC’s Corruption Risk Management (CRM) services.
Prior to this, Radhika was part of the Corporate Finance team at PricewaterhouseCoopers Malaysia, providing valuation and strategic consulting services to clients operating within the Government and Private sectors. Her notable contributions include the development of strategic blueprints for public listed companies, project management and financial due diligence of major conglomerates. Radhika is a qualified Fellow Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland (ACA, FCA). She trained and worked with BDO Simpson Xavier (Ireland) and was the leader in charge of the firm’s major clients including large property development and investment, telecommunication and pharmaceutical companies amongst other major conglomerates operating within Ireland and the United Kingdom.
Founder & Director – Teh Chau Chin
Teh’s specialization is in Corruption Risk Management implementation and training; establishing integrity programs, implementation of ISO 37001: Anti-Bribery Management System (ABMS), and Enterprise Risk Management. He regularly speaks at conferences on corruption risk management, S17A and Adequate Procedures Guidelines.
Mr. Teh Chau Chin was a former Consultant at Inspection and Advisory Division, Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC). His primary scope of work is in establishing Enterprise Risk Management framework (ERM) for MACC and developing Corruption Risk Management (CRM) service for public and private sectors. His role also includes providing support for MACC’s Anti-Corruption & Ethics Centre (ACE).
Prior to MACC, Mr Teh was Executive Director at KPMG Bangkok and Associate Director at KPMG Malaysia in the Risk Advisory and Compliance Services practices. He has over 26 years’ experience in financial & internal audits, enterprise risk management and other governance, risk and compliance advisory services. He worked closely with the boards and senior management on establishing ERM framework in line with international risk management standards. Mr Teh also served 2 years as the Chief Risk Officer of a public listed company in Malaysia.
Tze Chin has over 12 years of working experience in a variety of capacities at both private companies and civil society organization. Her work has bridged both public and private sectors and she has been involved in advocacy positions related to the environment, sustainability, and anti-corruption, corporate governance and boardroom issues.
She spent 5 years as an Anti-Corruption Advocate for Transparency International Malaysia (TI-M), overseeing the Chapter’s programme development, advocacy, fund-raising, communications, capacity and coalition building and developing strong relations with relevant stakeholders. Her areas of work include citizen engagement on corruption issues, business integrity, youth integrity promotion, anti-corruption research indexes such as Corruption Perceptions Index, Global Corruption Barometer and Business Integrity Country Agenda (BICA). She was involved in the development of the recently released National Anti-Corruption Plan (NACP) and represented TI-M at the United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC) regional meetings and country review.
Beginning 2019, Tze Chin worked as a part-time researcher at a National Institute of Director – covering board room issues such as board diversity, corporate governance code, and environmental, sustainability and governance (ESG). In her freelance capacity, Tze Chin took on the role of analyst in corruption risk management.
She has over 5 years working experience working on climate change issues, mitigation measures, Clean Development Mechanisms (CDMs), carbon mapping programmes, renewable energy initiatives, energy efficiency projects, and forestry advocacy. She was involved in several emission reduction projects that had led to successful registration and issuance of over 20,000 carbon credits by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). She holds a Master of Business Administration in Corporate Governance and a Bachelor Degree in Wood Science and Technology.
Over the course of 15 years in Malaysia, Wan Teng has worked at one of the world’s largest healthcare companies that operates multiregional facilities. In a business development role, Wan Teng has worked with diverse stakeholders on M&A projects to execute due diligence deployment, viability assessments, board proposals, formalizing the acquisitions and post-acquisition integration exercises. Subsequently, she took on the role of Compliance Officer, and had been responsible for implementing the company’s Compliance Program directives and instruments, and managing its effectiveness. She was trained and mentored by the Corporate Office and Regional Compliance leaders.
Having built a compliance career at a Global 500 company of a highly regulated industry that is subject to increasing legal complexities worldwide, Wan Teng has an experiential exposure to observing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 1977 and aligning anti-corruption requirements to corporate business practices.
Presently, Wan Teng blogs about the ethics and compliance discipline, develops micro-learning resources and has self-penned guidelines for best practices in anti-bribery and anti-corruption compliance from experience and research. She specializes in procedural documentation on compliance to policies, inter alia, the code of conduct, business courtesies and hospitality, third party due diligence and risk management, sponsorships, donations, conflicts of interest, whistleblowing avenues, and case management workflows.
Wan Teng focuses on building compliance culture sustainability within an organisation to inhibit misconducts and mismanagement. She adapts various laws and regulations, among them, the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2009, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 1977, Sapin II Law & UK Bribery Act 2010, and the spirit of the Sunshine Act & Sarbanes-Oxley Act components into providing agility to solutions, developing systematic processes and right-fitting continuous improvements within a compliance ecosystem.
Project Advisors
Subject Matter Specialist – Rosnan Mohd Ali
Rosnan bin Mohd Ali is currently a dedicated Technical Expert for Certification Audit ISO 37001:2016 – Anti-Bribery Management System, with diverse investigation operation experience under the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Act 2009, for both the public and private sectors.
He has experience in providing customized solutions to address specific customers’ requirements, improving overall implementation, toward building a comprehensive adequate Anti-Bribery Management System (ABMS). He is a Certified Integrity Officer, Member of the Association of Certified Integrity Officer (ACeIO) and was with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Agency for 36 years, including 9 years with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Academy (MACA) where he oversaw the Corporate Integrity Development Centre (CIDC). He retired from Malaysian Anti-Corruption Agency in March 2016, as Senior Assistant Commissioner.
He was also instrumental in crafting the guideline to assist public and private organisation in understanding what are the adequate procedures that should be implemented to prevent the occurrence of corrupt practices in relation to their activities. Pursuant to Section 17A (5) of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Act 2009, referring to commercial organisation, 5 adequate procedures principles his expertise include the focus areas of Top-Level Commitment, Risk Assessment, Undertaking Control Measures, Systemic Review, Monitoring and Enforcement as well as Training & Communication.
Subject Matter Specialist – Alan Kirupakaran
Alan has over 30 years of diversified experience in the private, public and civil society sectors in the areas of governance, integrity, anti-corruption and training.
He was Special Officer to the Federal Minister responsible for Governance and Integrity, and then as Principle Private Secretary to the Federal Minister, was responsible for National Unity and Social Well-being. Alan’s work on Governance Policy include contribution towards legislation on statutory Corporate Liability offences, leading to amendments to the MACC Act 2009 and new provisions which was enforced in June 2020. He oversaw the setting up of Governance & Integrity committees across all government ministries and high risk agencies, both at the federal and state level. In partnership with the Malaysian Institute of Corporate Governance, he helped research and produce the inaugural 2017 report on Transparency in Corporate Reporting which assessed Malaysia’s Top 100 Public Listed Companies. He has trained over 250 Integrity Officers and assessed more than 40 organisational Integrity plans with diverse corruption risks. He has also presented and moderated on Governance and Integrity at more than 100 industry conferences, seminars and workshops to various stakeholders including government ministries and agencies, business groupings & civil society organisations. Prior to joining the government, Alan was the Executive Director (ED) of TI Malaysia, the local chapter of Transparency International (TI).
Alan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Deakin University, Australia. He is passionate about personal integrity and strongly supportive of initiatives which improve the well-being of citizens.
Subject Matter Specialist – Marcellinus bin Frederick Lamhai
Marcellinus bin Frederick Lamhai has over 20 years of diversified experience & in the private & public society sectors in the areas of governance, integrity, anti-corruption and training.
He was Section Head of Integrity for 2 years (2019-2020) with Pengurusan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd. He was pioneer member of Integrity section and responsible for planning, development and implementation integrity and governance framework of Air Selangor. His task , developing and executing corruption risk management (CRM), conducting assessment on ethical practices in the Group, particularly on staff literacy of the policies, procedures and standards; and the development, maintenance and implementation of regular awareness and understanding programs in ethics and integrity.
His biggest uptakes were to enhance the governance and integrity for Procurement department particularly in dealing with 3rd parties (such as vendors and contractors) and high value contacts.
Prior to Pengurusan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd, Marcel was Head of Continuous Improvement & Project management at CAE Kuala Lumpur Sdn Bhd (formerly AirAsia Academy). He was Executive Director at Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Malaysia from 2015 to 2016.
He is also highly dedicated to the development and advocacy within the field of learning & development, sustainability, environment, process improvement, safety and quality. Marcellinus is also Certified Integrity Officer (CeIO)
He was on the advisory panel for MyHijau’s training for Malaysia Green Technology, Vice President of local chapter, United Nation Global Compact and Executive member of Business Council for Sustainability and Responsibility Malaysia (BCSRM).