Velayuthan a/l Tan Kim Song was appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director of TSH on 24 November 2023. He also serves as a member of the Audit Committee.

He has a Diploma in Management from the Malaysian Institute of Management in 1983. He served Multi-Purpose Holdings Berhad for 5 years before joining IJM Corporation Berhad in 1985. In 1994, he was appointed Group General Manager and later as Executive Director in 1997 and Managing Director in 2003. He was appointed as Group Executive Director of IJM Corporation Berhad from 2001 to 2003. He was the catalyst & spearheaded the listing of IJM Plantations Berhad on the Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad in 2003. He was the Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director of IJM Plantations Berhad in 2004 and retired in 2010. He was later appointed as Chief Executive Officer to complete the Group’s Indonesian plantation development.

In the years to follow, Vela focused on overseas investments and plantations related opportunities in Fiji & Solomon Islands, apart from managing his family and own plantations in both Malaysia & Indonesia. In 2018, he ventured into coconut plantation business with the establishment of Islands Own Pte Ltd, having its first operations initiated in the Solomon Islands. He & his management team are currently and actively pursuing rejuvenation efforts for the coconut industry of the Solomon Islands, through rehabilitation and replanting programmes & introduction of coco-technology, whilst initiating for a second and similar set up in East Malaysia.