Our Team

Established in 1992, Aquaspersions Malaysia has been developing innovative water-based additives and dispersions for years. 

Aquaspersions is renowned for its innovative nature and we have been pioneering solutions to supply to the glove and latex industries. This is mainly down to our dedicated team who have extensive industry knowledge of dispersions, customer applications, and markets.

Meet the Aquaspersions Team

Shyamkumar Gowrikumar

Head of Finance, Administration and IT

Shyam is Head of Finance. He combines that position with the responsibility for administration and legal affairs. He joined Aquaspersions in early 2022 as the Head of Finance & IT. He has previously held various senior finance positions over the span of 12 years with experience in accounting, controllership, financial and operations management as well as business planning and analysis.

Shyam is a great asset and driver in the change to more corporate reporting, controlling and finance systems.

Uma Devi Arumugam

Technical Director

Uma is the Technical Director for Aquaspersions Malaysia. She joined the company in January 2008. Her career growth path started as chemist in AQM, progressed through internal promotions to technical manager and operations manager in 2021 before taking new challenge as Technical Director in 2023.

This exposed her broadly in R&D, customer technical support, ISO certification and related matters, conduct and facilitate all non-finance audits, QA/QC related activities and managing plant operations.

Allis Khoo

Business Manager – “Dipping Industry”

Allis is the Business Manager responsible for the “dipping industry”. She joined Aquaspersions in 2022 bringing with her 15 years of experience in the glove, plastic, adhesive, and coating industries. Allis is responsible for sales and market development in the APAC region excluding China.

 

Nor’Aini Salleh

HR Manager

Nor is our HR Manager. She joined Aquaspersions Malaysia in 2021. Nor has more than 20 years experience in HR Management across various industries.

Nor worked with senior management and heads of department at group level to initiate, support, influence and implement new HR policies and practices.

Gunalan 

Senior Production Engineer

Gunalan is our senior Engineer.  He has been serving Aquaspersions Malaysia in the capacity of Senior Engineer for Production, Maintenance, Engineering, and Projects.

He has worked for 14 years in the fields of project management, maintenance, continuous improvement, cost-efficient operation, and plant safety systems in a variety of industries, including the specialty chemicals, oil refining, and fast-moving consumer goods sectors.

Ahmad Zaki

Procurement Manager

Ahmad Zaki leads Aquaspersions procurement activities as Procurement Manager. He is focused on strategic procurement and fostering partnership with our valued vendors.

Zaki has more than 30 years’ experience in local and international procurement and supply chain management. Throughout his career, he has served several large local and multinational companies.

Culture

Aquaspersions includes many specialists with a shared ambition to be curious, develop and problem-solve challenges for our customers.

We are practical and go the extra mile to identify and develop solutions using our water-based dispersions which add value to our customers end applications.

We are always collaborative and technically enthusiastic to understand unmet customer application needs. Every role from the office to the shop-floor plays an important part and contributes to the success of our business.

Culture

Careers

At Aquaspersions, it’s all about innovating dispersions and bringing value to our customer applications.

As a team, we value collaboration and working together to solve problems. We inspire, encourage and foster personal growth. We are a well-established organisation which is looking to evolve and take the next growth steps in our business.

Aquaspersions’ success is directly related to our people and the talent we have in our teams across Europe, The Americas and Asia.

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