Winter in London, 2023
PROLOGUE
Dato' Dr Ronnie Silva
Dato’ Dr Ronnie Silva was born in Penang, Malaysia which is known as the “PEARL OF THE ORIENT”.
Dato’ Dr Ronnie Silva went to London, United Kingdom to undertake further studies and has been living in the United Kingdom since 1979.
Dato’’ Dr Ronnie Silva brings a very wide experience of Corporate Operations across the world, and is titled as Dato’ (“SIR” Title) in his birth country of Malaysia.
Dato’ Dr Ronnie Silva was the former President of the Malaysian Golfing Association of United Kingdom (served 2 years on an election basis by members). Dato’ Dr Ronnie Silva’s position as the President is to meet with VVIPs from Malaysia visiting UK to play golf and to provide the bridge to enable them to set up their businesses in the United Kingdom.
Dato’ Dr Ronnie Silva also played a major role in bringing together all Malaysians within the UK together on monthly basis to play golf. His major success was the Malaysian Open for amateurs sponsored by Malaysia Airlines, where we had well over 200 players – both British and Malaysians playing together.
Dato’ Dr Ronnie Silva was very honoured to have played with the late King of Malaysia on a one-to-one basis, His Royal Highness, Tuanku Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah ibni Al-Marhum Sultan Badlishah who was at that time serving as Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia (King of Malaysia). His Majesty was on an official visit to the London to meet with the late Queen Elizabeth of United Kingdom.
Dato’ Dr Ronnie Silva career developed with KPMG for 25 years working in UK, South Korea, Singapore, Russia, Canada, India, Pakistan, and Malaysia. Before leaving KPMG UK, his position was Director of International Markets of KPMG London, United Kingdom.
Majority of his time was spent in dealing with Oil companies and Oil Markets. He was involved in the Joint-Venture of SAMSUNG-BP when he was stationed in Seoul, South Korea for 6 years. Due to his background experience in the oil industry, upon his return to the UK, he was instrumental of assisting Mr Jose Merello-Lardies, Managing Director in setting up BRIDAS Energy of Argentina in London, United Kingdom and also assisting LUKOIL setting up in London, United Kingdom.
During Dato’ Dr Ronnie Silva’s time with KPMG, he managed in helping many companies with their major investments such as the purchase of Dorchester Hotel for the Royal Brunei family, setting up the major American investment in the United Kingdom – Vision Express (UK) Limited, assisting in the purchase of British Lotus Car for Proton of Malaysia and was appointed (“conseiller particulier privé chargé de s’occuper des portefeuilleinvestissements propriétaires de 333M GBP du Prince”), Private Advisor, responsible for the administrative management and preservation of a GB£333M proprietary investment portfolio of H.S.H. Immanuel Sovereign Prince. Dato’ Dr Ronnie Silva was simultaneously appointed Chief Executive and Financial Regulatory Compliance Officer to The Reigning Monarch H.S.H. Immanuel the Sovereign Prince’s United Kingdom domiciled Family Office Groupe of Special Purpose Financial Holding Vehicles which were highly and sufficiently capitalised with Tier 1 Regulatory compliant Capital.
During Dato’ Dr Ronnie Silva’s time with KPMG, he managed in helping many companies with their major investments such as the purchase of Dorchester Hotel for the Royal Brunei family, setting up the major American investment in the United Kingdom – Vision Express (UK) Limited, assisting in the purchase of British Lotus Car for Proton of Malaysia and was appointed (“conseiller particulier privé chargé de s’occuper des portefeuilleinvestissements propriétaires de 333M GBP du Prince”), Private Advisor, responsible for the administrative management and preservation of a GB£333M proprietary investment portfolio of H.S.H. Immanuel Sovereign Prince. Dato’ Dr Ronnie Silva was simultaneously appointed Chief Executive and Financial Regulatory Compliance Officer to The Reigning Monarch H.S.H. Immanuel the Sovereign Prince’s United Kingdom domiciled Family Office Groupe of Special Purpose Financial Holding Vehicles which were highly and sufficiently capitalised with Tier 1 Regulatory compliant Capital.
Dato’ Dr Ronnie Silva’s professionalism extended across and covered the full suite of advocacy, advisory and financial services, International and Independent Audits, Tax and Fiscal advisory, Mergers and Acquisitions, Securities Instruments Facilitations, Initial Public Offerings and Public Listings, International and Cross-Border Planning and Structuring, Emigration and Immigration, Financial Engineering and Restructuring, Inheritance Tax planning, Trust and Trust Company Services, and Custodial Asset and Investment Management.
In England Dato’ Dr Ronnie Silva addressed all representative matters relating to and with the FCA (Financial Conduct Authority) – regulation and licensing, Gabriel filings compliance, Fiduciary and Company incorporations.
Dato’ Dr Ronnie Silva started European Asian Capital Limited with UK company number 05568603 was Incorporated on 20 September 2005 which is a FCA registered company and Dato’ Dr
Ronnie Silva is currently the Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) since its incorporation on 20th September 2005.
European Asian Capital Limited (www.europeanasian.co.uk) is currently in the midst of acquiring a Bank to provide better assistance to ASEAN companies’ investment in the UK as many of our ASEAN contacts and businesses are having banking issues in the United Kingdom. Dato’ Dr Ronnie Silva would like the bank owned by European Asian Capital Limited to provide a smoother banking needs for ASEAN companies and High Individual Net Worth clients doing business in the United Kingdom.
Dato’ Dr Ronnie Silva initiated and started the first International desks of ASEAN Desk within KPMG United Kingdom, which was the first ever International Desk ever done in KPMG’s history. Dato’ Dr Ronnie Silva was very helpful to many European countries investing in the ASEAN region and likewise, many ASEAN companies investing in the United Kingdom.
Dato’’ Dr Ronnie Silva holds professional qualifications as CPA of Canada, Fellow of Association of International Accountants, Associate member of Cost and Executive Accountants of Canada, Associate member of International Financial Accountants of UK, Member of Financial Services Authority of UK, approved Money Laundering Officer by HMRC of UK and Immigration Advisory License from OISC (Office of Immigration Services Commissioner).Dato’Dr Ronnie Silva completed his Accountancy exams in London, United Kingdom and also in Toronto, Canada whereby he completed his certificate of Association of Chartered Executive Accountant (ACEA) in Canada. He subsequently returned to the UK and completed his UK Accountancy exams with Association of International Accountants (AIA) and his International Financial Accountants (IFA) alongside doing his MBA (Masters of Business Education) and PhD (Accounting & Finance) at University of Westminster.
Dato’ Dr Ronnie Silva was one of the founding members who started McMillan Woods – Chartered Accountants. Please see www.mcmillanwoods.co.uk. This is a professional accountancy and business advisers in many parts of the world. Dato’ Dr Ronnie Silva used his international experience with KPMG in setting up this network of accounting firms on a worldwide basis.
When Dato’ Dr Ronnie Silva was assisting ASEAN companies investing in UK, many of these foreign companies wanted to transfer key personnel to look after their operations in the UK but had many immigration issues pertaining to work permit and visas for their families. In 2003, Home Office made it mandatory that any professional immigration agents providing any immigration services to be registered under the Office of Immigration Services Commissioner (www.oisc.gov.uk).
Dato’ Dr Ronnie Silva started Cleverdale Legal Limited with UK company number 04514622 and was Incorporated on 19 August 2002 (www.cleverdale.co.uk)
Cleverdale Legal was the first 75th firm to be registered and approved by OISC. Any professional firm not found on the Register of Regulated Immigration Advisers, cannot provide Immigration service in the UK. Further, all the regulated firms will be on a yearly basis be visited by OISC officer to undertake yearly audit, to ensure that proper application and paperwork have been supplied to home office and professional advice has been provided. Dato’ Dr Ronnie Silva is currently the Senior Partner of Cleverdale Legal services in the United Kingdom.
Companies in the UK have normal and sometimes urgent needs for their company secretarial paperwork to be filed at United Kingdom Companies House. In the past we work with outside agents and sometimes we have had delays from such agents and have caused adverse reputation for our services. Therefore, Dato’ Dr Ronnie Silva formed ST Secretarial Services Limited with UK company number 05132943 and was Incorporated on 19 May 2004 to provide in-house company secretarial services. Please see www.stsec.co.uk. Dato’ Dr Ronnie Silva is currently the Chief Executive Officer of St Secretarial Services Limited.
Dato Dr Ronnie Silva started SPITFIRE OILS LIMITED to initially market the Organic and Virgin Coconut Oil from own refinery in Fiji. However, due to the fact that there were many competitions in the Coconut Oil business from other ASEAN countries, Dato Dr Ronnie Silva undertook and entered the Refined Oil business.
Spitfire Oils Limited with UK company number 08904563 was Incorporated on 20 February 2014 and Dato’ Dr Ronnie Silva is currently the Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”).
Spitfire Oils Limited has direct mandates with Oil Refineries from Kazakhstan, Qatar, Oman, Azerbaijan and Brazil. Spitfire Oils Limited deals directly with Senior Board Directors and officials of the Refineries.
Dato Dr Ronnie Silva is now in the midst of starting Tank Storage services in Kuching, Sarawak, East Malaysia. Please see www.pineridgeoils.co.uk
In order to meet the IT matters such as website and applications for companies in the United Kingdom, Dato’ Dr Ronnie Silva started an IT company Mycrossbow. Please see www.mycrossbow.co.uk. The team of IT professionals are based in India and Dato’ Dr Ronnie Silva has been assisting UK, Malaysian and European companies with their monthly and yearly IT requirements and projects.
Dato’ Dr Ronnie Silva can be contacted on his UK mobile +44-7553-783-000 or on his private email:- ronnie@ronniesilva.com. For WhatsApp, please use Dato’ Dr Ronnie Silva’s UK number +44-7553-783-000.