Our Leadership

Meet The Leaders

Age: 65

Nationality: Malaysian

Date of Appointment

• 1 October 2018 (Non-Independent Non-Executive Director)
• 13 August 2020 (Non-Independent Non-Executive Chairman)

Academic/Professional Qualification/Membership

• Bachelor of Science (Finance), Louisiana State University, USA
• Practising member, Chartered Institute of Islamic Finance Professionals
• Member, Australian Institute of Company Directors
• Member, Institute of Corporate Directors Malaysia

Skills & Experience

• He has over 37 years of experience in banking and finance, investments and capital markets after having served as Executive Director, Investments in Khazanah Nasional Berhad (Khazanah), Managing Director of Fajr Capital Ltd, a Khazanah investee company and held key positions in Citigroup, Bank Islam Malaysia Berhad, Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange and Labuan Offshore Financial Services Authority (LOFSA), to name a few.
• He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Yayasan UEM, the philanthropic arm of UEM Group Berhad, and Chairman of Board of Trustees of International Centre for Education in Islamic Finance (INCEIF).
• He is a member of the Investment Panel of Kumpulan Wang Persaraan (Diperbadankan), advisor for Vynn Capital Sdn Bhd and also sits on the Advisory Boards of Ancora Fund Management Co. in Indonesia and Creador Sdn Bhd.
• In 2005, he was named as the winner of the first Asian Banker Achievement Award for Islamic Finance.

Other Current Appointments/Directorship In Public Companies

• UEM Edgenta Berhad
• PLUS Malaysia Berhad
• Kumpulan Perangsang Selangor Berhad
• Hong Leong Financial Group Berhad
• Yayasan UEM
• International Centre for Education in Islamic Finance (INCEIF)

No. of Board Meetings attended in the financial year 24/24

Age: 60

Nationality: Malaysian

Date of Appointment

• 23 November 2018 (Independent Non-Executive Director)
• 21 June 2021 (Senior Independent Non-Executive Director)

Board Committee Memberships

• Chairperson, Audit Committee
• Chairperson, Nominations & Remuneration Committee
• Member, Board Governance & Risk Committee

Academic/Professional Qualification/Membership

• Chartered Accountant, Malaysian Institute of Accountants
• Fellow, CPA Australia
• Fellow, Malaysian Institute of Management
• Fellow, Institute of Corporate Directors Malaysia
• Member, ASEAN Chartered Professional Accountants
• Member, Malaysian Institute of Corporate Governance
• Bachelor of Business Studies (Accounting), Deakin University, Australia

Skills & Experience

• In 2001, she founded Priority One group and is the Managing Director of Priority One Tax Services Sdn Bhd.
• From 1985 till 2001, she served Ernst & Young (EY) Malaysia, EY LLP based in Atlanta, EY International in London and EY Asia Pacific Consulting. Her last held position was Director, Business Development, EY Malaysia.
• From 2018 to 2019, she was appointed as a Senior Practice Fellow of Sunway Business School, Sunway University, Malaysia.
• She currently sits on the Board of KPJ Healthcare Berhad and Malaysian Technology Development Corporation Sdn Bhd.
• She chairs the Industry Advisory Board, Sunway Business School, Sunway University.
• She also chairs the Liaison Committee of The Mines Resort & Golf Club.

Other Current Appointments/Directorship In Public Companies

• KPJ Healthcare Berhad

No. of Board Meetings attended in the financial year 24/24

Age: 53

Nationality: Malaysian

Date of Appointment

• 1 June 2019

Board Committee Memberships

• Chairman, Board Tender Committee
• Member, Nominations & Remuneration Committee

Academic/Professional Qualification/Membership

• Bachelor of Science (Economics) specialising in Accounting and Finance, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
• Fellow, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
• Member, Malaysian Institute of Accountants
• Member, Chartered Institute of Islamic Finance Professionals

Skills & Experience

• He was appointed as Executive Director of UEM Group Berhad (UEM Group) on 1 January 2019 and subsequently re-designated as Managing Director on 1 August 2019.
• He has over 28 years of investment and management experience. Prior to joining UEM Group, he was Executive Director, Investments at Khazanah Nasional Berhad (Khazanah) where he oversaw its Turkey Regional Office.
• He was formerly Khazanah’s Chief Financial Officer where under his leadership, the government’s strategic investment arm issued many landmark Sukuk transactions including exchangeable and Social Impact Sukuk.
• He had also previously served at Putrajaya Holdings Sdn Bhd and Renong Group.

Other Current Appointments/Directorship In Public Companies

• UEM Group Berhad
• UEM Edgenta Berhad
• UEM Builders Berhad
• PLUS Malaysia Berhad
• Projek Lebuhraya Usahasama Berhad
• PLUS Expressways International Berhad
• Cement Industries of Malaysia Berhad
• Yayasan UEM

No. of Board Meetings attended in the financial year 24/24

Age: 53

Nationality: Malaysian

Date of Appointment

• 8 April 2016

Board Committee Memberships

• Chairperson, Board Development Committee
• Member, Board Tender Committee
• Member, Board Governance & Risk Committee

Academic/Professional Qualification/Membership

• LLB (Honours), University of Warwick, UK
• Master of Business Administration, University of Strathclyde, UK
• Barrister-at-law and a member of the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn, London

Skills & Experience

• She began legal practice in 1991 with Messrs Zain & Co.
• She joined Permodalan Nasional Berhad (PNB) in 1997 as legal advisor to the corporate finance group and moved on to head the Legal and Compliance Department. In 2006, she was appointed as Company Secretary of PNB.
• She joined the Investments Divisions of Khazanah Nasional Berhad (Khazanah) in 2007 and served until January 2019 when she was Executive Director, Investments, overseeing the real estate and education investments of Khazanah.
• Presently, she is CEO of Yayasan AMIR, a non-profit organisation working with the Ministry of Education on the implementation of the Trust Schools Programme, as part of the initiatives of transforming public schools.

Other Current Appointments/Directorship In Public Companies

• Cement Industries of Malaysia Berhad
• MNRB Holdings Berhad

No. of Board Meetings attended in the financial year 24/24

Age: 41

Nationality: Malaysian

Date of Appointment

• 24 February 2020

Board Committee Memberships

• Member, Board Development Committee

Academic/Professional Qualification/Membership

• Master of Business Administration, MIT Sloan Fellows Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
• Master of Commerce, Finance and Business Information System, University of Sydney, Australia
• Bachelor of Commerce, Accounting, University of Queensland, Australia

Skills & Experience

• He is currently Director of Investments at Khazanah Nasional Berhad (Khazanah), the strategic investment fund for the Government of Malaysia, overseeing assets within the SEA Private Equity space.
• He joined Khazanah in 2007, covering the infrastructure and property sector with a specific focus on UEM Group Berhad and its group of companies.
• He had spent a year on secondment with Khazanah Americas incorporated in San Francisco in 2016 and following that continued his exposure within the infrastructure sector through his coverage of Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad. More recently, he had led the Internet & Technology sector and the Innovation & Entrepreneurship sector coverage up until 2018.
• Prior to Khazanah, he spent four years as a business analyst with Citibank Berhad.

Other Current Appointments/Directorship In Public Companies

• Biotropics Malaysia Berhad
• Blue Archipelago Berhad

No. of Board Meetings attended in the financial year 20/20

Age: 64

Date of Appointment

• 5 November 2020

Board Committee Memberships

• Chairman, Board Governance & Risk Committee
• Member, Audit Committee

Academic/Professional Qualification/Membership

• Fellow, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK
• Member, Chartered Accountants of India
• Masters of Business Administration, University of Buffalo, New York, USA
• Post Graduate Diploma in Digital Business, Digital Transformation and Digital Marketing, Emeritus Institute of Management in collaboration with MIT and Columbia Business School

Skills & Experience

• After spending 20 years with Hewlett Packard in Senior Business Management and Finance roles and nine years with Axiata Group as Group Chief Financial Officer of Celcom Axiata Berhad and Axiata Group Berhad, he is currently serving as independent consultant to a large conglomerate, a global IT services & digital transformation company and a global forensics & valuation company.
• He has also consulted for a large listed company in the aviation industry and a semiconductor fabrication company.
• He continues to deliver a range of talks at local and international conferences, on topics like the Importance of Analytics, Digital Disruptions, Digital Transformation, Technology Risk Assessment, Purpose Driven Leadership and Investment Portfolio Management etc.
• He is an advisory member of a subcommittee of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants. He is also a mentor for entrepreneurs under Endeavor Malaysia and an advisory member to a plastic recycling company. He sits on the advisory Board of the Centre for Advanced Analytics and Data Sciences.
• He is a Board member and Board Audit Committee member of a subsidiary of Axiata Group Berhad, Ncell Axiata Limited in Nepal.

Other Current Appointments/Directorship In Public Companies
NIL

No. of Board Meetings attended in the financial year 4/4

Age: 59

Nationality: Malaysian

Date of Appointment

• 5 November 2020

Board Committee Memberships

• Member, Audit Committee
• Member, Board Governance & Risk Committee
• Member, Board Tender Committee

Academic/Professional Qualification/Membership

• Fellow, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
• Fellow, Institute of Corporate Directors Malaysia
• Member, Chartered Global Management Accountants
• Member, Malaysian Institute of Accountants
• Member, Institute of Enterprise Risk Practitioners

Skills & Experience

• He has more than 35 years’ working experience across a diverse set of industries from auditing, manufacturing and trading, before joining the retail industry.
• He began his career as an auditor in Ong Boon Bah & Co in 1986 and joined Dreamland Holdings Berhad as an Accounts Executive in February 1988. He joined CPC/AJI (M) Sdn Bhd as Assistant Accountant in January 1989 and served as the Senior Accountant until June 1996.
• In July 1996, he joined AEON Co.(M) Bhd. (AEON) as Finance Manager and was promoted as Financial Controller in 2002. He was the Senior General Manager in charge of Business Support in January 2008 and Senior General Manager in charge of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations in February 2010. As the Chief Financial Officer and part of the senior management of AEON and Executive Director in charge of corporate management, he has oversight on the company’s total businesses, strategies, operations and business developments. He retired from AEON on 24 June 2020 as Executive Director, a position he had held since May 2011.

Other Current Appointments/Directorship In Public Companies
NIL

No. of Board Meetings attended in the financial year 4/4

Age: 61

Nationality: Malaysian

Date of Appointment

• 21 June 2021

Board Committee Memberships

• Member, Nominations & Remuneration Committee
• Member, Board Governance & Risk Committee

Academic/Professional Qualification/Membership

• Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Biochemistry and Pharmacology, University of Aston, Birmingham, UK

Skills & Experience

• She began her career with Shell in Malaysia in 1982 and served for 25 years with the first half focusing on Information Technology (“IT”) software application and the second half in Human Resources (“HR”), where her last position was as one of the global job evaluation advisors, being part of a global team in Shell Group HR serving regional businesses.
• She joined Telekom Malaysia Berhad (“TM”) as General Manager, Leadership Development & Talent Management in Group HR in 2007.
• Upon the demerger of TM Group in early 2008, she was appointed as Head, Group HR of Axiata Group Berhad (“Axiata”). Following the split of Axiata’s HR function into Talent Management and HR in 2011, she was appointed as the Group Chief Talent Officer of Axiata, focusing on Talent Management across the group, including being responsible for its highly successful flagship Corporate Social Responsibility programme, the Axiata Young Talent Programme that builds young talents into future CEOs of the nation.
• In March 2020, she retired from Axiata as Group Chief of Axiata Learning, a position she assumed in 2019 which focused on a sustained, modern, agile and digital way of capability building for the Axiata Group, through the setup of a Group-wide Applied University.
• She continued to be responsible for the Axiata Young Talent Programme even after retirement by being subsequently appointed as the CEO of Axiata Foundation, a non-profit organisation whose main focus is to oversee the programme, a position she held until May 2021.

Other Current Appointments/Directorship In Public Companies
NIL

No. of Board Meetings attended in the financial year Not applicable

Age: 56

Nationality: Malaysian

Date of Appointment

• 21 June 2021

Board Committee Memberships

• Member, Board Development Committee

Academic/Professional Qualification/Membership

• Master in Business Administration (MBA) in Finance (Distinction) from University of Hull, UK
• Bachelor of Industrial Engineering (First Class Honour) from University Technology of Malaysia
• Executive Program, Leadership from University of Chicago, USA
• Executive Program, Market Approach from INSEAD, France
• Executive Program, Mini-MBA from INSEAD, France

Skills & Experience

• He has significant professional and management experience across a wide spectrum of industries. His notable working experience covered senior management roles in multinational and conglomerates such as Malayan Cement Berhad, Hong Leong Group and Hap Seng Consolidated Berhad.
• He was a consultant in McKinsey & Company Inc which set the ground for his early involvement in the corporate world serving top management of various corporate clients as well as Government Link Companies (GLCs) in Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore.
• He has served as director in a few public listed companies including the roles as the Group Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of Tropicana Corporation Berhad, Non-Executive Director of Hafary Holdings Limited, Managing Director and Executive Director of Guocoland (Malaysia) Berhad and Executive Director of Tower Real Estate Investment Trust.
• Presently, he is the Group Chief Executive Officer of Star Media Group Berhad since March 2021.

Other Current Appointments/Directorship In Public Companies
NIL

No. of Board Meetings attended in the financial year Not applicable