Wan Kamaruddin bin Wan Mohamed Ali
Independent Non-Executive Director
Encik Wan Kamaruddin bin Wan Mohamed Ali, a Malaysian, male, aged 68, was appointed to the Board on 10 February 2023.
Encik Wan has always been in the Finance field since he first graduated from University of Malaya in 1980. He started his career with Bank of America, Amanah Merchant Bank, JP Finance (on loan to Bank Negara & subsequent assignment by them), Amanah Merchant Unit Trust Bhd and Amanah International Finance Bhd as Chief Executive Officer.
In 1995, he moved to Fieldstone Capital Services Sdn Bhd, a Boutique Financial Advisory Firm where he was involved mainly in Project Finance Advisory services involving mostly highways and power plants.
The Asian financial crisis of 1999 saw the entry of Babcock & Brown Asia Pacific (BnB) opening its office in Kuala Lumpur and the whole team at Fieldstone was absorb into BnB. Again, whilst with BnB he led a team advising Penerbangan Malaysia Bhd / Malaysia Airlines in their lease finance of various aircrafts (777s, 747s freighters and ATRs) in 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2009. He was also involved in advising clients in bidding for various power plant projects.
In 2009, upon leaving BnB, he acted as advisor to Markmore Energy in their acquisition of an oil field in Kazakhstan. The acquisition and arrangement of finance was completed in 2012.
He is currently an Advisor to PV Technologies PLT, a solar panel cleaning services company.
En Wan attended all 6 Board Meetings of the Company held during the financial year ended 31 December 2023.
Sr Zulazman Bin Zulkifli
Independent Non-Executive Director
Sr Zulazman Bin Zulkifli, a Malaysian, male, aged 56, was appointed to the Board on 9 February 2024.
Sr Zulazman is an Independent Non-Executive Director of HCK Capital Group Bhd. He has over 25 years of stockbroking and property experience.
He was the Director, Head of Origination, and subsequently the Director, Head of Equities of MIDF Amanah Investment Bank Bhd. Previously Sr Zulazman was the Group Executive Director of Apex Equity Holdings Bhd and concurrently Non-Executive Chairman of JF Apex Securities Bhd.
He is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, as well as Member of Royal Institution of Surveyors Malaysia, Member of the Institute of Corporate Directors and Individual Member of FIABCI Malaysia Chapter. His foray into property was through a joint venture with UEM Land Holdings Sdn Bhd (now known as UEM Sunrise Bhd) and AMP Capital Investors of Australia. Sr Zulazman was previously Independent Non-Executive Director of AmanahRaya Kenedix REIT Manager Sdn Bhd, the management company of AmanahRaya REIT where he chaired the Investment and Tender Committee.
Throughout his career in Malaysia, Sr Zulazman was a Dealing Member and a Licensed Dealers Representative of the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange and Bursa Malaysia, a Licensed Investment Advisor with the Securities Commission, a Registered Responsible Person with the Securities Commission for a Venture Capital Management Corporation while in Australia he was an ASIC licensed Investment Advisor. He has held various positions in financial services at Academia Capital, DH Flinders, Kuala Lumpur City Securities (now known as Alliance Investment Bank), CIMB Securities (now known as CIMB Investment Bank), ShareTech Securities, Jardine Fleming, Arab-Malaysian Securities (now known as AmInvestment Bank) in Malaysia, Cazenove & Co and as an Intern in Property Equities at UBS Philips & Drew in the UK.
Sr Zulazman is also an Adjunct Lecturer at SEGI University Graduate School of Business.
Chong Kai Wooi
Independent Non-Executive Director
Chong Kai Wooi, a Malaysian, male, aged 53, was appointed to the Board on 9 February 2024.
Coming to 30 years experiences in global multi national corporations, Chong Kai Wooi has played leadership roles encompassing business leadership, sales leadership, people leadership with technology leaders addressing many industries particularly telecommunications, government institutions and high technology enterprises. Kai Wooi was formerly the Managing Director of NEC Corporation Malaysia with annual turnover of 100 Oku Yen and staffs force of over 300 people nationwide.
In his prior position, he was instrumental to plan and execute the strategy for Hewlett Packard Enterprise in the telecommunication segment, consulting practice across the ASEAN, Taiwan, Hong Kong region over 13 countries. He's best known for his objective oriented approach, principled and with a strong focus on profitable growth, building businesses and teams across many organizations that he has previously served in, both in country and across the Asian region. He led NEC Malaysia to unprecedented growth as he transformed the organization from a product to a services led organization. His employees engagement scores steadily improved YoY to a high of 79% for 2022, way above the industry norm.
Zainal Iskandar bin Ismail
Non-Independent Non-Executive Director
Encik Zainal Iskandar bin Ismail, a Malaysian, male, aged 50, was appointed to the Board on 12 July 2024.
He has over 20 years of business experience across diverse industries in property, oil and gas, port and logistics, hotel and tourism, renewable energy, palm oil and biofuels, information technology and telecommunication. He has cross-functional expertise in corporate development and governance, financial restructuring and business turnaround as well as multiple set of competencies in corporate finance and private equity investing spectrum; having evaluated, structured, raised financings, represented on various boards, and successfully exited investments.
He has served in several key positions in various corporations, both public listed and private companies. He currently holds positions as Chairman of PKEINPK Properties Sdn Bhd, Managing Partner of Heureka Capital Partners and Board Member of Perbadanan Ekonomi Islam Perak (the business and investment arm of Majlis Agama Islam dan ‘Adat Melayu Perak).
He was the former Group CEO and Executive Director of Perak Corporation Berhad, a public listed company with core businesses in property, port and logistics, hotel and tourism. He was also Chairman of Executive Committee and Director of Lumut Port. He steered and improved the Group’s operations and financial affairs during its most challenging period of 2020 – 2022 (Covid-19 pandemic period) and ensured business continuity. He played a key role in the corporate and debt restructuring exercises undertaken by Perak Corporation Berhad, putting the company to a stronger financial footing and recording profitability levels, which is an integral with its regularisation plan. He has successfully returned the Practice Note 17 Company to profitability in 2022 after six consecutive years of losses since 2016. Prior to that, he was Chief Operating Officer of another public listed company and Supervisory Board Member of an Oil and Gas E&P company operating in Central Asia. From 2001 - 2016, he was attached to a Malaysia-based private investment group where he held various senior management and leadership roles in companies within the group. During this period, he has executed and managed a number of direct investments and spearheaded several major industrial projects in Malaysia and internationally. Before that, he worked at several companies within the RENONG-United Engineers (Malaysia) Group. He started his career in 1997 with the Group, where he acquired invaluable corporate development experience from the Time dotcom Berhad initial public listing (IPO) and the corporate and debt restructuring exercise of the RENONG-UEM Group.
He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree, majoring in Accounting, from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Save as disclosed above, none of the Directors has (i) any interest in shares in the Company or its subsidiaries; (ii) any family relationship with any Director and/or major shareholder of the Company; (iii) any conflict of interest or potential conflict of interest, including interest in any competing business that the person has with the listed issuer or its subsidiaries; and (iv) any conviction for offences within the past 5 years nor any public sanction or penalty imposed by any relevant regulatory bodies during the financial year.