Tan Sri Dr Ahmad Tajuddin Ali
Chairman/ Non-Independent Non-Executive Director)

Tan Sri Dr Ahmad Tajuddin Ali was appointed to our Board on 15 September 2008 as a Nominee Director of UEM Group Berhad. He was appointed as the Chairman of UEM Group Berhad on 1 April 2007. He was previously the Director-General of SIRIM, the Chairman and Chief Executive of Tenaga Nasional Berhad, Chairman of Zelan Berhad, Tricubes Berhad and Gas Malaysia Sdn Bhd.

He is currently the Chairman of Malaysian Oxygen Berhad, Bangi Golf Berhad and a few other private limited companies. He is a Registered Professional Engineer with the Board of Engineers, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Malaysia, a Fellow of the Asean Federation of Engineering Organisations (AFEO) and the President of the Academy of Sciences, Malaysia.

He is the Chairman of the Energy Commission, the Malaysian Standards and Accreditation Council, a member of the Governing Council of the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO), Geneva. Currently, he is also the Joint-Chairman (Industry) of the Malaysian Industry-Government Group for High Technology (MIGHT) and a member of APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC). He holds a B.Sc (Engineering) First Class Honours from King's College, University of London in 1973, and a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from Queen Mary College, University of London in 1977. He is a graduate of Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Programme and was conferred the Doctor of Science Degree from Universiti Putra Malaysia in 2000 and the Honorary Doctor of Engineering Degree by Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN) in 2008. In 2009, he was conferred the Honorary Doctor of Science Degree by Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) and received the Prominent Player Award from the Construction Industry Development Board Malaysia (CIDB).

Dato' Wan Abdullah Wan Ibrahim
Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Member of Board Development Committee)

Dato’ Wan Abdullah Wan Ibrahim was appointed to our Board on 15 September 2008. He joined UEM Land Berhad (“UEM Land”) on 1 January 2006 as the Managing Director. Prior to joining UEM Land, he was the Group Chief Executive Officer of United Malayan Land Bhd, a property company listed on Bursa Securities. From 1996 to 2004, he was with Kumpulan Guthrie Berhad, where his last position held was as the Director of Property Division. In that capacity, he was tasked to lead the property development activities of the group, which covered three listed companies, namely, Kumpulan Guthrie Berhad, Highlands & Lowlands Berhad and Guthrie Ropel Berhad. He was also responsible for the conceptualization and submission of plans for the Guthrie Corridor Planned Communities thatcovered an area of 11,650 acres linked and accessed by the Guthrie Corridor Expressway.

Prior to this, he spent 10 years with the Emkay Group of companies, whose core activity was property development, and has held several positions including Group Executive Director. He holds a general degree in Business Administration (majoring in Accounting) from the Bolton Institute of Technology, United Kingdom.

Dato' Mohd Izzaddin Idris
Non-Independent Non-Executive Director, Member of Board Development Committee,
Nominations & Remuneration Committee and Board Tender Committee)

Dato' Mohd Izzaddin Idris was appointed to our Board on 7 July 2009. He is also the Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of UEM Group Berhad and the Deputy Chairman of PLUS Expressways Berhad. Dato’ Izzaddin holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree (First Class Honours in Finance) from University of New South Wales, Australia and is a Fellow of CPA Australia and a member of Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA). He has over 20 years of experience in the fields of investment banking, financial and general management and was previously the Chief Financial Officer/Senior Vice President (Group Finance) of Tenaga Nasional Berhad, a position he held from September 2004 to June 2009.

He was formerly a Senior Vice President (Corporate Finance) of Southern Bank Berhad and the Chief Financial Officer of Ranhill Berhad. He also held the position of Chief Operating Officer of Malaysian Resources Corporation Berhad in the late 1990s. After graduating in June 1985, Dato' Izzaddin served the Malaysian International Merchant Bankers Berhad for almost 11 years which included a 3-year secondment in the late 1980s to Barclays de Zoete Wedd Limited, a London-based investment bank and a subsidiary of Barclays Bank PLC then.

Dato’ Izzaddin currently sits on the Board of Projek Lebuhraya Utara-Selatan Berhad, Cement Industries of Malaysia Berhad, TIME Engineering Berhad, Opus Group Berhad, and UEM Builders Berhad and has served on the Boards of Proton Holdings Berhad and Kumpulan Wang Persaraan (Diperbadankan).

Md Ali Md Dewal
(Senior Independent Non-Executive Director, Chairman of Board Development Committee and Nominations & Remuneration Committee and Member of Audit Committee and Board Tender Committee)

Md Ali Md Dewal was appointed to our Board on 15 September 2008. He sits on the boards of Valuecap Sdn Bhd and some private companies. He holds a Master of Business Administration Degree from Tulane University, New Orleans, US.

Abdul Kadir Md Kassim
(Non-Independent Non-Executive Director, Chairman of Board Tender Committee and Member of Audit Committee)

Abdul Kadir Md Kassim was appointed to UEM Land Holdings Berhad’s Board on 15 September 2008. He is the Managing Partner of Messrs Kadir, Andri & Partners. He is currently the Chairman of Time dotCom Berhad, which is listed on Bursa Malaysia. He is also the Chairman of Cement Industries of Malaysia Berhad (CIMA) and of UEM Builders Berhad and a director of UEM Group Berhad and of Danajamin Nasional Berhad. He serves as Chairman of The Committee Exchange of Labuan International Financial Exchange. He also sits on the Investment Panel of Tabung Haji and on the Corporate Debt Restructuring Committee.

Abdul Kadir holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) degree from the University of Singapore.

Oh Kim Sun
(Independent Non-Executive Director, Chairman of Audit Committee and Member of Nominations & Remuneration Committee and Board Tender Committee)

Oh Kim Sun was appointed to our Board on 15 September 2008. He is a member of the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants. An accountant by training, he began his career in 1972 with Coopers & Lybrand in London. He has over 35 years of experience in finance and has held positions as Finance Director of Taiko Plantations Sdn Bhd, Financial Controller of ICI Malaysia and Finance Manager (Secondment) of ICI Headquarters in London responsible for Northern Europe. Oh led a successful management buyout of ICI’s Malaysian operations in 1994 and was appointed Group Executive Director of Chemical Company of Malaysia Berhad until 2003. His directorships in other public companies include Pharmaniaga Berhad, Faber Group Berhad and Nikko Electronics Berhad.

Dato' Ikmal Hijaz Hashim
(Independent Non-Executive Director, Member of Audit Committee, Board Development Committee and Board Tender Committee)

Dato’ Ikmal Hijaz Hashim was appointed to our Board on 1 March 2009. He is the Chairman of Faber Group Berhad and a director of EPMB and Mutiara Goodyear Development Berhad, all of which are listed in Bursa Malaysia. He has served as the Chief Executive Officer of Iskandar Regional Development Authority (IRDA) from February 2007 until end of February 2009. Prior to that he was the CEO of Pos Malaysia Berhad and his last position was the Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Pos Malaysia & Services Holdings Bhd. He began his career by serving in the Administrative and Diplomatic Service of the Government from 1976 to 1990. He then joined United Engineers (Malaysia) Berhad as the General Manager of the Malaysian-Singapore Second Crossing Project. On 1 January 1993, he became the Chief Operating Officer of Projek Lebuhraya Utara-Selatan Berhad and subsequently as its Managing Director from January 1995 to June 1999 and remained as a Director until November 2001. He was appointed as the Managing Director of Prolink Development Sdn Bhd (“Prolink”) in July 1999. In February 2000, he was appointed President of the Property Division of the Renong Group while maintaining his position as Managing Director of Prolink. He held the position of Managing Director at Renong Berhad from 2002 until October 2003. He holds a Master of Philosophy (Land Management) from University of Reading, U.K., and Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from Universiti Malaya.

Sheranjiv M. Sammanthan
Non-Independent Non-Executive Director

Prior to joining Khazanah, Sheranjiv started his career with PriceWaterhouseCoopers (“PwC”) in Birmingham, England and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1996. He later moved to PwC London before returning to PwC Malaysia in 2003, joining as Director in the Advisory Services practice in Kuala Lumpur. He was made a Partner of PwC Malaysia in July 2006.

During his 18 years in PwC, he led a wide variety of audit, financial advisory and management consulting assignments across various industries and geographies. Sheranjiv led PwC’s Risk and Governance practice encompassing its businesses and people across the South East Asian Peninsula Region covering Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.

He holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from the University of Birmingham in United Kingdom and the Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW).

Datuk Tong Kooi Ong
Non-Independent Non-Executive Director

Datuk Tong Kooi Ong was appointed to our Board on 25 February 2011.

He is currently the Chairman of the Board and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Taiga Building Products Limited, listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, with annual sales of over C$1.0 billion and the Chairman of Sunrise Berhad.

Datuk Tong is also currently the Chairman of The Edge Communications Sdn Bhd, the publisher of The Edge, Malaysia’s award winning and best selling business and investment weekly newspaper. Other titles in its stable are The Edge Financial Daily, a standalone daily business paper that complements the weekly edition and Personal Money, a monthly personal finance magazine. In the region, his media interests are represented by The Edge Publishing Pte Ltd, which publishes The Edge Singapore, a business and investment weekly newspaper.

Datuk Tong holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration and a Master of Arts in Economics and Finance from Simon Fraser University, Canada. In 2002, he was bestowed his Doctor of Laws (Honoris Causa) from the same university.

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