Malaysian, Aged 47, Male. Datuk TS Lim was appointed as an Executive Director and the Group Chief Executive Officer of DMB on 24 March 2015 and assumed the additional position of Executive Vice Chairman from 3 November 2017. He resigned as the Group CEO of DMB on 10 April 2019 and re-designated as Executive Chairman on 10 April 2019. Datuk TS Lim graduated from University of London, England with Bachelor of Law (Hons) and he also holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (Hons) from Universiti Utara Malaysia.
Datuk TS Lim started his career as a Marketing Executive with TA Construction & Properties Sdn Bhd in 1994 before joining Wayteam Sdn Bhd as a Business Development Manager in 1996. In 1997, he became the Personal Advisor to the Chairman of Ideal Palms Sdn Bhd. He left Ideal Palm Sdn Bhd in 1999 to pursue his interest in entrepreneurship and set up his own business while being appointed as Director in several private companies at the same time.
In 2008, Datuk TS Lim was appointed as the General Manager of Port Klang Authority and in 2009, he became the Executive Chairman of Port Klang Free Zone. Between 2013 and 2018, Datuk TS Lim was appointed as a member of the Board of several companies within Felda Global Ventures (“FGV”) Group of Companies and also acted as an Advisor to the Investment Committee of FGV during his time with the FGV Group. In 2015, he was appointed as a Director of the Maritime Institute of Malaysia (“MIMA”) and from October 2017 to November 2018 Datuk TS Lim also served as an Independent Non-Executive Director in Tropicana Corporation Berhad.
Datuk TS Lim is also currently an Independent Non-Executive Director of MSM Malaysia Holdings Berhad (“MSM”) where he is also the Chairman of both the Investment Committee and the Board Governance & Risk Management Committee. He is also the Chairman in Tropicana SJII Education Management Sdn Bhd which he was appointed to in May 2018.
Datuk TS Lim is a member of the Executive Committee (“EXCO”) of the Company.
Tuan Haji Norzain was appointed to the Board on 3 November 2017. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree (Hons) (Marketing) from the Universiti Teknologi MARA.
Tuan Haji Norzain is currently the Managing Director of Glotel Sdn Bhd, a company which he founded in 2001 with the principal business of supplying medical equipment.
Tuan Haji Norzain is the Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and a member of the Nomination Committee of the Company since 31 May 2018. On 22 February 2019, he was appointed as a member of the Audit Committee of the Company as well.
Encik Aminuddin was appointed to the Board on 1 October 2014. Encik Aminuddin graduated from Robinson College, Cambridge, UK with a Second Class Upper Honors in Economics. A Yayasan Sime Darby scholar, he started his career as an Economist with Sime Securities Sdn Bhd, in 1997. In 1998, he joined Sime AXA Assurance where he was involved at the marketing and planning levels. Subsequently, he moved to Consolidated Plantations Bhd in 2000, where he gained exposure at both the corporate and operations areas. From 2001 to 2014 Encik Aminuddin joined the government where he served in a number of ministries including the Ministry of Youth and Sports, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Home Affairs and the Transport Ministry.
Encik Aminuddin is a member of the Audit Committee of the Company since 31 May 2018. On 22 February 2019, he was appointed as Chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Remuneration Committee. He is also a member of the Nomination Committee of the Company.
Encik Shamsul was appointed to the Board as the Group Managing Director on 10 April 2019. Encik Shamsul graduated from University of Florida, United States of America with Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering in 1986.
Encik Shamsul then started his career as a Chemical Field and Sales Engineer for about 2 years and thereafter joined Sarawak Shell Berhad in 1988. In Sarawak Shell Berhad, he held various positions within procurement, logistic and project engineering departments. He was also part of the select executive team tasked to reengineer the SHELL group in Malaysia. His last position was Head Procurement, Steel Products.
In 1995 he was General Manager for Techno Indah Sdn Bhd, a Kuok/Perlis Plantation Group joint venture with then Malaysia Shipyard and Engineering Bhd (MSE).
In 1996, Encik Shamsul was then appointed as the Managing Director of Oakwell Industries Sdn Bhd, a Singapore branch of oil and gas supply and services company based in Kuala Lumpur.
Encik Shamsul joined the PPB Group (then known as Petra Perdana Bhd, currently as Perdana Petroleum Bhd) in 2001 in expanding the PPB Group’s core business beyond its trading and maintenance services operations. He was part of the driving team which expanded the core business into high value engineering services, hook-up, construction, and maintenance services. This expansion of core business took the group from the Second Board of the Stock Exchange to the Main Board in 2003. PPB was the first company in Malaysia to be awarded a turnkey engineering, hook up and construction/maintenance services contract by then Esso Production Malaysia Inc.
Encik Shamsul also drove PPB’s expansion into the offshore marine sector in 2004 originally as an extension of its hook up and commissioning and then as a separate core business of the PPB Group. PPB Group’s expansion into the offshore marine services for the oil & gas industry was upon the acquisition of Intra Oil Services Berhad (IOS). Re-structured the operations with the purchase of anchor handling tugs and supply vessels (AHTS) of 10,000 BHP and 12,000 BHP, compared to at that time the country’s traditionally smaller horsepower vessels, thus pioneering PPB to be the only Malaysian owner-operator in the middle to deeper water operations in South East Asia at that time, thus providing it a significant regional market especially in Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia. Additionally, the strategy was to balance the fleet with maintenance work-barges and work-boats that would be less cyclical in nature and synergistically support offshore hook-up commissioning and maintenance business. This strategy and business execution led to the doubling of the PPB Group’s revenue and the eventual chain-listing on Bursa Malaysia of its offshore hook-up commissioning and maintenance business. Resigned as its Managing Director with the turnaround of the company after managing it through the financial crisis and 2009 oil & gas depression cycle.
Encik Shamsul later retired as PPB’s Executive Director in August 2015 with the disposal of the company. Encik Shamsul joined the Company as Executive Vice President, Oil & Gas in 2016. He is also a director of several subsidiaries of the Company.
Datuk Zulkarnain was appointed to the Board on 10 April 2019. Datuk Zulkarnain holds a Bachelor in Engineering (Electrical) from Northern Arizona University. He is also Fellow, International Institute of Plantation Management, a professional body to certified planters locally and internationally.
After completion of his engineering degree (majoring in Electrical) from Northern Arizona University, USA in 1991, Datuk Zulkarnain joined Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB), as an Electrical Engineer. He had served in various departments for more than 5 years with TNB. He left TNB in 1996, and pursued his career in EPE Power Corporation Berhad, a public listed company in Bursa Malaysia as a Project Manager.
Malaysian Resources Corporation Berhad (MRCB) recruited him in 2001, to lead the business development of transmission line projects, and later he was tasked to scale-up the international presence of MRCB’s group of companies (MRCB Group) in Middle East, Northern Africa and South Asia. His last assignment saw him leading the International Business Development Unit for MRCB Group for the target regions.
In 2006, he joined Empire Energy Corp, an international energy company and served as a Senior Vice President with a focus on restructuring distressed power plant projects in South East Asia. Then, Datuk Zulkarnain was tasked to develop coal-fired power plants in Indonesia and led the strategic efforts to acquire an Indonesian company.
Datuk Zulkarnain expanded his horizon in year 2010, became the Commercial and Corporate Advisor for various companies and provides strategic business development and advisory works to elevate business to the next level. His vast experience in developing mega projects locally and internationally, has made him profound in many areas; merger and acquisition, due diligence process, fund raising exercise, foreign investment policies, international tax regime and bilateral agreements between countries.
Datuk Zulkarnain joined FELCRA Berhad in 2014 as a Chief Investment Officer. He was further entrusted a bigger role to lead FELCRA Berhad as the Chief Executive Officer commencing in July 2016. He also sits on the boards in the companies within the FELCRA group, such as FELCRA Plantation Sdn Bhd, FELCRA Bina Sdn Bhd, FELCRA Training and Consultancy Sdn Bhd, FELCRA Livestock & Agriproduct Sdn Bhd, FELCRA Education Services Sdn Bhd, FELCRA Niaga Sdn Bhd, FELCRA Properties Sdn Bhd, Synergy Perdana Sdn Bhd. He was a member of the Nomination and the Remuneration Committee and the Audit Committee of FELCRA Group.
Datuk Zulkarnain’s deep passion on enhancing the asset value of FELCRA as well as increasing the economic benefits to its participants’ leads him to receive the prestigious award from Malaysia International Business Award, as the “CEO of The Year” – Master Class Category, in 2017.
Currently, Datuk Zulkarnain sits on the boards of UniMap Holdings Sdn Bhd, a wholly owned company of Universiti Malaysia Perlis and International Institute of Plantation Management (IIPM). He is also a panel of the Investment Committee, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan. As Datuk Zulkarnain was only appointed on 10 April 2019, he did not attend any board meeting in the year of 2018.
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