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General Tan Sri Dato’ Sri Hj Suleiman Bin Mahmud FMAF (Rtd)
Non-Independent Non-Executive Director/Chairman
General Tan Sri Dato’ Sri Hj. Suleiman was appointed to the Board on 14 October 2009 as an Independent Non-Executive Director/Chairman of the Company. On 19 October 2022, he was redesignated as Non-Independent Non-Executive Director/Chairman of the Company. He has joined the Federation Military College in January 1965, and was commissioned into the Royal Malaysian Air Force on 5 August 1965. He did his basic flying training at the RMAF Flying Training School in Alor Setar, graduating in August 1966. He then went on to fly the Alouette III helicopters and in 1967, qualified as a helicopter instructor after completing an instructor’s course in the United Kingdom.
General Tan Sri Dato’ Sri Hj. Suleiman has a vast experience as a pilot having flown helicopters, fixed wing transport and fighter aircrafts. He had served as a Squadron Commander of the Sikorsky S-61 Helicopter Squadron and the Dart Herald Transport Squadron. He also flew the C-130H Hercules, the Aermacchi MB-339, the F-5E and the CN-235-220. Throughout his career, General Tan Sri Dato’ Sri Hj. Suleiman has been assigned to several staff and operational appointments, and of importance was his appointment as the Director of Armed Forces Development Plans in the Malaysia Armed Forces Headquarters. In 1989, he was appointed the Base Commander of RMAF Base, Butterworth, a Fighter Operational Air Base. Later, he was assigned as the Commander of the RMAF Air Training Command. He was then promoted to Brigadier General RMAF and took over command of No. 1 Air Division, an Air Defence (and Fighter) Command. He later moved to the post of Brigadier General Staff (Operations) at the Air Force Headquarters in Kuala Lumpur. On his promotion to Major
General RMAF in June 1994, he was appointed as the Chief of Staff Operations and later on, was assigned as the Chief of Staff Policy and Plans. In August 1996, he assumed the post of the Deputy Chief of Air Force and was upgraded to the rank of Lieutenant General RMAF on the same post, in June 2000. General Tan Sri Dato’ Sri Hj. Suleiman was promoted to the rank of General RMAF and assumed the appointment of the Chief of the Royal Malaysian Air Force on 11 June 2001. He retired on 4 June 2003 at the age of 56.
Tan Sik Eek
Executive Director
He was appointed to the Board on 6 April 2018. He has more than two decades of experience ranging from corporate finance advisory to private equity investments. He was previously a partner in a private equity firm focused on investing in companies seeking growth funding and pre-IPO capital. Prior to that, he was specialising in securing funding from a series of established North America global opportunity fund, for companies listed on the regional capital markets. Since 2013, he has been engaged as the Director of several public companies to provide management strategy, day to day operational oversight, fund raising and business development planning of the various companies.
Mejar Dato’ Ismail Bin Ahmad (R)
Non-Independent Non-Executive Director
Mejar Dato’ Ismail bin Ahmad (R) was appointed to the Board on 14 October 2009 as Executive Director of the Company. On 31 December 2019, he was redesignated as Non-Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company. He served in the Malaysian Army for 17 years and attended courses both local and overseas and held various appointments in service. In 1983, he joined Perwira Niaga Malaysia (Pernama), a wholly owned subsidiary of LTAT, a wholesale and international trading company. His last position in Pernama was Deputy General Manager before he left in 1999. He is now with Tegap Dinamik Sdn. Bhd. and several other companies, involved in projects, constructions and various infrastructures.
Ong Tee Kein
Non-Independent Non-Executive Director
Mr. Ong Tee Kein was appointed to the Board on 13 January 2010 as an independent director and was re-designated as Executive Director on 15 April 2010 and re designated as Non-Independent Non-Executive Director on 31 December 2019. He is a member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA) and an associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales. He has experience in accounting and corporate restructuring of companies.
Professor Emeritus Dr. Sureswaran Ramadass
Independent Non-Executive Director
Professor Emeritus Dr. Sureswaran Radamass was appointed to the Board on 1 April 2005 as Non-Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company and redesignated as Independent Non- Executive Director of the Company on 30 August 2017. He is currently a Professor Emeritus at the Malaysia University of Science and Technology. He is also the Chief Scientist at CrystalViewHD Sdn. Bhd. (formerly known as NLTVC Sdn. Bhd.). CrystalViewHD is a Next Generation Internet Communications research and development company.
He is also currently the Chair of the APACv6 Council and the Chair of the IPv6 Forum Malaysia. He started off his career in 1990 as a senior member of the technical staff of the research team of MODCOMP, Inc., a Florida based research company focused on the R&D of real-time systems. Customers he worked with include The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). He left in 1991 and joined ICON Business System, Inc. (Florida) as Senior Consultant. He was subsequently promoted to Vice President Engineering and was responsible in overseeing the entire engineering and R&D divisions of ICON Business Systems, Inc. (Florida).
He joined USM in 1992 as a lecturer. He was the founding Director and Professor at the National Advanced IPv6 Centre, USM. During his tenure at USM, he has a research partner/consultant to many companies in Malaysia including Telekom Malaysia Berhad, NCR Corporation, IBM Inc., MIMOS Berhad, Cabletron Systems Sdn. Bhd. and Compquest Sdn. Bhd.. He also holds numerous positions in global organisations including Chairman, Steering Committee of the ITU-MUST IPv6 and IoT Centre of Expertise, A13 project, which is a research-based project sponsored by the Japanese Government.
He was also a nominated candidate for the position of Director of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers in 2000 (ICANN). He was also the Head of APAN (Pacific Advance Networks: www.apan.net) for Malaysia. He is one of the four (4) Steering Committee Members and the IPv6 Domain Head for MYREN (Malaysian Research and Education Network) and was the Chairman of the Asia Pacific IPv6 Task Force (APV6TF) and Emeritus Chair of IPv6 Forum Education Programme. He was the Chairman, Steering Committee of the ITU-MUST IPv6 and IoT Expertise Centre. Over the years, he has published over 200 national and international level research papers as well as written chapters and provided writing materials for a few books in the area of multimedia conferencing.
Chuah Hoon Hong
Independent Non-Executive Director
With over 17 years of extensive and diverse experience in financial advisory and consultancy, Mr. Chuah brings wealth of expertise to his role. Currently serving as a Director of CNP Group and Silver Ocean Consulting Group, he specialises in preand post-IPO exercises & compliances and merger & acquisitions for both local and international financial markets.
He embarked on his professional journey in the audit firm in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In addition to handling audit assignments, he actively participated in providing advisory and consultancy services, including IPO exercises, financial due diligence, and forensic accounting. Following this, Mr. Chuah joined a Singapore-based consulting firm that focused on fundraising, merger & acquisitions, and restructuring initiatives for public-listed and private companies in Singapore, the People’s Republic of China, and Malaysia.
Karina Binti Idris Ahmad Shah
Independent Non-Executive Director
Ms. Karina binti Idris Ahmad Shah was appointed as the Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company on 1 June 2023. She has over 15 years of extensive in-house experience as a legal consultant in a wide variety of disciplines, namely telecommunication, construction, fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) and oil and gas industry.
She started her career in the Attorney Generals Chamber as Federal Counsel in 1994. Her role was managing procurement contracts for the Army, Navy and Air Force. She moved to private practice in 1996 with the firm Abu Talib Shahrom & Zahari as an Advocate & Solicitor. She was then seconded to PLUS Bhd to manage the legal department and was involved in various corporate exercises. In 2000 she moved to Johor Bahru and joined a commercial property arm of the Kuok Group of Companies. In 2007 she was hired to set up the legal unit for Iskandar Regional Development Authority (IRDA) a statutory body to develop Iskandar Malaysia in Johor. She and her team successfully organised 5 members of the authority and advisory council meetings with the Prime Minister’s office, government stakeholders and joint ministerial meetings between Malaysia and Singapore.
In 2011, she took on a legal role in Doha, Qatar for a Malaysian construction firm that was involved in the construction of the Ministry of Interior. Upon her return from the Middle East, she joined Zico Insource as a Legal Consultant. She has been assigned to various organisations that include Time dot com, Heng Yuan Refining Co. (fka Shell Refining Co.), Dutch Lady Milk Industries Bhd, Genting Bhd, Bumi Armada, Maxis Bhd and Axiata Enterprise Sdn. Bhd.