AGE / GENDER/ NATIONALITY:

62 / Male / Malaysian

DATE OF APPOINTMENT:

• 1 October 2020

BOARD COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS:

• Chairman, Board Nomination and Remuneration Committee 
• Member, Board Audit Committee 

DIRECTORSHIP IN OTHER PUBLIC COMPANIES AND LISTED ISSUERS:

• Director, S P Setia Berhad 
• Director, UMW Holdings Berhad 
• Director, Worldwide Holdings Berhad 
• Director, Maybank Islamic Berhad
• Director, Pelaburan Hartanah Berhad 

EXPERIENCE/ACHIEVEMENT AND OCCUPATION:

• Dato’ Azmi is the Senior Partner of Azmi & Associates, a full service corporate and commercial law firm of more than 85 lawyers, based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The firm, Azmi & Associates under his leadership is recognised as one of the largest law firms (by size) in Malaysia.  
• He is an experienced and is one of the leading corporate lawyers in Malaysia with expertise in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, cross-border transactions, project finance, privatisation, energy, oil and gas and foreign investments.  
• Prior to his endeavour in private practice, Dato’ Azmi had spent 6 1/2 years as an in-house counsel of PETRONAS. He was involved in projects of national importance for Malaysia and negotiated and concluded the NGPSA, a major gas development project for Malaysia, in 1990. His accomplishments as a corporate lawyer are well noted and have earned him numerous awards, accolades and recognitions from reputed international legal publications. He won the prestigious Legal 500 Hall of Fame for M&A/Corporate for three consecutive years, 2020-2022, Distinquished M&A Practitioner for AsiaLaw 2020, International Law Office 2016 Clients Choice Award for Malaysia in Mergers & Acquisitions, and other international publications.
• Currently, he serves as a Director of Terralex, a Florida-based world-wide network of 155 law firms with 20,000 lawyers within its member firms spanning across 100 jurisdictions world-wide. He is also a Director of the Institute of Corporate Directors Malaysia. 

ACADEMIC/ PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master of Laws (LLM) in the United States of America & Global Business Law, University of Suffolk, Boston Massachusetts, United States of America.
• Bachelor of Law LLB (Hons), Universiti Malaya.