AGE / GENDER/ NATIONALITY:

64 / 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, Worldwide Holdings Berhad
• Director, PHB Property Ventures Berhad

EXPERIENCE/ACHIEVEMENT AND OCCUPATION:

• Dato’ Azmi has over 40 years of working experience.
• He is the Senior Partner of Azmi & Associates for more than 24 years from September 2000 to the present, a full service corporate and commercial law firm of more than 100 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.
• Currently, a director of SEB since 1 October 2020, PHB Property Ventures Berhad since 17 May 2024, Worldwide Holdings Berhad since 2 December 2019 and a member of Bursa Malaysia Appeals Committee since 1 August 2018.
• 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.
• He had served on the Board of other listed companies including Metacorp Berhad since 5 April 1997 to 8 July 1998, Sime Darby Berhad from 16 November 2010 to 1 March 2016, Chemical Company of Malaysia Berhad from 8 October 2010 to 8 October 2019, CCM Duopharma Biotech Berhad from 5 April 2016 to 28 December 2017, Cliq Energy Berhad from 22 May 2012 to 2016, S P Setia Berhad from 3 March 2016 to 2 March 2025, Seacera Berhad from 1 February 2019 to 15 April 2019 and UMW Holdings Berhad from 1 April 2022 to 20 February 2024.
• He had also served as a director of Maybank Islamic Berhad from 9 November 2020 to 7 November 2023, Pernas Berhad from 2 August 2011 to 1 August 2018, Pelaburan Hartanah Berhad from 14 March 2023 to 13 March 2025, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan from 16 February 2016 to 30 September 2018, Institute of Corporate Directors Malaysia from 5 September 2017 to 31 October 2023 and as a member of Investment Panel for Lembaga Tabung Angkatan Tentera from 5 October 2022 to 4 October 2024.
• He had served as a Director of Terralex, a Florida-based worldwide network of 155 law firms with over 20,000 lawyers within
  its member firms spanning across more than 100 jurisdictions world-wide from September 2017 to September 2024. He is also a Lifetime Fellow of the Institute of Corporate Directors Malaysia.
• He is also one of the 16 elected counsellors for Bar Council since 2023.

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.