A. F. M Shafiqul Hafiz (Johor Land Bhd)

A. F. M. Shafiqul Hafiz has been a Managing Director of Johor Land Bhd, a subsidiary of Kulim Malaysia Bhd since May 1, 1988. Mr. Hafiz serves as the Managing Director of Puteri Hotels Sdn Bhd and Chief Executive of Hospitality Business Division. He began his career as an Engineer in Dhaka, East Pakistan in 1968. His career in Malaysia dates back to 1974 when he joined Public Works Department of Malaysia as a Project Engineer. Later he joined Johor Corporation in 1983 and has held various positions within the Group before being appointed as the Chief Executive of the Property Development Division of Johor Corporation since 1991. He serves as Chairman of Hotel Selesa (JB) Sdn Bhd and Johor Corporation Group. He has been a Director of Johor Land Bhd since May 1, 1998 and Tanjung Langsat Port Sdn Bhd since January 1, 2009. He also holds directorships in various other companies within and outside of the Johor Corporation Group. He has been a Vice Chairman of International Real Estate Federation (FIABCI) Malaysian Chapter since 2008. He has also been elected as Vice President by FIABCI International for its Asia Pacific Regional Committee for the term 2007 till 2009. He is a National Council Member of FIABCI Malaysian Chapter. He is also registered with the Institute of Engineers, Australia, as a Chartered Professional Engineer. In 1992, he attended a Senior Management Program on Public Enterprise at Harvard, USA. He is graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree majoring in Civil Engineering from East Pakistan University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka in 1967. He also holds a Master of Science Degree in Civil Engineering from Middle East Technical University of Ankara, Turkey which he obtained in 1971.

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Johor Land Berhad (JLand) is an integrated property development group  with activities covering many facets from property development, construction, property investment, management and manufacturing of building materials and producing natural rubber latex concentrates.

Johor Land Berhad (JLand) is incorporated in 1972, a member of Johor Corporation Group of Companies. The Group has more than 3,000 acres of development land strategically located in Pasir Gudang, Ulu Tiram, Senai, Tampoi and Johor Bahru which will sustain the Group’s property development activities at least for the next 20 years.

JLand’s long term commitment to sustainable development and its ability to respond to the needs of the local market has made JLand a dominant property developer in Johor. This commitment and this ability is made possible through understanding homeowners’ need for quality and functionality. Our success is in giving our customers value for their money and assets with potential for appreciation. 

The company currently has a prime land bank of over 3,000 acres in Johor. In its endeavor to be a premier property company in the country it intends to expand its presence throughout Malaysia and the Region and to widen its involvement in other sectors of the property industry. JLand is prepared to develop viable parcels of land in areas outside its present area of operation and to participate in acquiring, developing and owning investment properties.

JLand has been awarded with MS ISO 9002:1994 for Development Of Residential and Commercial properties from SIRIM in August 1999 and in February 2002 JLand managed to upgrade MS ISO 9001 : 2000 Certification for Design Management, Development of Residential and Commercial Properties

Resource:

1. http://announcements.bursamalaysia.com/EDMS/subweb.nsf/0/b9c966f7da5337c2482572d1002d16dc/$FILE/JLAND-Circular.pdf

Tan Sri Dato' Sri Hamad Kama Piah bin Che Othman (Amanah Saham Nasional Berhad)

Tan Sri Dato' Sri Hamad Kama Piah bin Che Othman, born in 1951, was appointed to the Board in April 1998. He is the President & Group Chief Executive of Permodalan Nasional Berhad (PNB) and is a member of the Board of Directors of PNB, Amanah Saham Nasional Berhad, Pelaburan Hartanah Nasional Berhad and Amanah Mutual Berhad (formerly known as Mayban Unit Trust Berhad). He is also the Chairman of Universiti Malaysia Kelantan and I-Berhad since May 2007 and February 2009 respectively and sits on the Board of a number of Malaysian private limited companies.

A graduate of Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Tan Sri Dato' Hamad also holds a Masters degree from Swansea University, United Kingdom and an Honorary Doctorate in Business Administration from University Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN). He is a Senior Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia and a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, United Kingdom. He also holds the designation of a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) and a Registered Financial Planner (RFP).

Tan Sri Dato’ Hamad Kama Piah Bin Che Othman ( TBL Awards – 2008/2009)

Tan Sri Dato’ Hamad Kama Piah bin Che Othman is the President & Group Chief Executive of Permodalan Nasional Berhad (PNB) and also a member of the Board of Directors of PNB, Amanah Saham Nasional Berhad, Pelaburan Hartanah Nasional Berhad and Amanah Mutual Berhad. He is also the Chairman of Universiti Malaysia Kelantan and I-Berhad since May 2007 and February 2009 respectively and sits on the Board of a number of Malaysian private limited companies.

Tan Sri Dato’ Hamad Kama Piah has a career which spans over 30 years in the fields of investment and unit trust management as well as corporate finance. Taking the helm of an asset management institution such as PNB at the height of the 1997/1998 financial crisis was definitely a very demanding and challenging task but Tan Sri Dato’ Hamad Kama Piah has demonstrated that he has the mettle for the job. During his leadership, he has not only successfully steered PNB out of the worst storm ever, but also has contributed towards developing PNB to become stronger than before. He was instrumental in initiating and carrying out corporate exercises that has added value to the PNB Group of companies.

Under the leadership of Tan Sri Dato’ Hamad Kama Piah, PNB received the Readers’ Digest Most Trusted Brand Award in 2007 and 2008, and the BrandLaureate Award in the Conglomerate category in 2007 and 2008. Most recently in 2009, PNB was also honoured with the ‘Anugerah Seni Negara’ for the private sector category.

Philanthrophy is very close to Tan Sri Dato’ Hamad Kama Piah heart and at PNB various CSR programmes are introduced for the well being of the community. Free Financial Planning seminars are set up for the public and the setting up of Pusat Komuniti Pintar to educate and engage the rural communities in information technology. In addition, Tan Sri Hamad, in 1998, also initiated the establishment of Kolej Ilmu PNB for underprivileged students and in year 1999, Tan Sri Dato’ Hamad Kama Piah initiated the establishment of Yayasan Tun Ismail which awards scholarship to excellent students to study in distinguished universities in the United Kingdom.

His achievements and contributions towards Malaysia brought us good pride among the nation.  The Asia Pacific Brands Foundation  conferred The BrandLaureate Brand Personality Award to Tan Sri Dato’ Hamad Kama Piah Bin Che Othman for his contribution in the financial and investment category.

Resources :

1. http://www.thebrandlaureate.com/tbl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=226:tan-sri-dato-hamad-kama-piah-bin-che-othman-tbl-awards-20082009&catid=912:malaysian-brandlaureates&Itemid=317
2.  http://www.titangroup.com/AboutTitan/Tan_Sri_Dato_Hamad_Kama_Piah.aspx

Datuk Seri Syed Zainal Abidin Syed Mohamed Tahir (Proton)

1)      Proton Holdings BHD known as Malaysia’s car producer being introduced since 7^th May

1983. It is a project under the idea of Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia’s former Prime Minister that want to make Malaysia to become an industrial country. Datuk Seri Syed Zainal Abidin Syed Mohamed Tahir appointed as the CEO of Proton since 1 January 2006.

He was graduated in Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the University of

Maryland, USA. Before participating in Proton, he was the former Senior General Manager at Perodua in 1999. The Proton CEO has once being called “Automotive Man of The Year” by New Straits Times/Maybank Car in the year of 2008 for his prestigious leadership towards making Proton as the significant car producer in the international market.

Proton Holdings BHD were currently had merged a pleasing cooperation with Hawtai

Motor Group Ltd from China to make a better prospect of marketing in the second largest country in the world. They come out with new model concept and then they will work together to build the new design and development cost for the new model said the former Proton manager, Datuk Sri Mohd Nadzmi Mohd Salleh.

Besides, the cooperation of Proton with Hawtai will give them the benefit to learn and

went through directly toward the industrial of low cost car production. By this, the Proton industrial will lead to another new dimension by making China as their main producer of Proton car.

Ananda Krishnan (CEO- Maxis Communications & MEASAT) : $8.1 billion

Ananda Krishnan holds an MBA from Harvard University in 1964. Prior to that, he received his education from Vivekananda Tamil School and Victoria Institution in Kuala Lumpur. He attended University of Melbourne, Australia to complete his degree.  

　

Ananda currently owns 2 of the biggest communications companies in Malaysia; Maxis Communications & MEASAT Broadcast Network Systems. Maxis is currently the biggest cellular phone company in Malaysia with more than 5 millions subscribers and about 30% of Malaysia's market share. 

　

MEASAT currently has 2 communication satellites navigating the earth, and offers 30 television channels and 16 radio channels. The 3rd satellite is said to being launched but is yet to be confirmed.  His satellite TV operations now include Indonesia, India, Philippines, Brunei, Vietnam and Taiwan.

　

Apart from that, Ananda Krishnan owns substantial shareholder-ship in Tanjong Plc, which interest in entertainment industry like Tanjong Golden Village Cinemas. 

　

Ananda's strength lies in his ability to appreciate and take advantage of new technology discoveries and make them work in his way.  His intelligent, vision and leadership has enabled him to continue leading the pack in the Malaysian's rich-list for many years.

　

In his course of life, he has been contributing huge sums of energy and money for the charity and foundations. He has donated as much as RM160 millions towards developing and providing education opportunities for Bumiputra in Malaysia.

　

Ananda Krishnan is married with 3 children.

MANY words have been used to describe T. Ananda Krishnan - enigmatic, daring, bold, shrewd, down-to-earth - the list goes on. Fortune magazine, in a 2001 article, aptly called him "Kuala Lumpur's Mr Big".
With both his hands in many cookie jars, he has chartered his name, not only in Malaysia, but across the continents.
Said to have an extraordinary entrepreneurial flair and inventiveness,
Ananda started out as an oil trader, setting up Exoil Trading which went on to purchase oil drilling concessions in various countries.
He progressed to gaming in Malaysia, stud farming in Australia, running cartoon animation studios in California and Manila, and making a series of investments in private companies from Hong Kong to the Channel Islands.
Diversity was his motto. He got involved in the multimedia industry in the early 90s and developed other interests in entertainment, satellite, oil, power, shipping, telecommunications, property and gaming.
He has a string of multiplex theatres in Malaysia which offers movies on the bigger screen.
His entertainment company holds more than 800 movie titles. He also owns the world's largest Chineselanguage movie library, Celestial Pictures.
Today, Ananda has businesses spread all over the globe, including the United States and Japan.
His businesses are varied. In the Philippines, he produced children's
cartoons at the Philippine Animation Studios. He has also worked on Datuk Lat's Malaysian cartoon series for the international market.
Here at home, he is probably most known as the key force behind the building of the world's tallest structure, which is also one of the
largest real estate developments in the world - the Petronas Twin Towers.
His little black book includes names like Jack Welch, Rupert Murdoch and Maurice Greenberg, not to mention veteran rock star Sir Bob Geldof, with whom he mounted the Live Aid charity concert in 1985 in London and Philadelphia to raise funds for the Ethiopian famine victims.
Dominic Armstrong, head of regional research for ABN AMRO, was quoted in an interview as saying: "It's not so much Malaysia that you're backing, it's Ananda. He is a worldclass businessman who happens to be Malaysian." Now, Malaysia's richest man, who was reported by Fortune magazine this year as worth a staggering RM8.77 billion, controls Tanjung Plc, Maxis Communications Bhd and Measat Broadcast Network Systems Sdn Bhd which operates the popular Astro satellite network, all via his private investment vehicle, Usaha Tegas Sdn Bhd.
He collaborated with American geologist Tom Cantwell to purchase the rights to drill in Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Egypt, the North Sea and the US. They are said to have had more than 2.5 million hectares (1996 figures) under lease.
One of his well remembered business successes was when he secured a RM2.8 billion loan in Sept 20, 2001 for Maxis, the largest corporate loan since the 1997/98 financial crisis, from Japan, the Netherlands and Canada.
Ananda Krishnan, or AK, as he is also known, is a man of humble
beginnings.
The son of a senior clerk in the civil service, this determined character achieved world renowned success which began with education at the Victoria Institution in Kuala Lumpur.
He then pursued his studies at Melbourne University in Australia, where he was introduced to horses by his college mates, as all his friends' fathers bred horses.
It was said that his first business venture while still a student at the
university was a small betting operation. Apart from that, he also worked in a radio station and edited the college paper.
He took part in plays, one of them the Merchant of Venice, and a biweekly discussion programme over radio.
After gaining his Bachelor of Arts (Honours), he moved on to Harvard University for a Masters in Business Administration in 1964.
Although he has been hugely successful in business, he has remembered others of lesser means.
More recently in June, companies under him pledged RM160 million to various education funds in the country.
Even though there are many words to describe Ananda Krishnan, at the top of it all is Malaysian.

source: http://www.maxis.com.my/personal/about_us/newsroom/reports/2003/r_23_August_2003_a.asp

http://www.networkmalaysia.com/subtitle/article_anandak.htm

http://www.skorcareer.com/malaysia-eng/anandakrishnanprofile.htm

Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar al-Bukhary : $1.7 billion (MMC)

                                                        

Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary is one of the most prominent Malaysia entrepreneurs and is popular with his generosity and philanthropic deeds for the society. He is also known for his down-to-earth attitude, and a guy who as much as possible, avoids publicity, cameras and interviews, which at times can be an overwhelming task, considering his status quo as one of the 10 richest men in the country.

Much of Syed Mokhtar’s attitude is attributed with his parents’ upbringing since he was still a small kid. He was born into a mid-low class family in Kedah, with both his parents having average income background. Being nowhere near to living a wealthy life style did not stop his father and mother from instilling good values in raising their kid. Their home came without necessities, let alone luxuries. Syed Mokhtar himself never went beyond the secondary school, as the prevailing family condition forced him to quit schooling and help family by doing odd jobs and starting small scale businesses.

Syed Mokhtar started his real business in the southern Malaysia, selling and distributing rice. With the acquired knowledge and increase in his entrepreneurship skills, he later ventured into trading, logistics and shipping. His mother’s advice to treat part of the money he received as belonging to the poor and the needy remains at the core of his heart. True enough, when he was merely 23 years old, he gave away half of his monthly income of RM1,500 to the needy, donating it to 15 poor families in his village. He has never stopped giving since.

In 1996, Syed Mokhtar set up Al-Bukhary Foundation to assist the needy, with him as the sole donator. The foundation finances English, Science and Mathematics classes for more than 20,000 underachieving students every year, as well as running a college scholarship program for 300 students in more than 40 countries. Between 1996 and 2006, the Al-Bukhary Foundation has contributed about 1 billion for various charity causes.

The foundation also built the famous and gigantic Al-Bukhary mosque in Alor Setar, Kedah, adjacent to a business complex, which today becomes a prominent landmark in Kedah with its remarkable architecture.

In January 2008, Syed Mokhtar was honored as the recipient of the Tokoh Maal Hijrah 1429. And owing his success to his mother’s teachings, he decided to give the cash award of RM80,000 to his mother, Sharifah Rokiah Syed Mohamed Rahmat.

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