Dato’ Mohd Ibrahim Bin Mohd Nor (“Dato’ Ibrahim ”) (male) (Malaysian) aged 62, is an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company and was appointed to the Board on 28 November 2019. He is the Chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Board Risk Management Committee of the Company.
Dato’ Ibrahim graduated with a Degree in Mathematics from Knox College, Illinois, the USA in 1981. He then graduated with a Master in Business Administration from Drake University, Iowa, USA in 1983.
Upon graduation in 1983, he joined Asian International Merchant Bank Berhad in the Corporate Banking department. In the following year, he left Asian International Merchant Bank Berhad and joined Utama Wardley Berhad in the Corporate Banking department. He subsequently left Utama Wardley Berhad and joined The New Straits Times Press Group, where he held various senior management positions including General Manager in the Chief Executive Officer’s Office and General Manager of the Circulation Department. In 1994, he left The New Straits Time Press Group and joined Malakoff Berhad as the Chief Operating Officer. He left Malakoff Berhad in 1995 and in 1996, he was appointed as the Managing Director of Padiberas Nasional Berhad and was later promoted to Vice Chairman in 2001 until his resignation in 2003.
Dato’ Ibrahim was also an appointed Director of Malaysian Resources Corporation Bhd from 1999 to 2000; the Executive Vice Chairman for Sistem Television Malaysia Berhad from 2000 to 2001; a Director of Magazine World Sdn. Bhd. from 2003 to 2020; and the Chairman for Malay Mail Sdn. Bhd. from 2008 to 2012.
He was also the appointed Director and Chairman for Super Enterprise Holdings Berhad (which was subsequently delisted from the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad (“Bursa Securities”) and now known as MCC Labels Asia Sdn. Bhd.) from 2008 to 2011 and was reappointed in 2014 as a Director and redesignated as Chairman in the same year. He resigned from his position in December 2015.He was also appointed as a Director for Protasco Berhad in 2009 and was later appointed as Deputy Chairman from June 2012 to December 2012. From 2014 to 2015, he was reappointed as a Director of Protasco Berhad, He was appointed as the Chairman of Kumpulan Ikram Sdn. Bhd. in August 2017, a position he held until August 2018.
Dato’ Ibrahim is presently an Independent Director in Kim Teck Cheong Consolidated Berhad, a company listed on the ACE Market of Bursa Securities since 2018 and the Independent Non-Executive Chairman of Carzo Holdings Berhad, a company listed on the LEAP Market of Bursa Securities since 1 March 2021.
He is also the Chairman of Blu Inc Holdings (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. since 2004, the largest magazine publications group in Malaysia; the Chairman of Second Wind Sdn. Bhd., a software solutions provider since May 2008; a Director of Ikram Education Sdn. Bhd. since July 2014; the Deputy Chairman of Rajawali Aerospace Sdn. Bhd. Since April 2017; and the Chairman and Director of Protasco Development Sdn. Bhd. since September 2018.
Dato Ibrahim attended all five (5) Board Meetings of the Company held during the financial year ended 30 June 2021.