Datuk Noharuddin Bin Nordin @ Harun, 68, male, a Malaysian, was appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company on 20th May 2015. He was appointed as Chairman of the Nomination Committee and as Senior Independent Non-Executive Director on 23rd May 2019. He was appointed as a member of the Risk and Sustainability Committee on 1st January 2022 and ceased from office on 18th May 2023. He was appointed as a member of the Remuneration Committee on the same day. He graduated with a Master of Business Administration from the University of Birmingham, UK in 1992. He has vast working experience with the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (‘MITI’), Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (‘MATRADE’) and Malaysian Investment Development Authority (‘MIDA’). He was the Assistant Director of MITI from 1986 to 1993. He joined MATRADE in 2000 and he was the Chief Executive Officer of MATRADE from 2006 to 2011. He was the Chief Executive Officer of MIDA from 2011 until his retirement in February 2014. He is currently an Independent Director of Hong Leong Industries Berhad.

He does not have any family relationship with any director and/or major shareholder of the Group, nor any personal interest in any business arrangement involving the Company. He attended all of the five Board Meetings held in the financial year ended 31st December 2023 and has had no convictions for any offences within the past 5 years, other than traffic offences, if any and has not been imposed any public sanction or penalty by the relevant regulatory bodies during the financial year.