Dato’ Azman was appointed an Independent Non-Executive Director on 15 April 2021. He graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from University Putra Malaysia.
After having served with the Malaysian Investment Development Authority (MIDA) for over three decades, Dato’ Azman Mahmud ended his tenure there as the Chief Executive officer. He had the enviable responsibility to drive investments into the country and lead the team in advising, formulating and recommending strategies, policies, investment and industry development programmes in the manufacturing and services sectors to the government of Malaysia. In his former role as CEo of MIDA, he was also pivotal in attracting foreign investments into the country, in addition to being instrumental in driving domestic investments in various industries and sectors.
He was appointed as Chairman of Exim Bank a government-owned development financial institution from the term October 2021 – September 2023. He holds Chairmanship positions on several boards of companies which include Panasonic Malaysia Sdn Bhd, Privasia Technology Bhd and Cnergenz Bhd. He is also an Independent Non-Executive Director of GDEX Bhd and Texchem Resources Bhd.
In addition, he is a board member of companies within the Panasonic Group of Companies Malaysia and Akademi Transformasi Asnaf Perlis Sdn Bhd (a subsidiary of Majlis Agama Islam Perlis).
Dato’ Azman has no shareholdings in the Company and its associated company. He also has no family relationship with any Director and/or major shareholder of the Company nor any conflict of interest with the Company. He attended all the Board Meetings held during the financial year and has no convictions for any offences within the past 5 years, other than traffic offences, if any.