Tan Sri Dato’ Sri Abi Musa Asa’ari Bin Mohamed Nor was appointed to our Board as an Independent Non-Executive Director on 1 April 2015 and was subsequently re-designated as the Chairman of our Company on 3 April 2015.
He holds a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) from the University of Malaya and a D.D.A from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. He obtained a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. He also holds an Honorary Doctorate in Economic Management from Sultan Idris Education University.
He had served 33 years in the Malaysian Civil Service from 1973 until his retirement in 2006. He started work as an Assistant Director in the Public Service Department in 1973. He then served in the National Bureau of Investigation, National Institute of Public Administration and Petroleum Development Unit of the Prime Minister’s Department before being appointed as the Deputy Budget Director in the Ministry of Finance in 1995. In 1998, he joined Federal Agriculture Marketing Authority as the Director General and subsequently as the Secretary General of the Ministry of Agriculture and Agro-based Industry from 2001 before retiring in 2006.
He is the Non-Independent Non-Executive Chairman of HeiTech Padu Berhad and the Independent Non-Executive Chairman of Swift Haulage Berhad, both public listed companies on the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia.