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Datuk Ismail Bin Awang Besar
Non-Independent & Non-Executive

Datuk Ismail Bin Awang Besar, 64, was appointed as Director of SURIA on 6 June 1996 and as Chairman from 1 July 2001 until 20 May 2002. He was made the Managing Director of SURIA from 14 September 2001 until 1 February 2004. He chairs the Nomination/Appointment Committee and is a member of the Remuneration Committee of the Board.

He also sits on the Boards of the Company's subsidiaries, namely Tricubes Suria Sdn. Bhd. and Suria Bumiria Sdn. Bhd. Datuk Ismail, a Malaysian citizen, is the Chairman of the Sabah Public Service Commission. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) majoring in International Studies from the University of Staffordshire, United Kingdom. He also has a postgraduate Diploma in Development Administration from the University of Birmingham.

Once a senior staff in the Sabah State's Civil Service under various appointments, he joined Sabah Development Bank Berhad in 1985 as a Training Manager and moved his way up to Executive Director until he left in 1998. He was the Chairman of Saham Sabah Berhad, a state-sponsored unit trust management company until 2001.

Datuk Ismail has no securities holding in SURIA and its subsidiaries and no family relationship with any Director and/or major shareholder nor any conflict of interest with SURIA.