
Tengku Tan Sri Mahaleel Bin Tengku Ariff
Non Independent & Exec Director Chairman
Malaysian
He was appointed to the Board of Tien Wah Press Holdings Berhad (“TWP”)
and elected as Executive Chairman on 20 November 2006. He attended all
the nine board meetings held in the financial year. He has a very diverse
career background spanning a period of 37 years. He first started his
career in Nestlè in the Marketing and Sales Department before joining
Shell Malaysia in 1974 for 20 years. He then left Shell Malaysia to
join New Toyo, Mofaz and Proton. His 37 years of experience includes
fast moving consumer goods, food, paper packaging, cigarettes distribution,
oil, marine, aviation, cars and motorcycle industries. He was Malaysia’s
representative in the Asia Pacific Economic Council and Asean Business
Advisory Council. He is currently a visiting Professor in the School
of Management in University Sains Malaysia and is a member of London
Business School’s Regional Advisory Board. He graduated from the University
of Malaya in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours), and has attended
courses from Harvard, London School of Economics & Manchester Business
School on Strategy, Strategic Management and Marketing. Tengku Tan Sri
Dr. Mahaleel bin Tengku Ariff sits on the Board of New Toyo International
Holdings Ltd (“NTIH”), a company listed on the Main Board of the Singapore
Stock Exchange, Nestlé (Malaysia) Berhad and a few other non-listed
companies. He is deemed interested in the recurrent related party transactions
(“RRPT”) by virtue of him being a person connected with NTIH, a major
shareholder of TWPH via its shareholding in Tien Wah Holdings (1990)
Sdn Bhd (“TWH1990”) and Singapore Pacific Investments Pte Ltd (“SPI”).