ABBASIM - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Chief Executive Officer

En. Fuad is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Abbas Investment Management Sdn Bhd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Opus Asset Management Sdn Bhd (OpusAM). Prior to joining AIM, he was an Investment Manager at OpusAM where he was managing funds for a wide variety of client segments in the USD, SGD, and MYR fixed income markets. He has over 13 years of experience in portfolio management, credit analysis, product development and analytics. En. Fuad holds a Master of Science degree in Analogue and Digital Integrated Circuit Design from Imperial College London, UK and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Warwick, UK. He has been a holder of a Capital Markets Services Representative's Licence since 2010.

Job Titles:

• Independent Non - Executive Director
• Independent Member

Mr. Siaw is a founding member with over 26 years of investment, insurance, & advisory experience... Mr. Siaw is one of the founders of OpusAM and is currently holding the position of Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer in OpusAM. Pn. Latifah is an Independent Non-executive Director of Abbas Investment Management Sdn Bhd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Opus Asset Management Sdn Bhd. She also sits on the boards of Mynews Holdings Bhd, South Malaysia Industries Bhd, and MK Land Holdings Bhd respectively as an Independent Non-Executive Director. She has over 30 years of experience in the areas of commercial & investment banking, developmental finance, and insurance. Throughout much of her career, she was involved in business development and lending activities with a key focus on corporate loans, servicing many corporations both large and medium sized while interfacing with their respective chief executives and other key management staff. Based on the strength of her professional experience, in 2009 she was hired to be part of the pioneer team to set up Danajamin Nasional Bhd: Malaysia's first financial guarantee insurer, where she spearheaded the only business division of the company. As a member of the senior management team, she served on various management committees responsible for reviewing and deliberating business proposals, risk management initiatives and processes, audit & compliance as well as overall management of the organization. Her last position was as Senior Vice President of Bank Pembangunan Malaysia Bhd. Pn. Latifah holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business (majoring in Finance) from Indiana University, USA, and a Diploma in Accountancy from UiTM, Malaysia.

Job Titles:

• Non - Independent Member

Ms. Ng joined Opus Asset Management (OpusAM) in 2006, to head and set up the investment department. She has helped to build the investment team which consists of fund management, research and analytics. As the Head of Investment, she oversees the daily investment decisions by a team of portfolio managers and ensures that the funds are managed in accordance to the strategy decided by the Investment team together with the Chief Investment Officer (CIO). She also oversees the research team and currently sits in company credit group. Ms. Ng started her career as a banker, specialising in credit. She spent a total of 7 years in banking, analysing credits of companies and structuring of loans and credit facilities. Besides marketing and credit proposals, she was responsible for the evaluation of credit reports submitted by various branches for recommendation to the Credit Committee. Her career in investment started when she joined the Investment Department of Hong Leong Assurance Bhd in 1999. With her credit background, she was in charge of the fixed income portfolio which grew from less than RM500 million to approximately RM1.5 billion. Ms. Ng graduated from Monash University, Australia and holds a Bachelor of Economics majoring in Accounting. She is also a Certified Practicing Accountant under the Australian Society of CPAs ("ASCPA"). She holds a Capital Markets Services Representative's License.

Job Titles:

• Chairman
• Non - Executive Director
• Chairman, Non - Independent Member

Pn. Noorshidah is the Chairperson of the Board and Investment Committee of Abbas Investment Management Sdn Bhd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Opus Asset Management Sdn Bhd. She is also the Head of Business and Investment Services at Opus Asset Management since 2006, overseeing in-house sales, distribution sales, client services and product development. She has vast experience in banking, stockbroking, handling of processes and documentation, client servicing, product development, sales and marketing of financial and investment products. Pn. Noorshidah started her career as a Loan Executive with Hong Leong Finance Bhd at its Head Office in 1984. In 1986, she was transferred to the Bishop Street Branch in Penang as a Processing & Documentation Executive. She later joined Standard Chartered Bank in 1990 as a Mortgage Sales Manager, where she was responsible for the sales and marketing of mortgage loans in the Northern Region. She was also responsible for the setting-up of a mortgage centre in the Penang branch. In December 1993, she assumed the position of Business Financial Services Manager (North) and was responsible for pushing both the Liabilities & Asset sales for the Northern Region. She later joined Phileo Allied Bank (which was subsequently acquired by Maybank in year 2000) in 1998 as the Manager of Priority Banking. She was responsible for the setting-up of a Priority Banking Centre in Penang, which caters to high-net-worth individuals. She was also directly accountable for the centre's sales. Before joining Opus Asset Management, Pn. Noorshidah was with PM Securities Sdn Bhd, a stockbroking company. She started as General Manager of Business Development and was subsequently appointed as Head of Dealing in the company. She graduated from the University of Oregon, USA with a Bachelor of Science degree (majoring in Community Health) and holds a Capital Markets Services Representative's Licence.

Job Titles:

• Founding Member
• Non - Executive Director
• Non - Independent Non - Executive Director
• Non - Independent Member

Mr. Siaw is a Non-independent Non-executive Director of Abbas Investment Management Sdn Bhd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Opus Asset Management Sdn Bhd. He is one of the founders of Opus Asset Management and is currently holding the position of Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer in the company. He started his career as a Risk Manager and Actuarial Consultant at NMG Risk Managers & Actuaries Sdn Bhd. He then joined Gadek Asset Management (later renamed Phileo Asset Management) in 1996 as the Portfolio Manager in charge of fixed income where he grew the fixed income portfolio under management to RM430 million over a four year period. Later, he joined Hong Leong Group Asset Management in 2000 where he was responsible for over RM1 billion of funds under management and a team of seven investment professionals. He was later promoted to General Manager, Investment/Chief Investment Officer of Hong Leong Assurance Bhd ("HLA") in 2002 where he was responsible for approximately RM3 billion (of which approximately RM2 billion was in fixed income securities) of HLA's investment portfolio. Mr. Siaw holds an MSc degree in International Banking & Financial Studies from the University of Southampton, UK; a BSc (Honours) degree in Actuarial Mathematics & Statistics from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh and holds a Capital Markets Services Representative's Licence.