Directors’ Profile
Dato’ Abd Aziz was appointed to the Board of Destini Berhad in July 2023. He had served in several constructions and property development companies prior to joining Gold Bridge Engineering and Construction Berhad as the Executive Director in charge of the overall management and operations since 1989.
Formerly, he served as a board member of several public listed companies namely Kretam Holdings Berhad, Safeguard Corporation Berhad, Utusan (Melayu) Malaysia Berhad and TH Heavy Engineering Berhad. He was also an Independent Non-Executive Director of Destini Berhad from 30 August 2017 until 18 May 2018.
Dato’ Abd Aziz also served in the Board of Government Investment Companies and Agencies namely Universiti Utara Malaysia, Tourism Malaysia, Rangkaian Hotel Seri Malaysia Sdn Bhd, Kedah State Economic Development Corporation and Suria Strategic Energy Resources Sdn Bhd.
DATO’ ABD AZIZ BIN HAJI SHEIKH FADZIR Chairman
Non Independent and Non Executive Director (Malaysian, Male)
Datuk Lim Nyuk Sang @ Freddy Lim (“Datuk Lim”) has been involved in the plantation business and the timber industry for more than thirty years. He has interests in private companies which are involved in oil palm plantation, oil milling operations and property development. He also holds directorship in Sabah Softwoods Berhad.
He completed his secondary education in Sung Siew Secondary School, Sandakan, Sabah in 1971. He is a director of Kretam Holding Berhad.
DATUK LIM NYUK SANG @ FREDDY LIM
Managing Director (Malaysian, Male)
Encik Adam Yusuff bin Abd Aziz is a Project Manager with over 4 years of robust professional working experience in the FMCG retail, Dairy, Palm Oil and Durian plantation industries. He also has a broad knowledge of retail FMCG marketing, FMCG R&D and manufacturing, plantation management and lean manpower planning.
In 2018, he was a Marketing and Business Development Manager at Hybrid Allied Dairy Company Sdn Bhd where he managed Summerfiled Milk at Rawang Factory and Kluang Farm. From 2021 to present, he holds a Project Manager position at Dayanine Estate Sdn Bhd where he plans, organises, supervises and coordinates based at Korbu Plantation and Lasah Plantion.
ADAM YUSUFF BIN ABD AZIZ
Executive Director (Malaysian, Male)
Yin Kong Fung was re-designated as Executive Director on 1 March 2024. He started his career as an Accountant with JGC Accounting & Financial Services Pty Ltd in Perth, Australia in 2001. On his return to Malaysia in 2004, he worked briefly for Campo Sdn Bhd before joining Priceworth International Products Berhad as an Accountant until 2007.
In 2007, he joined CGG, a French-based geophysical services company in Australia, as an Accountant and was promoted in 2013 to Senior Accountant, a position he held until he resigned in 2015.
In 2016, he joined Kretam Holdings Berhad, a listed plantation company in Malaysia as a Senior Accountant and promoted to Head of Department – Finance & Accounts in 2018. Subsequently, he was re-designated as Executive Chairman of Kretam Holding Berhad on 1 March 2024.
He does not have any family relationship with any Director and/or major shareholder of the Company nor conflict of interest with the Company.
YIN KONG FUNG
Executive Director (Malaysian, Male)
Madam Teo Gim Suan was an Audit Assistant with KPMG from 1990 to 1993. She was a Tax Assistant with KPMG Tax Services Sdn Bhd in 1993 and later held the position of Tax Senior until 2003. Between 2003 and 2005, she was the Manager of M & C Services Sdn Bhd, Sandakan Branch that provided company secretarial and related services.
She was also an Independent Non-Executive Director of Kretam Holdings Berhad, a public listed company where she was the Chairman and a Member of Audit Committee, Remuneration Committee and Nomination Committee from 1 January 2011 to 31 December 2022.
She is presently a Director and Company Secretary of Moving Swift Corporate Services Sdn Bhd, a company which provides company secretarial and related services, since 2005.
She does not have any family relationship with any Director and/or major shareholder of the Company nor conflict of interest with the Company.
TEO GIM SUAN
Independent Non-Executive Director (Malaysian, Female)
Datuk Zulkarnain has over 30 years of experience in engineering, corporate planning, fundraising exercise, as well as mergers and acquisitions. He began his career in 1991 with Tenaga Nasional Berhad as an Electrical Engineer before joining EPE Power Corporation Berhad as Project Manager.
In 2001, Malaysia Resources Corporation Berhad (MRCB) recruited him as a Project Coordinator specialising in engineering-related projects. His last assignment saw him leading the International Business Development Unit for the Middle East/ South Africa (MESA) and South Asia regions. In 2006, he joined Empire Energy Corp, an international energy company and served as a Senior Vice President with a focus on restructuring distressed power plant projects in South East Asia. He was also tasked to develop coalfire power plants in Indonesia and led the strategic efforts to acquire the Indonesian company.
He later joined FELCRA Berhad in 2014 as Chief Investment Officer and was entrusted a bigger role to lead FELCRA Berhad as the Chief Executive Officer in 2016. He was the driving force that took the organization to venture into food security, expanding the fertilizer industry and property development.
Datuk Zulkarnain took the helm of Pharmaniaga Berhad as Group Managing Director on 1 September 2020. Subsequently, Datuk Zukarnain was redesignated as Chief Executive Officer on 22 February 2023 and he resigned as CEO of Pharmaniaga Berhad on 14 March 2023.
DATUK ZULKARNAIN BIN MD EUSOPE
Independent Non-Executive Director (Malaysian, Male)