Key Senior Management - Widad Group Berhad

Dato' Dr Mohd Rizal Mohd Jaafar

Managing Director, Widad Group Berhad

Dato’ Dr Rizal holds a Bachelor of Accountancy (Hons) from Universiti Malaya and a Master of Business Administration in Islamic Banking and Finance from the International Islamic University Malaysia. He is also a Chartered Accountant under the Malaysian Institute of Accountants.

Dato’ Dr Rizal started his career as a bank supervisor and served for 12 years at Bank Negara Malaysia, supervising the Islamic, Commercial, and Investment Banking Institutions Department prior to joining Small Medium Enterprise Development Bank Malaysia Berhad (“SME Bank”) in 2010.

He was involved in developing, driving and implementing transformation strategies and initiatives to rejuvenate and strengthen SME Bank. In 2013, he was promoted to the position of Group Chief Operating Officer of SME Bank. In 2015, he joined Widad Business Group Sdn Bhd as the Group CEO and was appointed to the board of Widad on 29 August 2018 as the Managing Director.

Dato’ Dr Rizal is also a member of the Board of Directors of Dataprep Holdings Berhad. He has no family relationship with any Director and/or major shareholder of Widad and has no conflict of interest with Widad. He has not been convicted of any offences other than traffic offences, if any, within the past five (5) years and has not been imposed of any public sanction or penalty by the regulatory bodies during the financial year.

Mr. Nor Azlan Zainal

Chief Financial Officer, Widad Group Berhad

Mr. Nor Azlan holds a Bachelor of Accountancy (Hons) from Universiti Teknologi MARA in 1993. He is also a Chartered Accountant under the Malaysian Institute of Accountants. Nor Azlan began his career at Ernst & Young, until he was admitted to the Malaysian Institute of Accountants.

Subsequently, he joined Guolene Paper Products Sdn Bhd (a subsidiary of Hong Leong Group) Packaging Division in 1997 as an accountant before moving on to Golden Pharos Berhad in 1998 as Chief Financial Officer. In 2004, he co-founded and assumed the role as Chief Executive Officer of Right Balance Sdn Bhd, a diversified group with interests in oil and gas, transportation, and trading of wood products. In 2018, he joined Widad Business Group Sdn Bhd as Group CFO.

Mr. Nor Azlan does not hold any directorship in any other public company. He has no family relationship with any Director and/ or major shareholder of Widad Group Berhad and has no conflict of interest with Widad Group Berhad. He has not been convicted of any offences other than traffic offences, if any, within the past five (5) years and has not been imposed of any public sanction or penalty by the regulatory bodies during the financial year.

IR Mohd Syaswan Samsudin

Chief Operating Officer, Construction, Widad Group Berhad

Ir Mohd Syaswan holds a Bachelor in Civil Engineering (Hons) in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor. Apart from being the Group’s Construction division Chief Operating Officer, he is also the Executive Director of Widad Builders Sdn Bhd since 2010 and the Executive Director of Group Technical and Quality Assurance Division for WGB.

Prior to joining WGB, Ir. Mohd Syaswan worked at Cempaka Muda Sdn Bhd, where he served as a project engineer handling the day to day construction operations from 2003- 2005. He then joined TN Perunding Consulting Engineers as Civil & Structural Design Engineer for two years (2005-2007), followed by Pembinaan BLT Sdn Bhd from 2007- 2010, a wholly owned company under the Ministry of Finance.

Ir Mohd Syaswan does not hold any directorship in any other public company. He has no family relationship with any Director and/ or major shareholder of Widad Group Berhad and has no conflict of interest with Widad Group Berhad. He has not been convicted of any offences other than traffic offences, if any, within the past five (5) years and has not been imposed of any public sanction or penalty by the regulatory bodies during the financial year.

Dato' Julaini Jusoh

Chief Operating Officer, Integrated Facilities Management Widad Group Berhad

Dato’ Julaini holds a Mechanical Engineering graduate from University of Science Malaysia. He began his career as a mechanical engineer with Sharp-Roxy (M) Sdn Bhd from 1994-1997. Between 1997-2001, he later moved to BMES Maintenance Services Sdn Bhd as Area Manager, and then took on the role as General Manager at Gemilang Maintenance Services Sdn Bhd (GMS) in 2001. At GMS, Dato’ Julaini was promoted to Chief Operating Officer in 2009, and was responsible for the company’s daily operations and financials. After a decade at GMS, he joined Widad Builders Sdn Bhd (WBSB) as Chief Operating Officer in 2011.

He was promoted to Managing Director at WBSB in 2012, where he was and still is actively involved in managing the facilities management for JB Sentral Building in Johor Bahru, and Istana Negara, Kuala Lumpur.

Under his direct management, WBSB has been awarded ‘The Best Facilities Management (Building Category) 2014’ by Public Works Department Malaysia for the JB Sentral Facilities Management Contract.

Dato’ Julaini does not hold any directorship in any other public company. He has no family relationship with any Director and/ or major shareholder of Widad Group Berhad and has no conflict of interest with Widad Group Berhad. He has not been convicted of any offences other than traffic offences, if any, within the past five (5) years and has not been imposed of any public sanction or penalty by the regulatory bodies during the financial year.

Shuhilawati Tajuddin

Company Secretary, Widad Group Berhad

Ms. Shuhilawati is a licensed company secretary by the Companies Commission of Malaysia and also a member of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA) with London Chamber of Commerce & Industry (LCCI) qualification. From 2003, she has been working as a Senior Assistant to the Company Secretaries at Alor Setar Business Centre Sdn Bhd before joining Alfaiz Holdings Sdn Bhd and its group of companies as Internal Company Secretary in 2017. At present, she was hired as internal Company Secretary for Widad Business Group Sdn Bhd and its group of companies.

Ms. Shuhilawati does not hold any directorship in any other public company. She has no family relationship with any Director and/ or major shareholder of Widad Group Berhad and has no conflict of interest with Widad Group Berhad. She has not been convicted of any offences other than traffic offences, if any, within the past five (5) years and has not been imposed of any public sanction or penalty by the regulatory bodies during the financial year.