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(extracted from Annual Report 2007)

DATO' HASNUR RABIAIN BIN ISMAIL
Executive Chairman

Dato' Hasnur Rabiain Bin Ismail is the Executive Chairman of Protasco Berhad. He was appointed as a board member on 15 May 2001.

He obtained his BSc (Hons) degree in 1980 and his MPhil (Civil Engineering) in 1990 from United Kingdom's Middlesex Polytechnic and the University of Birmingham respectively. The co-founder of Protasco Group has been a member of the Malaysian Institute of Engineers for almost 16 years. Since 1994, he has been a Professional Engineer registered with the Board of Engineers, Malaysia.

Starting his career as Road Design Engineer at Jabatan Kerja Raya (JKR) Ipoh in 1980, he was then promoted to Project and Road Engineer with JKR Kuala Kangsar a year later. From 1983 to 1984 he underwent an on-the-job training programme with Samsung Construction, in Korea.

Subsequently Dato' Hasnur served as Senior Materials Engineer at the Design and Research Branch of JKR Headquarters. In 1988 he assumed the position of Senior Engineer, Pavement Unit of the then JKR's Institut Kerja Raya (IKRAM). In 1991, he joined forces with Dato' Chong Ket Pen, laying the foundation for the formation of Protasco Group.

He was appointed as a member of the Muslim Welfare Organisation Malaysia (PERKIM)'s Council of Thinkers for two years effective 1 March 2007.

DATO' CHONG KET PEN
Managing Director

Dato' Chong Ket Pen is the Managing Director of Protasco Berhad. A co-founder of Protasco Group, he was appointed as a board member on 15 May 2001. Following a BEng (Hons) degree from the University of Malaya in 1979, he obtained his MPhil (Civil Engineering) degree from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom in 1990.

In 1984 he joined the Institute of Engineers Malaysia as a member and became a registered Professional Engineer with the Board of Engineers Malaysia in the following year. He has been a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, United Kingdom since 1985. In 1987 he registered as a Chartered Engineer with the United Kingdom's Engineering Council.

His career began in 1979 with his appointment as Road Design Engineer cum Assistant Project Engineer at JKR Kelantan. Promoted to the position of Project Engineer in 1982, he later became Senior Engineer at the Design and Research Branch of the JKR Headquarters. He was assigned as Senior Pavement Research Engineer at Institut Kerjaraya Malaysia (IKRAM) in 1988, and subsequently as Senior Engineer, Pavement Evaluation and Research. In 1991, he joined forces with Dato' Hasnur Rabiain Ismail, and founded Protasco Group.

DATIN NORMAH BINTI KASSIM
Independent Non-Executive Director

Datin Normah Binti Kassim was appointed as a director of Protasco Berhad on 29 April 2002. She is also the Chairperson of the Audit Committee and a member of the Nomination Committee and Remuneration Committee of the Board. She is an Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, United Kingdom as well as the Malaysian Association of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators.

In 1978 she began her career as the Company Secretary cum Head, Secretarial Services for Malaysia Building Society Berhad. For 10 years, until 2000, she held the position as Group Company Secretary and Head, Secretarial and Legal for HICOM Holdings Berhad and subsequently DRB-HICOM Berhad and its group of companies.

DATO' DR NORRAESAH BINTI HAJI MOHAMAD
Independent Non-Executive Director

Dato' Dr Norraesah Binti Haji Mohamad has been an Independent Non-Executive Director of Protasco Berhad since 18 January 2005. Besides having more than 36 years of experience in banking, consultancy, international trade and commerce, she has a PhD in Economics Science (International Economics and Finance) from University of Paris-Pantheon Sorbonne, France.

Prior to her participation in the private sector, she served the Malaysian Government between 1972 and 1988, namely the Ministry of International Trade & Industry and Ministry of Finance. She held the position of Communication Manager at ESSO Production Malaysia, Inc in 1988, and in 1990 became the Managing Director of a consultant firm involved in financial advisory. She was the Chief Representative of Credit Lyonnais Bank in Malaysia from 1991 to 1998. In 2000, she was appointed as the Chairman of Bank Rakyat, up to 2003.

Apart from Protasco Berhad, Dato' Dr Norraesah also assumes directorship at SBC Corporation Bhd, KESM Industries Bhd, Ya Horng Electronics (M) Bhd, Adventa Bhd and some local private limited companies. At present, she is the Executive Chairman of MY EG Services Bhd and the Chairman of Penang Bridge Sdn Bhd.

DATIN AZLIZA BINTI AHMAD TAJUDDIN
Independent Non-Executive Director

Datin Azliza Binti Ahmad Tajuddin has been a director of Protasco Berhad since 1 May 2003. Apart from being the Chairperson of the Remuneration Committee, she is also a member of the Audit Committee and Nomination Committee of the Board.

She graduated from Australian National University with a Degree in Commerce (Accounting), and began her career in 1990 at Coopers & Lybrand as an auditor.

Until 2004, she held various positions in companies such as Amanah Merchant Bank Berhad, Padiberas Nasional Berhad, Sistem Televisyen Malaysia Berhad (TV3) and Simpletech Sdn Bhd. She became Chief Executive Officer of Blu Inc Group of Companies, a magazine publishing company in January 2005.

BENNY SOH SEOW LENG
Independent Non-Executive Director

Benny Soh Seow Leng was appointed a director of Protasco Berhad on 29 April 2002. He serves as the Chairman of the Nomination Committee and sits on the Audit Committee and also Remuneration Committee of the Board. He is an Advocate and Solicitor by profession, hence also a Member of the Malaysian Bar. He is a partner of a firm known as Messrs Manjit Singh Sachdev, Mohammad Radzi & Partners, which specialises in corporate, litigation, banking and consultancy work.

Apart from that, he is also a registered Trade Marks Agent and his range of clients include banking and financial institutions, developers, building and construction companies, private and public companies and associations from Malaysia and other Asia Pacific countries.

NOTES:
(i) None of the directors has any family relationship with each other and with any substantial shareholders of the Company.

(ii) None of the directors has any conviction for offences, other than traffic offences, within the past 10 years.

(iii) Other than the related party transactions disclosed in Note 33 of the Financial Statements and the Circular to Shareholders dated 29 May 2007, none of the directors has conflict of interest with the Company.

(iv) Except for Dato' Hasnur Rabiain Ismail who had attended five (5) out of six (6) meetings, the other directors had attended all the Board Meetings held during the financial year ended 31 December 2006.

(v) With the exception of Dato' Dr Norraesah binti Haji Mohamad, none of the directors holds any directorship in other public companies.

(vi) The directors' holdings in shares of the Company are disclosed in the Analysis of Shareholdings section of the Annual Report. The directors do not hold any shares in the subsidiaries of the Company.