FGV Annual Report 2020

176 FGV HOLDINGS BERHAD Annual Integrated Report 2020 Group Management Committee Profile Dato’ Haris Fadzilah Hassan 54 years old Male 23 January 2019 Appointment to the position Group Chief Executive Officer Academic/Professional Qualification • Senior Management Development Program by the Harvard Business School Alumni Club of Malaysia • Advanced Management Program in Columbia Business School, New York, USA • Master of Business Administration (MBA), University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USA • Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USA Relevant Experience Dato’ Haris has more than 30 years of experience in strategy & business development, project management and operations in several industries such as oil & gas, automotive and plantations. He started his career in 1990 as a Systems Engineer with Matsushita TelevisionCo. (M) Sdn. Bhd. Between 1992 and 1997, he worked in PETRONAS in the Information Resources Division, as well as the Corporate Planning & Business Development Unit. He then joined Waterfield-Portola as Senior Consultant for a year, before moving to PROTON as a Market Strategist, in August 1998. Subsequently, he was appointed Head of the Strategic Investment Unit, where he served for three (3) years before becoming Head of the Corporate Planning Division in December 2000. Hewas appointed toHead the Iran Project under the International Business Division of Proton Marketing Sdn. Bhd. in November 2003, before becoming the Head of Strategy Development & Corporate Planning of Proton Holdings Berhad in May 2005. He then joined Golden Hope Plantations as General Manager of Corporate Strategy & Business Development before heading the Project Management Office (Plantation) of Synergy Drive, which was a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) for the merger of Golden Hope Plantations, Kumpulan Guthrie and Sime Darby Group. After the merger in 2007, he was appointed Senior Vice President (SVP) II of Strategy & Business Development in Sime Darby Plantation Sdn. Bhd. He left the Group in April 2012, with his last position as SVP I of the Downstream Business to join Mass Rapid Transit Corporation Sdn. Bhd. as Director of Stakeholder Relations & Land Management. He held the role of Acting Chief Executive Officer fromDecember 2013 to February 2014. Dato’ Haris was redesignated Director of Commercial and Land Management in January 2016, in which role he served up till early January 2019, before joining FGV Holdings Berhad as Group Chief Executive Officer. He is also a Trustee of Yayasan Felda and Chairman of the Felda Hemodialysis Centre. Directorship in other public companies: • MSM Malaysia Holdings Berhad