Uthaya Kumar a/l K Vivekananda, Malaysian, aged 61, was appointed an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company on 20 August
2014. He is also Chairman of the Audit Committee, a member of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee, Investment Committee and
Safety Review Board.
For the past 35 years, Kumar led some of the most important assignments of Messrs PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) both in Malaysia
and globally. These include working with multinational and blue-chip national clients in audit, business advisory, mergers and acquisitions,
valuations, privatisations, IPOs and cross-border transactions.
He retired from PwC South East Asia Peninsula on 30 June 2014.
He is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales and a member of both the Malaysian Institute of
Accountants and Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He is also a Corporate Finance Holder of the Institute of Chartered
Accountants in England & Wales.