RE: Lots of round buys5 Aug 2024 13:59
Bolhassan Di – Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Mr Di has many years of political and commercial experience within the Sarawak region. He has held
positions as Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, Assistant Minister in the Sarawak Chief
Minister’s Department and subsequently Assistant Minister at the Ministry of Infrastructure
Development and Communication. A graduate of the School of Engineering at Sheffield University, he
began his career in 1979 at Sarawak Shell Bhd. (a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell plc) where he gained
project planning, design, construction, commissioning and start-up experience in offshore projects.
These included the F6A project in Sarawak waters (the largest offshore gas project in the region), the
E11 and F23 gas production projects in Sarawak waters and also projects such as the St Joseph and
South Furious offshore oil production platforms in Sabah waters. From 1987 to 1997, he was also the
Chairman of the Miri Port Authority, now a key economic catalyst in the industrial and economic
development of Sarawak. He has also had significant oil and gas experience with Shell in South Korea,
Singapore, the North Sea and the Netherlands.
Dixon Wong Kit Seng - Non-Executive Director
Mr Wong is a director of a number of businesses owned by Tune Group and has been involved in a
variety of roles within the organisation including corporate finance, group strategy, driving organisational
change and synergies across the group. One of Upland’s major shareholders, Tune Assets Limited, is
part of the Tune Group. Mr Wong has previously worked for HSBC Bank Malaysia and the Bank of
Tokyo-Mitsubishi. Mr Wong holds a BCom, Accounting and Finance from the University of Queensland,
Australia and a Master of Business degree from the Queensland University of Technology.
Aimi Nasharuddin - Non-Executive Director
Mr Nasharuddin carries over 30 years of business, corporate finance and hands-on operational
experience. An accountant by profession, he started his career at Arthur Andersen & Co as an auditor
and business advisor where he was involved in mapping out strategies and implementing business
processes for various sectors of corporates, including manufacturing, financial and investment, property
development, construction and oil and gas-based companies. He later gained further expertise in the
corporate world at CIMB Investment Bank Berhad, the largest investment bank in Malaysia, where he
was integral to some of the largest transactions involving financial restructuring, business reengineering, takeovers, reverse takeovers, acquisitions and corporate financing.