Appointment of Director

18 October 2023

ORIENT TELECOMS PLC

("ORIENT" or the "Company")

Appointment of Director

The company announces that it has appointed Mr. Kirubarharan Ponniah as a Director of the Company with immediate effect.

Mr. Kirubarharan Ponniah has over 35 years of experience in Finance, Human Resource and corporate and personal taxation. He has held the position of finance, Human Resource and Admin Director, Chief Financial Officer as well as tax director in various financial organizations.

He has also experience as a lecturer for accounting and tax subjects for ACCA and certified accounting technician (CAT) programs carried out by a local private college as well as finance and management subjects for degree programs carried out by local college in collaboration with the University of Wales, Malaysia

He is a qualified chartered certified accountant (CA) being a member of the association of chartered certified accountants (ACCA), a member of the Malaysian institute of accountants (MIA), qualified corporate secretary and holds an MBA in finance from the university of Wales UK.

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About Orient Telecoms PLC

ORIENT is an information technology company that offers managed telecommunication services as its core business, which include managed services in machine to machine networking, solutions for internet of things (IOT), cyber security, big data solutions as well as full spectrum of other managed services.