(Resigned as at 5 May 2017) Datuk Uwe Ahrens Aged 51, German Executive Director Member of the Executive Committee Datuk Uwe Ahrens was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Company on 1 June 2012 as an Executive Director. He currently sits on the Boards of Altech Chemicals Limited which is listed in Australia as an Alternate Director to Tunku Dato’ Yaacob Khyra and several other private limited companies. Datuk Ahrens holds Masters in both Mechanical Engineering and Business Administration from the Technical University Darmstadt, Germany. Upon graduation, Datuk Ahrens joined the international engineering and industrial plant supplier, KOCH Transporttechnik GmbH in Germany, now belonging to FLSmidth Group, where he held a senior management position for 12 years, working mainly in Germany, USA and South Africa. In 1997, he was based in Kuala Lumpur as General Manager of KOCH in South East Asia and became its Managing Director in 1999. He joined Melewar Group in 2002 and has since held senior management positions including Chief Executive Officer of Melewar Integrated Engineering Sdn Bhd, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. Datuk Ahrens is the Chief Technical Officer of the Group and is therefore responsible for engineering, upgrading, modification and extension of machinery and plant as well as the overall maintenance. Datuk Ahrens has no family ties with any of the Directors and/or major shareholders of the Company nor any shareholding in the Company. Datuk Ahrens does not have any personal interest in any business arrangements involving the Company. Datuk Ahrens does not have any conflict of interest with the Company and has had no conviction for any offences within the past five (5) years, other than traffic offences, if any and no public sanction or penalty imposed by the relevant regulatory bodies during the financial year.