INDEPENDENT NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Dato’ Seri Ismail Bin Shahudin Malaysian, aged 60 Dato’ Seri Ismail was appointed to the Board of Mutiara on 28 April 2009. He is a member of the Audit, Nomination and Remuneration Committees of the Company. Dato’ Seri Ismail has a Bachelor of Economics (Hons) Degree from University of Malaya, Malaysia, majoring in Business Administration. Upon his graduation in 1974, he joined ESSO Malaysia Berhad and served for 5 years in its Finance Division. He then joined Citibank Malaysia in 1979 and served at the bank’s headquarters in New York in 1984 as part of the team in the Asia Pacific division. Upon his return to Malaysia in 1986, he was promoted to the position of Vice President & Group Head of the Public Sector and Financial Institutions Group in Malaysia. In 1988, he served United Asian Bank Berhad as Deputy General Manager until 1992. Subsequently, he joined Maybank as General Manager of Corporate Banking and in 1997, he was appointed as Executive Director of Maybank. Dato’ Seri Ismail left Maybank in July 2002 to assume the position of Group Chief Executive Officer of MMC Corporation Berhad. He was then appointed to the Board of Bank Muamalat Malaysia Berhad and subsequently the chairmanship in March 2004 until his retirement in July 2008. Dato’ Seri Ismail’s directorship in other public listed companies are PLUS Expressways Berhad, Malayan Banking Berhad, UEM Group Berhad, EP Manufacturing Berhad, SMPC Corporation Berhad, Aseana Properties Limited (listed on the London Stock Exchange) and Opus International Consultants Limited (listed on the New Zealand Stock Exchange).