Chairman of Remuneration Committee and Risk Management Committee
Member of Audit Committee and Nomination Committee
Age : 74 years old
Nationality : Malaysian
Gender : Female
Datin Latiffah Binti Endot was appointed to the Board on 2 November 2015 as an Independent Non-Executive Director. She attended all four (4) Board meetings of the Company held during the financial year. She has more than thirty (30) years of working experience in various areas such as procurement, human resources management, hospital management as well as policy and development sectors in which she accumulated during her service in different departments and ministries within the Malaysian public service.
She graduated in 1973 with a Bachelor of Arts (Anthropology and Sociology) from the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. She began her career in 1974 as an Administrative and Diplomatic Service Officer in the procurement and administrator division of the Ministry of Defence, Malaysia where she was responsible for the procurement of all types of rations that were required by the Malaysian Armed Forces. In 1980, she joined the Ministry of Works, Malaysia as a Senior Officer in the Contract and Bumiputera Division, where she was responsible for the development of Class D, E and F contractors as well as the development of Bumiputera contractors. Between 1982 to July 1983, she took a career and sabbatical break from the Malaysian public service. She returned to the Malaysian public service in 1983 where she became the Senior Officer of the Services Division (Human Resources) in the Ministry of Health, where she was responsible for its human resources (except for doctors and paramedics) related matters which include amongst other, the training programmes for healthcare officers and staffs and their welfare rights and benefits.
In 1989, she was posted to the Contracts Division of the Ministry of Finance, Malaysia and was responsible for the registration of Bumiputera companies participating in Government contracts. In November 1991, she left the Ministry of Finance, Malaysia and joined University Malaya Medical Centre as its Deputy Director of Administration where she was responsible for managing the non-clinical aspects of the hospital which includes amongst other, training programmes for its staff, implementation of its ISO quality system and staff welfare system.
In April 2006, she retired as the Deputy Director of Administration, University Malaya Medical Centre. Since her retirement, she has been actively involved as a volunteer with the Malaysian Information Network on Disabilities (also known as BAKTI-MIND Project), an organisation established to promote the use of information and communication technology related to healthcare, rehabilitation, education, employment, adaptive technologies and equipment, government and non-government assistance to persons with disabilities.
She does not hold directorships in any other public companies and listed issuer in Malaysia. She does not have any family relationship with any Director and/or major shareholder of the Company, nor does she have any conflict of interest with the Company. She has also neither been convicted for any offences within the past five (5) years other than traffic offences, if any, nor received any public sanctions or penalties imposed by the relevant regulatory bodies during the financial year ended 31 December 2023.