56, Male, Malaysian
No. of Board Meetings Attended for FPE2024: 8/8
Member of Risk Management & Sustainability Committee
Academic/Professional Qualifications:
• Bachelor of Science in Quantity Surveying from the University of Salford, United Kingdom (1992)
Date of Appointment:
• 6 July 2011 – Independent Non-Executive Director
• 2 November 2012 – Redesignated as Executive Director
• 25 April 2016 – Appointed as Chief Executive Officer
• 1 January 2017 – Redesignated as Group Chief Executive Officer
Working Experience:
Dato’ Sri Azizan bin Jaafar has more than 32 years of experience in the construction industry and 14 years in the property industry. He began his career in 1990 with Warrington Martin as an Assistant Quantity Surveyor in Manchester, the United Kingdom. He then joined a London firm, Henry Riley & Sons in 1992 as a Quantity Surveyor and remained working in the United Kingdom until 1995. Upon returning to Malaysia, he became a Senior Quantity Surveyor at Taisei Corporation.
In 1996, he joined Ahmad Zaki Sdn Bhd as a Contracts General Manager, where he was subsequently appointed as a Senior Executive Director. During the period from 2005 to 2009, he was also responsible for the operations of Ahmad Zaki Sdn Bhd in India and Saudi Arabia.
In 2009, Dato’ Sri Azizan started his business in construction where he founded Dasa Sentosa Sdn Bhd. In April 2013, he then expanded into the property development business after acquiring a stake in Tanah Makmur Kotasas Sdn Bhd. Today, KotaSAS, Bandar Baru Kuantan is recognised as the largest township in Pahang.
Directorships of other Public Companies:
At present, Dato’ Sri Azizan is a director of all our subsidiaries and holds several other directorships in a number of private limited companies.
His interests in the securities of the Company are as disclosed in the section of Statistics of Shareholdings of this Annual Report.