Wah Seong Corporation Berhad Annual Report 2021 43 GIANCARLO MACCAGNO Deputy Managing Director HALIM BIN HAJI DIN Independent Non-Executive Director PROFILE OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Mr Maccagno, an Italian, male, aged 58, was first appointed as an Executive Director of WSC on 1 June 2004 and subsequently promoted to be the Deputy Managing Director on 1 January 2007. Mr Maccagno is also the Chief Executive Officer of the Wasco Energy Group of Companies. He is responsible for the overall business and management operations of the Wasco Group. Mr Maccagno attained his Bachelor in Business Administration from Tecnico Commerciale Maddalena Adria (RO) Italy in 1982, after which he worked with Socotherm S.R.L, Italy from 1984 to 1987 as a Trainee in Production and Project Management. He was appointed as Project Manager for Socotherm S.R.L in Nigeria from 1987 to 1990 and was briefly seconded to Petro-Pipe Industries (M) Sdn. Bhd. (“PPI”) in 1990 to assist in the setting up of PPI’s coating plant in Kuantan, Malaysia. After serving as Country Manager for Socotherm S.R.L in Taiwan from 1991 to 1992, he returned to Malaysia in 1993 to be the General Manager of Wasco Coatings Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. in Kuantan, Malaysia. He has vast experience in the global pipe coating business and the Oil and Gas business in general. Mr Maccagno is a Director of Petra Energy Berhad. He also sits on the Board of several other private limited companies. Encik Halim, a Malaysian, male, aged 75, was appointed to the Board of WSC on 22 May 2002. Encik Halim is a Chartered Accountant who spent more than 30 years working for multinational corporations and international consulting firms. He accumulated 18 years of experience working in the oil and gas industry - 6 years of which as a Board member of Caltex/Chevron, responsible for financial management before engaging in the consulting business. Prior to his appointment as a Board member of Caltex Malaysia, he served as Regional Financial Advisor for Caltex Petroleum Corporation Dallas, Texas, overseeing the investment viability of the corporation’s Asian subsidiaries. He also had an extensive experience in corporate recovery when he worked for Ernst & Whinney, London, United Kingdom in mid-1980’s. He was appointed as Managing Partner of the consulting division of Ernst & Young Malaysia from 1995. He later became the Country Advisor of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Consulting Malaysia when Cap Gemini of France merged with Ernst & Young Consulting. In 2003, he with two partners took over the consulting business of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Malaysia through a management buyout and rebranded it as Innovation Associates, currently known as IA Group, where he is currently the Chairman of the group. He was a Council Member of the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants (MICPA) from 1994 to 2003. He previously served as an Independent and NonExecutive Director on the board of MMC Corporation Berhad (5 years), Takaful Ikhlas Berhad (10 years), Employees Provident Fund (4 years), Kwasa Land Sdn. Bhd. (3 years) and BNP Paribas Berhad (9 years). He is the fellow member of MICPA and Malaysian Institute of Accountants.
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