During the year, the NRC held four (4) meetings, including a Joint NRC Meeting with its penultimate holding
company, KFima, and extensively discussed the merits of the prospective candidates. On 22 February 2019,
the NRC recommended the appointment of two (2) Non-Executive Directors to the Board. The Board
had at its meeting on 22 February 2019, concurred with the NRC’s recommendations which culminated in
the appointment of Encik Rosely bin Kusip and Datuk Bazlan bin Osman as Independent Non-Executive
Directors of the Company effective 14 March 2019 and 5 April 2019, respectively.
The new Directors were provided with a Director’s Kit containing the Company’s Constitution, Board Charter
and Board Committees’ Terms of Reference, Group policies and other key information. In accordance with
the Company’s Constitution, they are subject to the re-appointment by the Company’s shareholders at the
forthcoming AGM.
Profiles of Encik Rosely bin Kusip and Datuk Bazlan bin Osman can be found on Our Board of Directors
section of this Annual Report.
Details of the different stages of the appointment process that the NRC followed are set out below:
List of prospective
new candidates were
provided to the NRC.
NRC reviewed
and evaluated the
candidates by taking
into account relevant
factors such as
experience, skills,
diversity, conflict
of interest, time
commitment as well
as the personality fit
with the existing Board
and the culture of the
Group.
NRC shortlists
candidates.
NRC Chairman and
Managing Director met
up with the shortlisted.
NRC formalized their
recommendations
to the Board on the
selected candidates.
Board considered
and approved NRC’s
recommendations. The
appointment of new
Directors took effect
upon their acceptance
of the letter of
appointment from the
Company.
step 5
step 4
step 3
step 2
step 1
The NRC considers the following factors when selecting new Directors and when recommending Directors to
the Board for appointment:
• the aim of having a majority of Independent Directors on the Board;
• the prospective candidates have appropriate range of skills, expertise, experience and diversity to
discharge the Board’s mandate;
• the potential conflict of interests; and
• the ability to devote sufficient time to meet his/her commitments as a Director of the Company as well as
the personality “fit” with the Board and the culture of the Group.
Fima CORPORATION Berhad
(21185-P)
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