Michele brings with her leadership and advisory experience on a wide spectrum of corporate governance and boardroom matters that includes board, committees and director effectiveness evaluation, competency development needs, remuneration and succession planning, legal and compliance, and corporate performance.

Michele was Group Head, Corporate Secretarial and General Counsel for five years with IHH Healthcare Berhad. She oversaw legal, corporate secretarial and governance functions across several jurisdictions. She was also on the Board of Directors on a subsidiary board and Chief Sustainability Officer in charge of sustainability reporting and practices for the Group.

Prior to IHH, Michele spent six years until 2012 at Proton Holdings Bhd where she held various positions in the Group Legal division, including Chief Legal Counsel. She was also board member of several Proton Holdings Berhad local and foreign subsidiaries and associated companies, and member of several management committees and task forces.

Upon leaving legal practice at Shook Lin & Bok where she specialised in the areas of banking, commercial/corporate, land and tort, Michele joined Pengurusan Danaharta Nasional Bhd in 1998 until 2005 as Assistant General Manager in its Legal Affairs and Risk Division.

Michele holds a LLB Hons degree from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK (1991) and is a Barrister-at-Law at Middle Temple, London, England. She has been an advocate and solicitor of the High Court of Malaya since October 1993. She completed the Senior Management Development Programme of Harvard Business School in 2009, Professionalism in Directorship Programme by Malaysian Alliance of Corporate Directors (MACD) in 2012 and the NAM Institute for the Empowerment of Women (NIEW) Women Directors’ Training Programme in 2014. Michele is also a licensed company secretary.

Yuet Mee Ho-Nambiar serves as an independent non-executive director on boards of several local and international institutions.  These include a regional financial institution, where she also chairs the Board Sustainability Committee, and WWF Malaysia. An accountant by training, she spent a large part of her career in Big 4 international accounting firms and had helmed various leadership roles in the Asia Pacific region.

Jenifer is the Founder and Principal of Grit and Pace, through which she advices corporations on ESG and what it takes to drive transformative change in supply chain, procurement and operational excellence. She has over three decades of experience in top executive positions in the consumer-packaged goods industry and had the opportunity to work and live in various countries in Asia and the United States. She spent 25 years at Mars Incorporated, where she last served as Global Chief Procurement Officer. She has successfully led complex business transformation and sustainability programs through her deep understanding of business enterprise, the ability to mobilise required capabilities, as well as intensive stakeholder engagement. She is currently an Independent Non-Executive Director of UEM Edgenta Berhad, AEON Co. (M) Berhad, Malaysian Pacific Industries Berhad, Sime Darby Plantation Berhad, Jadestone Energy plc and Olam Agri Holding Ltd; as well as serves on the Asia Advisory Board of Lucta S.A.

Jenifer is a passionate advocate of diversity, equity and inclusion having played a pivotal role in championing women in STEM within Mars Inc. and continues to do so through contributing to organizations such as LeadWomen Malaysia and the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women. She is an active mentor and coach to young leaders.

Rashyid is the Chief Sustainability Officer of the world’s largest producer of Certified Sustainable Palm Oil, Rashyid leads all efforts in implementing on-the-ground programs to promote responsible and ethical production throughout Sime Darby Plantation’s operations and global supply chain. He also engages with a wide range of stakeholders within the sustainable palm oil sphere. He has 22 years of experience in corporate and advisory roles in sustainability, corporate responsibility, corporate strategy, programme management, and change management across plantation, forestry, property, telecommunications, automotive, oil & gas, and public sectors and part of the regional leadership team for the Sustainability and Climate Change advisory team of the PwC Southeast Asia Consulting practice.

Sarimah Talib, a Chemical and Process Engineering graduate with a Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering, embarked on her sustainability career at Sime Darby Group in 2007. Notably, she assumed the role of the inaugural CEO of the Malaysia Green Foundation, directly reporting to the Minister of Green Technology, Water, and Energy, thereby significantly contributing to promoting sustainability at the national level. Subsequently, she was appointed as the first Chief Sustainability Officer at Vale and later as the inaugural Head of Sustainable Development Management at PETRONAS, where she played a pivotal role in setting the net-zero carbon ambition for the national oil company of Malaysia. Following her tenure, she assumed the position of Head of Sustainability at UEM Sunrise, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Khazanah. Presently, Sarimah serves as the Vice President of Sustainability and External Relations at Bumi Armada Berhad, consistently exemplifying her guiding principle: “If there’s a will, there is always a way”, underscoring her unwavering commitment to excellence and enduring positive impact.