Sapura Energy
WAN MASHITAH WAN ABDULLAH SANI
Independent Non-Executive Director

AGE / GENDER/ NATIONALITY:

58 Female / Malaysian

DATE OF APPOINTMENT:

26 May 2023

BOARD COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS:

  • Member, Board Audit Committee
  • Member, Board Risk and Sustainability Committee

DIRECTORSHIP IN OTHER PUBLIC COMPANIES AND LISTED ISSUERS:

  • Nil

EXPERIENCE/ACHIEVEMENT AND OCCUPATION:

  • Wan Mashitah has over 30 years’ experience encompassing finance, strategic planning, project costing and supply chain management, with her last position being Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering Holdings Berhad (“MHB”), which has a market capitalisation of over RM1 billion.
  • Wan Mashitah is an accountant by profession. She started her career in 1992 as an Audit Assistant with Grant Thornton Malaysia and rose to the rank of Audit Principal. She left the auditing profession in 2000 to help set up Channel Communication Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of an American telecommunications equipment manufacturing company in Malaysia. She was in charge of finance, procurement and general administration of the company
  • She left for MISC Berhad (“MISC”) at the end of 2002 and had served in various capacities within the company, beginning as Senior Manager, Finance Bulk Shipping Business, and moving to General Manager, Finance Fleet Operations for over 200 MISC vessels. She was then promoted to Senior General Manager, Corporate Finance and Accounting, overseeing the Group’s financial activities.
  • In February 2008, she was seconded to Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering Sdn Bhd as part of the preparations to list MHB to the public. Upon its successful listing, she was subsequently appointed Chief Financial Officer of MHB, a position she held from June 2010 to February 2016.
  • Wan Mashitah took up the position of Acting Chief Executive Officer of MHB in May 2016 and assumed the position of Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer from January 2017 to September 2020.
  • Wan Mashitah was the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of E&P Operations and Maintenance Services Sdn Bhd from April 2022 to September 2022. During this 6-month position, she helped transition the company from a wholly owned subsidiary of PETRONAS to a privately owned company.

ACADEMIC/ PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants, United Kingdom