Halim Bin Haji Din, a Malaysian aged 79, is our Non-Independent Non-Executive Chairman. He was appointed to our Board on 17 June 2025.
He is a Chartered Accountant who spent more than 30 years working for multinational corporations and international consulting firms. He has 18 years of experience working in the oil and gas industry, 6 years of which as a board member of Caltex / Chevron and was 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 adviser for Caltex Petroleum Corporation in Dallas, Texas overseeing investment viability of the corporation’s Asian subsidiaries.
He has extensive experience in corporate recovery when he worked for Ernst & Whinney in London, in the mid-1980s and was appointed as managing partner of the consulting division of Ernst & Young Malaysia in 1995. He became the country adviser of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Consulting Malaysia when Cap Gemini of France merged with Ernst & Young Consulting.
In 2003, along with two partners, he took over the consulting business of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Consulting Malaysia and rebranded it as Innovation Associates, currently known as IA Group, where he sits as a board member. He has previously served as an Independent Non-Executive Director on the board of MMC Corporation Berhad, Takaful Ikhlas Berhad, Employees Provident Fund, Kwasa Land Sdn Bhd and BNP Paribas Berhad and IGB REIT Management Sdn Bhd.
He was a council member of the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants from 1994 to 2003. He is a member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants since 1982 and a member of the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants since 1981.
He was appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director of Wasco Berhad in May 2002 and was redesignated as a Non-Independent Non-Executive Director in May 2023.