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SUSTAINABILITY STATEMENT OUR GOVERNANCE OUR NUMBERS OTHER INFORMATION

ROSHIDAH ABDULLAH Age 55 Female Malaysian
Independent Non-Executive Director • Independent Non-Executive Director
• Appointed on 1 September 2021

Roshidah Abdullah was appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director
of Bank Muamalat Malaysia Berhad on 1 September 2021. She is the Chairman
of the Board Audit Committee and a member of the Board Nomination &
Remuneration and Board Compliance Committees.
Roshidah has more than 25 years’ experience in financial management,
corporate strategy development, governance and risk management in various
organisations across diverse industries – upstream oil and gas; pharmaceutical
manufacturing and distribution; construction and engineering – with
operations in Malaysia and abroad (particularly Kazakhstan, Indonesia and the
Middle East). Having worked for almost 20 years in public listed companies and
large conglomerates in the capacity of Chief Financial Officer and equivalent,
she has had much exposure to the requirements and set up of code of
corporate governance and enterprise-wide risk management framework in
her previous organisations.

Roshidah started her career as an auditor with Deloitte and Touche ("Kassim
Chan & Co") in 1989. She left the firm in December 1992 to join Time
Engineering Berhad as a Group Accountant.
In January 1995, Roshidah moved to Remedi Pharmaceuticals (M) Sdn Bhd
("Remedi") to head the Finance Department. Remedi was at that point just
secured a 15-year concession contract to manage the drug procurement
for the Ministry of Health Malaysia. She was also directly involved in the
merger and acquisition of Remedi, Raza Manufacturing Berhad and Strand
Pharmaceuticals Sdn Bhd by Pharmaniaga Berhad ("Pharmaniaga") in 1998,
and the subsequent public listing of Pharmaniaga on Bursa Securities in 1999.
In January 2000, Roshidah was promoted as the General Manager Finance and
later in April 2003, as the Chief Financial Officer for Pharmaniaga. She was also
Pharmaniaga’s Chief Operating Officer from 2006 to March 2008.
Roshidah then spent the next two years until early 2010 as Finance Director at
UEM Group Berhad and UEM Builders Berhad before she returned to
Pharmaniaga to assist the Company to, amongst others, finalise its negotiation
for renewal of the concession agreement and prepare for the change in
controlling shareholders.

After leaving Pharmaniaga in March 2011, Roshidah had a short stint as a
business consultant. Then from April 2013 to October 2016, she was the Chief
Financial Officer with Sumatec Resources Berhad.
Roshidah obtained a Bachelors of Arts degree in Accountancy from South
Australian Institute of Technology, Australia (now known as University of South
Australia) in 1988. She is also a chartered member of Malaysian Institute of
Accountants and a certified member of Australian CPA since 1992.