The Group Chairman is General (Rtd) Tan Sri (Dr) Hashim Mohd Ali who is a former Chief-of-Defence of the Malaysian Armed Forces and a retired four-star general. He was also the Executive Chairman of the organizing company (SUKOM 98) of the 1998 Kuala Lumpur Commonwealth Games which was considered the largest international event the country had ever hosted. He sits on the boards of some public listed companies, think tanks and government related organizations. He still advises the Government on certain projects in his personal capacity and he is widely respected for his integrity and immense contributions to the country. He is a strategic thinker well versed with issues such as technological development. Not only is he highly regarded locally, he has also earned the respect of many leaders around the world.
The CEO is Mr K.K.Tan, who was a former managing director of a multinational corporation in Malaysia involved in the manufacturing, distribution and marketing of home improvement and building products. Subsequently in the early nineties, he became the CEO of a Federal Government body involved in forestry and environmental issues. He spearheaded and co-ordinated a concerted PR campaign to counter the negative perception overseas of the country's forestry and environmental policies and practices. He also played a major role in advising the Government at the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992.
Tan has the rare exposure and experience for being actively involved at a senior level in both the private corporate level and the Government. He has thus developed strong networking with both the private and public sectors and has special links with the media as well. He is basically a management strategist with the necessary human and communication skills required in dealing with issues. He is also a trend analyst with an understanding of many global issues. He has a bachelor and a master degree (both in engineering) from the University of Sheffield in U.K., where he was the President of a national overseas student body in Britain in the late seventies and made history in the early eighties for being the first overseas student to be elected as a sabbatical President of the Students Union of a British university.