Datuk Zainal Abidin Ujud, Malaysian
Independent Non-Executive Chairman

Datuk Zainal Abidin Bin Ujud was appointed to the Board on 29 August 2014.

He graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration, Economics degree from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in 1976, and holds a Master of Business Administration Finance from Katholieke Universiteit Lueven, Belgium, which he obtained in 1983. He also completed the Advanced Management Development Program (“AMDP”) at Harvard Business School, Boston, United States of America, in 2003. 

He has extensive experience in the plantation sector having worked with the Federal Land Development Authority (“FELDA”), Felda Holdings Berhad (“FHB”) and various subsidiaries of FHB in a career that spanned over 37 years. His work experience was mainly in the areas of transportation and logistics, administration and human resource management within the plantation sector. He retired as Senior Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of Felda Transport Service Sdn Bhd in 2013.