Datuk Syed Tamim, aged 62, a Malaysian, joined the Board on 1 January 2010 as a Non- Independent Non-Executive Director. He was appointed as Deputy Chairman on the same date. He is currently the Group Country Chairman of Jardine Matheson Group of Companies in Malaysia, and Principal Consultant of ST&H Consultancy Services Sdn Bhd, a private company he established soon after his retirement in 2007. He is also an independent Non-Executive Board member of Integrax Berhad and Minetech Resources Berhad. He was a Board member of Maybank Berhad until September 2009. He has worked for more than 36 years in both public and private sectors. After obtaining his Economics Honours degree from the University of Malaya in 1972, he served the Administrative and Diplomatic Service until 1981. During his tenure with the government, he was sponsored to do his MBA which he obtained from the University of Oregon. He left the government to join PERNAS Group of Companies for 5 years. In 1986 he joined Sime Darby Berhad. In the 20 years stint with Sime, he headed various Divisions; Trading, Manufacturing, Oil and Gas, Engineering, Automotive, Tyres, Healthcare, and Plantations. Before he retired in July 2007, he headed the team that wrote and completed the Northern Corridor Economic Blueprint for the Government of Malaysia. He was trained in Japan, Australia and Harvard Business School which were all sponsored by Sime.