KUALA LUMPUR (July 25): Sime Darby Bhd has announced the demise of its independent and non-executive director Datuk Wan Selamah Wan Sulaiman.

The group announced this in a "change in boardroom" filing with Bursa Malaysia on Tuesday (July 25).

Wan Selamah, 68, was appointed as the group’s independent and non-executive in January 2016. According to the group's filing then, she had previously served as a director of Prasarana Malaysia Bhd and JKP Sdn Bhd.

Wan Selamah began her career with the government in 1979 as a treasury accountant in the Examination Syndicate Department of the Ministry of Education.

In 1982, she served the Ministry of Defence before joining the Accountant-General's Department in 1984 where she held various positions, including deputy accountant-general for corporate, deputy director of the government pensions trust fund, director of the information technology services division and director of the central operations and agency services division between 1984 until November 2010.

She was later appointed as Malaysia's accountant-general in 2010 and served in that position until her retirement in December 2014.

Sime Darby shares closed four sen or 1.89% higher to RM2.16 on Tuesday, giving the group a market capitalisation of RM14.72 billion.