PROF DR SURESWARAN RAMADASS

Malaysia

Male

55

Nomination Committee

Independent and Non Executive

Bachelor in Computer Engineering and Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Miami, USA and Doctorate from USM

Professor Dr. Sureswaran Ramadass was appointed as the Chairman/Non-Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company on 1 April 2005. He is presently the Company’s Head of R&D. He is also a member of the Audit Committee, Nomination Committee and Remuneration Committee of the Company. He obtained his Bachelor in Computer Engineering and Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Miami, USA in 1990. He also holds a doctorate from USM. He started off his career in 1990 as a senior member of the technical staff of the research team of MODCOMP, Inc., a Florida-based research company focused on the R&D of real-time systems. He has worked with numerous customers to benchmark their needs, including National Aeronautics and Space Administration engineers. He left in 1991 and joined ICON Business System, Inc. (Florida) as Senior Consultant. He was subsequently promoted to Vice President Engineering and was responsible in overseeing the entire engineering and R&D divisions of ICON Business Systems, Inc. (Florida). He joined USM in 1992 as a lecturer and is currently a Professor and the Director of the National Advanced IPv6 Center, USM. During his tenure at USM, he has been a research partner/consultant to many companies in Malaysia including Telekom Malaysia Berhad, NCR Corporation, IBM Inc., MIMOS Berhad, Cabletron Systems Sdn Bhd and Compquest Sdn Bhd. He also holds numerous positions in global organisations including AI3 project, which is a research-based project sponsored by the Japanese Government. He was also a nominated candidate for the position of Director of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers in 2000 (ICANN). He is also the Head of APAN (Pacific Advance Networks: www.apan.net) for Malaysia. Over the years, he has published over sixty (60) national and international level research papers as well as written chapters and provided writing materials for a few books in the area of multimedia conferencing.

He is the spouse of Vena A/P Jaganathan, the Managing Director of the Company.

565,132 ordinary shares of RM0.10 each