Datuk Beroz Nikmal Mirdin

Executive Chairman

IPMUDA Berhad

Datuk Beroz Nikmal Mirdin is currently the Executive Chairman of IPMUDA Berhad, a listed company with diversified portfolio in renewable energy, healthcare, and trading of building materials. He has held various senior positions in the power and energy industry including Chief Executive Officer of Telekosang Hydro, Managing Director of Perak Hydro Renewable Energy Corporation and Executive Director of Gunung Capital Berhad.

An electrical engineer by training, Datuk Beroz was involved in coordinating the movements of wholesale electricity in the United States whilst attached to the System Planning Department of PJM Interconnection LLC from 1998 to 2006. Subsequently, Beroz returned to Malaysia and served as Deputy Chief Engineer, Systems Operations Department of Tenaga Nasional Berhad. He was also formerly the Vice President of Investments at Khazanah Nasional Berhad, Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund. 

Datuk Beroz holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Widener University, USA and a Master of Science in Management Information Systems from The Pennsylvania State University, USA.

Datuk Fazlur Rahman Zainuddin

Chief Strategy & Ventures Officer

Tenaga Nasional Berhad

Datuk Fazlur Rahman bin Zainuddin holds the position of Chief Strategy and Ventures Officer. He leads the development and implementation of the long-term strategy for TNB, incorporating the energy transition trends and the Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) agenda. His responsibility also includes searching for, identifying and evaluating new business areas to venture, exploring innovation, and guiding TNB Research, a subsidiary of TNB, to research fields relevant to TNB Business.

Luke Joseph

Head of country

bp Malaysia

Luke Joseph serves as Head of country, bp Malaysia alongside other accountabilities as regional director, global business services (GBS) Asia and head of sourcing, GBS procurement within bp.

Luke joined bp in early 2017 and in the last four years has built the GBS procurement function in Kuala Lumpur and developed sourcing and contracting capabilities for global procurement. Prior to joining bp, Luke held various procurement and IT leadership roles across engineering, procurement & construction (EPC), logistics and IT industries.

As Head of country, Luke's responsibilities include management of continuity and risk management on matters such as security, regulatory duties and incident management including strengthening bp's reputation and growth in AsPac. As bp seeks to become an integrated energy company, Luke together with the bp Malaysia team aims to progress the new bp strategy​ and deliver innovative, integrated and decarbonized energy solutions at scale, to help the world reach net zero and improve peoples' lives.

Luke is a strong advocate of respect and inclusion. He believes that by creating a respectful and inclusive environment bp will be a stronger, safer, more effective company and an enjoyable place to work.

Richard Spencer

Director of Sustainability

Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW)

Richard Spencer is Director of Sustainability at ICAEW. He joined ICAEW in 2005 in order to set up the sustainability practice within the Technical Strategy department. During this time Richard has led on the ICAEW's thought leadership and engagement programme in sustainability. He was a co-convenor of the Finance Innovation Lab, which was named by the Observer and NESTA as one of the Top 50 of Britain's New Radicals in 2012 and was shortlisted for the Buckminster Fuller Awards for 'socially responsible designs. He was a co-founder of AuditFutures and also led on establishing the Natural Capital Coalition, now the Capitals Coalition. Before joining ICAEW Richard worked as a strategy consultant in the Natural Resources division of Accenture.

Prior to that he held a number of roles at N M Rothschild & Sons Ltd in the bank's treasury and natural resources project finance teams. Richard began his career at the Bank of England. Richard holds degrees from the universities of Leeds and London. He is a Visiting Fellow of the Cass Business School. He sits on the Climate Disclosure Standards Board Technical Working Group and Board member of the Social Value UK. Richard is a member the Cass Business School Research Ethics Committee

Ts. Sharifah Zaida Nurlisha

President

Malaysian Oil & Gas Services Council

Sharifah Zaida Nurlisha received her Bachelor of Electrical and Engineering degree (BEng(Hons) and Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from Nottingham University, England.

She began her career as an Instrument Engineer in Sime Engineering Sdn Bhd in 1990 before moving to Project Management discipline, with MMC Oil & Gas Engineering Sdn Bhd in 1995. Her experience encompasses Project Engineering experiences to Project Manager of different types of Oil & Gas contracts whilst serving other positions in the company – HOD Project Management and GM Project Management Services, before assuming her current position as Chief Executive Officer of MMC Oil & Gas Engineering Sdn Bhd.

In her 31 years in the oil & gas industry, she has been involved in projects ranging from Conceptual, FEED, Detailed Design, Fabrication/Construction, Hook-up, and Commissioning, EPCC and EPCIC projects locally in Malaysia and also internationally.

She has actively served on the council of the Malaysian Oil & Gas Services Council (MOGSC) for over 10 years, serving as an elected Executive Committee for the 2010/2012 term, Vice President for 2 terms, 2012/2014 and 2014/2016 and currently the elected President for her 3rd term for year 2020/2022. 

In 2019, she was appointed by Malaysia Oil & Gas Engineering Council (MOGEC) as one of their Executive Council for 2019/2021 and was recently elected as the Vice President for 2021/2023 term.

She was also nominated in 2017, by Amazons Watch Magazine/Centre for Economic and Leadership Development (CELD) as one of the Top 50 Female Energy Leaders in Emerging Economies (Asia/Africa). She was a board member of the Malaysian Board of Technologists (MBOT), an organisation that is responsible to accredit professional technologists and technicians in Malaysia.