MR. BOON WENG SIEW

Independent Non-Executive Director

Mr. Boon Weng Siew, aged 87 and a Malaysian, is an Independent, Non-Executive Director who joined the Board since 26 September 1989. He is also a member of the Board Tender, Remuneration and Employee
Share Scheme Committees.

He has vast experience in the plantation industry from his present and previous appointments in a public listed company and various planting organizations and statutory bodies. He is a life member of the Agricultural Institute of Malaysia and member of the Incorporated Society of Planters.

He is currently the President of Malaysian Estate Owner’s Association, the Vice Chairman of the Malaysian Palm Oil Association and was a member of the Board of RISDA from 1984 to 2005.

He is also a Director of several private companies. He was Chairman of The Malaysian Rubber Producers’ Council in 1988. He has also served as Council member of The United Planting Association of Malaysia and was its President in 1987/1988, a member of the National Economic Consultative Council in 1988 to 1990 and a member of the Johor State Pardon Board from 1984 to 2000 and re-appointed from June 2003 to May 2006.

He is not related to any Director and/or major shareholder of United Malacca Berhad and has no personal interest in any business arrangement involving the Company. He has attended all the six Board Meetings held in the financial year ended 30 April 2011. He has never been convicted of any offence.