6. Datuk Shahril Shamsuddin

Datuk Shahril Shamsuddin is the Executive Vice-Chairman and President of Sapura Group. Datuk Shahril is one of the longest serving leaders in the company where he joined Sapura Group in 1985 and after having been involved in various senior positions in the group, he took over the CEO and President post in 1997.

Today, Sapura Group is one of the largest conglomerates in Malaysia where it is involved with various industries that include secured communications technologies, property development management, industrial and automotive component manufacturing as well as in the oil and gas services and education. He runs the group together with his brother Shahriman where they have steered Sapura Group into becoming one of the most significant companies in Malaysia today. This include the major restructuring of the company and its portfolio and has been involved with making some very important decisions in Sapura which led to major acquisitions and strategic disposal of some of Sapura’s businesses and assets which were not performing.

Datuk Shahril was appointed as the Non-Executive Director and Executive Vice-Chairman of Sapura Crest in 2003 and sits in the Company’s Remuneration Committee. Apart from that, he is also the Executive Vice-Chairman & President of the group’s petroleum subsidiary, SapuraCrest Petroleum Berhad as well as its other subsidiaries like the Deputy Chairman of Sapura Industrial Berhad, the Non-Executive Director of Sapura Resources Berhad as well as the President and CEO of Sapura Secured Technologies Sdn Bhd. 

He is also very much involved in other areas of the community where he sits in the Board of Trustees of the Perdana Leadership Foundation. On top of that, his remarkable achievements were recognized when he was awarded with the Malaysia Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of The Year in 2009.