Tan Sri Datuk Seri Panglima Sulong Matjeraie
Tan Sri Datuk Seri Panglima Sulong Matjeraie, a Malaysian, aged 75, was appointed to the Board of the Company as an Independent Non-Executive Director on 15 July 2013. He was appointed as a member of the Nomination Committee and the Remuneration Committee on 24 April 2014. On 25 August 2014, he was redesignated as Chairman of the Board and appointed as Chairman of the Nomination Committee.
Tan Sri Datuk Seri Panglima Sulong Matjeraie who has more than thirty (30) years of legal and judicial experience was a Federal Court Judge before his retirement in 2013.
He had his early education at University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Degree and obtained his Master of Laws Degree from University of Southampton, England. He read law at the Inns of Court School of Law in London in October 1971 and was called to the Bar of England and Wales in the Trinity Term of 1974 by the Honourable Society of Inner Temple, London. In 1978, he was awarded a Certificate in Advanced Management Programme by the Banff School of Advanced Management, Alberta, Canada.
He has served in various capacities in the Sarawak State Service such as District Officer, Bintulu, State Training Officer Sarawak, Secretary of the Government Examinations Board, Secretary of the Sarawak Complaints and Suggestions Bureau, Director of Civic Development Unit, General Manager of Sarawak Timber Industry Development Corporation and General Manager of Bintulu Development Authority.
In 1983, he resigned from the Sarawak Government service to set up a legal firm under the name and style of Messrs. Sulong Matjeraie & Co. and served as its senior partner. He was the President of the Advocates Association of Sarawak until his appointment as a Judicial Commissioner at the High Court of Malaya in Johor in 1998. He was a High Court Judge of Malaya in Johor Bahru in 2000 before being transferred to the High Court of Sabah and Sarawak where he served as its High Court Judge in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.
In 2007, he was promoted to be a Judge of the Court of Appeal and was later appointed as a Federal Court Judge at the Federal Court of Malaysia, Palace of Justice at Putrajaya.
In 2013, Tan Sri Datuk Seri Panglima Sulong Matjeraie was appointed by the Prime Minister, Malaysia as one of four eminent persons to serve as a member of Judicial Appointments Commission for a period of two years. His appointment has been extended further by the Prime Minister for a maximum period of another two more years until 9 February 2017.
On 30 January 2014, he was made a Bencher of the prestigious Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, London.
Tan Sri Datuk Seri Panglima Sulong Matjeraie is currently an Independent Non-Executive Director of WTK Holdings Berhad and Southern Acids (M) Berhad. He is also an Independent Non-Executive Chairman of Petra Energy Berhad.