A.Shukor bin S.A. Karim
Independent Non-Executive Director
En. A. Shukor Bin S.A Karim, aged 54, a Malaysian, was appointed to the Board of Theta Edge Berhad as Independent Non-Executive Director on 15 June 2010. He began his career with the Government of Malaysia, Statistics Department in 1979. He left to join Sapura Group in 1982 where he was one of the founder member of Sapura Information Technology (IT) and developed Sapura's IT business to be one of Malaysia's and the region's biggest IT company with more than 1,000 employees in ASEAN with involvement in various aspects of the IT industry, from sales and distribution, systems integration to software development and IT education.
En. A. Shukor was involved in many high profile IT projects in Malaysia and abroad. Amongst others, he was the Managing Director of STH Consortium which implemented the Total Airport Management System in KLIA. He was also involved in the Design and Implementation of the Cable plant for KLCC and in E-Government projects for the implementation of Generic Office Environment for the Government of Malaysia. He was also an Executive Director in Telecom Smart School Sdn Bhd, which implemented the Smart School Project for the Ministry of Education in Malaysia.
He was directly involved in the setting up of the Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology (APIT) which is today one of Malaysia's biggest IT institute of education.
En. A. Shukor also was involved in the development of the IT Industry in Malaysia and served as Chairman of Persatuan Industri Komputer Dan Multimedia, Malaysia (PIKOM) from 1993 to 1995. He graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Computation from the University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology