
En. Nor Badli Munawir B. Mohamad Alias Lafti, aged 44, a Malaysian, was appointed to the Board of Theta Edge Berhad as Independent Non-Executive Director on 7 June 2010. He holds a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Accountancy (Cum Laude) degree from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA and a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) degree from the Arkansas State University, Arkansas, USA.
He was previously the Chief Financial Officer of FPSO Ventures Sdn Bhd ("FVSB"), a joint-venture and subsidiary company of MISC Berhad, the blue-chip energy shipping company's offshore business arm. He was a pioneer member of the management team until September 2006. In December 1999, he had a short stint with an MSC status company providing IT solutions for one of the Multimedia Super Corridor Flagship project.
Prior to this, En. Nor Badli was in the financial services industry for over 10 years where he accumulated significant merchant banking and financial advisory experience. He was with Arab-Malaysian Merchant Bank Berhad ("AMMB") Corporate Finance Division since 1992. His last position was as Assistant General Manager in the Privatisation & Project Finance Advisory Department. Prior to AMMB, Badli started as Associate Consultant with Arthur Andersen & Co., a leading International Public Accounting and Management Consultancy firm. He rose to the rank of Senior Consultant before joining AMMB in 1992.
En. Nor Badli is also a director in several private oil & gas companies involved in various activities ranging from specialized safety equipment supply, HSE consultancy, and marine logistics currently servicing both the upstream and downstream sector of the oil & gas industry in Malaysia.