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KUALA LUMPUR (May 14): Loss-making Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering Holdings Bhd (MHB) has appointed Ahmad Zakri Md Salleh as its chief financial officer (CFO).

Ahmad Zakri, 39, was previously senior manager in Petronas Dagangan Bhd at the business and financial planning and performance, financial division. He has been employed by Petronas since 2004.

MHB's previous CFO, Nik Azlan Nik Abdul Aziz, resigned from his post to pursue other opportunities, the group said in another stock exchange filing. Nik Azlan has held the post for two years and will be leaving the company on May 24, 2019.

Meanwhile, Emran Othman, who is vice president of corporate planning at MISC Bhd, has been appointed as MHB's non-independent and non-executive director.

Emran had previously been head of merger and acquisition at Petronas and assumed his role at MISC on Oct 1, 2018.

Separately, MHB also appointed Keith Taylor, a British national, as an independent and non-executive director, effective June 1. Taylor is currently a non-executive director with Semco Maritime A/S and Offshore Decommissioning Services Ltd (UK).

At 2.47pm, shares in MHB rose 1.5 sen or 2.22% to 69 sen, giving the group a market capitalisation of RM1.1 billion.

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