Tan Sri Datin Paduka Siti Sa'diah Binti Sheikh Bakir is our Independent Non-Executive Director. She was appointed to the Board on 1 February 2019.
Tan Sri Datin Paduka Siti Sa'diah binti Sheikh Bakir is a distinguished corporate figure and a respected leader in the healthcare and education services sectors with extensive experience in leadership, strategy and business transformation in Malaysia.
She began her career with Johor Corporation ("JCorp") in 1974 and joined JCorp's Healthcare Division in 1978. She was the Chief Executive of Kumpulan Perubatan (Johor) Sdn Bhd from
1989 until the company's listing on the Main Board of Bursa Malaysia in 1994 known as KPJ Healthcare Berhad ("KPJ").
At KPJ, she served as Managing Director from 1993 until her retirement in 2012, and then as
the company's Corporate Advisor from 2013 to 2014. In her years at KPJ, Tan Sri Datin Paduka
Siti Sa'diah led the transformational strategies that has made KPJ one of the leading private
healthcare service providers in Malaysia today. She was an Independent Director of KPJ from
2015 until 2020.
She was also the Chairman of KPJ Healthcare University College ("KPJUC") from 2011 to 2016,
Pro-Chancellor of KPJUC from 2011 to 2018 and the Chancellor of KPJUC from January 2019
until 31 October 2022.
She was an Independent Non-Executive Director of Bursa Malaysia from 2004 to 2012 and was
a Board Member of MATRADE from 1999 to 2012. She served as a Director of a few other public
listed companies under Johor Corporation Group namely Al-'Aqar Healthcare REIT, Kulim (M)
Berhad, KFC Holdings Malaysia Bhd and QSR Brands (M) Holdings Bhd from 2006 to 2016.
She was the Chairman of Nationwide Express Holdings Berhad from 2016 to 2019 and was a
Director of OSK Holdings Berhad from 2016 to 2021. She served as the Chairperson of Awqaf
Holdings Berhad from 1 November 2017 to 1 February 2025.
In 2010, Tan Sri Datin Paduka Siti Sa'diah was conferred the "Malaysia's CEO of the Year 2009
Award", jointly by the New Straits Times Press and American Express. Between 2011 and 2015,
she received numerous awards and accolades for her contributions to the healthcare industryBRDT3-1
in Malaysia. In 2013, she published her biography titled "Siti Sa'diah: Driven by Vision, Mission
and Passion".
Tan Sri Datin Paduka Siti Sa'diah is also a passionate leader in the development of
Malaysia's talent landscape. She served as a Director of UUM and was the Chairman
of the Board of UUM from 2016 to 2018. She was a member of the Leadership
Development Committee, Razak School of Government from 2013 to 2018. She was the
Pro-Chancellor of the University of Technology Malaysia ("UTM") from 2016 to 2021 and a
member of Azman Hashim Business School UTM from 2019 to 2022. She was a member of
the Strategy Board, Henley Business School, University of Reading, London from 2021 to 2024.
Dedicated to advancing the quality of Malaysian healthcare, she was the President of the
Malaysian Society for Quality in Health ("MSQH"), a national accreditation body for healthcare
services since its inception in 1997 until her retirement in December 2018. She also sits on
other national-level councils and committees.