EA Holdings Berhad announced the appointment of Encik Borhan Bin Abdul Halim as Independent and Non Executive Chairman. Date of change is 31 January 2024. Age is 64.

En. Borhan obtained his Bachelor of Social Science Degree with Hons.in Development Studies from University Of Science Malaysia, Penang in 1997. In 1999, he joined the public sector as the deputy mayor of Gerik District Council of Perak state.

He has more than 20 years of experience in the management level for several local government authorities in the state of Perak as the mayor and deputy mayor. His duties during his services in the local government authorities includes to develop and evaluate the policies and programs of the municipality, to determine which services the municipality provides, to ensure that administrative practices and procedures are in place to implement the decisions of council, to ensure the accountability and transparency of the operations of the municipality. His last position was the mayor at Taiping Municipal Council in 2020 and during his time with the council he had led the council to win the third place as the most sustainable city in the world for 2019.

Besides that, he was appointed as the co-president for the Tourism Promotion Organization for Asia Pacific Cities (TPO) on the same year. He retired as the mayor of Taiping in 2019 to pursue his business endeavors. En.

Borhan has no family relationship with any director or substantial shareholder of the Company, he has no conflict of interest with the Group and has no conviction for offences within the past 10 years other than traffic offences.