Management

Y.Bhg. Tan Sri Datuk Abdul Razak Latiff is the founder of ARL Group of Companies. In his capacity as Group Managing Director, he is instrumental for the success and growth of ARL Global Group of Companies.
He has 35 years of experience successfully leading and managing people and projects in the telecommunications, power and IT industries. After obtaining his post-degree Diploma in Accounting at University Malaya, he joined the Accountant General’s office and was later seconded to Jabatan Telekom Malaysia where he served for 8 years. He later joined a leading Telecommunications group in 1983 to broaden his exposure in corporate management. He was instrumental in the acquisition and turn around of several ailing companies, which later became acknowledge profit earners within the group.

With his accumulated experience he ventured out on his own and established ARL Associates Sdn.Bhd. in 1991 as an outfit to market his business skills. In June 1994 he secured a privatization project to develop a 50 MW IPP Power Plant at Melawa, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. The project was developed on a Build-Own-Operate (BOO) basis. Later he established a new subsidiary, ARL Janakuasa Letrik Sdn.Bhd to operate and maintain the plan.

Although coming from a non-technical background, he has developed the ability to combine strategic business planning with an empirical approach in analysis. Over the years he has developed his own business philosophy and values, which he fervently applies to the Group’s business dealings and simply states, "Do things in moderation and don’t profit on people’s misery".

En. Abdull Rahim Bin Hashim has more than 30 years of working experience and is the General Manager for Petrojadi Sdn Bhd. He was formerly the Plant Manager of Panasonic Electric Work Kenaf (M) Sdn Bhd and the Production Manager for Mieco Chipboard Berhad for 7 years. He started his career in 1977 as an Aircraft Supervisor in Royal Malaysian Air-force till his contract ended in 1989.  He obtained his Aircraft & Helicopter Maintenance & Engineering from Northrop University (Inglewood USA) in April 1981. Diploma in Occupational Safety and Health in Sweden and Master in Business Administration graduated in 2007.

During his tenure of service he has served the country in the Air-force for 15 years and has been working in Kuching, Sarawak; Kluang, Johor and Kuantan, Pahang is his last base. He is experienced in working environment right from the Air Force, Oil & Gas Industry with EPMI and Sabah Shipyard, Construction, Manufacturing Plant and Power Plant.