DR JUNID BIN ABU SAHAM was appointed to the DIALOG Board on 29 June 1995 and is an Independent Non-Executive Director. He is a member of the Audit Committee, Nomination Committee and Remuneration Committee, and is also the Chairman of the Risk Advisory Committee.

He is a Malaysian, aged 69 and graduated with Bachelor and Masters Degree in Economics from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He also holds a Ph.D. (Economics) from the University of Hull, United Kingdom.

He has vast working experience in audit, banking, finance and business consulting spanning a period of over nearly 37 years. He was formerly with Arab-Malaysian Merchant Bank (now known as AmInvestment Bank Berhad) for 16 years, and for 10 years as director of Kepner- Tregoe (M) Sdn Bhd, a constituent company of Kepner-Tregoe Inc. a Princeton, N.J. U.S.A. based corporate consulting and training firm. Throughout his business consulting years, he has acted as corporate adviser to a number of companies in the finance, information, communication and technology industries. Currently, he is also a director of Industronics Berhad, Master-Pack Group Berhad and Areca Capital Sdn Bhd, a fund management company.