About Us

Dato’ Syed Haizam Jamalullail is currently the Managing Partner of both Tuas Capital Partners, a private equity and venture capital investment group and The Hive Southeast Asia, a Co-Creation and Seed Fund Management Company. He was previously the Investment Director of KFM Advisory Sdn. Bhd. (formerly KAF Fund Management Sdn. Bhd.). His directorships in a few private companies include Segi Value Holdings Sdn. Bhd., the operator of a wholesale hypermarket chain under the brand name, “Segi Fresh” throughout Selangor and the Greater Klang Valley and Srivijaya Sdn. Bhd., the owner of the Cold Stone Creamery F&B franchise for Malaysia. In addition, Dato’ Syed Haizam is an Independent Non-Executive Director of Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM).

Dato’ Syed Haizam had previously spent 3 years in the investment industry primarily working for F&C Investments in London as a Governance and Sustainable Investment Analyst covering the ASEAN Region. Roles involved in-depth ESG (environmental, social and governance) and financial analysis on public companies and their sectors for F&C’s sustainable equity and debt investment funds and the engagement of multinational companies in relation to ESG issues. He was also a key member in setting up F&C’s first Shari’a fund. Dato’ Syed Haizam was also attached to Naqiz & Partners for a year, a corporate and commercial legal firm in Kuala Lumpur.

Dato’ Syed Haizam is currently on the Board of Trustees for Yayasan Raja Muda Selangor, established by HRH Sultan of Selangor in 2000 to help youth who are not academically inclined but have hidden skills and talents which can be nurtured and also of the Selangor Youth Community (SAY), a non-profit entity that strives to foster interest and increase participation of Selangor Youth through community-based initiatives. He was also the Vice-President of the Malaysia-America Foundation, a non-profit, non-political and non-partisan organization dedicated to the development of people-to-people relations between Malaysia and the United States.

Thariq Usman Ahmad is a Founding Partner of Tuas Capital Partners. He is also currently Deputy CEO of KAF Investment Bank Berhad, part of the KAF Group of Companies, a well-diversified Malaysian financial services group.

Thariq is a leading Malaysian Fixed Income Fund Manager with 20 years of experience in the Malaysian Bond Market. He started KAF Fund Management in 1997 with a seed AUM of RM10 million, which grew to a peak in excess of RM3.5 billion in 2014 when the fixed income business was acquired by Amundi Asset Management, the largest European asset manager.

During his tenure as CEO/CIO at KAF Fund Management, the flagship KAF Bond Fund was the winner of several awards and he was named among the Most Astute Investors in Malaysian Ringgit Bonds by The Asset Magazine from 2011-2013.

Thariq holds a Master and Bachelor of Arts (Honors) in Mathematics from St. John’s College, the University of Oxford.

Nurolamin Abas is a Partner of Tuas Capital Partners. Nurolamin began his career with Andersen in Melbourne, Australia. After returning to Malaysia, he became the Head of Corporate Planning of Malaysia Airports and served an instrumental role during the privatisation and listing exercise as well as the creation of an airport technology services subsidiary.

Later, as an entrepreneur, Nurolamin established partnerships with European firms to provide strategic management consultancy services and software solutions. He led a program for strategic execution for a military headquarters to improve operational capability. He was also Group Executive Director for a large integrated food and restaurant business, during which he implemented a value creation plan that achieved a 2.5X increase in market capitalisation.

Recently, as an entrepreneur, he invested into a facilities management company and transformed it to be a green technology services company with projects in Malaysia, UAE and Turkey. During this time the projects included achieving Green Building certifications for Petronas Twin Towers, Perdana Putra Complex and others. The company has won awards from SME Corp, ASEAN Energy Awards, Dubai Asset Management Company (WASL), Schneider Electric and others. The business was successfully exited via a strategic sale to a public listed company achieving returns in excess of 3X.

Nurolamin has diverse experience in corporate management and public sector. He also has been through the ups and downs of life as an entrepreneur and has managed to successfully invest and profit from value creation of start-ups as well as public listed companies.

Nurolamin holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Economics and Accounting from the University of Bristol, United Kingdom.