PETRONAS Chemicals Group Berhad Appointed Encik Mohd Yusri Bin Mohamed Yusof as Managing Director. With a career spanning more than 32 years, he has held various leadership roles, these include Chief Executive Officer of Ethylene Malaysia Sdn Bhd (EMSB), CEO of Optimal Group of Companies and Head of the Manufacturing Division for PETRONAS Chemicals Group Berhad. During his tenure as CEO of Optimal Group of Companies, he drove the integration of Optimal Group of Companies from a Joint Venture into PETRONAS as a wholly owned subsidiary which brought in total asset worth RM6 billion and revenue of RM5 billion into PETRONAS Group. As Head of Manufacturing PCG, Yusri was instrumental in consolidating the 13 manufacturing plants with annual capacity of 12.2 million ton per annum into a single division and drove the operational performance to world class benchmark. As Vice President Refining & Trading, he has strengthened the oil value chain for PETRONAS through various strategies including completion of tolling arrangement between the refineries and PETCO Trading Labuan Company Ltd. (PETCO), consolidation the petroleum products inventories into PETCO, driving the New Operating Model for the oil value chain involving from the planning up to delivery of the oil molecule. This has created a transparent, efficient and agile value chain for PETRONAS with PETCO at its core. He is also currently leading the efforts to transform trading function within PETRONAS from a Value Optimization role into a Value Creation role in order to effectively capitalize opportunities from market volatility. Since 2017, he has been serving as a Director for MISC Berhad (a PLC) and various subsidiaries within PETRONAS Group.