Naza and Tan Sri SM Nasimuddin SM Amin

This post is a tribute to the passing away of the founder of Naza Group of Companies, the late Tan Sri SM Nasimuddin SM Amin. In 2004 was the first time I met Tan Sri personally. We were following the PM trade delegate to Europe and he was one of the delegates. At that time I was the youngest and most unknown delegates but thanks to Nik Nazman, the executive director of Puncak Niaga, who brought me to hang around with Tan Sri Dato Dr Rozali, the Chairman of Puncak Niaga, I got the chance to meet a lot of important people. At that time, it was after the briefing in London where we hanged out in the lobby of the Hilton Park Lane, London. Tan Sri Nasimuddin came humbly and started talking to us all and we had a small chit chat about business and the weather in London. He was asking us where we spent the night, and most of us were staying in some hotels and obviously himself at his own place. He was a very humble and down to earth person I must say.

Through my personal finding when dealing with Naza, Naza does help people in businesses. If you were to ask for sponsorship from Naza, Tan Sri would eventually fork out his own money, you’d have some problem if having to go through the whole company though. If you were to ask him to come to your function, he would definitely do so. His humbleness came from a very tough journey in the business world. He endured through the hardest times. He made his millions at a very young age and since then the momentum builds on to continue his venture.

He has a loyal secretary which is his secretary when he first started business up until the last day of his passing away. This is probably due to the openness that Tan Sri offered to the people around him. He is a giving person, he’d fly on Airlines with his family and staff on business class without corporate rates. He loves to meet people and appreciate and recognise the things people do for him.

I am writing this, not based on articles I’ve read but the things that I know personally. I won’t write the things people know such as the franchise holder or businesses he is in but I hope that we treasure his effort along the years he’d service the business world in Malaysia and remember him for his kindness. Al Fatihah