Dato’ Ghazali bin Dato Mohamed Yusoff (Ghaz) was born in Malacca on 13 January 1946 and graduated from the University of Malaya in 1968, majoring in Economics and Geography.

He then had a career in a multinational, Dunlop Malaysia, until he resigned as General Manager in 1981.

Thereafter, he joined Arab-Malaysian Development Bank as its Group Chief Executive until 1983.

He then decided to be an entrepreneur and has, since then, been the Executive Chairman of Nusantara Technologies till now.

He is also in other civil society organisations as the founding member of the Business Council for Sustainable Development Malaysia (BCSDM) (1992) as its Honorary Executive Director and as the President of Malaysian Council for Rehabilitation (MCR), a non-governmental organisation dealing with the welfare and development of the disabled community.

Ghaz sits on a number of government agency bodies such as the Malaysian Industrial Development Authority (MIDA) and the National Standards Committee for ISO 1400 and related standards.

He is also active in the field of education and values development for the country.