Datuk Michael Tio (front right) with the forklift replica and the proud students who built it, displaying their certications at Peninsula College, Shah Alam. – AZLINA ABDULLAH/The Star Peninsula College enters Malaysia Book of Records by building ‘forklift replica’ PENINSULA…
Chairman
Advisor & Non-Executive Director
Peninsula Higher Education Group
Professor Ian Robert Pashby graduated from the University of Sheffield (UK) with a bachelor’s degree in Metallurgy and then worked in research and development for Rolls-Royce (aero engines). He joined the Warwick Manufacturing Group at the University of Warwick (UK) as a lecturer, was awarded his PhD for research in the processing of materials and subsequently promoted to Senior Lecturer.
In 2000, he became Professor of Manufacturing Processes at the University of Nottingham (UK).
Professor Pashby moved to the University of Nottingham’s Malaysia Campus in 2007 to become Deputy Head. became Pro-Vice Chancellor and then CEO of the campus in 2008. Returning to the UK in 2013, he became Pro-Vice Chancellor at the University of Hull (UK). He moved back to Malaysia in 2017 to lead the Peninsula Higher Education Group as its Group President and in 2024 became the Advisor.
