Maxis Berhad | Annual Report 2012

Maxis Berhad // Annual Report 2012 46 Krishnan Ravi Kumar, aged 48, a Singaporean, was appointed as a Director of Maxis on 26 November 2012. Dr. Fahad Hussain S. Mushayt, aged 44, a Saudi citizen, was appointed as a Director of Maxis on 25 September 2009. He joined Saudi Telecom Company (“STC”) group as its group chief financial officer in May, 2012. He has over 25 years of experience working for multinational companies and has held a variety of positions at senior management level. He joined STC group from Olam International Ltd, a leading global integrated supply chain manager of agricultural commodities based in Singapore. At Olam, he was the group CFO and led the Finance, Accounting, Corporate Affairs and Strategic Investments functions of the Group. Apart from the CFO responsibilities, he was a member of the Executive Committee (“ExCo”), Risk Committee and Investment Committee in the company. He worked at Olam for more than 20 years in a variety of managerial positions, the last 14 years out of their corporate headquarters in Singapore. He serves on the board of Binariang GSM Sdn. Bhd. and Maxis Communications Berhad (holding company of Maxis). He obtained a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Delhi, India in 1984 and a Degree in Cost Accountancy from The Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India in 1985. He became a qualified Company Secretary with the Institute of Company Secretaries in India in 1989 and obtained a postgraduate Diploma in Business Management (“MBA”) from Xavier Labour Relations Institute, India in 1990. In 2009, he completed the Advanced Management Program from Harvard Business School, Boston, USA. Please refer to Note 7. He is the vice president of Corporate Strategy at STC. He joined STC in 2000 as a Senior Business Analyst in its Corporate Planning Department, and moved up later to be Strategic Planning Director and Business Development Director in 2001. In July 2004, he was made Head of STC Strategic Investments Unit which he founded, reporting to the CEO. In this role, he initiated, managed, closed and subsequently oversaw in excess of US$8 billion in investments by STC in KSA and globally. In 2011, he was promoted to vice president of Corporate Strategy, reporting to the group CEO. His responsibilities included promoting the growth agenda of STC, and enhancing the company’s competitive position through strategic and business planning. He also oversaw the establishment and implementation of the group’s investment strategy, customer experience strategy, integrated broadband strategy, as well as the digitisation strategy among others. Throughout his career at STC, he has been responsible for representing STC locally and internationally, maintaining and expanding relationships with the telecom industry and regulators in KSA and abroad. Prior to joining STC, he spent two years with the Saudi Industrial Development Fund. He has a B.Sc. degree in Operations Research from King Saud University, Riyadh and a M.Sc. in Economics from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He obtained a PhD in Political Economy and Public Policy from the University of Southern California L.A. He has also completed management programmes at INSEAD, London Business School and Stanford. He was vice president of the Telecom Development Advisory Group of the International Telecommunications Union for three years. He sits on the board of many international and local companies including Maxis Communications Berhad (holding company of Maxis) and PT AXIS Telekom Indonesia. He is a member of the Audit and Remuneration Committees. Continued DIRECTORS’ PROFILES