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Maxis Berhad
Annual Report 2014
Aged 60, a Saudi citizen,
was appointed as a Director of Maxis
on 26 November 2012.
Non-Executive Director
Aged 63, a Malaysian,
was appointed as a Director of Maxis
on 7 August 2009.
Non-Executive Director
He is an ICT consultant with wide-ranging
experience/expertise in technology, business,
policy, regulatory and market perspectives.
He has over 36 years of experience in
academic, professional, industrial and
regulatory fields. His areas of expertise
include Communication Engineering,
Knowledge Economy, Market Analysis, Risk
Management, Security and Socio-economic
Impact of Technology.
He currently serves as an independent
member of the Risk Management Board
Committee at the Saudi Stock Exchange Co.
(Tadawul, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia). He is also an
independent director of Oger Telecom Limited
(Dubai, UAE). He also serves on the Board of
Maxis Communications Berhad.
He was a senior advisor at the
Communication & Information Technology
Commission (“CITC”), the ICT regulatory
authority in Saudi Arabia (2004-2011).
He served earlier as the International
Telecommunications Union (“ITU”)
Representative to the Arab States and Head
of the ITU Arab Regional Office (2002-2003).
He has more than 30 years of experience in
financial and general management. He is an
executive director of Usaha Tegas Sdn. Bhd.
(“UTSB”), the executive deputy chairman
and group chief executive officer of Astro
Holdings Sdn. Bhd. group [including his
position as non-independent non-executive
deputy chairman of Astro Malaysia Holdings
Berhad (listed on the Bursa Securities)]
and an executive director of Tanjong Public
Limited Company, in which UTSB has
significant interests. He also serves as a
non-executive director on the boards of
several other companies in which UTSB
also has significant interests such as Maxis
Communications Berhad and Johnston
Press plc (listed on the London Stock
Exchange plc). In addition, he is a director in
an independent non-executive capacity and
the chairman of the audit committee of KLCC
Property Holdings Berhad (listed on the
Bursa Securities), a non-executive director
of MEASAT Global Berhad and KLCC REIT
Management Sdn. Bhd. (the management
company of KLCC Real Estate Investment
Trust).
DR. IBRAHIM ABDULRAHMAN H. KADI
AUGUSTUS RALPH MARSHALL
He was a professor of communications at
King Saud University (1984-2004). He was
vice president for Engineering and R&D of
Advanced Electronics Company (1991-1994)
and served as an executive consultant for the
following 10 years (1994-2004). He served in
a number of industry boards and committees.
He provided consultancy services to
government agencies, private sector and
international organisations, including Saudi
Arabian Monetary Agency (Central Bank),
Tadawul, National Commercial Bank, AEC, Al
Zamil Group, STC, Gulf Cooperation Council
(“GCC”), ITU and the International Finance
Corporation of the World Bank.
He holds a PhD. from Stanford University
(1984), a M.Sc. from the University of
Michigan (1980), and a B.Sc. from Riyadh
University (1978), all in Electrical Engineering
(Communication). He has published over 130
research papers, general interest and literary
works, and spoken at numerous national and
international conferences.
He is a member of the Nomination Committee.
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