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Azhar Azib is the Founder and Principal Consultant at rawonionDecisions and serves as the Honorary Data Protection Officer (DPO) for the DMAS. He specialises in helping companies transform into smart, data driven organisations. His last corporate role was as Regional Marketing Communications Director for Asia Pacific at Microsoft. He was concurrently also the head of the Transformation Office, driving data governance and data innovation into Microsoft business units.
Azhar is a Certified Information Privacy Manager and Technologist (CIPM, CIPT), accredited by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). He is also a Certified Governance, Risk Management and Compliance Professional (GRCP) accredited by the Open Compliance & Ethics Group (OCEG). He focuses on Operational Compliance in the Sales, Marketing and Communications areas and provides advisory to enterprises to help them ‘get compliant’ and ‘stay compliant’ to the Singapore and International Privacy and Personal Data Protection legislations. During his time at Microsoft, he held the concurrent position of Regional Privacy Lead for Asia Pacific for the Sales, Marketing and Services side of the corporation.
A Data Architect by training and a seasoned Database Marketer and Transformation Leader by practice, Azhar’s 25 year corporate career with big brands like Microsoft, IBM and Global Sources has put him in many roles driving innovation, change and excellence in the way large corporations manage and use data to drive better connections with their customers and
partners.
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