Chen Li-Kai brings with him over 25 years of experience in corporate and advisory roles, working with top organisations globally across the private, public and social sectors.

Maheswari Kanniah (Mahes), is an experienced Regulatory and Compliance professional with over 47 years of experience including senior management roles in the financial services sector. She has wide-raging exposures covering 24 years of Compliance, Regulatory, Governance, Ethics, Fraud Investigation and Risk Management functions in the financial and capital market services as well as 23 years of senior company secretarial functions of a listed company.

Salleh brings with him years of experience in corporate governance and professional education. He is currently the Director of Professional Standards & Qualifications with the Securities Industry Development Corporation (SIDC) from 2012 to 2019 and from 2021. He oversees initiatives and activities that lead towards strengthening the competency and capacity of professionals in the Malaysian capital market via the Industrywide Competency Framework (ICF), certification and qualification schemes.

Dato’ Hamidah has more than three decades of extensive experience in leadership, human capital management and governance in Malaysia and at the regional level.

Dato’ Aziz brings with him decades of experience in Business, Corporate and Human Capital Development. He currently sits on the boards of Affin Bank Berhad and Merchantrade Asia Sdn Bhd and chairs the Nomination & Remuneration Committee of these companies. He was previously on the board of Alkhair International Islamic Berhad. He is the recipient of the National HR Leader Award in 2007 by the Human Resources Ministry and Malaysian Institute of HR Management.

Dato’ Seri Johan has over 35 years’ experience in auditing, accounting, business advisory and corporate governance. An ICAEW member, he was Executive Chairman of PwC Malaysia from 2004 until 2012. He is currently a director of Sime Darby Property Berhad and is a board member of the Securities Commission’s Audit Oversight Board. Johan is an advocate for the role of boards in dealing with climate change and he works with the CEO Action Network as well as the World Economic Forum’s Climate Governance Initiative and Climate Governance Malaysia.

Tan Sri Jamaludin brings over four decades of leadership experience. He served as CEO of Maxis Bhd for 10 years and later led Axiata Group Bhd as Group CEO for 13 years, transforming it into a regional powerhouse operating across 11 countries. Earlier in his career, he spent 16 years with IBM and DEC Malaysia. 

Tan Sri Zarinah brings with her legal, corporate, and regulatory experience from the many years spent in the corporate sector and public service. She is the former Chairman of the Securities Commission Malaysia (SC), a position she held for six years until her retirement in March 2012. Before this she was the SC’s Deputy Chief Executive from December 2001. An advocate of gender diversity, Tan Sri Zarinah is the Founding Chairman of the 30% Club Malaysia Chapter, a business campaign to help drive higher women representation in leadership positions and on corporate boards.