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(62 years of age - Malaysian)
B.Sc (Hons) in Mining Engineering, Imperial College of Science & Technology,
University of London; Associate of the Royal School of Mines, UK
Non-Independent Non-Executive Director (Chairman)
Tan Sri Dato’ Megat Zaharuddin Megat Mohd Nor was appointed as a Director and Chairman of Maybank on 1 October 2009. He was an Independent Non-Executive Director of Maybank from July 2004 to February 2009.
He built an outstanding career in the oil and gas industry for 31 years with the Royal Dutch Shell Group of Companies and was the Regional Business Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Shell Exploration and Production B.V. prior to his retirement in early 2004. He was also the Chairman of Maxis Communications Berhad from January 2004 to November 2007, Etiqa Insurance & Takaful from January 2006 until February 2009, Malaysian Rubber Board from February 2009 to May 2010, Director of Capital Market Development Fund from January 2004 to January 2010 and Director of Woodside Petroleum Ltd, a company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange, from December 2007 to April 2011.
His current directorships in companies within the Maybank Group include being Chairman of Maybank Investment Bank Berhad and President Commissioner of PT Bank Internasional Indonesia Tbk. He is also a Director of the ICLIF Leadership and Governance Centre.
He attended all 22 Board Meetings held in the financial year ended 30 June 2011.
Tan Sri Dato’ Megat Zaharuddin has no family relationship with any director and is a nominee of Permodalan Nasional Berhad, a major shareholder of Maybank. He has no conflict of interest with Maybank and has never been charged for any offence.
(67 years of age - Malaysian)
Member of the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants; Fellow of the Institute of Bankers Malaysia
Independent Non-Executive Director (Vice Chairman)
Dato’ Salleh was appointed as a Director and Vice Chairman of Maybank on 18 November 2009. He serves as Chairman of the Nomination and Remuneration and Employee Share Scheme Committees of the Board. Prior to that he was Chairman of the Credit Review Committee of the Board.
He started his career as a Senior Accountant with the Treasury between 1971 and 1974 prior to joining the Maybank Group in 1974 as Investment Manager in Aseambankers Malaysia Berhad (now known as Maybank Investment Bank Berhad), before moving to Bank Rakyat for a short stint in 1978. Thereafter, Dato’ Salleh returned to the Maybank Group where he served in various senior capacities culminating as Executive Director of Maybank from 1994 to 2000. He was then appointed as a Deputy Governor of Bank Negara Malaysia, a post he held up to 2004. Since then, he had held directorships in the RHB Group including as Chairman of RHB Insurance Berhad until November 2009.
His current directorships in companies within the Maybank Group include being Chairman of Mayban Ageas Holdings Berhad (formerly known as Mayban Fortis Holdings Berhad), Etiqa Insurance Berhad, Etiqa Takaful Berhad, Mayban Investment Management Sdn Bhd and Maybank Philippines Inc. He is also a Director of Scicom (MSC) Berhad and Asia Capital Reinsurance Malaysia Sdn Bhd.
He attended all 22 Board Meetings held in the financial year ended 30 June 2011.
Dato’ Salleh has no family relationship with any director and/or major shareholder of Maybank. He has no conflict of interest with Maybank and has never been charged for any offence.
(47 years of age – Malaysian)
Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (UK);
Member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants
Non-Independent Executive Director
Dato’ Sri Abdul Wahid Omar was appointed as the President & CEO and Executive Director of Maybank on 1 May 2008. He serves as Chairman of the Group Executive Committee and as a member of the Credit Review Committee of the Board.
Prior to joining Maybank, he was the Group CEO of Telekom Malaysia Berhad from July 2004 to April 2008. He was also formerly the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the UEM Group Berhad and UEM World Berhad as well as the Executive Vice Chairman of PLUS Expressways Berhad. This was preceded by serving at Telekom Malaysia Berhad as the Chief Financial Officer in 2001. He was previously a Director of Group Corporate Services cum Divisional Director, Capital Market & Securities of Amanah Capital Partners Berhad, Chairman of Amanah Short Deposits Berhad as well as a Director of Amanah Merchant Bank Berhad and several other financial services companies.
His current directorships in companies within the Maybank Group include as Director of Mayban Ageas Holdings Berhad (formerly known as Mayban Fortis Holdings Berhad), Maybank Investment Bank Berhad and PT Bank Internasional Indonesia Tbk. His directorships in other companies include as Chairman of Malaysia Electronic Payment System Sdn Bhd and as Director of Cagamas Holdings Berhad and ASEAN Finance Corporation Limited.
Dato’ Sri Abdul Wahid Omar is also currently the Chairman of the Association of Banks in Malaysia, Vice Chairman of the Institute of Banks Malaysia, and a member of Investment Panel of Lembaga Tabung Haji and Kumpulan Wang Persaraan (KWAP).
He attended all 22 Board Meetings held during the financial year ended 30 June 2011.
Dato’ Sri Abdul Wahid Omar has no family relationship with any director and/or major shareholder of Maybank. He has no conflict of interest with Maybank and has never been charged for any offence.
Tan Sri Datuk Dr Hadenan A. Jalil
(65 years of age – Malaysian)
PhD, Henley Management College, UK;
Master of Business Management, Asian Institute of Management, Philippines; Bachelor of Economics, University of Malaya
Independent Non-Executive Director
Tan Sri Datuk Dr Hadenan A. Jalil was appointed as a Director of Maybank on 15 July 2009. He serves as Chairman of the Audit Committee and as a member of the Nomination and Remuneration, and Employee Share Scheme Committees of the Board.
Tan Sri Datuk Dr Hadenan A. Jalil was Auditor General from 2000 to 2006. He served with the Government for 36 years in various capacities in the Treasury, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Works prior to his appointment as Auditor General.
His current directorships in companies within the Maybank Group include as Director of Maybank Islamic Berhad. He is also Chairman of ICB Islamic Bank Ltd (Bangladesh), Protasco Berhad and its subsidiary, and PNB Commercial Sdn Bhd and its subsidiaries. In addition, he sits on the boards of THP-Sinar Sdn Bhd, Unilever (Malaysia) Holdings Sdn Bhd and University Tun Abdul Razak Sdn Bhd as well as being a member of the Audit Committee, Johor Corporation.
He attended 20 of the 22 Board Meetings held in the financial year ended 30 June 2011.
Tan Sri Datuk Dr Hadenan A. Jalil has no family relationship with any director and/or major shareholder of Maybank. He has no conflict of interest with Maybank and has never been charged for any offence.
Dato’ Seri Ismail Shahudin
(60 years of age – Malaysian)
Bachelor of Economics, University of Malaya
Independent Non-Executive Director
Dato’ Seri Ismail Shahudin was appointed as a Director of Maybank on 15 July 2009. He serves as Chairman of the Credit Review Committee of the Board.
He was Chairman of Bank Muamalat Malaysia Berhad from 2004 until his retirement in July 2008. He has held senior positions in Citibank, serving both in Malaysia and New York, United Asian Bank and Maybank where he was appointed Executive Director in 1997. He left Maybank in 2002 to assume the position of Group Chief Executive Officer of MMC Corporation Berhad prior to his appointment to the Board of Bank Muamalat Malaysia Berhad.
His current directorships in companies within the Maybank Group include as Chairman of Maybank Islamic Berhad and as director of MCB Bank Limited, Pakistan. He is also a director of several public listed companies which include PLUS Expressways Berhad, Mutiara Goodyear Development Berhad, SMPC Corporation Berhad, EP Manufacturing Berhad, Opus International Consultants Ltd and Aseana Properties Limited, a company listed on the London Stock Exchange.
He attended 20 of the 22 Board Meetings held in the financial year ended 30 June 2011.
Dato’ Seri Ismail Shahudin has no family relationship with any director and/or major shareholder of Maybank. He has no conflict of interest with Maybank and has never been charged for any offence.
Dato’ Dr Tan Tat Wai
(64 years of age – Malaysian)
PhD DMPN
PhD in Economics, Harvard University, USA;
Master of Economics, University of Wisconsin (Madison), USA; Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering & Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Independent Non-Executive Director
Dato’ Dr Tan Tat Wai was appointed as a Director of Maybank on
15 July 2009. He serves as Chairman of the Risk Management Committee and as a member of the Nomination and Remuneration, and Employee Share Scheme Committees of the Board.
He started his career with Bank Negara Malaysia in 1978, undertaking research in economic policies. Subsequently, he assumed the role of a consultant to Bank Negara Malaysia, World Bank and the United Nations University for several years. He served as the Secretary and a member on the Council of Malaysian Invisible Trade, set up to formulate policies to reduce Malaysia’s deficit in service trade. He was a member of the Government appointed Malaysian Business Council, the Corporate Malaysia Roundtable, the Penang Industrial Council, the Industrial Co-ordination Council (ICC) and the National Committee on Business Competitiveness (NCBC) set up by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. He represented Malaysia as a member of the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) and sat on the Council of Wawasan Open University.
Within the Maybank Group, he is a Director of Maybank Investment Bank Berhad and Mayban Trustees Berhad. He is the Group Managing Director of Southern Steel Berhad, a post he has held since December 1993. He also sits on the Boards of Shangri-La Hotels (M) Bhd, Titan Chemicals Corp Sdn Bhd, Natsteel Ltd, a plc in Singapore and Starglow Investments Ltd, and among several other private limited companies. He is also the President of the not-for-profit Lam Wah Ee Hospital.
He attended all 22 Board Meetings held during the financial year ended 30 June 2011.
Dato’ Dr Tan has no family relationship with any director and/or major shareholder of Maybank. He has no conflict of interest with Maybank and has never been charged for any offence.
Zainal Abidin Jamal
(57 years of age – Malaysian)
LL.B (Honours), University of Singapore
Non-Independent Non-Executive Director
Zainal Abidin Jamal was appointed as a Director of Maybank on
22 July 2009. He serves as a member of the Credit Review, Nomination and Remuneration, and Employee Share Scheme Committees of the Board.
He is a practising corporate and commercial lawyer and established his firm, Zainal Abidin & Co in 1987, where he is the Founder and Senior Partner. He was enrolled as an Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in 1986. Between 1983 and 1986, he served as the Company Secretary of Harrisons Malaysian Plantations Berhad. Prior to that, he had practised in Singapore where he was enrolled in 1980 as an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore and had also served as a First Class Magistrate in Brunei Darussalam.
His current directorships in companies within the Maybank Group include as Chairman of Mayban Trustees Berhad and Director of Etiqa Insurance Berhad, Etiqa Takaful Berhad, Maybank Islamic Berhad, Maybank International (L) Limited, and Mayban International Trust (L) Ltd. He also serves on the Boards of Lam Soon (M) Berhad, Kesas Holdings Berhad, PNB Asset Management (Japan) Co Ltd, PNB International Limited, PNB-SBI ASEAN Gateway Investment Management Limited and several other private limited companies.
He attended all 22 Board Meetings held in the financial year ended 30 June 2011.
Zainal Abidin Jamal has no family relationship with any director and is a nominee of Permodalan Nasional Berhad, a major shareholder of Maybank. He has no conflict of interest with Maybank and has never been charged for any offence.
Alister Maitland
(70 years of age – Australian)
Degree in commerce from Victoria University, NZ;
AMP Graduate, Harvard Business School, USA
Independent Non-Executive Director
Alister Maitland was appointed as a Director of Maybank on 26 August 2009. He serves as a member of the Nomination and Remuneration, Risk Management and Employee Share Scheme Committees of the Board.
In his career spanning 35 years in Australia, New Zealand and the UK, he has held many key roles within the ANZ Banking Group Ltd including that of Chief Economist and Managing Director of ANZ New Zealand. In his last six years with the ANZ Group, he served on the main board of ANZ Bank as Executive Director International, directly responsible for ANZ Group’s operations in 42 countries.
His current directorship within the Maybank Group includes as Chairman of Maybank (PNG) Ltd.
He attended all 22 Board Meetings held in the financial year ended 30 June 2011.
Alister Maitland has no family relationship with any director and/or major shareholder of Maybank. He has no conflict of interest with Maybank and has never been charged for any offence.
Cheah Teik Seng
(57 years of age – Malaysian)
Bachelor of Science, University of Manchester, UK;
Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England
and Wales
Independent Non-Executive Director
Cheah Teik Seng was appointed as a Director of Maybank on
26 August 2009. He serves as a member of the Audit and Risk Management Committees of the Board.
As a federal government Public Services Department scholarship holder, he served in the civil service in the early ‘80s. After leaving government service, he took on various roles in the banking and financial services industry both locally as well as in London, Hong Kong and Singapore. He held positions in Public Bank, Chase Manhattan Bank, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, UBS and in BNP Paribas holding the position of Managing Director for a tenure of nine years. He was appointed as CEO-designate of ECM Libra Avenue Group in 2006. He is currently a Director and partner of Aktis Capital Singapore Pte Ltd.
His current directorships in companies within the Maybank Group include as Chairman of Mayban Ventures Sdn Bhd, Mayban-JAIC Capital Management Sdn Bhd, Mayban Ventures Capital Company Sdn Bhd, Mayban Agro Fund Sdn Bhd, Mayban-JAIC Management Ltd as well as Director of Maybank Investment Bank Berhad.
Mr Cheah sits on the boards of Kumpulan Wang Persaraan (KWAP) and of various private equity companies in Hong Kong, China and Malaysia. He is also an Independent Non-Executive Director of two hedge funds.
He attended all 22 Board Meetings held in the financial year ended 30 June 2011.
Cheah Teik Seng has no family relationship with any director and/or major shareholder of Maybank. He has no conflict of interest with Maybank and has never been charged for any offence.
Dato’ Johan Ariffin
(52 years of age – Malaysian)
B.A. Economics, Indiana University, USA;
MBA, University of Miami, USA
Independent Non-Executive Director
Dato’ Johan Ariffin was appointed as Director of Maybank on
26 August 2009. He serves as a member of the Audit and Credit Review Committees of the Board.
He started his career in the real estate division of Citibank. Thereafter, he held various senior positions in several subsidiaries of public listed companies while venturing into his own successful marketing and advertising consultancy and property development business. He then headed Danaharta’s Property Division as Senior General Manager before moving on to head TTDI Development
Sdn Bhd up to January 2009.
His current directorships in companies within the Maybank Group include as Chairman of Maybank International (L) Limited and Mayban International Trust (L) Ltd as well as Director of Mayban Ageas Holdings Berhad (formerly known as Mayban Fortis Holdings Berhad), Etiqa Insurance Berhad and Etiqa Takaful Berhad.
He is currently also Chairman of Mitraland Properties Sdn Bhd and Director of Sime Darby Property Berhad, and a National Council member of the Real Estate Housing Developers’ Association Malaysia (REHDA).
He attended 21 of the 22 Board Meetings held in the financial year ended 30 June 2011.
Dato’ Johan Ariffin has no family relationship with any director and/or major shareholder of Maybank. He has no conflict of interest with Maybank and has never been charged for any offence.
Sreesanthan Eliathamby
(50 years of age – Malaysian)
LLB (Hons), University of Malaya;
BCL (Postgrad degree in Law), University of Oxford, UK
Non-Independent Non-Executive Director
Sreesanthan Eliathamby was appointed as a Director of Maybank on 26 August 2009. He serves as a member of the Risk Management and Audit Committees of the Board.
He is an Advocate & Solicitor and a Partner with the legal firm of Messrs Kadir, Andri & Partners. He was formerly a Legal Assistant and later a Partner with the legal firm of Messrs Zain & Co.
Within the Maybank Group, his sits on the boards of Maybank (PNG) Ltd, Mayban Ventures Sdn Bhd, Mayban-JAIC Capital Management Sdn Bhd, Mayban Ventures Capital Company Sdn Bhd, Mayban Agro Fund Sdn Bhd and Mayban-JAIC Management Ltd as well as a member of the Supervisory Committee of An Binh Bank in Vietnam, an associate company of Maybank.
He is also a member of the Investment Committee of Amanah Saham Wawasan 2020 Fund, Bursa Malaysia Listing Committee and the Investigating Tribunal Panel of the Advocates and Solicitors’ Disciplinary Board. He currently sits on the boards of the Scomi Group Berhad, Guinness Anchor Berhad and Sime Darby Berhad.
He attended 21 of the 22 Board Meetings held in the financial year ended 30 June 2011.
Sreesanthan Eliathamby has no family relationship with any director and is a nominee of Permodalan Nasional Berhad, a major shareholder of Maybank. He has no conflict of interest with Maybank and has never been charged for any offence.
DATUK MOHAIYANI SHAMSUDIN
(63 years of age – Malaysian)
MBA (Finance) Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
BA (Economics) Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois, USA
Independent Non-Executive Director
Datuk Mohaiyani was appointed as a Director of Maybank on
22 August 2011.
She was with Amanah Chase Merchant Bank Berhad before starting her own stockbroking company, Mohaiyani Securities Sdn Bhd, in 1985. During her active involvement in the stockbroking industry, she was appointed as Deputy Chairman of Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (now known as Bursa Malaysia Berhad) and Chairman of Association of Stockbroking Companies Malaysia. In addition, she had been appointed as a member of several high level national working groups such as National Economic Action Council (NEAC), National Economic Consultative Council II (MAPEN II), National Information Technology Council (NITC) and Ministry of Finance High Level Finance Committee for Corporate Governance.
At present, she sits on the board of Aberdeen Asset Management Sdn Bhd and serves as a Director of Capital Market Development Fund. She is also a member of the National Advisory Council for Women, Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development and Panel Usahawan Wanita, SME Corp Malaysia as well being a member and trustee of the National Heart Institute Foundation.
Datuk Mohaiyani has no family relationship with any director and/or major shareholder of Maybank. She has no conflict of interest with Maybank and has never been charged for any offence.
Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali
Mohd Nazlan is the General Counsel & Company Secretary of Maybank, and is also its Head of Corporate & Legal Services. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Jurisprudence as well as Master of Arts, both from the University of Oxford. He is also a Barrister at Law (Lincoln’s Inn) and an Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya.
He was a Partner and Head of Equity Capital Markets at Zaid Ibrahim & Co, specialising mainly on corporate, financial services and securities law matters, particularly in respect of corporate transactions such as capital raisings and M&As before joining Maybank in 2005. Prior to that, he was with the Securities Commission of Malaysia (SC) for about 7 years until 2000 and his last position was the General Manager of the Enforcement Division, with overall responsibility over the investigation, prosecution and complaints departments. He had also earlier served the Executive Chairman’s Office and the Issues & Investment Division whilst at the SC. Mohd Nazlan started his working career in 1991 at Messrs Shook Lin & Bok, handling corporate, conveyancing and banking law matters.
