Appointed in 2019, Tengku Zarina is the Chief Executive Officer of the Securities Industry Development Corporation (SIDC), the training and development arm of Securities Commission Malaysia (SC).

She brings with her over 29 years of global financial services experience both in corporate and international finance, taking in different business functions and markets. Having a core competency in corporate credit, she had in the past assumed a wide breadth of roles in international banking, corporate banking, business development, banking operations, operational excellence and strategic transformation.

She has served in large financial centres including in the city of London, where she was the Country Head for Maybank operations in the UK from 2005 to 2013, and in Hong Kong where she was Maybank Hong Kong’s Deputy CEO in charge of corporate banking and business development from 2001 to 2005. She had served in Maybank New York and Maybank International Labuan for short term assignments in her early years with Maybank.

Leveraging her diverse experience, she had taken on several strategic transformation roles, including Maybank’s Head of Operational Excellence for Global Banking where she led a significant initiative to streamline the ‘Know Your Customer’ value chain as well as enabling the Financial Institutions Group’s business. She was also appointed as a Supervisory Board member for Uzbek Leasing International in Uzbekistan from 2013 to 2015.

Tengku Zarina is an appointed Accreditation Panel Member for Finance Accreditation Agency (FAA), an international and independent accreditation body supported by Bank Negara Malaysia and the Securities Commission Malaysia. Holding a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Michigan State University, United States, she is also a graduate of Women Directors’ Program by NIEW and attended the Oxford Scenarios Programme in Said Business School, University of Oxford.

Salleh is the Director of Professional Standards and Qualifications at the Securities Industry Development Corporation (SIDC), the learning and development arm of the Securities Commission Malaysia. Salleh has more than 30 years of experience in corporate governance and professional education. He oversees initiatives and activities that lead towards strengthening the competency and capacity of professionals in the Malaysian capital market via the industry-wide competency framework (ICF), certifications and qualifications, and the award-winning online Competency Management Systems (CMS). For his contributions, Salleh was a recipient of the Movers and Shakers Award in the Asia HRD Awards 2022.

As the subject matter resource person on corporate governance, Salleh also leads in the development of curriculum, courses and industry insights initiatives. He worked with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to develop the ASEAN Corporate Governance Scorecard and thereafter, had been an assessor of Malaysian, the Philippines and Vietnamese listed companies. He has worked with, among others, Minority Shareholders Watch Group (MSWG), Transparency International (TI), Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) in various research and training initiatives.

He has taught and conducted corporate training in areas of strategic management accounting, research methodology, corporate governance and sustainability reporting at local and international platforms to directors and senior management of listed, unlisted companies, sovereign wealth fund, and government ministries and agencies.

Prior and during his tenure as an Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Nottingham University Business School (Malaysia), he presented and published papers on financial reporting, accounting policy choice and corporate governance/sustainability at international conferences and in peer-reviewed journals respectively.

Salleh holds a Bachelor of Business (Hons) in Accounting and Finance, a Master of Business (Accounting) from Edith Cowan University, Australia, and the Advanced Business Management Programme (ABMP) from the International Institute for Management Development (IMD), Switzerland. He has completed the Mandatory Accreditation Programme (MAP) and the Leading for Impact Programme (LIP) – both are required for directors of companies listed on Bursa Malaysia Securities. He is a HRD Corp Certified Trainer, a Fellow and a member of the Board of Directors of the Institute of Corporate Directors Malaysia (ICDM).

Sarimah Ramthandin is the Head and Director of Innovation, Advisory & Industry Engagement. Her primary role consists of identifying areas in strategic capacity building and to develop innovative solutions for the capital market industry. In addition, Sarimah successfully led the expansion of SIDC into a learning and development consultancy specialising in talent development for the capital market. She was also instrumental in the conceptualisation, development and implementation of various Investor Education projects including strategic partnerships, key publications and core financial literacy and capability programmes.

Sarimah is a regular speaker, sharing her experiences in implementing financial literacy and financial capability strategies and innovative programmes at various international forums. She has made several media and TV appearances, speaking on topics ranging from smart money management habits to wise investing.

Sarimah began her career in 1996 as an internal auditor for Hong Leong Finance Bank Berhad and later as a dealer’s representative in Kenanga Investment Bank before joining the Securities Commission Malaysia in 2000, where she was involved in developing examination study guides and questions in SIDC’s examinations department. She moved to the Investor Education (IE) department in 2003 and has since led multiple IE initiatives for SIDC.

Sarimah holds an MBA from University Malaya and a BSc in Business Administration (Finance) from Iowa State University, USA. She is a Certified Training Professional with over 20 years of experience in the capital market industry, and a Certified Professional Coach with learning and development expertise.

Having more than 20 years of experience in the capital markets and related financial services industry, Faridah’s career began in early 1990’s with Aseambankers Malaysia Berhad in Project Finance and later in Corporate Banking. During the financial crisis in late 90’s Faridah joined Danaharta Managers Sdn Bhd in 1999 (the organisation responsible for recovering Sime Bank’s bad loans). She was tasked with overseeing the restructuring and recovery of more than 30 local and foreign non-performing loans for large corporations with average exposures of more than RM100 million.

In 2006, Faridah joined RHB Investment Bank Berhad in the Managing Director’s Office. In the decade spent with RHB, she managed various special projects and business transformation as well as corporate strategy, amassing invaluable experience in key organisational transformation approach.

Faridah was part of the team that oversaw the 5-year strategic initiatives under RHB Banking Group (IGNITE) and improving productivity and efficiency project (ASAP) for RHB Investment Bank.

Faridah holds a BSc in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom.