Dato’ Faiz was appointed the Executive Chairman of the Securities Commission SC, the capital markets regulator of Malaysia, in June 2024 by the Malaysian Minister of Finance. He was previously a Board member on the SC since August 2023.

He was the Chairman of PwC Malaysia for 11 out of his 30 years with the firm. He has over 38 years of experience in the audit and business advisory services in Malaysia and the UK. He was the leader of PwC’s Global Islamic Finance Team practice from 2007 to September 2012. He was also PwC’s Malaysia’s Financial Services Leader and joint Head of Audit and lead the ESG and Shariah Investing part of PwC’s Sustainability and Climate Change practice in Malaysia. He retired as a partner and the Executive
Chairman of PwC Malaysia in June 2023.

Much of his recent work has been with the Federal and State Governments involving work related to Accrual Accounting, acting as an Administrator for an airline and certain government entities and being part of the Federal Government National Covid
vaccine rollout. He has also been involved in the financial restructuring of government agencies as well as investigations.

Dato’ Faiz is a member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants and a Fellow of ICAEW. He has held the post of President of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants, Chairman of the Malaysia Accounting Standards Board, President of the Kuala Lumpur Business Club and ICAEW City Group Chairman.

He was educated in Malaysia and UK and read law at the University of Durham before being called to the English Bar. He is an alumni of Lincoln’s Inn and a member of the Inns of Court of Malaysia. He is a member of the Worshipful Company of Chartered Accountants England and Wales. He was conferred the Darjah Kebesaran Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah (DSIS), which carries the title Dato’ in 2013 by the Sultan of Selangor. He was conferred an Honorary Degree of Doctorate of Laws by the University of Nottingham in July 2016.

Datuk Muhamad Umar Swift is the Chief Executive Officer of Bursa Malaysia Berhad. He is also the director of all subsidiary companies within Bursa Malaysia Group, and serves as a Chairman of Bursa Malaysia Derivatives and Clearing.

Datuk Umar has more than 25 years of experience in the areas of banking and financial services. Prior to helming the Exchange, he was the Chief Executive Officer / Group Managing Director of MAA Group Berhad, where he also assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer of Malaysia Assurance Alliance Berhad (now known as Zurich Insurance Malaysia Berhad).

Commencing his career with Price Waterhouse Chartered Accountants, Datuk Umar went on to hold numerous positions within the banking industry before joining Gas Malaysia Sdn Bhd. in 1996 as General Manager, Corporate Finance. A year later, he was promoted to Chief Executive Officer of Gas Malaysia.

In 2002, Datuk Umar became a Practise Leader for the Utilise Business of Deloitte Consulting in Malaysia, before re-entering the financial services industry as Executive Vice President - Head Enterprise Financial Services Group of Maybank in 2004.

Datuk Umar holds a Bachelor of Economics degree from Monash University, Australia, and is an Asscociate of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, a member of CPA Australia, a Chartered Tax Institute of Australia, and a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia (FINSIA) in Australia. He is also a Chartered Accountant with the Malaysian Institute of Accountants, and a Registered Financial Planner.

Datin Azalina Adham was appointed as Managing Director of the Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) on 1 January 2023. She joined the SC as Executive Director of Strategy and Policy on 1 July 2022. She was formerly the Chief Operating Officer of Bursa Malaysia Berhad, the Malaysian national stock exchange. Prior to joining the national stock exchange, she was an investment banker with experience in corporate banking, corporate finance and privatisation having served with Maybank Investment Bank Berhad (formerly known as Aseambankers Malaysia Berhad) and Alliance Investment Bank Berhad (formerly known as Amanah Merchant Bank Berhad).

Datin Azalina Adham has over 29 years of diverse financial and capital market experience in investment banking, corporate finance as well as the exchange business. Some of her key areas of expertise are strategy and transformation, strategic communications and business development. During her tenure at Bursa Malaysia, she led several transformational initiatives including Bursa Marketplace – the first-of-its-kind virtual marketplace; Bursa Anywhere – ASEANs first mobile depository e-services app; and the Leading Entrepreneur Accelerator Platform (LEAP) Market – ASEANs first-of-its-kind alternative capital raising platform for SMEs.

Datin Azalina Adham graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Management/Finance from Purdue University, USA in 1992. She also completed the Advance Management Programme at Harvard Business School Boston, Massachusetts, USA in 2018.

Datin Teh Ija Jalil was appointed as Director on 29 January 2020.

She is currently an Independent Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of HSBC Amanah Malaysia Berhad. She is also the Chairman of the Finance Accreditation Agency Berhad (FAA), an affiliate of the SC and BNM.

Datin Teh graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from University of Malaya and Master of Business Administration from Southern New Hampshire University. She began her career in the civil service and built her competency in the area of economic policy-making and international trade and finance through her 23 years in government. She joined the Securities Commission in 2000 and retired from the regulatory body in 2017 after serving 17 years in various capacities including as Head of SIDC, Executive Director, Corporate Resources and as Advisor of Special Projects in the Chairman’s Office. During her time in the SC, she was involved in capital market policies development and regulation, human capital development and training and education, including professional and investor education.

Her other experience included trade and financial services negotiations as Malaysia’s Lead Financial Services Negotiator in the World Trade Organization, Association of Southeast Asian Nations and Asia–Pacific Economic Cooperation as well as representing the Ministry of Finance (“MoF”) in World Bank, International Monetary Fund, APEC Finance Ministers meetings during her tenure with MoF from 1990 to 1999.

Faridah is the Chief Financial Officer of Khazanah Nasional Berhad. She joined Khazanah in 2006 after building a career in accountancy and finance with PricewaterhouseCoopers Malaysia and BP Malaysia.

In Khazanah, Faridah delivered several notable Islamic Finance transactions including the world’s first exchangeable sukuk and the inaugural retail offering of Sukuk Ihsan, Khazanah’s sustainable and responsible investment sukuk.

Faridah graduated from Lancaster University in Accounting & Finance. She is a member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW).

Professor Emeritus Dato’ Dr Hassan Said is currently:

• Chairman, Board of Governors, University Malaysia of Computer Sciences and Engineering (UNIMY)
• Board of Governors, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)
• Board of Directors, Usains Holding Sdn Bhd
• Council Member of Taylor’s University
• Independent Non-Executive Director of AwanBiru Technology Berhad (Awantech)
• Ahli Jawatankuasa Pendidikan, Majlis Agama Islam Wilayah Persekutuan (MAIWP)
• Board of Directors, Securities Industry Development Corporation (SIDC), Securities Commission Malaysia (SC)

Prof. Emeritus Dato’ Dr. Hassan has been appointed as Vice Chancellor and President of Taylor’s University (2008), Vice Chancellor of Universiti Teknologi MARA (2016) and Asia e University (AeU) (2019). Prior to these appointments, he was the Director General of the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia from January 2005 until April 2008. He was also the Director, Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education Malaysia, a position he held since May 1998 before his appointment as the Director General.

He obtained his

• Bachelor degree in Mathematics from the University of Manchester, UK in 1979
• Master of Science from Brunel University, London UK in 1981 and
• PhD from Brunel University, London UK in 1984 (area of specialisation is Computer Aided Geometric Design.

He joined Universiti Sains Malaysia in 1984 as a lecturer in Mathematics at the School of Mathematical Sciences, and was later appointed as Dean of the school in 1990. He was then appointed as the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic) of the university in 1995, before being seconded to the Ministry of Education in 1998.

Professor Emeritus Dato’ Dr Hassan has been appointed as a member of Board of Directors of various local public and private universities, and council members of various local and international bodies including the Governing Board Member of the South- East Asia Minister of Education for the Regional Centre of Higher Education (SEAMEO- RIHED) from 1999-2008.

Prof. Emeritus Dato’ Dr. Hassan was a Board Member of the Securites Commission Malaysia (SC) (2016 – 2018) and was also in its Capital Market Development Fund (CMDF) Board (2010 – 2018). He was also the first Chairman of the Institute for Capital Market Research, SC.

He is a Fellow of the Malaysian Mathematical Society, Fellow Institute of Mathematical and Its Applications, United Kingdom (FIMA) and Fellow Academy Science of Malaysia (FASc). Prof. Emeritus Dato’ Dr. Hassan was responsible in introducing a new class of blending functions, namely Generalised Ball Basis functions (sometimes referred to as Said Basis functions). The basis functions were used for designing curves and surfaces.

Professor Emeritus Dato’ Dr Hassan has received a number of Federal and State Honours, including JMN (Federal), DPMP (Perlis), DSPN (Penang), PGBK (Sarawak), DPMK (Kelantan) and DPMS (Selangor). He has also received the Chevalier de l’ Ordre National du Merite Award from the Government of France.

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Carol Fong is the Group Chief Executive Officer of CGS International Securities Singapore Pte Ltd. She is responsible for the overall management of the Group’s financial services business, a regional franchise covering Asia Pacific (ex-Japan) as well as offices in London and New York. She was also previously country Investment Banking CEO of CIMB Group, where she was responsible for building up the investment banking business, key client and regulator relationships in Singapore.

Carol’s experience in financial markets spans over 33 years. She started her career at OCBC Bank and over the last 30 years, she has held a number of senior managerial positions in various financial firms. She is currently Chairman of the SGX Securities Advisory Committee and has been appointed as an Independent Director of Genting Singapore and City Developments. Carol is also a non-executive director of Leukemia & Lymphoma Foundation.

Carol is a recipient of the Excellence in Leadership award at the Women in Finance Asia Awards 2024 and Executive of the Year – Brokerage award at the Singapore Business Review Management Excellence Awards 2023. She was conferred the IBF Distinguished Fellow award in 2016 in recognition of her role as a beacon of excellence for the financial industry.

Carol holds a BA degree from the National University of Singapore and a Diploma in Personnel Management. She has also completed the Executive Diploma in Directorship from Singapore Management University – Singapore Institute of Directors in 2018.