Annual Report 2012 - Dialog

Mr. James Maclaurin
Non-Independent,
Non-Executive Director
Mr. James Maclaurin was appointed to the
Board of Dialog Axiata on 10th May, 2011.
He is presently the Group Chief Financial
Officer of Axiata. Mr. Maclaurin has worked in
the telecommunications industry for over 16
years and has held a number of senior finance
leadership positions including CFO for Africa
and Central Europe at Vodafone, Group CFO
of Celtel, the pan-African mobile operator, CFO
of UbiNetics, the 3G technology developer
and EVP Finance of Marconi, the UK-based
telecom vendor subsequently sold to Ericsson.
In the mid 90’s he worked in Asia and served
as the Finance Director of General Electric
Co. of Singapore and prior to this he was the
Finance Director of the General Electric Co. of
Bangladesh. He currently serves on the boards
of a number of international public listed and
private limited companies within the Axiata
Group.
Mr. Maclaurin holds degrees in Engineering and
Finance from the Universities of Dundee and
Heriot Watt, Edinburgh, Scotland respectively.
He is also a member of the Institute of
Chartered Accountants of Scotland.
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Mr. Mohd Khairil Abdullah
Non-Independent,
Non-Executive Director
Mr. Khairil Abdullah was appointed to the Board
of Dialog Axiata on the 19th November, 2012.
Mr. Khairil Abdullah is presently the Group
Chief Marketing & Operations Officer of Axiata.
Prior to Axiata, he was a Partner at Bain &
Company, Inc., a leading global management
consultancy. He was with Bain for more than
15 years and worked out of various offices
in the firm, including San Francisco, Munich,
Sydney, Tokyo and Shanghai. He has built a
strong track record of helping his clients in the
telecommunication and other industries and has
achieved major improvements to their strategic
positions and operational performance. In 2008,
he returned to Southeast Asia to help Bain grow
its telecommunication practice in the region
based out of Singapore.
Prior to joining Bain, he was an operations
consultant at Coopers & Lybrand, Management
Consulting Services. He also had a stint running
a tech start-up based in Southeast Asia.
Mr. Khairil Abdullah holds a BA (Engineering)
and MEng from the University of Cambridge,
United Kingdom as well as an MBA from
INSEAD, France.