ENRICHING LIVES EXPANDING HORIZONS - Maxis

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The Board of Directors and Senior Management
BOARD OF
DIRECTORS
PROFILES
Continued
Asgari bin Mohd Fuad Stephens
Independent Non-Executive Director
Ghassan Hasbani
Non-Executive Director
Asgari bin Mohd Fuad Stephens, aged 51, a Malaysian,
was appointed as a Director of Maxis on 16 October 2009.
He is a director and founding member of Intelligent Capital
Sdn Bhd (Intelligent Capital) and an independent non-executive
director of Mudajaya Group Berhad. He also serves as nonexecutive
director on the boards of JayCorp Berhad and Privasia
Technology Berhad. He has extensive experience in both public
and private equity investing in Malaysia. He has been involved
in several start-up companies as an angel investor and has been
actively involved in building their businesses as mentor.
Several of these companies have gone public. He started his
career working in general management in companies involved
in a wide range of industries. He joined Usaha Tegas Sdn Bhd
(UTSB) in 1988 where he worked in various capacities. He
left in 1990 to join the stockbroking industry. He returned to
UTSB in 1992 before leaving in 1995 to co-found Kumpulan
Sentiasa Cemerlang Sdn Bhd (KSC), an investment advisory
and fund management group. He took a year off to work with
the National Economic Action Council (NEAC) in 1998. After
his period at the NEAC, he started two venture capital firms,
Intelligent Capital and iSpring Venture Management Sdn Bhd,
while continuing to work with KSC. He was previously the
chairman of the Malaysian Venture Capital Association.
He holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) from the
University of Melbourne in Australia and a Masters of Business
Administration from Cranfield University in the UK.
He is a member of the Audit, Remuneration and ESOS
Committees.
Ghassan Hasbani, aged 39, a British citizen, was appointed
as a Director of Maxis on 25 September 2009.
He is the chief executive officer of the International Operations
group of Saudi Telecom Company (STC). He joined STC from the
global management consulting firm, Booz & Company, where
he led the firm’s Middle East Communications and Technology
practice. He has more than 17 years experience with telecom
operators in the Middle East, Asia, Europe and Africa. He brings
a wide spectrum of capabilities covering all aspects of the
telecommunications industry including investment strategies,
mergers and acquisitions, post-merger integration, marketing,
product and service development, organisational restructuring
and governance, technology plans, retail and distribution,
channel strategy and management, customer care, business
development and chief financial officer and chief executive
officer agendas. He has worked with leading organisations in
the telecommunication and technology industries, including
Nortel Networks and Cable & Wireless and spent the past ten
years operating within the Middle East Region. In addition to the
Middle East, his global experience also includes markets such
as Europe, South East Asia, Africa and Latin America. He is the
President Commissioner of PT AXIS Telekom Indonesia (formerly
known as PT Natrindo Telepon Seluler) in Indonesia and vice
chairman of Viva Bahrain BSC (C) in Bahrain. He also serves on
various boards of directors, including Maxis Communications
Berhad (the holding company of Maxis), Binariang GSM Sdn
Bhd, BGSM Capital Sdn Bhd, Kuwait Telecom Company in
Kuwait, Turk Telecom and OJER TELEKOMÜNİKASYON ANONİM
ŞİRKETİ in Turkey.
He holds a Master of Business Administration from Hull
University in the UK and a Bachelor of Engineering with first
class honours from the University of Westminster in the UK. He
is also a Chartered Engineer and a member of the Institution of
Engineering and Technology in the UK.
He is a member of the Nomination and Remuneration
Committees.
Please refer to Note 7.