<strong>Our</strong> <strong>Leadership</strong>Maybank Annual Report 2011195Lim Hong Tat – Age 52Deputy PresidentHead, Community Financial ServicesLim Hong Tat is the Deputy President and Head ofCommunity Financial Services.ExperienceBeing a Maybank scholar, he joined the bank upongraduation in 1981. He has 30 years of experiencecovering all aspects of banking, having managedbranches, regional banking, credit cards andinternational banking operations including holdingsenior management positions as Director/Presidentand CEO of Maybank Philippines Inc, Head ofInternational Banking and Head of Consumer Bankingin Maybank Group.ResponsibilityAs Head of Community Financial Services, he isresponsible for the overall management andperformance of the Bank’s SME, Business Banking andConsumer segments as well as sales and distribution.This covers community banking, product innovationand industrialisation, customer segmentation, virtualbanking, wealth management and payment services,sales and distribution and business strategy, planningand development.QualificationBachelor of Economics (Business Administration)(Hons), University of Malaya. Diploma in Marketing &Selling Bank Services, International ManagementCentre.Committee Membership/AppointmentsHe is the Chairman of FPX Gateway Sdn Bhd, asubsidiary of MEPS and a Director of Credit BureauMalaysia Sdn Bhd.Abdul Farid Alias – Age 43Deputy President &Head, Global Wholesale BankingAbdul Farid Alias was appointed as Deputy President& Head, Global Wholesale Banking of Maybank Groupon 1 July 2010.ExperienceFarid has over 20 years of experience in investmentbanking and capital markets, having served withvarious merchant and investment banks suchAseambankers Malaysia Berhad from 1992 to 1994,Schroders from 1994 to 1995, Malaysia InternationalMerchant Bankers Berhad from 1996 to 1997, andJPMorgan from 1997 to 2005. He was attached toKhazanah Nasional Berhad from 2005 to 2008 asDirector of Investments. In Khazanah, he sat on theBoard of Commissioners/Directors of several publiclylisted companies. These include PT Bank Lippo Tbk, PTExcelcomindo Pratama Tbk, UEM World Berhad, PLUSExpressways Berhad and UEM Builders Berhad. He alsosat on the Boards of MCB Bank Limited and An BinBank as a nominee of Maybank until 2010.ResponsibilityHis areas of responsibility comprise of corporatebanking, investment banking, transaction banking,client coverage, and global markets, which form thebusinesses under Global Wholesale Banking. Inaddition to that he is also responsible for internationalbusiness.QualificationBachelor of Science in Accounting, Pennsylvania StateUniversity, University Park, USA. Masters in BusinessAdministration, Finance, Denver University, USA.Committee Membership/AppointmentsHe is currently a member of the Boards of Directors ofMaybank Investment Bank Berhad, MaybankPhilippines Incorporated, Maybank InternationalLabuan Limited and Kim Eng Holdings Ltd. He is theChairperson for the Permanent Committee on ASEANInter-Regional Relations, ASEAN Banking Council(ABC) and is a member of the ABA Policy AdvocacyCommittee of the Asian Bankers Association. Recently,he was appointed as a member of the Malaysia –Pakistan Business Council.At A Glance <strong>Our</strong> Perspective Who We Are Strategy Performance Business Review Responsibility <strong>Leadership</strong> Governance Financial & Others AGM Information
196 Maybank Annual Report 2011 <strong>Our</strong> <strong>Leadership</strong>Group ExecutiveCommitteeDr. John Lee Hin Hock – Age 45Group Chief Risk OfficerDr. Lee is appointed as Group Chief Risk Officer sinceJanuary 2011.ExperienceDr. Lee was previously with Amanah Merchant Bankand the Kuala Lumpur Options and Financial FuturesExchange (KLOFFE). Prior to his appointment inMaybank, he served in financial services consultingand advisory, where he was a partner with KPMGBusiness Advisory for the past 13 years, assistingnumerous financial institutions across the Asia Pacificmarkets. He has in-depth financial industry and riskmanagement expertise with a specialisation in Islamicfinance, business strategy, risk management andperformance management, which will be an asset tothe Maybank Group, in particular embeddinginternational standard risk practices across theMaybank Group.ResponsibilityDr. Lee is responsible for credit and risk managementacross the Group.QualificationBachelor of Economics, Monash University, Australia.Doctorate of Philosophy in Economics, MonashUniversity, Australia. Fellow Certified PracticingAccountant of the Australian Society of CPAs. Memberof the American Finance Association, EconometricsSociety and Society of Financial Studies.Committee Membership/AppointmentsDr. Lee was the Malaysian representative on the RiskManagement Working Group and is currently amember of the Liquidity Risk Management WorkingGroup of the Islamic Financial Services Board (IFSB).Geoffrey Stecyk – Age 41Head, Enterprise Transformation ServicesGeoff Stecyk is the Head of Enterprise TransformationServices (ETS) since 1 July 2010.ExperienceHe joined Maybank in November 2008 as ChiefTransformation Officer leading the LEAP30Performance Improvement Programme. Prior tojoining Maybank, he was National Head ofBancassurance with American International Assurance(AIA) China from 2006 to 2008. Prior to that, he wasExecutive Vice President, Business Integration withSouthern Bank Berhad from 2001 to 2004. He wasinvolved in the transformation of the bank whichcovered all major areas of the retail and SME bankingwith an emphasis on driving immediate earningsgrowth to fund the structural transformation over themedium term.ResponsibilityHe strategises, directs and drives the enterpriseoperations of the new House of Maybank havingcreated a platform comprising InformationTechnology, Operations and Service Quality thatsupports the Group’s Transformation and long-termstrategic objectives.QualificationBachelor of Commerce (Marketing/Finance), Universityof Alberta, Canada.Committee Membership/AppointmentsNil.
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