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He joined BKCB in 2005 and has held various senior management positions in strategic planning, corporate and business development. He has 15 years of professional experience in Asia, having worked and lived in Australia, Malaysia, Middle-East and Singapore. Allan holds a Bachelor of Health Sciences from University of Sydney and an MBA from University of South Australia. He is a Certified Enterprise Risk Manager® from the IERP®.

Subsequent engagements included stints in Novartis, Novo Nordisk and Bayer, where Anita developed a wealth of expertise in product management and international business. After leaving her role as National Sales Manager at Bayer in 2006, she joined Chemical Company of Malaysia Berhad (CCMB), whereupon she continued to amass greater expertise through a series of positions of increasing responsibility, from being Marketing Manager to Senior Business Analyst (Strategy), Senior Project Manager and Head,Group Risk Management for the CCMB Group in 2017.

Anita holds a Master of Business Administration, a Bachelor of Science (Hons) as well as an Enterprise Risk Manager Professional Certification, Institute of Enterprise Risk Practitioners (IERP^®)

In a career spanning 24 years primarily in the financial and capital market, he has worked at the Malaysian Central Depository (a subsidiary of Bursa Malaysia), Citibank (as Head of Transaction Services), Ambank (as Head of Cash Management), and Bank Islam (as Chief Operation Officer). His career has been anchored around various operations transformation exercises that contributed towards greater efficiency and reduction of operational costs.

Liyana has 25 years of work experience of which 20 have been in the financial services/insurance industry, most of which have been in senior management positions in leading companies.

Prior to her journey in risk management, she has 11 years of internal audit experience in motor trade companies as Group Internal Audit Manager, with her subsequent work experience focused on business process improvement and enterprise risk management.

Liyana graduated from Thames Polytechnic, University of Greenwich with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration (Accounting and Finance) and she is a certified Enterprise Risk Manager with the Institute of Enterprise Risk Practitioners (IERP®). She is also a professional member of The Institute of Operational Risk.

At Felda Holdings, among his other achievements Tajuddin established key 3-year HR strategic initiatives around Capacity Building – including succession planning; leadership development; redevelopment of the group’s vision, mission, key competencies and shared values; and the establishment of ‘Academy FELDA’ in 2008 – Corporate Communications and Branding, as well as Human Resources

Earlier, he was Head of Group Human Resources and Administration for Bursa Malaysia Bhd. There, Tajuddin facilitated the development of KPIs for the Group and led the HR portion of the ‘Demutualize exercise’ that involved retiring the defined benefits retirement program and a total change in grading, titling and benefits offerings.

Tajuddin previously held several progressive roles with Motorola Electronics in Singapore, where in his last role was HR Director, Semiconductor Products Sector, Asia, among his other achievements, he led the integration of two acquisitions in Asia without impacting business operations, managed the setup of HR function for MOS17 (a wafer production operation) startup and BAT3 (semiconductor assembly and testing) transfer to Xiqing, China, a US$1+ billion investment that included setting up a fully operational site from scratch, establishing functional HR roles, hiring and settling of expatriates, and the overseas training of close to 300 Chinese engineers in the US. He also was responsible for developing a business intelligence database outlining all semiconductor design centers in Asia including their sizes, activities and in-country government incentives, as well as starting the first operational Rewards Organization as a Shared Service function in Asia. Tajuddin also helped develop and rolled out an employee ranking tool currently used globally.

Tajuddin holds an MA in Human Resources (Training & Development) from the Asia Pacific International University. He formerly sat on several boards, including Perusahaan Otomobil Nasional Berhad, Proton Edar Sdn Bhd, Proton Marketing Sdn Bhd, Proton Tanjung Malim Sdn Bhd, Yayasan Proton, Nomination and Remuneration Committee of Proton Holdings Berhad.

Thereafter, given his experience in credit, risk management and turnaround work, he was then entrusted by the Ministry of Finance (MoF) to be the Chief Operating Officer for Bank Pembangunan Malaysia Berhad (BPMB) from September 2007 and after that as the Managing Director for Export Import Bank of Malaysia Berhad (EXIM Bank) from April 2008. His deep interest in Islamic banking continued as in 2010 he joined Asian Finance Bank (AFB) and thereafter Al-Rajhi Bank Malaysia (ARBM) as their respective Chief Risk Officers. His journey also brought him to MIDF Investment Bank (as Chief Credit Officer) before joining Bank Simpanan Nasional (BSN) in 2014 as its Chief Risk Officer.

His experience, expertise and skills are primarily developed and shaped within the financial services industry (banking) even though his early career started within the information technology (IT) industry. Given his educational background as a technically-trained person, the early knowledge and skills obtained during his tertiary education days were utilized to the fullest in assisting him managing the type of industries and customers that he had to deal within the focused credit and relationship exposures of the banking sector including construction, infrastructure, telecommunication & information technology, government services, engineering & consultancy, maritime, oil and gas, utilities, manufacturing especially in the high technology and export-oriented sectors, as well as retail banking products and services industries.

In addition, his years of dealing with these industries exposed him to wide range of issues and challenges facing the industries and became very useful in his extensive career in risk management, particularly so in the turnaround efforts of BIMB, BPMB and EXIM Bank. The same exposures and experiences were also made useful in his extensive subsequent management, assignments and responsibilities in the latter years, both in the corporate and retail banking arena.

Fauzi graduated in 1988 from The University of Southern Mississippi, Mississippi, USA, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Community and Regional Planning (CRP) and Geography (double majors) under the full scholarship of the Public Service Department, Malaysia.