CORPORATE PROFILE - Board of Directors
YBhg. Dato’ Zarinah Anwar
Chairman
Securities Commission, Malaysia
Dato' Zarinah Anwar is the Chairman of the Securities Commission, Malaysia, a post she assumed on 1 April 2006. Prior to this, she served as the Deputy Chief Executive of the SC since 1 December 2001, overseeing the SC's Market Supervision, Enforcement and Corporate Resources divisions.
Dato' Zarinah currently chairs the Venture Capital Consultative Council that aims to assist and promote the development of the venture capital industry in Malaysia. She also serves on the Boards of the Labuan Offshore Services Authority, Integrity Institute Malaysia, the Capital Market Development Fund, and the Financial Reporting Foundation. She is also a member of the Foreign Investment Committee and the National Innovation Council.
Prior to joining the SC, Dato' Zarinah was with Shell Malaysia for 22 years. During that time she held key positions such as the Deputy Chairman of Shell Malaysia and Director for Human Resources, Corporate Affairs and Legal. Dato' Zarinah was a member of the Board of Directors of various Shell Companies and member of the Board of Trustees of various Shell Malaysia Trust Funds. She was also a member of Shell's Global Diversity Council.
Dato' Zarinah was, for several years, the Vice President of the Malaysian Employers Federation and served as a member on the Board of Directors of the Social Security Organisation (SOCSO), the National Labour Advisory Council and the Board of Governors and Board of Trustees of Kolej Tuanku Jaafar.
Dato' Zarinah graduated with an LLB (Hons) from University Malaya in 1976. She started her career in the Government's Legal and Judicial service where she served as Magistrate, Senior Assistant Registrar, Solicitor in the Public Trustee's department and Assistant Parliamentary Draftsman in the Attorney General's Chambers.
YBhg. Dato’ Yusli Mohamed Yusoff
Chief Executive Officer
Bursa Malaysia Berhad
Dato’ Yusli bin Mohamed Yusoff, aged 48, a Malaysian, graduated with a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Essex (United Kingdom) in 1981, and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, England & Wales, the Malaysian Institute of Accountants, the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants as well as an Honorary Member of the Institute of Internal Auditors Malaysia.
He began his career in London with Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co from 1982 to 1986. He held various key positions in a number of public listed and private companies in Malaysia, whose activities span property and infrastructure development, telecommunications, engineering and merchant banking, before he was appointed the Chief Executive Officer / Director of CIMB Securities Sdn Bhd from January 2000 to January 2004. He also served as the Chairman of the Association of Stockbroking Companies in Malaysia from 2003 to 2004.
Presently, Dato’ Yusli is the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of Bursa Malaysia Berhad and a Board Member of its group of companies. He also sits on the Malaysian Capital Market Development Fund Board.
YBhg. Dato Dr. Nik Ramlah Mahmood
Managing Director &
Executive Director, Enforcement
Securities Commission
Dato Dr. Nik Ramlah Mahmood is Managing Director & Executive Director, Enforcement at the Securities Commission, Malaysia.
Dato Dr. Nik Ramlah has been personally involved in many of the Commission’s developmental initiatives for the Malaysian capital market including those relating to development of the bond market, fund management, corporate governance and rationalisation of the regulatory framework for the capital market.
Dato Dr. Nik Ramlah is a member of the Professional Development Panel of International Centre for Education in Islamic Finance (INCEIF) and of the Training and Education Advisory Council of Islamic Banking and Finance Institute Malaysia (IBFIM). She also sits on Bursa Malaysia’s Islamic Capital Market Consultative Panel.
She is a member of the Corporate Law Reform Committee established by the Government of Malaysia and Co-Chair of the Ethics Committee of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA). She is also a Director of the Securities Industry Development Corporation (SIDC).
Prior to joining the Securities Commission in 1993, Dato Dr. Nik Ramlah was an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Malaya.
