Dato’ Seri Dr. Awang Adek Hussin was appointed the Executive Chairman of the Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) on 1 June 2022. He is also the Chairman of the Board of Governors of Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM).

Prior to his appointment as Chairman of the SC, Awang Adek served as Malaysia’s Ambassador to the United States of America (USA) from 2014 to 2016 and Chairman of Majlis Amanah Rakyat (MARA) from 2017 to 2018.

Awang Adek has extensive experience in economics and finance, having spent over 30 years in government and public service. He served as Deputy Minister of Rural Development from 2004 to 2006 and Deputy Minister of Finance from 2006 to 2013. He was also a member of Parliament from 2004 to 2008, and a senator from 2009 to 2013.

Awang Adek was with Bank Negara Malaysia for 17 years from 1985 until 2001, holding several positions and eventually rising to the rank of Assistant Governor. He had also served on the boards of directors of several financial institutions and organisations including the SC, the first Director General of the Labuan Financial Services Authority (LFSA), Permodalan Nasional Berhad (PNB), Chairman of Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB), and also Chairman of Perbadanan Nasional Berhad (PERNAS).

Awang Adek received his Bachelor’s degree in mathematics and economics from Drew University, USA, as well as his Master’s and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in economics from University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Datin Azalina Adham was appointed as Managing Director of the Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) on 1 January 2023. She joined the SC as Executive Director of Strategy and Policy on 1 July 2022. She was formerly the Chief Operating Officer of Bursa Malaysia Berhad, the Malaysian national stock exchange. Prior to joining the national stock exchange, she was an investment banker with experience in corporate banking, corporate finance and privatisation having served with Maybank Investment Bank Berhad (formerly known as Aseambankers Malaysia Berhad) and Alliance Investment Bank Berhad (formerly known as Amanah Merchant Bank Berhad).

Datin Azalina Adham has over 29 years of diverse financial and capital market experience in investment banking, corporate finance as well as the exchange business. Some of her key areas of expertise are strategy and transformation, strategic communications and business development. During her tenure at Bursa Malaysia, she led several transformational initiatives including Bursa Marketplace – the first-of-its-kind virtual marketplace; Bursa Anywhere – ASEANs first mobile depository e-services app; and the Leading Entrepreneur Accelerator Platform (LEAP) Market – ASEANs first-of-its-kind alternative capital raising platform for SMEs.

Datin Azalina Adham graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Management/Finance from Purdue University, USA in 1992. She also completed the Advance Management Programme at Harvard Business School Boston, Massachusetts, USA in 2018.

Datuk Muhamad Umar Swift is the Chief Executive Officer of Bursa Malaysia Berhad. He is also the director of all subsidiary companies within Bursa Malaysia Group, and serves as a Chairman of Bursa Malaysia Derivatives and Clearing.

Datuk Umar has more than 25 years of experience in the areas of banking and financial services. Prior to helming the Exchange, he was the Chief Executive Officer / Group Managing Director of MAA Group Berhad, where he also assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer of Malaysia Assurance Alliance Berhad (now known as Zurich Insurance Malaysia Berhad).

Commencing his career with Price Waterhouse Chartered Accountants, Datuk Umar went on to hold numerous positions within the banking industry before joining Gas Malaysia Sdn Bhd. in 1996 as General Manager, Corporate Finance. A year later, he was promoted to Chief Executive Officer of Gas Malaysia.

In 2002, Datuk Umar became a Practise Leader for the Utilise Business of Deloitte Consulting in Malaysia, before re-entering the financial services industry as Executive Vice President - Head Enterprise Financial Services Group of Maybank in 2004.

Datuk Umar holds a Bachelor of Economics degree from Monash University, Australia, and is an Asscociate of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, a member of CPA Australia, a Chartered Tax Institute of Australia, and a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia (FINSIA) in Australia. He is also a Chartered Accountant with the Malaysian Institute of Accountants, and a Registered Financial Planner.

Datuk Chay Wai Leong was appointed as the Group Managing Director of Kenanga on 17 May 2011. He is also the Group Managing Director of Kenanga Investment Bank Berhad (KIBB).

Currently, Datuk Chay also serves as a Director of the Securities Industry Development Corporation, a company sponsored by the Securities Commission Malaysia and Bursa Malaysia Berhad (Bursa Malaysia) which is involved in the development of capital markets.

In March 2013, Datuk Chay was appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director of Bursa Malaysia.

Since his appointment as the Group Managing Director in May 2011, Kenanga and its Group of Companies (Kenanga Group or the Group) have clinched numerous awards in the investment banking, equity broking, asset management, futures broking, as well as, wealth management business segments.

Recently, Bursa Malaysia awarded Kenanga as the Best Retail Equities Broker, First (1st) Runner Up; Best Online Broker, Second (2nd) Runner Up; Best Derivatives Trading Broker, Best Trading Broker for Equity Derivatives and Best Derivatives Clearing Broker, Second (2nd) Runner Up. Kenanga was also presented Best Initial Public Offering (IPO) by the Edge Malaysia and Best Deal (Malaysia) at the Asset Triple A Country Awards for 7-Eleven Malaysia Holdings Berhad’s IPO exercise. In addition, the Kenanga Growth Fund was awarded the Best Performing Equity Malaysia Fund for the five (5) and ten (10) years categories at the Lipper Malaysia Fund Awards 2014.

Prior to his appointment as the Group Managing Director of Kenanga and the Managing Director of KIBB, Datuk Chay was the Managing Director of RHB Investment Bank Berhad and Head of the Corporate & Investment Banking Division of RHB Banking Group.

His previous employment includes Standard Bank, one of South Africa’s largest financial groups, Jardine Fleming Securities in Hong Kong and JP Morgan. Datuk Chay started his career in 1987 with Bankers Trust in Singapore.

He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the National University of Singapore.

Datin Teh Ija Jalil was appointed as Director on 29 January 2020.

She is currently an Independent Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of HSBC Amanah Malaysia Berhad. She is also the Chairman of the Finance Accreditation Agency Berhad (FAA), an affiliate of the SC and BNM.

Datin Teh graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from University of Malaya and Master of Business Administration from Southern New Hampshire University. She began her career in the civil service and built her competency in the area of economic policy-making and international trade and finance through her 23 years in government. She joined the Securities Commission in 2000 and retired from the regulatory body in 2017 after serving 17 years in various capacities including as Head of SIDC, Executive Director, Corporate Resources and as Advisor of Special Projects in the Chairman’s Office. During her time in the SC, she was involved in capital market policies development and regulation, human capital development and training and education, including professional and investor education.

Her other experience included trade and financial services negotiations as Malaysia’s Lead Financial Services Negotiator in the World Trade Organization, Association of Southeast Asian Nations and Asia–Pacific Economic Cooperation as well as representing the Ministry of Finance (“MoF”) in World Bank, International Monetary Fund, APEC Finance Ministers meetings during her tenure with MoF from 1990 to 1999.