appointed as the Chief Corporate Development
Officer on 18 May 2015. Annis is primarily
responsible for Axiata’s Merger and Acquisition
(M&A) activities focusing on traditional telco
M&A opportunities within Axiata’s target market
of South East Asia and South Asia.
Annis has close to 17 years of experience in the
banking industry with extensive knowledge and
experience in the areas of investment banking,
financial advisory, structured and project finance,
and acquisition and mezzanine financing. He
started his career at Citibank Berhad, and later
moved on to Macquarie (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd,
followed by RHB Sakura Merchant Bankers Bhd.
His last position prior to joining Axiata, was Chief
Officer & Head of Investment Banking in Kuwait
Finance House (Malaysia) Berhad (KFHMB).
Annis graduated from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, USA with a Bachelor’s
degree in Business Administration (Hons),
majoring in Finance, Investment and Banking.
ASRI HASSAN SABRI
Group Head of Business Operations
Professional Experience:
Asri joined Axiata as the Group Head of Business
Operations to manage the performance of
Axiata’s operating companies, as well as business
development that will further drive Group-wide
synergies.
Asri has 27 years of experience in various
management, consulting and entrepreneur
engagements in the IT and telecommunications
industries. He is a former Country President for
Motorola Malaysia, a position he held from 2006
till 2008. He was also a strategic partner with
Provident Capital Partners, an established South
Asia private equity company.
Besides Motorola, Asri has also worked with other
multinational corporations (MNCs) such as Nokia.
Asri graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce
from the University of Newcastle, Australia.
DATIN SRI BADRUNNISA MOHD YASIN
KHAN
Group Chief Talent Officer
Professional Experience:
Badrunnisa holds a Bachelor of Science
(Honours), in Biochemistry and Pharmacology,
from the University of Aston in Birmingham, UK.
She has had over 30 years of working experience.
Badrunnisa’s career has predominantly been
with Shell in Malaysia with the first half focusing
on IT software application and the second half
in Human Resources, where her last stint was
in a global position reporting to Shell’s Group
HR. Before Axiata, she was with TM where she
was General Manager, Leadership & Talent
Management, Group HR. She was also the Head
of Group Human Resources in Axiata before the
function was split to allow her to focus on Talent
Management across the Group.
DARKE M SANI
Group Chief Human Resources Officer
Professional Experience:
Darke has had over 30 years experience both
in Malaysia and in the South Asia region, in
the telecommunications & IT industry and in
leadership development and management
consulting. He has held several senior positions
in multinational companies and large local
companies. These include Managing Director of
South East Asia and India of Apple Inc, Managing
Director (Singapore) of Digital Equipment
Corporation (now part of Hewlett-Packard) and
Managing Director of Enterprise Business of
Maxis Communications at Malaysia.
He joined Axiata in 2011. Darke holds a Bachelor’s
Degree in Civil Engineering from the National
University of Singapore
DOMINIC P ARENA
Group Chief Strategy Officer
Professional Experience:
Dominic has over 21 years’ experience in the
telecoms, media & technology sectors having held
executive roles with global telecom operators –
including Vodafone, Orange and British Telecom
– as well as for leading strategic advisory firms.
He has lived & worked in Singapore, Malaysia
and Thailand for the majority of the past 15
years providing strategic advice and corporate
development support to operators, financial
institutions and Government agencies across
Asia.
Prior to joining Axiata, Dominic was the
Group Managing Director of AEC Advisory, a
regional strategic and corporate advisory firm
headquartered in Singapore serving telecom,
media, technology and Government clients in
strategy, market entry, M&A, transformation
and regulatory policy. Preceding this he has
held several senior corporate advisory roles
as a global equity Partner of Value Partners
Management Consulting, as Regional Director
APAC for BT Global Services consulting group, as
a Director of KPMG Australia and a Director with
KPMG Consulting in SE Asia in charge of Telecom
& Media advisory.
Dominic’s experience as a trusted strategic
adviser spans a broad network of international
and regional operators in the Telecom, Media,
Satellite and Digital Services industries as well
as the Government sector, and has been widely
published and referenced in the media.
Dominic holds a Bachelor of Engineering in
Telecommunications (Honours) and a Graduate
Diploma in Engineering Management (Dip.
Eng. Prac., Honours) from the University of
Technology, Sydney, Australia.
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