DATO’ SRI MOHAMMED SHAZALLI RAMLY
Chief Executive Officer
Celcom Axiata Berhad
Professional Experience:
Shazalli was appointed Chief Executive Officer and
Director of Celcom on 1 September 2005. Prior
to that, he was Chief Executive Officer of ntv7,
Malaysia’s seventh terrestrial TV station, a position
he held for eight years since its launch in 1998.
Shazalli had earlier left his mark in the fast moving
consumer goods industry, with Lever Brothers
(1987-1993), followed by the Malaysian Tobacco
Company (MTC) and British American Tobacco
(BAT) (1993-1996) both in Malaysia and the UK.
He also served as Astro’s Marketing Director for
two years where he pioneered the launch of
Astro digital satellite services in Malaysia.
Shazalli graduated from Universiti Teknologi
MARA Perlis in 1982, holds a Bachelor of Science
(Marketing) from Indiana University, Bloomington,
Indiana, USA and an MBA from St. Louis
University, Missouri, USA.
Shazalli is currently director of several companies
which include Celcom Axiata Berhad; Celcom
Retail Sdn Bhd; Celcom Mobile Sdn Bhd, Celcom
Networks Sdn Bhd, Celcom Resources Berhad,
Tune Talk Sdn Bhd, Celcom Planet Sdn Bhd and
Escape Axiata Sdn Bhd. Additionally he is also a
board member of Axiata Digital Services Sdn
Bhd, Kuala Lumpur Business Club, Malaysian
Airlines Berhad and Pulau Mabul Berhad. He
is also Members of Corporation, Perbadanan
PR1MA Malaysia and Chairman of PR1MA
Communications Sdn Bhd.
Shazalli has been recognised for his leadership,
receiving various awards including Masterclass
CEO of the Year Award and CEO of the Year
by PC.Com Reader’s Choice Awards, and the
Business Leadership Award. In 2013, Shazalli was
also conferred the ‘ICT Personality of the Year’ at
the PIKOM Leadership Awards Night.
DIAN SISWARINI
President Director
PT XL Axiata Tbk
Professional Experience:
Dian was appointed President Director of XL in
April 2015. Prior to that, she was Axiata’s Group
Chief Marketing and Operations Officer. She also
served as the Director and Chief Digital Services
Officer from March 2013 and Director of Network
Services in 2007.
She has more than 20 years experience in the
telecommunications industry, mainly in Network
and Engineering. She joined XL in 1996 and
started her career as a Radio Network Design
Engineer and held numerous key positions in
the Network and Engineering Department.
Her last position was Senior Vice President of
Network Planning & Development prior to her
appointment as Director.
She graduated from Bandung Institute of
Technology majoring in Telecommunications
in 1991 and Harvard Advance Management
Program, Harvard Business School, USA in 2013.
DR HANS WIJAYASURIYA
Director and Group Chief Executive Officer
Dialog Axiata PLC
Professional Experience:
Hans is a renowneddigital mobile communications
professional, and is the Group Chief Executive
of Dialog Axiata PLC, Sri Lanka’s largest mobile
telecommunication service provider. In January
2015, Hans was appointed as the Regional CEO
of the Axiata Group for the South Asia Region
encompassing Axiata’s operations and interests in
Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka.
Hans graduated from the University of Cambridge
in 1989 with a Degree in Electrical and Electronic
Engineering. He later obtained his PhD in Digital
Mobile Communications from the University of
Bristol in 1994. A Chartered Engineer and Fellow
of the Institute of Engineering Technology UK,
Hans also holds an MBA from the University of
Warwick UK.
In 1994, Hans joined Dialog Axiata as a member
of the founding management team, and took on
the mantle of the Company’s Chief Executive in
1997. Dialog Axiata is today Sri Lanka’s largest
telecommunication service provider with over 10
million subscribers, and is one of the largest listed
companies on the Colombo Stock Exchange.
Dialog is also a leading provider of Fixed Line,
Broadband, Digital Television and International
Telecommunication Services.
Hans has published widely on the subject
of digital mobile communications, including
research papers in publications of the Institute
of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
USA, Royal Society and the Institute of Electrical
Engineers (IEE) UK. He has also presented papers
at several international conferences on digital
mobile communications.
Hans serves as a Director of Axiata Digital
Services, Axiata Group Berhad’s digital solutions
arm, and on the board of several Axiata Group
Subsidiaries and Associates including Idea
Cellular. He also serves as a Director on the Board
of the Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology,
and has previously served on the Boards of the
Information and Communication Technology
Agency of Sri Lanka and the Sri Lanka Institute of
Information Technology.
Hans is a past Chairman of GSM Asia-Pacific – the
regional interest group of the GSM Association,
and has been included in the GSM 100 Role of
Honour for his contribution to the Asia-Pacific
Telecommunication industry. A past Chairman
of the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Modern
Technologies. Hans was conferred the prestigious
‘Sri Lankan of the Year’ award in 2008, by Sri
Lanka’s premier business journal, LMD. Hans is
also a recipient of the CIMAJanashakthi Business
Leader of the Year Award.
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