Meet the Board
SIDREC Board of Directors
Governance
SIDREC is governed by a board that comprise industry directors and independent directors, and is overseen by a Chair
Dato’ Ranita Mohd Hussein (Chairman)
Chairman & Independent Director
Dato’ Ranita Mohd Hussein has been the Chairman of SIDREC since its inception in 2010. She is a legal consultant and has served as a member of the Advisory Council of Jurists of the Asia Pacific Forum for National Human Rights Institutions. She also served as a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, Netherlands.
Dato’ Ranita’s other previous posts include that of a Commissioner in the Human Rights Commission Malaysia (Suhakam), a partner of Skrine, a Judicial Commissioner in the High Court, Malaysia and an Adviser (now re-designated as Assistant Governor) to BNM. She began her career in the Judicial and Legal Services, serving in various positions ranging from Magistrate and Senior Federal Counsel at the Economic Planning Unit (EPU) and Foreign Investment Committee to Head of Advisory and International Division, Attorney General’s Chambers to Chief Parliamentary Draftsman from 1969 to 1991.
Where the capital market is concerned, Dato’ Ranita served as a member of the Governing Committee of the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (now Bursa Malaysia) from 1997 to 2000 and as a director on the board of the Kuala Lumpur Options and Financial Futures Exchange from 1999 to 2000.
Dato’ Ranita obtained her LLB (Hons) degree from the University of Singapore.
Dato’ Mah Weng Kwai
Chairman & Independent Director
Dato’ Mah Weng Kwai was called to the English Bar as a Barrister- at-Law of the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, London in 1971 and to the Malaysian Bar as an Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya in July 1972. He obtained his Master of Laws (LLM) degree with Honours in 1985 from the University of Sydney, Australia and was appointed a Fellow of the Senate of the University of Sydney in 1999.
Dato’ Mah joined the Judicial and Legal Services of Malaysia in 1973 and held various positions as a Magistrate, President of the Sessions Court and Senior Assistant Registrar of the High Court. He also served as a Deputy Public Prosecutor, Senior Federal Counsel and Senior Assistant Parliamentary Draughtsman in the Attorney General’s Chambers.
Dato’ Mah is a Member of the Advisory Panel of the Faculty of Syariah and Law of the Islamic Science University of Malaysia (USIM) and also a member of the Industry Advisory Board at HELP University. He serves on the Board of Directors of Assunta Hospital and as a Legal Consultant to St. John Ambulance of Malaysia.
Upon leaving the Judicial and Legal Services in 1985, Dato’ Mah commenced private practice as an advocate and solicitor at MahWengKwai & Associates. He is a past President of the Malaysian Bar and of LAWASIA (the Law Association for Asia and the Pacific). He was also a member of the Legal Profession Qualifying Board and the Advocates and Solicitors Disciplinary Board, both established under the Legal Profession Act 1976.
Dato’ Mah was appointed a Judicial Commissioner of the High Court of Malaya in January 2010 and in August 2011, a Judge of the High Court of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur. He was elevated to the Court of Appeal, Malaysia in September 2012.
Upon his retirement as a Court of Appeal Judge in February 2015, Dato’ Mah returned to MahWengKwai & Associates as a Consultant. He is certified as a Mediator by the Malaysian Mediation Centre and is currently on the panel of arbitrators and mediators of the Malaysian Bar and the Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC). He is also an arbitrator with the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC).
Dato’ Mah was a Commissioner of the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM), from 2016 to 2022. Following the 14th Malaysian General Election in 2018, he was appointed a member of the Institutional Reforms Committee Malaysia. Between September 2018 and 2020, he was appointed a member of the Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC). Dato’ Mah was also a Commissioner of the Malaysian Aviation Commission (MAVCOM) from 2016 to 2022. He is currently Chairman of the Securities Industry Dispute Resolution Center (SIDREC), a company limited by guarantee under the Securities Commission of Malaysia.
Dato’ Mah is an accredited Arbitrator with AIAC and with the Singapore International Arbitration Center (SIAC) on an ad hoc basis. He often sits as a sole arbitrator and on panels of arbitrators in building and construction, energy and telecommunications disputes.
Dato’ Halipah Esa
Independent Director
Dato’ Halipah Esa is a founding director of SIDREC. She currently serves as Independent Non-Executive Director of SP Setia Bhd and Sime Darby Plantation Bhd, both public-listed companies. She also serves on the Boards of Cagamas Bhd. She was Chairman of Pengurusan Aset Air Bhd and has also served on the Boards of Petronas, MISC Bhd, KLCC Property Holdings Bhd, NCB Holdings Bhd, UDA Holdings Bhd, Employees Provident Fund, Pensions Trust Fund, Inland Revenue Board, FELDA, Malaysia Marine and Heavy Engineering Holdings Bhd, Putrajaya Corporation, Putrajaya Holdings Sdn Bhd, Malaysia Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Malaysia-Thailand Joint Development Authority.
Dato’ Halipah started her career with the Administrative and Diplomatic Services in 1973 in the Economic Planning Unit (EPU) of the Prime Minister’s Department and went on to hold various senior positions in the civil service, including the Director General of EPU and Deputy Secretary General at the Ministry of Finance, before she retired in 2006.
Dato’ Halipah was previously a consultant to the World Bank and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), advising the Royal Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on economic planning and providing technical advice to planning agencies in Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia and several African countries.
Dato’ Halipah holds a BA (Hons) degree in Economics and a MEcons degree from the University of Malaya.
Dato’ K C Vohrah
Independent Director
Dato’ Karam Chand Vohrah, until recently, was active in both domestic and international arbitration. In addition, he was Adjunct Professor, College of Law, Government and International Studies of University Utara Malaysia, Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law and Government, HELP University and a consultant with Messrs Lee Hishammuddin Allen & Gledhill.
Prior to that, he was a Judge of the Court of Appeal, served in the judicial and legal service of Malaya and became Head of the Advisory Division of the Attorney-General’s Chambers. He participated in many negotiations as legal adviser to international loan agreements (including those of the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank) and Swiss and Japanese bond issues, and also various conferences in relation to the Tin and the Rubber Buffer Stock Agreements. He was involved in the Law of the Sea Conferences in New York and Geneva.
Dato’ Vohrah also served as a commissioner of the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia from July 2002 up to April 2008 and was chairman of the Malaysian Corporate Law Reform Committee.
Dato’ Saiful Bahri Zainuddin
Industry Director
Dato’ Saiful Bahri Zainuddin is a founding director of SIDREC. He is currently the Executive Director of OSK Holdings Bhd and sits on all the boards of OSK Group of Companies. He is an Investment Committee Member of Eastspring Investments Bhd and an Independent Non-Executive Director of KAF Investment Bank Bhd where he chairs the Nomination & Remuneration Committee and sits on the Investment Board, Audit Committee and Risk Committee.
Dato’ Saiful’s most recent appointment was as Audit Committee Member for Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM) and Chairman of PT KAF Securitas Indonesia on 27 November 2019. He was also the Financial Adviser to the State Government of Negeri Sembilan and a member of the Negeri Sembilan State Government Think Tank. He was appointed by the Minister of Finance as Independent Non-Executive Director of Bursa Malaysia Bhd in 2008 and a Board Member of Bursa Malaysia Securities Bhd and Bursa Malaysia Securities Clearing Sdn Bhd from April 2015. He was then appointed as Senior Independent Director for his active role as a director. In addition to his board member role, he also sits on committees for market participation, risk management and nomination and remuneration.
Dato’ Saiful has a BSc degree in Economics and Finance from Western Michigan University and has attended the Global Leadership Development Programme at Stanford University.
Raymond Tang Chee Kin
Industry Director
Raymond Tang Chee Kin is a founding director of SIDREC. He is currently the CEO and a member of the Board of Directors of Eastspring Investments Bhd (EIB). He has over 30 years of experience in the asset management business, managing both institutional and unit trust funds.
Prior to EIB, he was the Head of International and Institutional Business of CIMB-Principal Asset Management Bhd. He is currently also the Chairman of Malaysian Association of Asset Managers (MAAM) and Chairman of FTSE Bursa Malaysia Index Advisory Committee. He is also an invitee in the Executive Committee of Malaysia International Islamic Financial Centre (MIFC) as well as a committee member in the Market Participants Committee of Bursa Malaysia and Financial Markets Committee of BNM.
Tang is also a Fellow of the UK’s Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and a Chartered
Global Management Accountant. He holds a Capital Markets Services Representative’s Licence
(CMSRL) for fund management under CMSA.
Mahadzir Azizan
Independent Director
Mahadzir Azizan has held key positions both in the private and public sectors. He joined the Judicial and Legal Service of the Malaysian Government as a Deputy Public Prosecutor and Federal Counsel upon completing his legal training as a Barrister- at-Law from Lincoln’s Inn in London, and was called to the English Bar in 1978.
He subsequently ventured into the private sector and served Malaysian International Shipping Corporation Bhd and Island & Peninsular Bhd, the property arm of Permodalan Nasional Bhd for the next 24 years. Whilst in the private sector, he also served as a MARA Council Member in addition to various other directorships in government-linked companies.
In addition to sitting on the SIDREC Board, Mahadzir also sits on the Board of ECM Libra Group Bhd. He has previously held directorships in Syarikat Takaful Malaysia Keluarga Bhd (2007- 2020), Syarikat Takaful Malaysia Am Bhd (2017-2020), Asian Healthcare Group Bhd (2014 to 2016) and Libra Invest Bhd (2007 to 2019).
Angelia Chin-Sharpe
Industry Director
Angelia Chin-Sharpe is a veteran in the financial services industry, and has over 20 years of experience in banking, capital markets and asset management. Since joining BNP Paribas Asset Management in 2007 as Head of the Malaysia business – an entity she set up and developed then – she also led the Southeast Asia Institutional Sales team between 2010 and 2012 from the Singapore office; before moving back to Malaysia as CEO of the local business.
As BNP Paribas Asset Management’s Singapore CEO, she is responsible for accelerating and strengthening the firm’s Southeast Asia business interests, while driving its sustainable solution offerings across the market’s clients’ groups; and ensuring continuity and maintaining focus on delivering sustainable investment returns for clients in the targeted region.
Angelia holds a Bachelor of Commerce, majoring in Accounting from Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia. She completed her Chartered Islamic Finance Professional exams with INCEIF and is registered as a Chartered Professional in Islamic Finance (CPIF) with The Chartered Institute of Islamic Finance Professionals.
Angelia was awarded JC3 Leader in Climate Change by the Joint Committee on Climate Change (JC3) Malaysia in 2023 and was named CEO of the Year for Malaysia by Asia Asset Management “2021 Best of the Best Awards”. She was one of the most influential women in Islamic banking and finance in the WOMANi2022, WOMANi2020 and WOMANi2019 reports.
Angelia has also received the Community Achievement Award 2017 from the Malaysia Australian Alumni Council for her social work at The Lost Food Project – a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to providing food for the needy.
Pushpa Nair
Independent Director
Pushpa Nair was called to the Malaysian Bar in 1986 and since then has had a varied career. She started as a legal practitioner with Messrs Zain & Co before moving on to teach at the Faculty of Law, Universiti Malaya for three years. Thereafter, she joined Fraser & Neave (M) Sdn Bhd as the first Legal Adviser based in Malaysia. She subsequently joined the Usaha Tegas group and amongst others, was involved in the initial stages of the establishment of Maxis and Astro.
After leaving Usaha Tegas, she ventured into the field of telecom regulation as the first Legal Adviser of the then newly set up Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) in 1999. She served in the MCMC in various capacities including Head, Monitoring and Compliance and Head, Economic Regulations which saw her participating in World Trade Organisations negotiations as the MCMC representative.
In 2007, she left for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to take up the post of Director, Licensing at the Telecom Regulatory Authority (TRA). At the TRA, she was tasked with drafting the Licensing
Regulations and operationalising the licensing framework for telecoms in the UAE. Her scope of work was subsequently widened to include e-commerce related matters. On her return to Malaysia, Pushpa acted as an independent consultant on legal and regulatory matters plus part-time academic in Universiti Malaya while furthering her studies in the field of Competition Law at King’s College, London.
Subsequently in 2014, Pushpa took up the position of Director, Regulatory Affairs in Ooredoo Myanmar Limited, one of the two new telecom licensees in Myanmar. She returned to Malaysia upon completing her term in Myanmar. With her exposure to both the regulator and operator world views of telecom regulations, Pushpa was appointed as a member of the MCMC in September 2018. Her tenure ended in April 2020.
Pushpa is a member of LeadWomen and The 30% Club, both of which advocate gender diversity in corporate boards.
Pushpa graduated in 1985 from Universiti Malaya with an LLB (Hons) First Class and has a Master’s degree in law from the University of Cambridge. She also has a Post Graduate Diploma in Competition Law and in Economics for Competition Law from King’s College London. She has completed a Certificate in The Circular Economy and Sustainability Strategies by the Cambridge University Judge Business School and is a Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Certified Sustainability Professional.
Nasution Mohamed
Independent Director
Nasution Mohamed has 30 years of wide business experience in Malaysia and overseas. He started his career with KPMG in Australia and subsequently joined the Corporate Finance Division of Amanah Merchant Bank Berhad before moving on to Pengurusan Danaharta Nasional Berhad (Danaharta). Subsequent to Danaharta, Nasution joined KPMG Malaysia where he was Head of an audit department. Thereafter, he was appointed Executive Director at UDA Holdings Berhad and subsequently he took on the helm as Managing Director/ CEO of Penerbangan Malaysia Berhad (PMB). From PMB, Nasution joined Maxis as Chief Financial Officer and was later redesignated as Chief Financial and Strategy Officer. He is currently the Chief Operating Officer of Digital Nasional Berhad, a position he held since July 2022.
Nasution holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from University of New South Wales, Australia and is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand.
Ruzi Ajith
Industry Director
Ruzi is currently the Head of Equities at CIMB Investment Bank Bhd and Chief Executive Officer for CIMB Securities Sdn Bhd. Prior to her current role, she served as the Chief Executive Officer of CGS-CIMB Securities Sdn Bhd as part of the joint venture collaboration between CIMB Group and China Galaxy Securities. Ruzi has served the organization in various capacity over the past 24 years. She has consistently been featured in Asiamoney’ Brokers Poll as the top 3 salesperson for Malaysia from 2003 to 2005. Before joining CIMB, she was with Affin Investment Bank for three years as a Fund Manager.
Ruzi graduated from Ohio University with a Bachelor’s (Honors) in Business Administration in 1991 and a MBA (General Major) in 1993. She is also a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) professional of the Financial Planning Association of Malaysia.
