Maybank

Dato’ Abdul Hamid was appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director of Maybank Investment Bank on 26 October 2017. He serves as Chairman of the Audit Committee and member of the Credit and Underwriting Review Committee of the Board.

Dato’ Abdul Hamid is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and a graduate of Emile Woolf School of Accountancy in London. With over 30 years of experience, he first started his career in the accounting firm, Messrs. Lim Ali & Co/Arthur Young (now known as Messrs. Ernst & Young) before joining Bumiputra Merchant Bankers Berhad (now known as Alliance Investment Bank Berhad) and Amanah Capital Malaysia Berhad. Dato’ Abdul Hamid subsequently joined the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (“KLSE”) (now known as Bursa Malaysia), where he held various key roles including Chief Financial Officer. During his 5-year tenure there, he had led KLSE’s acquisitions of the Kuala Lumpur Options and Financial Futures Exchange (“KLOFFE”) and the Commodity and Monetary Exchange of Malaysia (“COMMEX”), and their merger to form the Malaysia Derivatives Exchange (“MDEX”). Dato’ Abdul Hamid had also led the acquisition of the Malaysian Exchange of Securities Dealing and Automated Quotation (“MESDAQ”), as well as the KLSE’s demutualisation exercise.

Dato’ Abdul Hamid’s directorships in companies within the Maybank Group include Maybank International Holdings Sdn Bhd and as a Commissioner of PT Maybank Sekuritas Indonesia.

Currently, Dato’ Abdul Hamid is a director of MMC Corporation Berhad, OM Holdings Limited, Ekuiti Nasional Berhad, entities within the Symphony Group of Companies and entities within Almurisi Group of Companies.

Dato’ Sri Sharifah Sofianny was appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director of Maybank Investment Bank on 4 December 2017. She serves as member of the Audit Committee, the Risk Management Committee and the Credit and Underwriting Review Committee of the Board.

Dato’ Sri Sharifah holds a degree in Accounting from the University of Missouri, Columbia, USA and is an alumna of the prestigious London Business School. She has 18 years of experience holding various leadership roles in stockbroking and wholesale banking businesses. She started her career with Shell Malaysia and left after 11 distinguished years to begin a career in stockbroking at K&N Kenanga Berhad and JF Apex Securities. In 2011, Dato’ Sri Sharifah joined Maybank Investment Bank Berhad as Deputy Managing Director, Equities, and rose to become Managing Director, Head of Institutional Equities. She subsequently holding the post of Managing Director of Client Coverage (Public) at Maybank Global Banking in 2014, before leaving the Maybank Group in 2015. During her tenure in Maybank, she spearheaded numerous restructuring initiatives leading to many major accounts being successfully elevated to top-tier positions, and which saw Maybank receiving various prestigious awards such as the AsiaMoney Awards for the Most Improved Brokerage for two consecutive years, Best Overall Sales Services, and Best Execution in Malaysia.

Dato’ Sri Sharifah Sofianny’s directorships within the Maybank Group include Maybank International Holdings Sdn Bhd, Maybank Capital Inc and Maybank Securites Inc.

Currently, she is a director on the board of Sime Darby Plantation Berhad. She is also a member of the Majlis Pekerjaan Negara (National Employment Council) and Chairman of the Industry Advisory Panel for Bachelor of Finance at University Tenaga Nasional (“UNITEN”).

Che Zakiah Che Din was appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director of Maybank Investment Bank on 26 October 2018. She serves as member of the Audit Committee, Credit Review Committee and Compliance Committee of the Board of Maybank.

She holds a Bachelor Degree in Economics from University of Malaya and has more than 30 years of banking experience working exclusively with Bank Negara Malaysia (“BNM”).

Ms. Che Zakiah commenced her career with BNM in the Economics Department in 1982. She has held various other positions within BNM throughout her tenure mainly in the areas of banking supervision, regulations and enforcement, before retiring as the Director of Financial Conglomerates Supervision Department on 1st May 2017. She. In her role as Director of Financial Conglomerates Supervision, she oversaw the implementation of prudential supervision of eight domestic banking groups on a consolidated basis. The consolidated supervision covered banks and non-bank entities of the banking groups, including domestic and overseas operations of the groups, and focused on the enforcement of the prudential regulations and measures to mitigate Anti-Money Laundering and combating the financing of terrorism.

Ms. Che Zakiah’s directorships in companies within the Maybank Group include Malayan Banking Berhad, Maybank International Holdings Sdn Bhd and as Chairman of the Maybank Securities Limited. She is also a board member of FIDE Forum.

Goh Ching Yin was appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director of Maybank Investment Bank on 25 July 2016. He serves as a member of the Risk Management Committee of the Board and Chairman of the Credit & Underwriting Review Committee of the Board.

He holds an MBA from the Cranfield University. He held various leadership and management positions in investment banking, regional business development, strategic consultancy, corporate recovery and insolvency, and auditing.

Mr. Goh started his professional career with Peat Marwick Mitchell and then moved on to consultancy at Price Waterhouse Associates. He later embarked in the investment banking industry when he was with RHB Sakura Merchant Bankers Berhad as a General Manager for Corporate Finance. Subsequently, he assumed the roles of the Managing Director of Corporate Finance with the BNP Paribas Group in Malaysia, and the Chief Executive Officer of Southern Investment Bank of the Southern Bank Group. He then held positions as Executive Director in the Chairman’s Office, Strategy and Development, and Market Oversight Divisions during his tenure with the Securities Commission of Malaysia. He was also a member of the National Cyber Security Advisory Committee, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation Malaysia and member of the Intellectual Capital Development Committee, Innovation Agency Malaysia.

His current directorships in companies within the Maybank Group include as director of Maybank International Holdings Sdn Bhd, Maybank Asset Management Group Berhad, Maybank Asset Management Sdn Bhd, and Chairman of both Maybank Asset Management Singapore Pte. Ltd. and Maybank Securities Pte. Ltd.

His directorships in other companies include Shangri-La Hotels (M) Bhd, Khazanah Nasional Berhad, Allianz Malaysia Berhad, and Allianz Life Insurance Malaysia Berhad. He is also a member of disciplinary panel of Asian Institute of Chartered Bankers.

Dato’ John Chong was appointed as a Non-Independent Executive Director of Maybank Investment Bank Berhad on 8 October 2024, and also serves as a member of the Credit and Underwriting Review Committee of the Board. He has been the Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Global Banking at Maybank since March 2024.

With a tenure at Maybank Group since 1993, he has over 30 years of regional financial services experience encompassing corporate and investment banking, wealth management, consumer and commercial banking. He was previously the CEO of Maybank Investment Bank and Maybank Investment Banking Group (when it was known as Maybank Kim Eng) from January 2014 to September 2018, and Group CEO of Community Financial Services from October 2018 to February 2024.

Dato’ John’s directorships in companies within the Maybank Group include Maybank International Holdings Sdn Bhd and Maybank Asset Management Group Berhad. He also sits on the board of An Binh Commercial Joint Stock Bank in Vietnam.

Dato’ John is a Fellow Chartered Banker of the Asian Institute of Chartered Bankers (AICB), and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. He holds a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.