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Dato' Sri Jamaludin Ibrahim

Director / Chairman
of Axiata Group Berhad

Dato’ Sri Jamaludin Ibrahim was appointed as Director/Chairman of Celcom Axiata Berhad on 25 April 2008. He is currently the President and Group Chief Executive Officer of Axiata Group Berhad [“Axiata”]. He is also a board member of Axiata.

Prior to that, Jamaludin Ibrahim was with Maxis Communications Berhad, which he joined in 1997 and was appointed Chief Operating Officer in the same year, and Chief Executive Officer in 1998. In 2006, he was designated the Group CEO to reflect Maxis’ recently acquired companies in Malaysia, India and Indonesia. He retired from Maxis in July 2007 but remained as a Board member till Feb 2008.

During Jamaludin’s decade of leadership with Maxis, the company’s revenue grew more than twenty-fold to about USD2.3 billion, net profit grew to about USD600 million and market capitalisation swelled to more than USD11 billion in 2007 (before the privatisation).

Before joining Maxis, he spent 16 years in the IT Industry. He was Managing Director and CEO of Digital Equipment (then the second largest IT company worldwide) from 1993 to 1997. Jamaludin also spent 12 years in IBM (1981-93), the first five years as Systems Engineer and then in various positions in Sales, Marketing and Support.

Prior to IBM, he was a lecturer in Quantitative Methods at California State University, United States in 1980.

Jamaludin graduated from California State University in 1978 with a B.Sc. in Business Administration and minor in Mathematics. He obtained his MBA from Portland State University, Oregon in 1980.

Jamaludin is also the Chairman of Celcom Axiata Berhad, the second largest mobile company in Malaysia, and sits on the board of PT Excelcomindo Pratama TBK (XL), MobileOne Ltd (MI) Singapore, as well as two local universities. He is a member of the National Innovation Council chaired by the Prime Minister of Malaysia and the INSEAD East Asia Council. In 2008 Jamaludin was appointed board member of the GSMA (The GSM Association).

Jamaludin was inducted into the Hall of Fame for ‘Services to the Mobile Telecommunications Industry’ by Asian Mobile News in 2004, and earned the accolade of Malaysia’s ‘CEO of the Year’ 2000 by American Express & Business Times.

He was also named Asian Mobile Operator CEO of the Year by Asian Mobile News Awards 2007. He also serves as Chairman of the Board Executive Committee (EXCO) and Information Technology Transformation Steering Committee (ITTSC).