IT IS not easy to set an appointment with public figures, especially those whose schedules are packed with important functions and meetings.
On March 3, I initiated a coffee talk session with a corporate icon whose brilliance and credibility were the drivers of Maybank’s extraordinary breakthrough. Plus, after the 13th general election in 2013, he was called on to be a cabinet minister in charge of the Economic Planning Unit under the Prime Minister’s Department. Today, he is chairman of Permodalan Nasional Berhad (PNB). That icon is Tan Sri Abdul Wahid Omar (pic).