Ganen Sarvananthan has been appointed director, investments; Shahnaz Al-Sadat, director, chief financial officer; Ahmad Shahizam Shariff and Dr Farid Sani, special officers to the managing director; and Ahmad Kamal Hasan Basri, assistant general manager, finance and ICT.
And company secretary Salmah Sharif now has the added role of director, head of legal and support.
Sarvananthan’s new appointment makes him a member of Khazanah’s senior team responsible for investment and divestment activities, and the restructuring and reorganisation of selected Khazanah investee companies. He joins Khazanah on Oct 18.
Currently director, equity capital markets, UBS Investment Bank, Hong Kong, Sarvananthan had previously served in UBS’ investment banking/corporate finance department in London and Singapore.
Shahnaz joins Khazanah from Malaysia Airlines, where she was general manager of internal audit and a member of the management committee. In her new role at Khazanah, she heads finance, accounting and ICT activities.
Shahizam, appointed special officer to managing director Azman Mokhtar, joins the investment agency from HSBC Malaysia, where he was director, head of Islamic capital markets. Farid, the other special officer to the managing director, is from McKinsey & Co.
Kamal, who will be responsible for technology development and Khazanah’s ICT and knowledge management infrastructure, was the associate director of Columbia Video Network, the online education division of Columbia University, New York City.
Salmah joined Khazanah in 1994 from the MIDF group.
Salleh, a former deputy governor of Bank Negara, joins the boards of RHB Capital Bhd, RHB Bank
Bhd and RHB Insurance Bhd.
Othman, a former secretary of Loan Management & Finance Policy division of the Finance Ministry, has been appointed to the RHB Bank board.
Bank Negara approved their appointments on Aug 19, RHB said in a statement.
Salleh is a chartered accountant. He joined the Treasury as senior accountant in 1971 and left in 1974 to join Aseambankers Malaysia Bhd as investment manager.
He then had a two-year stint in Bank Rakyat before returning to Aseambankers as general manager. In 1988, he moved to Malayan Banking Bhd and became its executive director in 1994.
Six years later, he was appointed to Bank Negara where he served till 2004. Othman joined the finance division of the Finance Ministry as assistant secretary in 1972. He was deputy secretary of the Economics and International Division when he left civil service to join Malaysian Kuwaiti Investment Co Sdn Bhd as group chief executive in 1995.
He returned to the Finance Ministry three years later and in 2000 was appointed executive director of the Asian Development Bank.
Ganen Sarvananthan has been appointed director, investments; Shahnaz Al-Sadat, director, chief financial officer; Ahmad Shahizam Shariff and Dr Farid Sani, special officers to the managing director; and Ahmad Kamal Hasan Basri, assistant general manager, finance and ICT.
