Dzuleira appointed new CEO of MaGIC

Experienced CEO: Dzuleira was formerly CEO of Cradle Seed Ventures.

PUTRAJAYA: Dzuleira Abu Bakar has been appointed as the new Malaysian Global Innovation & Creativity Centre (MaGIC) chief executive officer effective yesterday, the Entrepreneur Development Ministry (MED) announced.

Prior to this, she was the CEO of Cradle Seed Ventures, a growth stage venture capital fund.

The ministry said in a statement yesterday that Dzuleira would bring with her years of experience in the local tech ecosystem, nurturing and growing promising tech startups.As an active venture capital investor, she sat on several boards of technology startups as well as being a council member of the National ICT Association of Malaysia (Pikom).

She has also served various roles in government agencies, government-linked companies as well as the private sector across multiple industries in particular technology and innovation, venture capital and private equity, corporate finance, legal and governance, deal structuring and stakeholder management.

MED also announced that MaGIC’s new board would include the ministry’s deputy secretary-general (policy and entrepreneur strategy) Anis Mahmud, Astro Malaysia Holdings Bhd’s Go Shop CEO Grace Lee Hwee Ling and Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd chief strategy officer Azli Mohamed.

Also on the board are Eastern Distinction Sdn Bhd executive director Datuk Abdul Malik Baba, Pikom chairman Ganesh Kumar Bangah, EPIC Collective founder John-Son Oei, and Melewar Bhd consultant Tariq Ismail Mustafa.

MED, however, added that “their appointments are subject to final approval from the authorities”. — Bernama