Board Members
Dato’ Mohammad Faiz Azmi
Dato’ Mohammad Faiz Azmi is the Chairman of Capital Markets Malaysia and the Executive Chairman of the Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) since June 2024. He was previously a Board member on the SC since August 2023.
Dato’ Faiz was the Chairman of PwC Malaysia for 11 out of his 30 years with the firm. He has over 38 years of experience in the audit and business advisory services in Malaysia and the UK. He was the leader of PwC’s Global Islamic Finance Team practice from 2007 to September 2012. He was also PwC’s Malaysia’s Financial Services Leader and joint Head of Audit and lead the ESG and Shariah Investing part of PwC’s Sustainability and Climate Change practice in Malaysia. He retired as a partner and the Executive Chairman of PwC Malaysia in June 2023.
Much of his recent work has been with the Federal and State Governments involving work related to Accrual Accounting, acting as an Administrator for an airline and certain government entities and being part of the Federal Government National Covid vaccine rollout. He has also been involved in the financial restructuring of government agencies as well as investigations.
Dato’ Faiz is a member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants and a Fellow of ICAEW. He has held the post of President of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants, Chairman of the Malaysia Accounting Standards Board, President of the Kuala Lumpur Business Club and ICAEW City Group Chairman.
He was educated in Malaysia and UK and read law at the University of Durham before being called to the English Bar. He is an alumni of Lincoln’s Inn and a member of the Inns of Court of Malaysia. He is a member of the Worshipful Company of Chartered Accountants England and Wales. He was conferred the Darjah Kebesaran Dato’, which carries the title Dato’ in 2013 by the Sultan of Selangor. He was conferred an Honorary Degree of Doctorate of Laws by the University of Nottingham in July 2016.
Datin Paduka Azalina Adham
Datin Paduka Azalina Adham was appointed as Director on 31 March 2023. She is also the Managing Director of the Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) on 1 January 2023.
She has over 29 years of diverse financial and capital market experience in investment banking, corporate finance as well as the exchange business. Some of her key areas of expertise are strategy and transformation, strategic communications and business development. She brings with her an extensive network amongst key capital market stakeholders in Malaysia namely senior policymakers, regulators, market participants and senior corporate figures as well as the global exchanges fraternity.
She was formerly the Chief Operating Officer of Bursa Malaysia Berhad. During her tenure, she led several transformational initiatives including Bursa Marketplace – the first-of-its-kind virtual marketplace; Bursa Anywhere – ASEAN’s first mobile depository e-services app; and the Leading Entrepreneur Accelerator Platform (LEAP) Market – ASEAN’s first-of-its-kind alternative capital raising platform for SMEs.
Prior to joining Bursa Malaysia, she was an investment banker with experience in corporate banking, corporate finance and privatisation having served with Maybank Investment Bank Berhad (formerly known as Aseambankers Malaysia Berhad) and Alliance Investment Bank Berhad (formerly known as Amanah Merchant Bank Berhad).
Datin Paduka Azalina had also served as an Independent Non-Executive Director on the board of several public listed companies in Malaysia. She was also an Independent Non-Executive Director of a Ministry of Finance Incorporated (MOF Inc) company, where she had served as the Chairman of its Board Risk Management Committee and Board Change Management Committee.
She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Management/Finance from Purdue University, USA in 1992. She also completed the Advanced Management Programme at Harvard Business School Boston, Massachusetts, USA in 2018.
Brahmal Vasudevan
Brahmal serves as a Director since 30 June 2020. He founded Creador in 2011, following a 11-year stint as a General Partner and Managing Director of ChrysCapital, a leading private equity firm focused on growth capital investments in India. In the decade since it was founded, Brahmal had led Creador, building a sterling reputation for creating mutually-rewarding partnerships with entrepreneurs and steady, sustainable earnings for investors.
He also co-founded Creador Foundation, which aims to improve financial literacy, guide youth in career advancement, and support the arts in the markets where Creador operates. Brahmal started his career at British American Tobacco (BAT) and also worked at the Boston Consulting Group.
He then moved on to ASTRO, a pay-TV operator in South East Asia, where he was involved in strategy, marketing and expansion into neighbouring countries, before venturing into the world of private equity. Brahmal holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and graduated with First Class Honors in Aeronautical Engineering from Imperial College, London. He is an active alumni of Imperial College, and supports its community outreach efforts.