Ranhill Utilities Berhad Chairman, Tan Sri Hamdan has promoted his long-standing employee Zurina Binti Abdul Rahim to Executive Director.
She was appointed as Chief Commercial Officer of Ranhill Utilities Berhad on 1 October 2021 and is currently heading the Commercial division consisting of numerous departments overseeing commercial and legal matters. PreviouslyZurina was the Senior Vice-President, Group Legal & Compliance Division.
With over 15 years of experience under her belt, she headed the GLC Division of Ranhill with responsibilities that range from contract matters (local and international), corporate exercises, financing, project documents negotiations, governance, compliance and risk. She joined Ranhill in 2010 as a Manager in GLC and has over 15 years of experience in corporate matters/exercises such as mergers, take-overs, restructuring of group of companies, reverse takeover, IPO, due diligence exercises and submission to authorities, financing, exercises such as project financing for power projects, trade financing, term loans, issuance of paper debts such as sukuk and USD notes and negotiations of contracts including project agreements under the private finance initiative model involve government agencies.
She is also experienced in offshore wealth management matters such as setting up a private non-charitable foundation and supervising thereafter. She started her career as a pupil at Messrs Abu Talib Shahrom and was called to the Malaysian Bar in November 2005. In 2006, she joined Messrs Abu Talib Shahrom as an Associate in the Corporate Department. On 9 September 2016, she became a Fellow of the International Academy of Business and Financial Management (IABFM) and was certified as Certified Compliance Professional.
She obtained a Masters at Law (Corporate Law) from Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) in Shah Alam in 2011. With her vast experience and knowledge, she has been entrusted to also sit on the board of various subsidiaries of Ranhill.
