Astro appoints two new board members Tunku as of 6 May 2022, Tunku Ali Redhauddin Ibni Tuanku Muhriz will hold the position of Independent Directoe and Nicola Mary Bamford from the UK will be the groups Independent Director as well.
Tunku is the Independent Chairman of Bumi Armada Berhad, a listed global oil and gas services company, and Taliworks Corporation Berhad, a listed infrastructure services company. He also sits on the boards of Bangkok Bank Berhad, and Sun Life Malaysia Assurance Berhad, both regulated by Bank Negara Malaysia.
He is Senior Advisor to TPG Capital, a global private equity firm, sitting on the boards of several TPG portfolio companies, including CVS KL, a specialist heart hospital, Pathology Asia Holdings, a provider of diagnostic laboratory services in South East Asia and Columbia Asia, a hospital group. He is also Chairman of the XCL Education Group, Malaysia. Separately, Tunku Ali is a Partner at Vynn Capital, an early-stage Venture Capital investment firm.
In addition, he is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Munarah Foundation, Chairman and Founding Trustee of Teach for Malaysia, Chairman of WWF Malaysia, a Trustee of Amanah Warisan Negara (National Heritage Trust of Malaysia) as well as a Trustee of Tsinghua Education Foundation Malaysia and Cancer Research Malaysia. Previously, Tunku Ali was a management consultant with McKinsey & Company and Director of Investments at Khazanah Nasional Berhad
Nicola on the other hand has extensive international TV-related media experience. Her last role was as Chief Executive Officer, International Operations at Endemol Shine Group where she was responsible for the financial and operating performance of its companies in Iberia, France, Italy, Israel, India, China, and Russia, working closely with joint venture partners in India, Israel, and Russia.
Previously, she was at Sky leading the team assessing opportunities for OTT expansion beyond its DTH footprint which led to the launch of Sky Spain in 2017, and before that, managing Sky UK’s TVOD and EST business. She re-joined Sky after holding senior roles at Tata Sky in India and Sky Deutschland, having been Director of Channels and Operations at Sky UK. Nicola worked for News Corp in the US and Disney in the UK post business school.
