Sunway Group has informed the departure of Tan Sri Jamaludin Ibrahim who was the independent and non executive director at the group due to other work commitments. He will be leaving the group effective March 3.
Tan Sri Jamal has more than 40 years of experience, including 16 years in information technology (IT), 23 years in telecommunications, and a host of other areas especially in the field of education.
His career began in 1980 as a lecturer in Quantitative Methods at California State University, Chico, USA. He moved back to Malaysia and spent about 12 years in IBM Malaysia from 1981 to 1993. He then became the Managing Director of Digital Equipment (DEC) Malaysia for about four years from 1993 to 1997.
Tan Sri Jamaludin spent about 10 years with Maxis Communications Berhad (“Maxis”) (1997-2007) initially as the Director of Strategy in 1997 when it was still a start-up in the mobile industry, and was later promoted to be the CEO the following year. After Maxis, he joined Axiata Group Berhad as the President & Group CEO for almost 13 years until his retirement in 2020. He transformed it into an iconic regional company, well known in the industry globally, and, from a pure mobile company to 3 different lines of business (Telecommunication, Digital/Internet and Tower Infrastructure) across a footprint of 11 countries in ASEAN and South Asia.
Post retirement, apart from being an Independent Board member of Sunway Berhad, Tan Sri Jamaludin is the Non-Executive Chairman of 3 companies, namely Prasarana Malaysia Berhad, QSR Brands (M) Holdings Bhd and AirAsia Aviation Group Limited. They are in the public transportation, fast food and airlines industries, respectively; the latter two operated in the ASEAN Region.
