He is the former executive chairman and senior partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers ("PwC"), Malaysia and former chairman of the Leadership Team of PwC Asia 7. He was also formerly the chairman of the Malaysian Accounting Standards Board and chairman of Danamodal Nasional Berhad. His previous international appointments include being a member of the PwC Global Leadership Team, a member of the PwC Global IFRS Board and a member of the Standards Advisory Council of the International Accounting Standards Board. He is presently a director of Sime Darby Berhad and Khazanah Nasional Berhad (the Malaysian Government Investment Company). Raja Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Arshad bin Raja Tun Uda is also the chairman of Binariang GSM Sdn Bhd, Ekuiti Nasional Berhad and Yayasan Raja Muda Selangor. His previous public appointments include being a member of the Securities Commission, a member of the Commission, a member of the Investment Panel of the Employees Provident Fund and a member of the board of trustees of the National Art Gallery. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, and a member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants. He is also a member of the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants and served on its council for 24 years, including 3 years as its president.

He is a retired senior partner of PwC, London in the UK, with experience in leading and participating in global teams on client and PwC projects. He specialised in audits and deal-related advice to multi-nationals and held a variety of management positions including chairman of the Entertainment and Media Industry Group for Europe, Middle East and Africa and the UK Telecommunications Industry Group. He is a director of Witan Investment Trust plc, an investment trust listed on the AIM market, and Prosperity Voskhod Fund Limited. He is also an independent member of the audit committee of the National Trust. Prior to PwC London, he was also a partner of Coopers & Lybrand, Tanzania from 1979 to 1982. He was seconded to the UK Civil Service as company analyst in the Price Commission in 1976. From 1972 to 1974, he was seconded to Coopers & Lybrand in Paris following qualification in London. He holds a Masters of Arts in Law from Oxford and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales.

He started working in 1987 as a wellsite operations engineer with Sarawak Shell Berhad and resigned in 1989 to pursue business opportunities in Kuala Lumpur. By investing in Tongkah Holdings Berhad (listed on the then Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange), he ventured into the component manufacturing, oil and gas, finance and healthcare sectors. He held positions as the group chief executive officer of Pantai Holdings Berhad (healthcare), chairman of THB Industries Berhad (electronics) and group executive chairman of Tongkah Holdings Berhad (oil and gas, finance). A divestment exercise in 2001 saw him relinquish all positions and equity in these companies. Presently his portfolio of investments includes businesses in IT, oil and gas support services, structural steel engineering and fabrication, automotive sector and property development. He leads Kencana Petroleum Berhad and its group of companies and holds the franchise for Porsche automobiles in Malaysia. He is currently the chairman of Sepang International Circuit Sdn Bhd, which hosts the FIA Formula One World Championship and is a regular GT race car driver. He is a qualified Petroleum Engineer. He pursued his tertiary education at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma in the USA, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering.

He is the director and founding member of Intelligent Capital Sdn Bhd ("Intelligent Capital"). He has extensive experience in both public and private equity investing in Malaysia. He has been involved in several start-up companies as an angel investor and has been actively involved in building their businesses as mentor. A number of these companies have gone public. Asgari bin Mohd Fuad Stephens started his career working in general management in companies involved in a wide range of industries. He joined Usaha Tegas Sdn Bhd ("Usaha Tegas") in 1988 where he worked in various capacities. He left in 1990 to join the stock broking industry. He returned to work in Usaha Tegas in 1992 before leaving in 1995 to co-found Kumpulan Sentiasa Cemerlang Sdn Bhd ("KSC"), an investment advisory and fund management group. He took a year off to work with the National Economic Action Council ("NEAC") in 1998. After his period at the NEAC, he started 2 venture capital firms, Intelligent Capital and iSpring Venture Management Sdn Bhd, while continuing to work with KSC. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) from the University of Melbourne in Australia and a Masters of Business Administration from Cranfield University in the UK. He was previously the chairman of the Malaysian Venture Capital Association.

Mr. Hasbani was appointed as Non-Executive Director of Maxis Berhad (“Maxis” or “the Company”) on 25 September 2009.

Mr Hasbani is the Chief Executive Officer of the International Operations group of Saudi Telecom Company (STC). He joins STC from the global management consulting firm Booz & Company, where he led the firm’s Middle East Communications and Technology practice. Mr. Hasbani has more than 16 years of experience with telecom operators in the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and Africa. Ghassan brings a wide spectrum of capabilities covering all aspects of the telecommunications industry including investment strategies, mergers and acquisitions, post merger integration, marketing, product and service development, organizational restructuring and governance, technology plans, retail and distribution, channel strategy and management, customer care, business development and CFO and CEO agendas.

Mr. Hasbani has worked with leading organizations in the telecommunication and technology industries, including Nortel Networks and Cable & Wireless, and spent the past ten years operating in the Middle East Region. In addition to the Middle East, his global experience includes markets such as Europe, South East Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Mr. Hasbani holds a Masters of Business Administration from Hull University in the UK and a Bachelor of Engineering with first class honors from the University of Westminster in the UK. Mr. Hasbani is also a chartered engineer and a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in the U.K.

Saudi citizen Dr Zeyad Thamer H. ALEtaibi, aged 49, was appointed Director of Maxis on 10 February 2011.

Dr. Zeyad is the Vice President - Network Sector STC (“Saudi Telecom Company”). In his current position, he provides continuous leadership to large scale teams by setting strategies, coaching direct reports, enhancing the sector’s intellectual capital and providing direction, aggressive goals and objectives to the organization. As a Saudi Telecom executive officer, he is responsible for the successful and swift launch of STC’s two affiliates in Kuwait and Bahrain. He has more than 20 years experience in the Telecommunications Service Provider Industry and is proficient in all major aspects of a Telecom Service Provider, through progressive promotions from Director to General Manager to Vice President within the Wireless and Wireline Business units. As Vice President of Network Sector, Dr. Zeyad has expanded STC’s Fixed and Broadband Network, turning it into the largest in the Middle East.

He serves on various boards of directors, including Maxis Communications Berhad (the holding company of Maxis), PT Natrindo Telepon Seluler (Indonesia) and Viva Bahrain. In addition, Dr. Zeyad is the Vice-Chairman of Viva Kuwait, where he also serves as the Chairman of the Executive Committee.

Dr. Zeyad holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering (1985) and a Master’s Degree in Engineering (1992) from King Saud University, Riyadh in Saudi Arabia; he obtained his Doctorate in Mobile Communications from the University of Bradford, United Kingdom in 1996. He has completed a variety of management programs from Japan and Harvard University and also attended multiple forums and international conferences like ITU, TM-Forum, and GSM Mobile World etc.

He is the head of the Strategic Investment Unit of Saudi Telecom Company ("Saudi Telecom"). He joined Saudi Telecom in October 2000 as a senior business analyst in corporate planning and has held the positions of capital allocation project manager, balanced scorecard project manager and concept controlling manager. Before assuming his current position at Saudi Telecom in July 2004, he was the strategic planning director and business development director at Saudi Telecom since December 2001. He has served as a vice president of the Telecom Development Advisory Group of the International Telecommunications Union. He serves on various boards of directors, including PT Natrindo Telepon Seluler in Indonesia and Saudi Telecom Investment Commercial Company in Saudi Arabia, Gulf Digital Media Holding BSC (C) in Bahrain, STC Bahrain BSC (C) in Bahrain, Gulf Allied Digital Media FZ LLC in Dubai and STC Turkey Holding Ltd in the British Virgin Islands. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Operations Research from King Saud University, Riyadh in Saudi Arabia. He holds a Master of Science Degree in Economics from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona in the USA and obtained his Doctorate of Philosophy in Political Economy and Public Policy from the University of Southern California Los Angeles in the USA. He has also completed a variety of management programs from INSEAD in France, London Business School in the UK and Stanford University in the USA.

He has more than 30 years of experience in financial and general management. He is an executive director of Usaha Tegas and of ASTRO ALL ASIA NETWORKS plc (listed on Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad ("Bursa Securities")) of which he is also the deputy chairman and group chief executive officer and Tanjong Public Limited Company (listed on Bursa Securities and the London Stock Exchange plc), in which Usaha Tegas has significant interests. He also serves as a non-executive director on the boards of directors of several other companies in which Usaha Tegas also has significant interests viz. Maxis Communications Berhad, Overseas Union Enterprise Limited (listed on the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited), Johnston Press plc (listed on the London Stock Exchange plc) and Arnhold Holdings Limited (listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited). In addition, he is also a director in an independent non-executive capacity and the chairman of the Audit Committee of KLCC Property Holdings Berhad and a non-independent non-executive director of MEASAT Global Berhad, both listed on Bursa Securities. He is an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and a member of the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

He has about 30 years of experience in investment banking, financial management and accounting including stints with Ernst & Young and Morgan Grenfell & Co. Ltd prior to joining the Usaha Tegas Group in 1992 as head of corporate finance. He is presently an executive director of Usaha Tegas and serves on the boards of directors of several other companies in which Usaha Tegas has significant interests viz. Maxis Communications Berhad, Sri Lanka Telecom PLC (listed on Colombo Stock Exchange) and Bumi Armada Berhad. He is also a director in a non-independent non-executive capacity and a member of the Audit Committee of MEASAT Global Berhad (listed on Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad). He holds a degree in Economics and Accounting from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the UK and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

He joined Maxis Communications Berhad ("MCB") in January 2007. Prior to joining MCB, he was deputy managing director and a director on the board of Hutchison Essar Limited (now known as Vodafone Essar Limited, India), one of India’s largest mobile operators. He joined Hutchinson Essar, then known as Hutchinson Max Telecom, and started that company’s operations in India in 1994. Internationally, he is a board member of Bridge Mobile Pte Ltd, a strategic alliance of 11 regional telecommunications providers. He also serves on the boards of directors of Sri Lanka Telecom PLC and Mobitel (Private) Limited in Sri Lanka. In addition, he serves as a director on the boards of directors of Aircel Limited, Aircel Cellular Limited and Dishnet Wireless Limited in India, and as a commissioner on the board of commissioners of PT Natrindo Telepon Seluler in Indonesia. He has 30 years of work experience in the consumer durable, automobile and the telecommunications industries. Prior to working at Hutchison Essar Limited, he spent 5 years as franchise head of Al Futtaim Motors, the Toyota franchise of the Al Futtaim Group, in Dubai, UAE and 10 years with the Indian consumer durable giant Usha International, Shriram Group, where he started as a management trainee and left as joint divisional manager. He holds a Masters of Business Administration degree from the Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi in India and a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Regional Engineering College (now known as National Institute of Technology), Rourkela in India.