Sandip Das is the Chief Executive Officer of Maxis Communications Berhad (Maxis), responsible for the Maxis Group's operations and investments in Malaysia, India and Indonesia. He also serves on the Maxis Board of Directors as Executive Director. In addition, Sandip serves as Director on the board of the Aircel Group (Maxis' Indian subsidiary) and as Commissioner on the Board of Commissioners of PT Natrindo Telepon Seluler (NTS).

Internationally, Sandip is a member of the board of the Bridge Alliance, Asia's largest mobile alliance, comprising the region's top mobile operators from Australia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Macau, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea. He also serves on the board of the Global GSM Development Fund.

Prior to joining Maxis in January 2007, Sandip was Deputy Managing Director and Director of the Board of Hutchison Essar Telecom ("Hutch"), one of India's largest mobile operators. He started the company's operations in India in 1994, and when he left Hutch at the end of 2006, it had more than 23 million subscribers. During his tenure at Hutch, he was voted "CEO of the Year" by Mid Day Publications and Hutch twice won "The Most Respected Telecom Company" awarded by Business World. He was also the Deputy Chairman of the Service Industry Panel of the Confederation of Indian Industries ("CII").

Before his tenure at Hutch, Sandip served as Franchise Head of Toyota cars and Hino trucks with the Al Futtaim Group in Dubai, UAE for five years. Prior to this, he spent 10 years with Indian consumer durable giant Usha International (The Shriram Group), where he started as a Management Trainee and left as Joint Divisional Manager.

Sandip holds a First class Mechanical Engineering degree from Regional Engineering College, Rourkela, India (now renamed National Institute of Technology), where he graduated in 1978. He also obtained his Masters in Business Administration from the Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi in 1986.

Rossana joined the Group on 16th May 2003 and was appointed as Chief Financial Officer on 1st January 2004. She plays a strategic role of partnering the business in understanding the relative economics of different parts of the operations and integrating resources across business functions and geographic boundaries to deliver high performance across the Group. As part of this strategic role, Rossana also provides leadership on the information technology aspect of the Malaysian Operations to deliver innovation and bringing contemporary solutions to customers through IT enabled business transformation.

Concurrently, she is responsible for financial reporting, governance and compliance, corporate finance, treasury and procurement both at the Group and Malaysian operations levels. In addition, she is also responsible for regulatory, business support, corporate communication and corporate social responsibility aspects of the Malaysian Operations. At the Group level, Rossana plays a key role in merger and acquisition activities and operations review of Group companies outside Malaysia.

Prior to joining Maxis, she was with the financial services sector for 15 years and has extensive knowledge of corporate and commercial banking, debt capital market activities, trade financing and Islamic banking products. Her last position in the banking sector was as the Head of Enterprise Banking with RHB Bank. Prior to joining RHB Bank, Rossana was with Citibank, Kuala Lumpur for 6 years and reached the position of Assistant Vice-President.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Banking and Finance from Canberra University, Australia.

Matthew was appointed Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) effective 26th August 2008. He will be responsible for the consumer business operations including customer services.

Matthew brings with him over 20 years of experience and accomplishments in marketing from the Fast Moving Consumer Goods and telecommunications industries and joins us from HK CSL in Hong Kong where he was Chief Operating Officer.

Matthew’s career started with Procter and Gamble in the UK where he brand managed some of their well known brands such as Vidal Sassoon and Oil of Olay. He then spent 7 years with British Telecom, including over 2 years working in Korea for LG Telecom leading the consumer marketing group. Matthew then joined Telstra in 2001 and had various roles in mobile, and in the growth of integrated fixed, mobile, broadband and PayTV services.

Matthew holds a Master of Arts (Honors) in Physics from Oxford University, UK, a Masters Degree in Management from McGill University, Canada and a Diploma in International Practicing Management from INSEAD, France.

Seok Theng has 23 years of working experience. She was a System Integration Manager with Bass Consulting, Software Manager at Far East Computers and Systems Analyst with Dataprep.

Seok Theng holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the National University of Taiwan and a Masters degree in Engineering from the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand.

He earned a Bachelor of Science (Finance) degree and a Masters of Business Administration degree from Indiana State University in the United States.

Jon was appointed Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Head of Network Engineering & Operations (NEO) in August 2007.  He will be responsible for the operations of the Maxis telecommunications network.  

Jon brings with him over 21 years of telecommunications experience. He joins us from Wataniya Telecom, Kuwait where he last held the position of Chief Technology Officer.  Jon was successful in replacing/upgrading all of Wataniya Telecom's technical infrastructure components including Radio, Core, VAS, CRM and Billing in a relatively short time with HSDPA, all IP, converged Internet, Fixed net, Mobile net, Prepaid and Postpaid.

Prior to that, Jon was with Telenor Nordic Mobile, Norway (the parent company of Sonofon) as the CTO where he assumed responsibility to merge the IT and Network organization of the Telenor Mobile operations of Telenor Mobil Norway, Djuice Sweden and Sonofon Denmark.  He was also employed with Sonofon Denmark as Chief Technology Officer and Jydsk Telefon in Denmark and Germany as Manager, Software Development.

He has 13 years experience with the Schlumberger Group as International Financial Controller in Singapore, Indonesia and the United States. Prior to this, he was with Ernst & Whinney, Singapore (from 1981 to 1982) and Turquands Barton Mayhew, Manchester (from 1977 to 1981).

He is a Chartered Accountant (England & Wales) and holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Cranfield Institute of Science and Technology in the United Kingdom.

Fitri was hired into Maxis as Head of Enterprise Business in January 2006; his role was subsequently enlarged to include Carrier Business in January 2009. He is responsible for the business segments of Corporate, Small and Medium Enterprise (SME), and Carrier business encompassing both fixed and mobile products. He is responsible for providing overall leadership and charting growth strategies for the 3 segments in sales, marketing, products, solutions creation and differentiation, and support services.

Fitri brought with him over 17 years of working experience when he joined Maxis from Hewlett-Packard Malaysia (HP) where he held various roles and positions, both in country and in Asia region, in the Consulting and Systems Integration division while attached there for over 9 years. His last position at HP was as the Regional Director for the systems integration business for the communications industry for the Asia region. Prior to that, he was the overall Consulting and Integration division General Manager for the Asean region (all industries).

Prior to joining HP, Fitri was a Consulting Manager with Ernst & Young, where he worked in several IT consulting engagements with various clients in Malaysia. He started his career with BULL Worldwide Information Systems, USA as a Principal Software Engineer from 1989 to 1993.

Fitri holds a Master of Science Degree (Computer Science) from Arizona State University and a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) from Indiana State University in the United States.

Nikolai is the Senior Vice President and Head of Strategy & Head of New Businesses, responsible for strategy, business planning, product development and marketing, as well as building Maxis' new infotainment and broadband businesses. Nikolai joined Maxis in December 2004 to drive the development of Maxis 3G and broadband businesses.

Before joining Maxis, Nikolai was 12 years with McKinsey & Company, where he was the Managing Partner of the Malaysian office since 2002. Nikolai came to Malaysia in November 1996, after having worked in the German, Italian and Indian offices of McKinsey.

Nikolai has been involved extensively in telecommunications and high-tech work in Asia, including issues of telecommunications transformation, national technology strategy development and R&D commercialisation.

Nikolai holds a Ph.D. in Technology and Innovation Management from University of Kiel, Germany. He is also a Director of Scicom (MSC) Bhd, a Mesdaq-listed customer care operator.

Lay Han was appointed Head of Consumer Marketing on 01 September 2006. He is responsible for providing marketing leadership to ensure Maxis remains the No. 1 mobile brand in Malaysia, in terms of market share, brand preference, brand awareness, customer satisfaction and ARPU.

Lay Han joined Maxis in October 1999 as Head of Sales and Distribution. Prior to joining Maxis, Lay Han was General Manager at Tanjong Golden Village Sdn Bhd (now known as TGV Cinemas Sdn Bhd). He was also involved in various business development projects for Tanjong.

Lay Han was previously with BP Malaysia Sdn Bhd where he held various marketing and operations positions for nine years.

Lay Han holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Cranfield Institute of Technology in the United Kingdom.

Stephen Mead was appointed General Counsel on 15th June 2009. He is responsible for ensuring that the legal requirements are managed well to facilitate the meeting of business goals. This includes litigation, developing legal strategies, ensuring contracts are accurate and serve the best interest of Maxis, overseeing due diligence activities, ensuring coordination of trade marks and intellectual property matters and merger & acquisition activities.

Stephen has over 19 years of working experience and prior to joining Maxis was with Mallesons Stephen Jaques ("MSJ"), a leading legal firm in Australia. He was a Mergers and Acquisitions partner and has extensive general commercial legal experience, having acted for clients in a wide variety of legal issues. Whilst at MSJ, Stephen was seconded to Telstra Corp., Australia where he held the positions of Deputy General Counsel and Competition Counsel. Stephen holds a LLB (Hons) qualification from the Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

She earned a Bachelor of Laws degree from University of Leicester, United Kingdom and a Masters of Law degree from University of Malaya. She also obtained a Certificate of Legal Practice from the Legal Profession Qualifying Board and a Certified Diploma in Accounting and Finance from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

She was admitted to the High Court of Malaya as an Advocate and Solicitor in 1993.