CIMB Group appoints Datuk Mohd Nasir Ahmad as group chairman

He has been a board director since 2015.

CIMB Group appointed Datuk Mohd Nasir Ahmad as group chairman. He has been a member of the group’s Board of Directors (BOD) since 2015, and is senior independent director since April 2016.

As part of this appointment, Datuk Mohd Nasir will relinquish his positions as senior independent director and chairman of the Audit Committee. He will remain as a member of the group BOD’s Audit Committee, Risk Committee, and Group Nomination & Remuneration Committee.

Datuk Mohd Nasir is a chartered accountant by training and a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), United Kingdom. He is also a council member of the ACCA Global Council. He has 39 years of corporate experience through companies such as Tenaga Nasional Berhad, including CEO positions at Syarikat Permodalan Kebangsaan Berhad and Perbadanan Usahawan Nasional Berhad. He is the group chairman of Media Prima Berhad, as well as an independent director of CIMB Bank Berhad, SIRIM Berhad, and Sistem Televisyen Malaysia Berhad.