YAA Tan Sri Dato ‘Seri Ahmad Makinudin Zulkefli

Chief Judge of Malaya

Jarom Britton

Corporate Attorney

Microsoft

Jarom is a corporate attorney for Microsoft, based in Singapore. He currently manages commercial legal affairs in several emerging and frontier markets in South and Southeast Asia, including Malaysia. Prior to moving in-house, Jarom worked at the Singapore office of Allen & Overy, where he managed complex international corporate finance transactions throughout Southeast Asia and the broader APAC region, including several record-setting and award-winning initial public offerings and Islamic finance deals. He has also published on aviation and public international law matters. Originally from Vancouver, Canada, Jarom has travelled extensively and has lived and worked in Canada, the United States, France, Belgium and Singapore. He speaks English (native), French (fluent), German (basic spoken and written) and Chinese (basic spoken Mandarin, Traditional written).

Karen Ong Su Wern

Corporate Legal Head

Bursa Malaysia

Karen currently heads the Corporate Legal division at Bursa Malaysia Bhd and oversees all commercial legal matters at the exchange.  She is passionate about in-house counsel acting as valuable business partners and this is evidenced by consistently high ratings of her leadership in annual customer satisfaction surveys.  She often seeks out opportunities to share knowledge and contribute to the legal community.  Whilst practicing as an advocate and solicitor, her contributions to business law was recognized by the International Bar Association Section on Business Law with an award of a scholarship.  More recently, she served as a judge at the ALB South East Asia Law Awards 2014.  Karen holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from the University of Melbourne.

Chong Kok Seng

Partner

Raja, Darryl & Loh

Kok Seng obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Law from the University of London in the United Kingdom in 2001 and subsequently sat for and obtained the Certificate in Legal Practice from the Malaysian Qualifying Board.  He was called to the Peninsular Malaysian Bar in November 2003 after having read in Chambers with the Firm.  Kok Seng became a Senior Associate in April 2008 and joined the ranks of the partners on 1st March 2011.   His main areas of practice are mergers and acquisitions, cross-border financing transactions and aviation.  In this regard, he has acted for major airlines, aircraft lessors and banks/collateral agents/security trustees in advising on local laws in relation to the sale and purchase, lease and/or financing and securitisation of aircraft.  Kok Seng was listed in the Asia Law Profiles as a recommended lawyer in 2013.   He is also currently a member of the KL Bar Corporate and Conveyancing Practice Committee.

Thavakumar Kandiahpillai, VP, Legal Affairs, SapuraKencana Petroleum; President, Malaysian Corporate Counsel Association

Thavakumar obtained his LLB (Honours) from University of London in 1989 and was admitted to the English Bar at Middle Temple in 1990.  He then went on to obtain his LLM from University Of London and was admitted to the Malaysian Bar.  He also became a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Thavakumar practised in Kuala Lumpur as an Advocate & Solicitior becoming a partner in 1998.   Thavakumar joined Shell Malaysia in KL in 2000 as Senior Counsel.  Since then, he has held various positions including Head of Legal at Shell Malaysia Exploration & Production and was appointed General Counsel of Shell Malaysia in August 2006. He was elected as President of the Malaysian Corporate Counsel Association in 2011 and now working with Sapura Kencana Petroleum Berhad as VP Legal Affairs attached to President and Group CEO’s office.

Vijey M. Krishnan

Partner

Raja, Darryl & Loh

Vijey was previously a tax consultant with the then Arthur Andersen in Kuala Lumpur. Vijey joined Messrs. Raja Darryl & Loh in October 1999 and became a partner on 1 March 2005. At RDL, Vijey has been focused on and currently practises tax, corporate and commercial laws.Vijey has appeared before the Special Commissioners of Income Tax, the High Court and the Court of Appeal on major points of tax law. He has consistently been recommended in the area of Tax in publications such as The Asia Pacific Legal 500, the Tax Directors Handbook and Chambers Asia Pacific.  He is listed as a Leading Individual in the area of Tax in the Chambers Asia Pacific and as a Leading Lawyer in Asialaw Profiles.Vijey is an Associate of the Chartered Tax Institute of Malaysia and is Deputy Chairman of the GST and Tax Sub-Committee of the Malaysian Bar. He is also a member of the Tax Committee of the American Malaysia Chamber of Commerce.

Syed Abdul Hamid Aljunid

Professor,

INCEIF

Prof. Dr. Syed Abdul Hamid Aljunid is currently a CIFP Professor teaching Ethics and Governance. He joined INCEIF in April 2007.He obtained his PhD in 1980 from the University of Wisconsin, USA and has served as Dean of Faculty of Economics (1989 – 1996) and Director of Management Center (1995 – 1998) at the International Islamic University Malaysia till 1998. Prior to joining INCEIF, he was the President and CEO of University Tun Abdul Razak (June 2005 – February 2007), a private university based on E-Learning approach to education. His involvement in professional and voluntary organizations include Council Members and Honorary Treasurer of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (till present), EXCO of Malaysian Chapter of Transparency International (2000 – 2005), 2009 (August – present) – Chairman, Education, Examination and Exemption Committee (ACIFP), 2009 (August – present) – Deputy Chairman, Certification and CPD Board, Malaysian Financial Planning Council (MFPC)

Roshni Subapanditha

Sales Specialist for Enhanced Due Diligence

Thomson Reuters

Roshni Subapanditha is Sales Specialist for Enhanced Due Diligence, Thomson Reuters, Southeast Asia and is based out of Hong Kong. She is a law graduate from the University of Wales and has been working in the field of risk management and compliance for over 7 years.She has a wealth of knowledge and experience in the industry with her last role being with The Red Flag Group and has dealt with a variety of clients within the financial, health-care, technology and logistics industry. They consisted of multi-national corporations with many of them being under the fortune 500 list. Prior to RFG, she spent a number of years at I-On Asia Limited, a due diligence firm, initially as a Researcher before working her way up to Senior Manager.

Saidatul Atikah Osman,

Senior Vice President - Legal,

Khazanah Nasional

Saidatul Atikah Osman was called to the Malaysian Bar in 1998 and practiced in various areas of the law. Atikah is currently Senior Vice President, Legal at Khazanah Nasional Berhad.