AMBANK GROUP APPOINTS DATO' SERI AHMAD JOHAN RASLAN AS SENIOR ADVISER AND A MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

AMBANK GROUP APPOINTS DATO' SERI AHMAD JOHAN RASLAN AS SENIOR ADVISER AND A MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

AMMB Holdings Berhad (AmBank Group) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dato’ Seri Ahmad Johan Raslan as its Senior Adviser and a Member of the Board of Directors.

Dato’ Seri Johan is a former Executive Chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers Malaysia (PwC). He spent 10 years of his career in London and 20 years in Malaysia, working in the fields of assurance and advisory. His clients included some of the most prominent companies in Malaysia, including Government-Linked Companies.

In addition to his assurance and advisory work, Dato’ Seri Johan has frequently been consulted in the important field of corporate governance. He has worked with the main Malaysian regulators including Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM), the Malaysian Securities Commission (SC), Bursa Malaysia and the Companies Commission of Malaysia. Until he retired in 2012 he was a member of BNM’s Financial Stability Executive Committee and the SC’s Corporate Governance Consultative Committee.    

“His work for the Government of Malaysia included board memberships of Perbadanan Putrajaya and The Retirement Fund Incorporated (KWAP), and the chairmanship of the Financial Reporting Foundation. He is currently a member of the Financial Services Professional Board, an appointment under BNM,” said Tan Sri Azman Hashim, Chairman, AmBank Group.

Dato’ Seri Johan’s role as Senior Adviser will be to advise the Chairman and Board of AmBank Group on a variety of issues internal and external to the Group.

About AmBank Group

AmBank Group is one of Malaysia’s premier financial solutions Groups with nearly 40 years of legacy in understanding Malaysian customers and provides a wide range of both conventional and Islamic financial products and services, including retail banking, wholesale banking, as well as the underwriting of general insurance, life assurance and family takaful.

The Group’s mission of “Connecting, Growing and Outperforming” accentuates our commitment in connecting with customers, people as well as stakeholders and the Group’s continuous initiatives in growing to further cement our position in the industry as we aspire to exceed expectations by consistently outperforming. This mission underpins the Group’s vision as Malaysia’s preferred diversified, internationally connected financial solutions group. The recent repositioning of our brand – “Your Bank.Malaysia’s Bank.AmBank.” portrays us as a modern Malaysian diversified financial solutions partner that understands and meets the diverse needs of modern Malaysians.

The Group receives strong support from the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (“ANZ”) (one of Australia’s leading banks) particularly in Board and senior management representations, risk and financial governance, products offering and new business development. In the general insurance business, the Group has partnered with Insurance Australia Group Ltd (“IAG”). In the life assurance and family takaful businesses, the Group has on 30 April 2014 sealed a strategic partnership with MetLife International Holdings Inc. (“MetLife”). The Group continues to benefit in terms of expertise transfer from IAG and MetLife.

AMMB Holdings Berhad is a public listed company on the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia.

Source : AmBank Group

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