Board of Directors

The board of directors of HSBC Bank Malaysia Berhad

Find out who are the distinguished personnel who make up the Board of Directors of HSBC Bank Malaysia Berhad.

Listed below are the individual board of director and their respective profile for your information.

 

Alexander Andrew Flockhart, non-executive Chairman

Age 56. Mr Flockhart is Chief Executive Officer of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited ("HSBCL") and Global Head of Commercial Banking. As Group Managing Director Asia-Pacific, Mr Flockhart is a member of the HSBC Group Management Board. He is also a director of HSBC Bank Australia Limited and a non-executive director of HSBC Bank (China) Company Limited and Hang Seng Bank.

Mr Flockhart joined the HSBC Group in July 1974 after graduating with a LLB from Edinburgh University. His previous appointments include postings to Hong Kong, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. From 1992 to 1994, Mr Flockhart served as the Chief Executive Officer of HSBCL in Thailand.

In January 1995, Mr Flockhart was appointed as the Deputy Managing Director of the HSBC Group's 40 per cent-owned associate, The Saudi British Bank, which is headquartered in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He was later appointed as the Managing Director in 1997.

He held the posts of Senior Executive Vice President, Commercial Banking, HSBC Bank USA and Chairman, HSBC Bank Mexico S.A. from December 1999 to July 2002, when he ran personal and commercial banking in the USA, Panama and Mexico. He then held the positions of Group General Manager, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of HSBC Bank Mexico S.A. from 2002 to 2006 and the Group Managing Director Latin America from 2006 to July 2007.

Mr Flockhart is a director of the VISA International Asia Pacific Regional Board and he is also a member of the Chongqing Mayor's International Economic Advisory Council.

Mr Flockhart was appointed Chairman for HSBC Bank Malaysia Berhad on 30 August 2007.

 

Irene Mitchell Dorner, Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Age 53. Ms Dorner graduated from St. Anne's College Oxford with MA in Jurisprudence in 1976. A Barrister by profession, Dorner first joined the banking industry as an in-house lawyer.

In 1982, she was the in-house lawyer of Samuel Montagu & Co Limited, the merchant banking arm of Midland Bank, which was later acquired by the HSBC Group. She was appointed the Chief Operating Officer of Treasury and Capital Markets of HSBC Midland in 1995, then went on to head Treasury and Capital Markets Sales in 1998. In 1999, she was appointed General Manager, Marketing of HSBC Bank plc, and was subsequently appointed as General Manager, Human Resources in 2001. She then had the responsibility for HSBC Bank plc's branch network in the North of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland comprising some 380 branches and 3,900 staff from 2003 to 2006. Thereafter, she held the post of General Manager, Premier and Wealth Management of HSBC Bank plc until May 2007.

Ms Dorner was appointed Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for HSBC Bank Malaysia Berhad on 1 June 2007.

 

Ian Douglas Francis Ogilvie, executive Director and Deputy Chief Executive

Age 48. Mr Ogilvie obtained a MA Geography from Cambridge University. He joined the HSBC Group in 1981 as a Research and Planning Analyst and held the position of General Manager, Human Resources of HSBC Bank plc prior to his current appointment as executive Director and Deputy Chief Executive of HSBC Bank Malaysia Berhad on 1 July 2005.

During his career at HSBC he has held a wide variety of senior posts with the Group.

 

Tan Sri Sulaiman bin Sujak, non-independent non-executive Director

Age 73. Served as an executive Director and Adviser of HSBC Bank Malaysia Berhad for 15 years, before being appointed a non-executive Director in 2004. He graduated from the Royal Air Force College, Cranwell, England in 1958 and the Royal College of Defence Studies, London in 1973 and had served both with the Royal Air Force and the Royal Malaysian Air Force. He was the first Malaysian to be appointed as the Royal Malaysian Air Force Chief (1967-1976). He served as an Adviser of Bank Negara Malaysia (1977-1983), Commercial Director of Kumpulan Guthrie (1983-1989) and Deputy Chairman of Malaysia Airline System (1977-2001). Currently, he also sits on the board of FACB Industries Incorporated Berhad, Nationwide Express Courier Services Berhad and Cycle & Carriage Bintang Berhad.

 

Dato' Henry Sackville Barlow, independent non-executive Director

Age 63. He educated at Eton College and obtained a MA from Cambridge University. He is a former Council Member of the Incorporated Society of Planters and Honorary Secretary of the Heritage Trust of Malaysia. He is a Director of Sime Darby Berhad (formerly known as Synergy Drive Berhad) and The International and Commonwealth University of Malaysia Berhad. He was formerly Joint Managing Director of Highland and Lowlands Para Rubber Co. Ltd., being instrumental in the company's Malaysianisation process in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Dato' Barlow is a Fellow of The Institute of Chartered Accountants, England and Wales, and a keen environmentalist.

 

Datuk Ramli bin Ibrahim, independent non-executive Director

Age 67. Datuk Ramli is a Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Australia. He is currently non-executive Director of several other public listed and unlisted companies, including MEASAT Global Berhad, Ranhill Berhad and BCT Technology Berhad. He was formerly Senior Partner of KPMG Peat Marwick Malaysia (now known as KPMG Malaysia) and executive Chairman of Kuala Lumpur Options and Financial Futures Exchange Berhad.

 

Datuk Dr Zainal Aznam bin Mohd Yusof, independent non-executive Director

Age 63. Datuk Dr Zainal holds a Bsc (Econ) from Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, MA (Development Economics) from University of Leicester, United Kingdom and Ph.D. (Economics) from Oxford University, United Kingdom. He was attached to the Economic Planning Unit of the Prime Minister's Department from 1969 to 1988. During the 1987-1988 academic year, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), Harvard University (Fulbright Scholar). He has also served as a Deputy Executive Director of the Malaysian Institute of Economic Research (MIER) from 1988 to 1990. Prior to that, he was the South East Asia Regional Economist at Kleinwort Benson Research (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd.

From 1990-1994, he was the Adviser in Economics at Bank Negara Malaysia. In January 1998 he was appointed as a Member of the Working Committee of the National Economic Action Council (NEAC). He was a Commissioner of the Securities Commission from 1999 to 2004 and the Deputy Director-General of the Institute of Strategic and International Studies until 2002. Datuk Dr Zainal is also a director of Rating Agency Malaysia Berhad, Permodalan BSN Berhad, Encorp Berhad and Opus International Group plc. Datuk Dr Zainal is a well-known economist in Malaysia.

 

Professor Emeritus Datuk Dr Mohamed Ariff bin Abdul Kareem, independent non-executive Director

Age 67. Prof. Emeritus Datuk Dr Mohamed Ariff obtained his B.A. First Class Honours and M.Ec. from the University of Malaya. He completed his Ph.D. program at the University of Lancaster, England in 1971, on a Commonwealth Scholarship.

Prof. Emeritus Datuk Dr Mohamed Ariff, a specialist in International Economics, is currently the executive Director of the Malaysian Institute of Economic Research (MIER). Previously he held the Chair of Analytical Economics at the University of Malaya where he had also served as the Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Administration. He was a Board Member of the Inland Revenue Board (IRB) and is a Board Member of National Productivity Centre (NPC). He had a brief stint in the private sector as the Chief Economist at the United Asian Bank in 1976.

 

Dato' Zuraidah binti Atan, independent non-executive Director

Age 48. Dato’ Zuraidah is currently a Director of FAMA (Federal Agricultural Marketing Authority), Member (former Chairman) of the Finance Board of FAMA, and Chairman of FAMA Corporation (wholly owned business entity of FAMA). She is a Board Member of Malaysian Government’s Health Promotion Board and Chairman of its Finance Board. She is also a Director of Universiti Utara Malaysia, Northport (M) Berhad, NCB Holdings Berhad, KN Sime Logistics Sdn Bhd and Syarikat Malacca Straits Inn Sdn Bhd, representing Federal and State Governments. She is an Independent Non-Executive Director of Kenanga Unit Trust Berhad. She was previously President and Chief Executive of Affin Merchant Bank Berhad for four years until September 2003. Prior to that, she served at OCBC Bank (Malaysia) Berhad in various capacities for ten years. A lawyer by training, she obtained her LLB (Hons) from the University of Buckingham, United Kingdom in 1984 and presently, she is a Member of the Malaysian Bar. She sits on various State Governments' Investment Committees, Boards and Advisory Panels such as Melaka State Government Investment Committee and Kedah State Government Insurance Brokers. She is also a member of the Association of Bumiputra Business and Professional Women, Malaysia. Currently she serves as an Honorary Adviser to the National Cancer Society of Malaysia.