Mr. Shariffuddin Khalid was appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director of Maybank on June 14, 2018. He serves as the Chair of the Board Sustainability Committee and Member of the Board Audit Committee and Board Compliance Committee.

He is a Fellow Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, United Kingdom. He has over 30 years’ experience in the banking and corporate sector. He had served in key positions in the corporate services, business development, corporate communications and human resource functions.

He was part of the pioneer management team tasked with the establishment of Pengurusan Danaharta Nasional Berhad (“Danaharta”) during the 1998 Asian financial crisis. He served as General Manager, Communications and Human Resource, Danaharta, from its establishment in 1998 until 2005.

He joined Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM), the Malaysian Central Bank and banking industry regulator in 2008, as the pioneer Director of the Malaysia International Islamic Finance Center. In this position, he was responsible for planning and execution of strategies to position and brand Malaysia as an international Islamic financial center. He spent nearly 10 years at BNM and his final position was Director, Strategic Communications. This entailed the provision of strategic communication advice to the BNM Governor and senior leaders, planning and execution of major media and PR campaigns as well as Parliamentary responses and all media relations and e-communications work.

His current directorships within the Maybank Group include Maybank (Cambodia) Plc and Maybank Islamic Bhd. Currently, he also sits on the Board of Marine & General Berhad, a public company listed on the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia.