TEAM ABC
YAZRIE SHUKRI
Founder and Group Managing Director
Yazrie is one of Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 Honoree for Media, Marketing and Advertising Industry and featured in Forbes U30 Ideas Hub Global Forbes Under 30 Summit Boston. Yazrie has more than 11 years experience in establishing and scaling new tech and digital business operations in the fierce competitive environments both domestically and abroad.
Yazrie’s vision is to make people’s life better by bringing advanced technology to create disruptive effects, high economic impact and create new digital frontiers.
ARIS ZAWADI AHMAD
Co-Founder, Group Corporate and Investment Director
Aris has more than 18 years’ experience in various departments and subsidiaries within Maybank Group. Aris was the Investment Portfolio Manager managing at least 30 investee companies in his last 9 years of service in Maybank Ventures Sdn Bhd.
TREVOR (AZIZ) DAINTY
Group Operation Director
Aziz is a strong operations executive with a pragmatic management style developed over a 40-years international career. He has led multinational teams on complex programs, across a range of cultural environments including Australia, South Asia, North Asia, ASEAN, the Pacific and the Middle East.
Aziz joined ABC to manage daily business operation, strategies and developed technology solutions for the group and its startup portfolio.
FAIZAL ADIPUTRA
Group Business Development Director
Well known as Blackberry turnaround man among Indonesian telco friends, Faizal has more than 20 years’ experience in the telco industry including VAS, data services, and BlackBerry services user adoption.
He drives group business development activities including strategies new vertical and horizontal growth, establishing strategic partnership and setting up pre-operational team for new startup portfolio.
AMIR AUZAIRY
Group Sales Director
Amir brings with him over 23 years of experience in the telecommunication industry to nurture the group sales strategies and its startup portfolios, focusing on retail market.
Prior to joining ABC, he was engaged by Maxis Communications Bhd as the Head of Regional Sales and Segmentation for 16 years, then by ATX Distributions Sdn Bhd to lead as their Vice President. He also becomes Head of Consumer Acquisition in ASN Mobile Sdn Bhd, one of MVNOs company that focusing on financial telecommunication in Malaysia.
AFZAINIZAM ZAKARIA
Group Program Director
Afzainizam is a passionate Program Director with extensive 20 years of valuable working experience in dynamic telecommunication industry on information technology, enterprise product management and enterprise solutions. Prior to joining the group, Afzainizam was the Senior Product Manager in Celcom Axiata Bhd.
He manages the ABC startup portfolio throughout the product lifecycle, product gathering, prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision and working closely with partners to deliver winning products out to all sales channels.
KAMARUL BAHRI ABDUL KADIR
Group Corporate and Marketing Communication Director
Kamarul has 23 years experiences in public relations, strategic communications and media relations. He started his career as a broadcast journalist in TV3 and then NTV7. He then progresses his career in RTM and SPAN before being trusted by the Prime Minister's Office to establish 1Malaysia TV. He later joined the Office of the then Deputy Prime Minister as Special Officer, Media.
Kamarul joins ABC to oversee the overall group marketing strategy and corporate communications activities.
SAIFUL NIZAM BAHARI
Group Creative Director
Since 1991, Saiful has been involved and entrusted with the task of creating, managing sales, promotion, advertising, and marketing campaigns for various clients.He has contributed his expertise and was engaged by government bodies, multinational corporations, international companies and media agencies that got his creative touch.
Saiful joined ABC with a mission to position the group and its startup portfolio's brand and products on the targeted benchmarks.
SALLIFAHNOR HALIM
Group General Manager
Sallifahnor has more than 15 years of working experience in operations, sales and administration including managing top management. As General Manager, she responsible for setting up new portfolio companies' operations including formulating company policies and managing daily operations of human resources, finance and administration services.