Director's Profile - Shireen Ann Zaharah Muhiudeen
Directors - Shireen Ann Zaharah Muhiudeen
Independent Non-Executive Director
Malaysian, aged 47, Independent Non-Executive Director, appointed to the Board on 6 May 2011. She is the Chairman of the Governance Committee of the Company.
Puan Shireen Muhiudeen holds a Master of Business Adminisration from Loyola Marymount University, California, and a Bachelor of Science (Marshall School of Business) from University of Southern California.
She is the founder, managing director, and principal fund manager of Corston-Smith Asset Management, which is today the only Malaysian asset manager admitted as a signatory to the United Nations Principles of Responsible Investing (UNPRI) and the only Malaysian asset management firm admitted as a member of the well-renowned Asian Corporate Governance Association (ACGA). Corston-Smith is also a partner of British Telecom Pension Scheme (BTPS), which has a 30% share in Corston-Smith.
Puan Shireen set up Corston-Smith in 2004, after 12 years as chief executive of the Malaysian arm of global insurance giant AIG Investment Corporation. In all, she has more than 24 years of focused fund management expertise, including her extensive current ASEAN client portfolio.
Thus has she just been named one of the 25 most influential women in the Asia-Pacific region for asset management, by regional publication AsianInvestor. She has long been a much sought-after speaker at national and international forums, including that of the International Financial Corporation (IFC), which is a member of the World Bank group. She is currently also a member of IFC's working group for the establishment of the Philippine Stock Exchange's Maharlika Board, which is a separate trading board for companies with world-class corporate governance practices.
Puan Shireen's involvement in finalising the rules for the Maharlika Board is just one of her many unstinting commitments to good corporate governance, transparency, accountability, and greater representation of women in boardrooms. Besides nurturing and nudging companies that Corston-Smith invests in towards best practices, she has also successfully drawn many international investors to Malaysia by launching the ASEAN Corporate Governance Fund there in 2008 and then the ASEAN Shariah Corporate Governance Fund in 2009.
She accepts speaking engagements whenever she can to reinforce her commitments, such as the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN)(2011), the Hankook Ilbo Global Women's Leadership Conference (2010), Deloitte's Global Council for the Retention and Advancement of Women (2011), and the Ministry of Women, Family & Community's Women's Summit (2009 & 2010). She builds on these consistently, notably with her monthly column, Governance Matters, in Malaysia's best-selling English daily - The Star, as well as a frequent commentator on global finance for such broadcasters as Bloomberg and CNBC. On top of that, she and her team at Corston-Smith have taken it upon themselves to publish a free handbook on personal finance for young working adults. Titled 'Learn To Make Sense Of Your Money - What They Don't Tell You When You First Start Work', it is available in English and Bahasa Malaysia.
This equally avid sportswoman is no stranger to international representation, having been Malaysia's hope at the Junior Wimbledon tennis championships in 1981. In recent years, she has served on her country's Sports Advisory Council, the Board of Tourism Malaysia, and a member of the EU-Malaysia Chamber of Commerce & Industry's Financial Services Committee.
As she was appointed to the Board in year 2011, Puan Shireen Muhiudeen did not attend any Board Meeting during the financial year ended 31 December 2010.
She does not sit on the board of any public listed companies, and save as disclosed, she does not have any family relationship with any Director or major shareholder of Integrax Berhad, and neither any conflict of interest with the Company.
Her indirect interest in the shares of the Company is disclosed in the Directors' shareholding Report shown on page 13 of the 2010 Annual Report.
Puan Shireen Muhiudeen holds a Master of Business Adminisration from Loyola Marymount University, California, and a Bachelor of Science (Marshall School of Business) from University of Southern California.
She is the founder, managing director, and principal fund manager of Corston-Smith Asset Management, which is today the only Malaysian asset manager admitted as a signatory to the United Nations Principles of Responsible Investing (UNPRI) and the only Malaysian asset management firm admitted as a member of the well-renowned Asian Corporate Governance Association (ACGA). Corston-Smith is also a partner of British Telecom Pension Scheme (BTPS), which has a 30% share in Corston-Smith.
Puan Shireen set up Corston-Smith in 2004, after 12 years as chief executive of the Malaysian arm of global insurance giant AIG Investment Corporation. In all, she has more than 24 years of focused fund management expertise, including her extensive current ASEAN client portfolio.
Thus has she just been named one of the 25 most influential women in the Asia-Pacific region for asset management, by regional publication AsianInvestor. She has long been a much sought-after speaker at national and international forums, including that of the International Financial Corporation (IFC), which is a member of the World Bank group. She is currently also a member of IFC's working group for the establishment of the Philippine Stock Exchange's Maharlika Board, which is a separate trading board for companies with world-class corporate governance practices.
Puan Shireen's involvement in finalising the rules for the Maharlika Board is just one of her many unstinting commitments to good corporate governance, transparency, accountability, and greater representation of women in boardrooms. Besides nurturing and nudging companies that Corston-Smith invests in towards best practices, she has also successfully drawn many international investors to Malaysia by launching the ASEAN Corporate Governance Fund there in 2008 and then the ASEAN Shariah Corporate Governance Fund in 2009.
She accepts speaking engagements whenever she can to reinforce her commitments, such as the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN)(2011), the Hankook Ilbo Global Women's Leadership Conference (2010), Deloitte's Global Council for the Retention and Advancement of Women (2011), and the Ministry of Women, Family & Community's Women's Summit (2009 & 2010). She builds on these consistently, notably with her monthly column, Governance Matters, in Malaysia's best-selling English daily - The Star, as well as a frequent commentator on global finance for such broadcasters as Bloomberg and CNBC. On top of that, she and her team at Corston-Smith have taken it upon themselves to publish a free handbook on personal finance for young working adults. Titled 'Learn To Make Sense Of Your Money - What They Don't Tell You When You First Start Work', it is available in English and Bahasa Malaysia.
This equally avid sportswoman is no stranger to international representation, having been Malaysia's hope at the Junior Wimbledon tennis championships in 1981. In recent years, she has served on her country's Sports Advisory Council, the Board of Tourism Malaysia, and a member of the EU-Malaysia Chamber of Commerce & Industry's Financial Services Committee.
As she was appointed to the Board in year 2011, Puan Shireen Muhiudeen did not attend any Board Meeting during the financial year ended 31 December 2010.
She does not sit on the board of any public listed companies, and save as disclosed, she does not have any family relationship with any Director or major shareholder of Integrax Berhad, and neither any conflict of interest with the Company.
Her indirect interest in the shares of the Company is disclosed in the Directors' shareholding Report shown on page 13 of the 2010 Annual Report.