Aireen Omar is AirAsia Group’s President (RedBeat Ventures). She is responsible for AirAsia’s digital strategy, promoting innovation throughout the group and encouraging collaboration across AirAsia’s businesses and markets.

She is also a Non-Executive Director of Tune Protect Group Berhad.

She oversees large, digital strategic group-wide initiatives to help transform AirAsia Group into a global, cloud and data-driven product and platform company. At RedBeat Ventures, Aireen is also pivotal in incubating and growing the digital and fintech businesses such as BigLife, BigPay, AirAsia Wifi, Teleport and in transforming airasia.com into more than just an airline platform.

Her role is also critical in ensuring synergies between airline and AirAsia’s non airline digital businesses under its venture arm, RedBeat Ventures.

Prior to this, Aireen was AirAsia Berhad’s Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer.

Aireen joined AirAsia in January 2006 as Director of Corporate Finance, portfolio expanding quickly to also include Insurance, Treasury, Fuel Procurement and Investor Relations functions. One of Aireen’s key achievements include securing competitive funding for AirAsia at the peak of the 2008 global credit crisis, as well as putting AirAsia at the forefront of aircraft financing in the region. Taking on these roles, she was instrumental in shaping the development of AirAsia into one of the fastest growing and most highly-acclaimed airlines globally.

She is an Economics graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science and also holds a Masters in Economics from New York University.

Ng Soon Lai @ Ng Siek Chuan (“Ng Siek Chuan”) joined the Board as Independent Non-Executive Director on 5 October 2012. He was appointed as Chairman of the Company on 22 May 2017. He has been re-designated from Senior Independent Non-Executive Director on 18 April 2019. During his capacity as a member of the Board, he was the Chairman of Audit and Risk Committee and Nomination & Remuneration Committee until 16 March 2017. He remains as a member of Audit, Risk Management and Nomination & Remuneration Committees.

With close to four decades of experience in the financial services industry, he started his career in audit and accounting with Coopers & Lybrand in London and Kuala Lumpur. He then made a pivotal switch to the financial sector in 1980, where he made his career with a leading local merchant bank and a finance institution. He joined Alliance Bank Malaysia Berhad in 1991 as General Manager of Credit and was later appointed Chief Executive Director in 1994. He became a Board member of Alliance Merchant Bank Berhad in 2002. He resigned as Chief Executive Director of Alliance Bank Malaysia Berhad in 2005.

Ng Siek Chuan is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He currently holds independent directorships with ELK-Desa Resources Berhad, China Construction Bank (Malaysia) Berhad and WCT Holdings Berhad.

Tan Sri Anthony Francis Fernandes (“Fernandes”) was appointed as Non-Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company on 1 July 2019. He is also a member of the Employee Share Option Scheme of the Company.

Fernandes is one of Asia’s most recognisable entrepreneurs, best known for co-founding AirAsia and democratising air travel in the region. In December 2001, Fernandes, together with Datuk Kamarudin bin Meranun, Dato’ Pahamin Ab Rajab and Dato’ Abdul Aziz bin Abu Bakar, acquired struggling domestic airline AirAsia and, with the help of Conor McCarthy, relaunched it as a pioneer of budget travel in Asia, subsequently building it into the world’s best low-cost carrier.

Fernandes studied in the UK, and qualified as an Associate Member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants in 1991, then as a Fellow Member in 1996. An accountant by training, he began his career in Virgin Group before returning to Malaysia as Warner Music Group’s Vice President for Southeast Asia, prior to launching AirAsia.

He has received numerous awards and accolades over the course of his career. These include the Commander of the Order of the British Empire, conferred by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 2011, and the Commander of the Legion d’Honneur, awarded by the French government for his outstanding contribution towards, the economy of France through the aviation industry.

He is a Director and Chief Executive Officer of AirAsia Group Berhad, and also a Director of AirAsia X Berhad.

Tan Ming-Li (“Ming-Li”) was appointed Independent Non-Executive Director of Tune Protect Group on 1 April 2014. On 1 June 2017, she became the Chairman of Nomination and Remuneration Committees. She is also a member of the Audit and Risk Management Committees.

She sits on the Board of Tune Insurance Malaysia Berhad, a subsidiary of the Company. Ming-Li is a partner in the legal firm, Chooi & Company + Cheang & Ariff and has been in legal practice since 1994. She specializes in corporate and securities law where she is principally involved in advising on capital market transactions, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring as well as corporate finance related work.

She is a graduate of the University of Melbourne, Australia with a double degree in Law (Hons) and Science.

She is currently an Independent Non-Executive Director of BP Plastics Holding Bhd and Ikhmas Jaya Group Berhad.

Mohamed Rashdi Mohamed Ghazalli (“Mohamed Ghazalli”) was appointed as Independent Non-Executive Director of Tune Protect Group Berhad on 1 June 2017. He has been re-designated from Independent Non-Executive Director to Senior Independent Non-Executive Director on 18 April 2019. He is also Chairman of the Audit and Risk Management Committees, as well as member of the Nomination and Remuneration Committees.

Mohamed Rashdi had a successful career in IT and Management Consulting with Coopers & Lybrand, IBM Consulting and PricewaterhouseCoopers over a span of 20 years. During his career, he worked with Telecoms Australia as well as Coopers & Lybrand in the United Kingdom. He was a Partner of PwC Consulting (East Asia) as well as IBM Consulting and was also IT and Consulting Advisor with PwC Malaysia focusing on capacity building, business development and quality assurance.

As a management and technology consultant, Mohamed Rashdi has personally led assignments in strategy and economics, business process improvement, information systems planning and IT project management. He has provided consultancy expertise across a range of industries such as government, telecommunications, oil & gas, transport and utilities with some involvement in manufacturing and financial services.

Mohamend Rashdi graduated in 1979 with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree in Computation from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, United Kingdom. He is also a Director on the Boards of Sapura Energy Berhad and Danajamin Nasional Berhad.

Kelvin Desmond Malayapillay (“Kelvin”) joined the Board of Tune Protect Group Berhad on 28 February 2020 as Independent Non-Executive Director. He is a member of the Risk and Audit Committees.

Currently developing a portfolio career, Kelvin has been supporting various corporate clients in consumer financial services and insurance as an independent strategy advisor while also advising and investing in a selection of fintech startups. He is also a certified Executive Coach having recently completed the Professional Certificate in Coaching from Henley Business School.

With more than 20 years’ experience across financial services and consulting, Kelvin has an extensive career from his early beginnings at Shell Malaysia. He subsequently worked for the Boston Consulting Group in London before moving on to Capital One Bank where he held roles in credit risk management and in managing the personal loan portfolio; Booz & Co. where he served clients in the United Kingdom and the Middle East; and Liverpool Victoria (LV=), a composite insurance firm where he held key management roles including Director of the Direct Life business, and Group Strategy Director. Following that, in 2016, he joined Lloyds Banking Group as the Strategy Director for the retail bank.

Kelvin holds an MBA from the London Business School, a Masters in Science in Engineering and Physical Science in Medicine and a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Hons.) majoring in Electrical & Electronic Engineering, both from the Imperial College, London.