Syarikat Takaful Malaysia Keluarga Berhad has informed that its independent and non executive director Datuk Bazlan Osman resigned from his post as apporved by Bank Negara on 13 June.
Datuk Bazlan was formerly the Executive Director of Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM), from April 2008 until February 2019. He served as TM’s Group Chief Financial Officer (CFO) from May 2005 until his promotion to the position of Deputy Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in April 2017. He was appointed as the Acting Group CEO from June 2018 until November 2018. Prior to joining TM, he was with Celcom Malaysia Berhad as the Senior Vice President, Corporate Finance & Treasury in 2001 before being elevated to the CFO position in 2002. He began his career in audit with M/S Hanafiah Raslan & Mohamad, a public accounting firm after he graduated in Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) in 1986. He then joined the Sime Darby Group from 1989 to 1993, holding various finance positions in its corporate office in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Melaka.
He had a one year stint in American Express Malaysia Berhad as its Manager-Accounting. Thereafter he served Kumpulan FIMA Berhad (KFB) as Senior Vice President, Finance/Company Secretary from 1994 to 2000. He was President of Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA) from June 2022 until November 2023, Chair of ACCA Malaysia Advisory Committee from December 2021 until November 2023 and Ex-Officio of Financial Reporting Foundation from June 2022 until November 2023. He is a Fellow of the ACCA and a Chartered Accountant of the MIA.
He was a member of the Issues Committee of the Malaysian Accounting Standards Board from 2006 until 2010. He had attended the IMD Program for Senior Executives in 2008 and the Strategic Leadership Program at the University of Oxfords SAID Business School in 2013. In 2015, he was named in the Global Telecoms Business 50 CFOs To Watch. In 2016, he was awarded the Best CFO in Malaysia (#1) by Alpha South East Asia Investors. He was also recognised for Excellence in Financial Planning & Analysis at the 5th Annual CFO Innovation Awards | CFO Innovation Asia.
