Azlan Zainal Abidin

Azlan Zainal Abidin is Director of Dagang Net Technologies Sdn Bhd effective 31 May 2021.

Azlan Zainal Abidin graduated from Imperial College, United Kingdom with a Master’s degree in Business. He also holds a Bachelor of Science, Commerce from University of Virginia, United States of America.

As Group Chief Executive Officer of IT & eServices, Azlan is responsible for the overall operations of the Group’s IT business segment, and instrumental in providing leadership and overseeing implementation of the Group’s strategies in the IT business segment.

He has over 24 years of working experience in various sectors including IT and telecommunications, with recent years in top leadership roles in established corporations including as Chief Enterprise Business Officer at Celcom Axiata Berhad, as well as Country Managing Partner of IBM Global Services, Managing Director of Accenture Malaysia, General Manager Group IT at Malaysia Airport Holdings Berhad, and Vice President, IT Transformation at Celcom Axiata Berhad.

Prior to that, he joined Accenture serving as Global Data Lead for Chevron’s Downstream SAP Implementation (Makati, Philippines), Business Process Advisor for Shell Exploration Global (Rijswijk, Netherlands), SAP Data Solution Lead for Total Myanmar (Yangon, Myanmar) and Finance and Treasury Subject Matter Expert for Shell Nigeria (Lagos, Nigeria).

Before his tenure in Accenture, he was attached at Shell Cyberjaya as ERP/SAP e-Banking Team Lead, and Shell Oman and Dubai as SAP Financial Consultant. He was Senior Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers before joining Shell Cyberjaya.