15-10-2008: COO Sharil expected to be named new chairman of MCMC

by Sharmila Ganapathy 12:26PM (15-10-2008)

KUALA LUMPUR: The country?s telecommunications regulator the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) is expected to announce the appointment of its chief operating officer (COO) Mohamed Sharil Tarmizi as its new chairman this week, sources said.

It is learnt that current chairman Datuk Dr Halim Shafie is retiring from his position today. Halim succeeded Datuk V Danabalan as the chairman in 2006.

Halim?s retirement will pave the way for Sharil to become the regulator?s fifth chairman. He was appointed COO of MCMC in June this year and has also been a commission member of MCMC since May 2006.

A barrister, Sharil first joined MCMC in 2000 as a general manager and senior adviser in the chairman?s office. During his tenure, he was credited with leading new development initiatives that included development of convergence legislation in Malaysia, licensing migration to a convergence framework, third-generation mobile systems and self-regulation in the communications and multimedia sector.

He left MCMC in 2006 to join financial advisory firm BinaFikir Sdn Bhd, which was acquired by Malayan Banking Bhd in August. He was the executive director and head of strategy in BinaFikir prior to returning to MCMC to take up the COO position.

Sharil?s industry experience includes roles on the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), where he was the immediate past chairman of the government advisory committee and a board member of ICANN for four years.

The California-based ICANN is a non-profit organisation founded in 1998 to oversee Internet-related tasks, which had been performed directly on behalf of the US government. These include assigning domain names and Internet protocol addresses.

Sharil?s global experience also includes collaborations with the Commonwealth Telecoms Organisation, the Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre, the International Telecommunications Union and the World Bank.

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