Dr Tengku Mohd Azzman Shariffadeen
President and Chief Executive Officer, MIMOS Berhad

Dr Tengku Mohd Azzman Shariffadeen is the President and Chief Executive Officer of MIMOS Berhad. He obtained a PhD in Control Systems in 1974 from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, United Kingdom.

In 1974 he started teaching at the University of Malaya (UM) and served as Dean of the Faculty of Engineering from 1975. In 1984, he left UM to form MIMOS (the Malaysian Institute of Microelectronic Systems) which has since become MIMOS Berhad under corporatisation.

He has been a key player in getting Malaysia on the fast IT track. He helped to catalyse the formation of the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) and contributed to the development of the National IT Agenda.

He is a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia; Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Malaysia; Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, USA; member of the National Council for Scientific Research and Development (NCSRD); member of the Board of Directors, University Malaya beginning from 2003 also appointed as Fellow of a Center for Global Communications (GLOCOM), Japan.

He serves as Adjunct Professor at the University Utara Malaysia and also the International Islamic University. He has presented and published over 70 papers.