ABDUL RAHMAN BIN AHMAD

Abdul Rahman bin Ahmad, aged 38, a Malaysian, is the Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Media Prima Berhad (Media Prima). He was appointed to the Board of Media Prima on 22 October 2001.

Before his appointment as the Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Media Prima on 1 September 2003, he was the Chief Executive Officer of Malaysian Resources Corporation Berhad (MRCB), a position he took up in August 2001. He currently sits on the Board of MRCB, The New Straits Times Press ( Malaysia) Berhad and Composite Technology Research Malaysia Sdn Bhd. He is also the Executive Director of Sistem Televisyen Malaysia Berhad (TV3) and a member of the Audit Committee of Media Prima.

Abdul Rahman was an Assistant Manager at Arthur Andersen, London, from 1992 to 1996, after which he held the position of Special Assistant to the Executive Chairman of Trenergy (M) Berhad/Turnaround Managers Inc (M) Sdn Bhd until 1999. He subsequently joined Pengurusan Danaharta Nasional Berhad as a Unit Head from 1999 to 2000 and went on to become an Executive Director of SSR Associates Sdn Bhd until August 2001.

He holds a Master of Arts from Cambridge University, England, and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, England & Wales.