The Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) today announced the appointment of Datuk Anantham Kasinather as the non-executive chairman of its audit oversight board (AOB) effective December 1, 2020. Anantham has served as a member of the AOB since January 2020 and will be taking over from Datuk Gumuri Hussain, who had retired from the post on November 23, 2020. Anantham brings with him more than 40 years of experience in the private sector, having started his career at Skrine & Co practising in various areas of commercial law. He has also served in the judiciary, where he was appointed as a judge of the High Court of Malaya in 2009 and elevated to the Court of Appeal in 2010 before retiring from judicial service in May 2014.

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