Mr. Thomas Hundt was born in Blankenburg/Hraz, Germany. German citizen domiciled in Malaysia, 45 years old.
He was appointed as a Member of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee of the Company based on the decision of the Board of Commissioners Number SK-001/BOC/CSL-LN/I/23 dated 11 January 2023.
He has extensive experience in the telecommunications industry including at Siemens AG Germany from 1998 to 2007 with his last position as Director Commercial Sales, as Member of the Supervisory Board of Azerfon LLC Azerbaijan from 2005 to 2006, as Executive Project Manager and CFO CMO North -East Finance & Control at Nokia Siemens Network GmBH & Co. KG Germany from 2007 to 2008, as Member of the Advisory Board at AIESEC Cambodia from 2013 to 2019, as Member of the Council of the European Chamber of Commerce (Eurocham) Cambodia since 2011, as Vice President of the German Business Group (ADW) Cambodia since in 2010, and joined Axiata Group Company since 2014 and has held various director positions, with his last position currently being Group Chief Strategy & Technology Officer at Axiata Group Berhad.
He was Born in Colombo, Sri Lanka. British citizen, domiciled in Malaysia, 54 years old. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Cambridge. He subsequently obtained his PhD in Digital Mobile Communications from the University of Bristol, is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow from the Institute of Engineering Technology UK, an MBA from the University of Warwick.
He was appointed as a Member of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee of the Company based on the decision of the Board of Commissioners Number SK-001/BOC/CSL-LN/I/23 dated 11 January 2023.
He serves as the Boards in several Axiata Group Companies across Asia including Dialog Axiata PLC in Sri Lanka, where, for 19 years up to 2016, he held the role of Group Chief Executive. During the period 2012-2014, Dr. Hans also functioned as the Founding CEO of Axiata Digital Services – the Group-wide Digital Services Business of the Axiata Group. In the year 2016, He was honored by the GSM Association as the first recipient of the “Outstanding Contribution to the Asian Mobile Industry” Award. Dr. Hans is a member of the Board of Directors of the GSMA and is a past Chairman of GSM Asia Pacific – the regional interest group of the GSM Association. Dr. Hans has also served on the Board of the TM Forum. Dr. Hans has published widely on the subject of digital mobile communications, including research papers in publications of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) USA, Royal Society and the Institute of Engineering Technology (IET) UK (S.S.H Wijayasuriya et. al). He is the immediate Past Chairman of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and has formerly served on the Boards of the Sri Lanka Institute for Nano Technology, the Information & Communications Technology Agency of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Institute for Information Technology and the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies as its Chair. Dr. Hans was named ‘Sri Lankan of the Year’ by Sri Lanka’s premier business journal the LMD in 2008.