KUALA LUMPUR: Petronas Dagangan Bhd (PDB) has appointed Datuk Seri Syed Zainal Abidin Syed Mohamed Tahir as its new managing director (MD) chief executive officer (CEO) effective June 1, 2018.
Syed Zainal is the former MD of Proton Holdings Bhd. He was appointed as group MD of Proton from 2006 to 2012.
He also sat on the Boards of various subsidiaries of Proton Group before he left the Company in May 2012.
Syed Zainal, 55, will take over the role after the company's MD and CEO Datuk Mohd Ibrahimnuddin Mohd Yunus steps down on the same day.
In a filing with Bursa Malaysia, PDB said Syed Zainal will also be redesignated from non-executive director to executive director.
Syed Zainal, who has about 30 years of experience in the corporate world, graduated with Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the University of Maryland, USA.
He began his career with Petronas Gas Sdn Bhd in 1987 as a project engineer, prior to joining Petronas in 1992 as the senior executive of the company's Corporate Planning and International Business Development Unit.
He served at Petronas for about three years before leaving to join Hicom Holdings Bhd in 1995, where he assumed various senior positions.
In 1999, Syed Zainal was appointed as Perusahaan Otomobil Kedua Sdn Bhd (Perodua) senior general manager, and later in 2002 as Perodua Auto Corporation Sdn Bhd executive director. He was promoted to Perodua deputy managing director in October 2005.
In a separate filing, PDB said Mohd Ibrahimnuddin, 54, has resigned, citing "staff mobility within Petronas Group".
Mohd Ibrahimnuddin was appointed to his current role at the marketing arm of Petronas on Feb 1, 2014. Prior to that, he was CEO of Petronas LNG Sdn Bhd.