Board of Directors

Ms Sujatha Sekhar Naik has been a Non-Executive Independent Director of OFS since September 2020. She is a senior capital markets professional whose experience encompasses policy and strategy development, governance, compliance, and dispute resolution. With over 30 years of experience in legal and capital market work, Ms Sujatha brings a depth of experience plus a practical and holistic understanding of financial markets, the regulatory framework and investor concerns and challenges. In October 2021, she took on the mantle of Chief Governance Officer & Group General Counsel of Smart Glove Holdings Bhd, bringing her experience in governance and compliance work to the manufacturing sector. Prior to this she was Managing Partner and Principal Consultant of SSN Consult Plt, during which she worked as part of a founding team with Kapital DX Sdn Bhd, responsible for developing the risk and compliance framework for the fintech start up. She served as CEO of the Securities Industry Dispute Resolution Center (SIDREC) from 2013 to 2019. As CEO, she helped steer SIDREC’s dispute resolution service to be at par with international best practice and in step with developments in the capital market. Her prior work as a regulator at the Securities Commission Malaysia (SC), included advisory and reform work in both the General Counsel’s Office and the Corporate Finance and Investments Business Group. She was involved in SC’s major policy and reform work and responsible for the development and implementation of the investor education strategy and management of complaints on market misconduct. Ms Sujatha obtained her LL.B. (Hons) degree from the University of London and was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1989 and re-qualified with the Law Society of England and Wales as a Solicitor in 1990. She was called to the Malaysian Bar in 1998. She is an accredited mediator plus certified trainer and coach of the Bar Council’s Malaysian Mediation Centre. She is currently the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Malaysian Institute of Corporate Governance (MICG and also sits on the board of Metrod Holdings Berhad).