Zafrul Aziz

YM Tengku Dato’ Sri Zafrul Aziz bin Tengku Abdul Aziz is the Chief Executive Officer of CIMB Bank Berhad, the second largest consumer bank in Malaysia, under CIMB Group. Zafrul joined CIMB on 2 January 2014 and serves as CEO of CIMB Group.

Zafrul is the President of the Kuala Lumpur Business Club and sits on the Board of Malaysian Investment Development Authority (MIDA), Malaysia's primary agency for manufacturing and services sector promotion and Perbadanan PR1MA Malaysia which focuses on property development for middle income households. He also sits on the board of Cagamas Berhad and is a member of the Advisory Board to the Faculty of Business and Accounting, University Malaya. His most recent appointments are Chairman of Enactus (formerly known as SIFE) Malaysia, a non-profit organisation aimed at grooming university students into future leaders. Zafrul was also in the panel of judges in the corporate reality television series The Firm.

Zafrul has four children (daughters, Tengku Zahra Jasmina and Tengku Zahira Eusnie and sons, Tengku Zaeem Khalif and Tengku Zayn Aqeel), and is married to Raja Datin Johanna Arshad.

Zafrul was born on 25 June 1973 and is the eldest of four siblings. His mother is Raja Datuk Zaharaton Raja Zainal Abidin, former Director-General of the Economic Planning Unit (EPU) of the Prime Minister's Department of Malaysia, and his father, Tengku Abdul Aziz, is a businessman.

Zafrul, graduated from the University of Bristol, UK with a BSc (Hons) in Economics and Accounting and completed his master's degree in University of Exeter, UK.

Zafrul started out as a corporate finance executive in AmInvestment Bank. He then joined Crédit Agricole as an investment analyst, moving up to Director within a few years. Succeeding this, he became the Advisor to the President of Tenaga Nasional Berhad. Zafrul then joined CIMB Investment banking, after which he was appointed as Group Managing Director of Avenue Capital Resources (now ECM Libra), a listed company specialising in financial services i.e. investment banking and fund management. He was also Chief Executive Officer of Avenue Securities and the Chairman of Avenue Asset Management.

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