YBhg. Dato‘ Mohamed Sharil Tarmizi is a consultant focused on corporate and regulatory advisory work. With a career spanning over 30 years in both the private and public sectors, he started his career as a lawyer in construction law and privatisations and later became a corporate advisor involved in several corporate turnaround exercises.
He was also a former regulator on the internet, telecoms, broadcasting, online media as well as the postal and express delivery industry. He had two tours of duty serving Malaysia’s telecoms, broadcast media and postal and digital signature regulator, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) where he was in the pioneer team during the formative years of MCMC (2000-2006) after the cessation of Telekom Department of Malaysia (Jabatan Telekom Malaysia) and the Broadcast Licensing Division, Ministry of Information (Bahagian Perlesenan Penyiaran, Kementerian Penerangan Malaysia), merging two separate and distinct government departments into the world’s first converged communications and multimedia regulator.
He returned to the private sector in late 2006 and after several years in the private sector, was invited to return to MCMC to become its Chief Operating Officer before later being appointed as its Chairman and Chief Executive in October 2011.
During his tenure in public service, he was involved in the team that investigated the events surrounding the disappearance of MH370 and amongst others, later coordinated the first global high-level engagement of “Expert Dialogues on Real-time Monitoring of Flight Data” between the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) soon after the conclusion of the ITU’s World Telecommunications Development Conference in 2014.
He sits on the board several private and public companies in Malaysia and overseas spanning across various industries and sectors. He is a passionate supporter of technology start-ups and was formerly a student pilot and a former ham radio operator.
Sharil graduated with an LL.B(Hons) from University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, qualified as a Barrister, of Gray’s Inn, London and was also called to the Malaysian Bar. He is also an Honorary Fellow of Aberystwyth University and a Fellow of the Institute of Corporate Directors, Malaysia.
