Tan Sri Datuk C Rajandram
Tan Sri Datuk C Rajandram was appointed Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer of RAM Holdings Berhad (“RAM”, formerly known as Rating Agency Malaysia Berhad) on 1 May 1991. He is currently the Executive Deputy Chairman/Group CEO of RAM Holdings Berhad.
Prior to taking up the challenge of spearheading the setting up Malaysia’s first credit-rating agency, he had been with Bank Negara Malaysia (Malaysia’s Central Bank) since 1962, where his designations had included Manager for the Accounting Department (1973 to 1980) and Secretary of the Capital Issues Committee (1976 to 1985). He was also appointed the Central Bank’s Advisor for Operations in 1980, a position he held until his departure in May 1991. In the interim, he had been seconded to the Ministry of Finance (June 1986 to April 1991) as the Director of a special unit that monitored and restructured Government-linked companies.
Elsewhere, Tan Sri Rajandram is a member of the Economic Council. He is also a Commission Member of the Malaysian Communications & Multimedia Commission, which regulates the telecommunication industries of Malaysia.
Tan Sri sits on the Boards of RAM, and RAM Ratings (Lanka) Limited. He is also a Fellow of the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants, a Member of the Malaysian Association of Certified Public Accountants, and a Fellow of the Institute of Banks Malaysia.
Datuk Dr K Govindan
Datuk Dr Govindan is the Deputy Group Chief Executive Officer of RAM Holdings Berhad. He joined the Malaysian Administrative and Diplomatic Service in August 1975, and has occupied several senior positions in the Economic Planning Unit (“EPU”). Dato’ Govindan has served as the Secretary of the National Economic Action Council (“NEAC”), established by the Government to overcome the 1997 Asian financial crisis.
His last position before joining RAM had been Deputy Director-General of the EPU, with responsibilities as Head of the Secretariat for the Economic Council chaired by the Prime Minister. Dato’ Govindan continues to be a member of the Economic Council Working Group and sits on the Board of MIDA and Malaysia Property Incorporated.
Dato’ Govindan holds a PhD (Economics), Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from the University of London, and Bachelor of Economics (Honours) from the University of Malaya. He also holds a Certificate in Legal Practice (Honours) and a Diploma in Advanced Management from INSEAD, Paris.
Dr Yeah Kim Leng
With RAM since January 1994, he first joined the organization to start up the Economics & Market Research Department. During the first 6 years, he led the research department in producing macroeconomic outlook, industry studies and bond market research publications.
In May 2000 he was appointed the Managing Director and Chief Economist of RAM Consultancy Services Sdn Bhd, a wholly owned subsidiary of RAM, which was established to provide strategic advisory services vis-à-vis business, economics, industry research and risk management. Over the 7-year period at the consulting subsidiary, he was involved in numerous consultancy services and research projects that spanned both the public and private sectors. These include regional and national economic studies, sectoral and industry research projects, and strategic advisory services for several large Malaysian corporations and various government ministries and agencies. In March 2007, following the restructuring of the rating agency, he was appointed the Group Chief Economist.
Before joining RAM, he had been a senior analyst at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia, where he had been involved in a number of research projects on national economic policies. Prior to joining ISIS upon his return from post-graduate studies overseas, he had a 7-year stint in forest resource management and planning with the Forestry Department Headquarters of Peninsular Malaysia and the Sabah Foundation.
He graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Forestry) from Universiti Putra Malaysia in 1978 and obtained a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Hawaii (1988) and a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics (1992), both had been obtained under the East-West Centre degree-participant programme.
Foo Su Yin
Su Yin is the Acting Chief Executive Officer of RAM Ratings. She joined RAM as one of its pioneer analysts in 1991. Since coming on board, Su Yin has been a member of the company’s senior management line-up for several years now.
Su Yin has extensive experience in credit rating; she has overseen the operations of various rating departments ranging from Industrial Products, Financial Institutions and Public Finance Ratings. Over the years, she has also served and chaired the Internal Rating Committee which deliberates and assigns the ratings recommended to the Rating Committee.
Her other exposures include the setting up of RAM Ratings (Lanka) Ltd as well as the reorganisation of the RAM Group in 2007 under the then Strategic Investment and Resources Development Department. She has also led the recruitment and training of new analysts to ensure sustainable talent management since 2000.
Su Yin holds an Honours degree in Economics from Universiti Utara Malaysia.