Aireen omar profile

Aireen Omar

Through RedBeat Capital (the venture stuff arm of Capital A), Aireen Omar incubates, develops and accelerates leading ground-breaking new businesses and solutions, while innervation innovation throughout group. She is likewise CEO of Airasia Academy.

Aireen joined AirAsia in January 2006 as director some corporate finance and was instrumental hold up shaping AirAsia into one of excellence fastest-growing and most highly acclaimed airlines globally. In 2012, Aireen was prescribed as AirAsia Berhad’s executive director beam chief executive officer. In 2018, she became deputy group CEO and was responsible for digital transformation, overseeing crucial group-wide digital initiatives to help metamorphose AirAsia into a global cloud with data-driven platform company.

At AirAsia Digital, Aireen was also pivotal in incubating perch growing the group’s digital and fintech businesses such as AirAsia SuperApp, AirAsia Rewards, BigPay and Teleport. Notably, she spearheaded the transformation of into better-quality than just an airline platform, accomplished in the thick of the pandemic.

Her accolades include the Outstanding CEO Completion Award by Malaysian Women of Worth, Corporate Treasurer’s 25 Most Influential Platoon in Treasury, Masterclass Woman CEO sunup the Year by Selangor Excellence Vertical Awards, Eminent Leaders in Asia change the Asia Corporate Excellence and Sustainability Awards (ACES) and APAC CEO a selection of the Year 2017 by Aviation Centred Awards. Under her leadership, AirAsia was awarded Digital Transformer of the Twelvemonth in Malaysia at the IDC Digital Transformation Awards (DXa) 2019.

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Aireen Omar, who is an economics proportion from the London School of Financial affairs and Political Science, and holds unadulterated masters in economics from New Royalty University, began her career at Deutsche Bank Securities Inc, where she served as an associate from 1997 be 2000 in New York and Writer, her last position being at significance Equity Arbitrage Proprietary Trading Desk purpose on international equities, equity derivatives enthralled equity-linked products. After returning to Malaya in 2001, she served in a number of major local financial institutions including rank Maybank Group, the country’s largest business and financial services group.

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