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Stuart L Dean (Male), aged 65, was appointed an Independent
Non-Executive Director of AirAsia Group Berhad (AAGB) on
30 March 2018. He is the Chairman of the Safety Review Board
and member of the Nomination and Remuneration and Risk
Management Committees of AAGB.
He was appointed an Independent Non-Executive Director of
AirAsia Berhad (AAB) on 15 June 2015. He is the Chairman of
the Safety Review Board and member of the Nomination and
Remuneration and Risk Management Committees of AAB.
Mr Dean graduated magna cum laude from Duke University
in 1975 with a BA in Economics and Political Science and as a
member of Phi Beta Kappa. He obtained an MBA from Harvard in
1979.
Mr Dean has over 35 years of experience working across GE
businesses in the US and Asia in senior positions in sales,
marketing, product general management, services marketing and
general management. He retired from GE in April 2015.
Mr Dean started in an advanced sales and marketing entry
programme in GE Appliances in 1979. He was the Marketing
Manager for the Dishwasher business in 1983.
Mr Dean was appointed Specialty Appliance Manager with
responsibility for developing a new line of high-end built-
in appliances called the GE Architecture Line. He then was
appointed Product General Manager in 1988. He took a business
development role in Singapore in late 1991 and became President
of GE Capital, Southeast Asia, in 1993. Following his assignment
in GE Capital, he became President, GE Indonesia in February
1995.
In May 2002, he became President and CEO, GE ASEAN and was
given responsibility for all of ASEAN, based in KL. Mr Dean also
serves on the board of MIDA and the Advisory Boards of Duke
University Trinity College and Harvard Business School Asia. He
also serves as Chairman of Junior Achievement Malaysia and
on the board of Orbis Asia whose aircraft hospitals perform eye
surgeries in developing countries.
STUART
L DEAN
Independent Non-Executive Director
American
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AirAsia Group Berhad
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