Datuk Dr Hamzah Kassim

Datuk Dr Hamzah career spanned both business and government. He is currently the Co-Founder and Group Managing Director of The IA Group, a management, technology, talent management and BPO services. He was a former Executive Director/Partner of the international firm of Ernst & Young, Vice President and Country Head of the global consulting firm of Cap Gemini and a member of the global management team and Country Head of PA Consulting Group. Dr. Hamzah has led large scale advisory assignments related to business and IT transformation, merger integration, institutional reform and public policy development over the last 15 years in his professional career. In the last 9 years he has spinned off 7 companies in technology services, human capital, leadership development and management consulting with over 180 professional serving both local and multinational firms.

 

Prior to moving to the private sector in 1995 Dr Hamzah had served the Government holding various senior positions in the field of technology policy and industrial change including undertaking strategic projects for ISIS, UNCTAD and Islamic Development Bank, IDB in the region and middle east. Dr Hamzah was appointed by the Prime Minister as a member of the National Advisory Economic Council (NEAC) tasked with preparing the New Economic Model from 2009 -2011, currently member of the Higher Education Entrepreneurship Council and the Advisory Panel of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission.

 

He also sits in various boards in public and private institutions and non-government organizations. He holds a MBA and PhD in business from University of Aston, United Kingdom.