YBhg Dato’ Mohamed Sharil Tarmizi is a consultant focused on corporate and regulatory advisory work. He started his career as a lawyer specialising in construction law and subsequently became a corporate advisor involved in several corporate turnaround exercises.

He was a former regulator on the internet, telecoms, online media as well as the postal and express delivery industry. He had two tours of duty serving Malaysia’s telecoms, 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). After several years in the private sector, he was invited to return to MCMC to become its Chief Operating Officer before later being appointed as its Chairman and Chief Executive in late 2011.

During his tenure in public service, amongst others, he coordinated the first high level “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 of several public listed companies in Malaysia and several other private companies spanning across various industries. He is a passionate supporter of technology start-ups.

Sharil graduated with an LL.B(Hons) from University College of Wales, Aberystwyth and qualified as a Barrister, of Gray’s Inn, London. He was also called to the Malaysian Bar.