Annual Report 2019

STUART L DEAN Stuart L Dean is an Independent Non- Executive Director of AirAsia Berhad. 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 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. He retired from GE in April 2015. In addition to serving on the AAGB Board and the Board of AirAsia Berhad, he is on 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 train ophthalmologists for eye surgeries in developing countries. More recently, he was appointed the Independent Non-Executive Director of American Asian Medical Group (AAMG) based in Singapore. Independent Non-Executive Director Appointed: 30 March 2018 American Membership of Board Committees: • Chairman of the Safety Review Board • Member of the Risk Management Committee • Member of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee STUART L DEAN 67, Male 06 AIRASIA GROUP BERHAD ANNUAL REPORT 2019 51 LEADERSHIP