Annual Report 2019

SENIOR MANAGEMENT TEAM (CONT’D) PATTRA BOOSARAWONGSE Chief Financial Officer Thai Pattra Boosarawongse, female, 50, is responsible for our Group Finance, Group Investor Relations and Group Procurement. She is a Board member of AirAsia Thailand, AirAsia X Thailand and AirAsia Philippines. Pattra joined AirAsia in March 2014 as Chief Financial Officer of AirAsia Thailand and Asia Aviation PCL and was appointed as Group Chief Financial Officer on 1 September 2016. She has delivered strong financial and operational results within our Thai associate’s Finance Department specifically and the Group in general. In 2019, Pattra was named “Asia’s Best CFO” at the 9 th Asian Excellence Recognition Awards. Pattra is a Certified Public Accountant, having started her career as a senior auditor at Ernst & Young. She then joined Sony Music as its Finance Director and rose to become its General Manager. She also assumed a regional role as team leader to implement a new group financial system covering 10 countries. In 2013, she played a key role in the merger of Sony Music with BEC TERO, and led the BEC TERO music department. Pattra graduated from Thammasat University in Thailand with a Master’s in Finance and Accounting. 06 PATTRA AIREEN OMAR President, RedBeat Ventures Malaysian Aireen Omar, female, 47, is responsible for AirAsia’s digital strategy, promoting innovation to help transform AirAsia into a global cloud and data-driven company. At RedBeat Ventures, she is pivotal to incubating and growing the Group’s digital and fintech businesses and in transforming AirAsia.com into more than just an airline platform. She is also a Non-Executive Director of Tune Protect Group Berhad. Aireen joined AirAsia in January 2006 as Director of Corporate Finance; her portfolio expanding quickly to also include Insurance, Treasury, Fuel Procurement and Investor Relations functions. In 2012, she was appointed as AirAsia Berhad’s Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer. She began her career at Deutsche Bank Securities Inc, where she was an Associate from 1997-2000 in New York and London. After returning to Malaysia in 2001, she served in several major local financial institutions including the Maybank Group. Aireen’s accolades include the Outstanding CEO Achievement Award by Malaysian Women of Excellence; Corporate Treasurer’s 25 Most Influential Women in Treasury, Masterclass Woman CEO of the Year by Selangor Excellence Business Awards; Eminent Leaders in Asia at the Asia Corporate Excellence and Sustainability Awards (ACES); and APAC CEO of the Year 2017 by Aviation 100 Awards. Through her leadership, AirAsia was awarded Digital Transformer of the Year for Malaysia at the IDC Digital Transformation Awards (DXa) 2019. Aireen is an Economics graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science and holds a Masters in Economics from New York University. AIREEN 05 56 MORE THAN JUST AN AIRLINE >