MISC has annoucned that its Chief Executive Officer Captain Rajalingamwill be leaving the group on 15 August citing to pursue other interests.

Captain Rajalingam Subramaniam was appointed as President & Group Chief Executive Officer and Non-Independent Executive Director of MISC Berhad on 1 October 2022.

The board has appointed Zahid Osman as the successor. He joined MISC Berhad in 2017 as the Vice President of Gas Assets & Solutions and moved on to a new role as the Vice President of Corporate Planning in 2022. He sits on the boards of several subsidiaries and joint venture companies within the MISC Group. He was appointed as a Director on the Board of AET Pte. Ltd. (AET) in January 2020 and subsequently was appointed as President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of AET effective 1 June 2023.

Zahid Osman was appointed as the Chief Operating Officer of MISC Group effective 1 June 2024, while continuing in his capacity as the President and CEO of AET. Prior to MISC Berhad, Encik Zahid Osman was with the Shell Group of Companies for over 20 years. At Shell, Encik Zahid Osman held management roles in finance, LNG marketing and trading, business development, commercial, upstream production sharing contract, stakeholder management, joint venture governance, gas advocacy and project management in upstream, downstream, integrated gas and trading business.

His last held appointment at Shell was Vice President of Venture Development at Shell Integrated Gas and New Energies. Zahid Osman currently serves as the Chairman of Advisory Panel for Malaysia Women in Energy (MyWiE).