<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 21): The former president and managing director of Alcatel-Lucent Malaysia Sdn Bhd, Mohd Fazlin Shah Mohd Salleh, 46, is now the new group chief executive officer (CEO) of Damansara Realty Bhd.</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>In a filing on Bursa Malaysia today, Damansara Realty said that Mohd Fazlin served as president and managing director of Alcatel-Lucent from Sept 2009 to March 2014.</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>He had then served as a business quality management expert with Clarity OSS (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd, from July 2014 to June 2015.</p></div><div class=inPageAd id=div-gpt-ad-inpage></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>Separately, Damansara Realty announced the resignation of its current managing director and CEO, Syed Omar Syed Mohamed, 47, on “personal reasons”.</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>Syed Omar was appointed to the post in June 6 last year.</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>Damansara Realty (fundamental :0.95; valuation:0.3) is involved in property development, as well as parking management and hospital engineering and technical solutions.</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>Its shares slid 0.85% today to close at 58.5 sen, for a market capitalisation of RM182.53 million.</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p><span style="font-size:12px"><em>(Note: The Edge Research’s fundamental score reflects a company’s profitability and balance sheet strength, calculated based on historical numbers. The valuation score determines if a stock is attractively valued or not, also based on historical numbers. A score of 3 suggests strong fundamentals and attractive valuations.)</em></span></p></div>


KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 21): The former president and managing director of Alcatel-Lucent Malaysia Sdn Bhd, Mohd Fazlin Shah Mohd Salleh, 46, is now the new group chief executive officer (CEO) of Damansara Realty Bhd.

In a filing on Bursa Malaysia today, Damansara Realty said that Mohd Fazlin...

Former Alcatel-Lucent Malaysia's MD is new Damansara Realty CEO

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