KUALA LUMPUR: Azmi Abdul Aziz, the former head of Rapid KL rail operations, returns to Prasarana Malaysia Bhd to take the helm of the country’s leading public transport services as the group managing director effective January 1 next year.
Currently serving as chief development officer of the Land Public Transport Commission (Spad), Azmi succeeds Datuk Seri Shahril Mokhtar who has been appointed as the new chief executive officer of Mass Rapid Transit Corp Sdn Bhd.
Prasarana chairman Tan Sri Ismail Adam said one of Azmi’s immediate tasks would be to roll out the implementation of the new LRT3 project that would further enhance the connectivity and mobility between residents in Klang, Shah Alam and Bandar Utama.
“We would also like to thank Shahril for the good work that he had done for Prasarana,” Ismail said in a statement yesterday.
With more than 25 years of experience in both the public and private sectors in the public transport industry, Azmi’s current duties at Spad are to manage the development of policy and planning in transforming the nation’s land public transport landscape.
He is also responsible for the implementation of the Land Public Transport Master Plan and the study for the High Speed Rail from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore.
Prior to his appointment with Spad, Azmi had served as the chief operating officer of Scomi Engineering Bhd.
He had also served as the project director for India’s first monorail project in Mumbai during his stint in Scomi.