Group Managing Director

Malaysian Industrial Development Finance Berhad

Dato’ Charon Wardini Mokhzani is the Group Managing Director of Malaysian Industrial Development Finance Berhad (MIDF).

He was an Executive Director of Khazanah Nasional Berhad and the founding Managing Director of Khazanah Research Institute. Prior to that, he was the Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Corporate and Investment Banking at CIMB Group and the Chief Executive Officer of CIMB Investment Bank Berhad. He was an independent non-executive director of CIMB Berhad when it was first listed and has also been on the board of Cagamas Holdings Berhad. Before becoming an executive at CIMB, he was at Zaid Ibrahim & Co first as a partner and then as Managing Partner, which he joined after working at Rashid Hussain Securities and Shearn Delamore & Co.

He is on the boards of Yayasan Tuanku Fauziah, Yayasan Tuanku Syed Putra Perlis and the Kuala Lumpur Business Club and was on the board of Universiti Putra Malaysia.

Dato’ Charon read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Balliol College, University of Oxford and Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is a Chartered Banker and a Fellow of the Asian Institute of Chartered Bankers, and a non-practising barrister of the Middle Temple and advocate and solicitor of the High Court of Malaya. He went to the Malay College Kuala Kangsar and Bloxham School, Banbury.