About

Ahmad Zaky Ismail amasses over 24 years as an accomplished general counsel within the private and public sector, specialising in strategic regulatory management, corporate governance, mergers & acquisitions and pre and post M&A integration. Assuming his current position in June 2016, as the general counsel for Saudi Aramco Shell Refinery Company (SASREF) Ismail is responsible for the company’s legal and regulatory compliance to all legal matters. Prior to this role he served as the legal advisor for the Information & E-Government Authority Kingdom of Bahrain (iGA) for five years. In this capacity he ensured that iGA complied with all the laws of the Kingdom of Bahrain, later becoming appointed as the board legal advisor to SILAH Gulf WLL, which was a joint venture company between iGA and merchants based in the United Kingdom. Previously located in Malaysia, Ismail had a stint in a number of Malaysian-based companies, one of which was British American Tobacco between 1999 and 2000 as company secretary and general counsel, and another was at Maxis Communications over a period of eight years.