EPAPR People

	ADVISOR YAM Tunku Dato' Seri Shahabuddin bin Tunku Besar Burhanuddin AO Is the EPA Group’s founding chairman and current advisor. He is a Prince of Malaysia’s Negri Sembilan Royal Family. A respected chairman or director of several Malaysian listed companies, he is also the founding chairman of the Malaysia Australia Business Council and chairman of the Selangor Turf Club. Tunku Din is available to EPAPR clients to arrange high-level government and business introductions on a selective basis.
	CHAIRMAN Zainuddin M Noh Is chairman of EPAPR. Zainuddin retired recently from the F&N Group where he was general manager group corporate affairs. Zainuddin is a former president of the Malaysian Advertisers Association, chairman of the Institute of Advertising Communication Training, IACT (a tertiary institution jointly established by the 4As and 2As), chairman of the Audit Burean of Circulations, vice chairman of the FMM Food Group and chairman of the FMM soft drinks group.
	MANAGING DIRECTOR Art Thamboo MSc (Public Relations) Is managing director of EPAPR. A journalist by training, Thamboo has spent the last 20 plus years developing and delivering communication programs for EPAPR clients throughout the Asia Pacific region. He has leveraged his extensive media relations, corporate and marketing communication experience to develop successful strategies for corporate clients. Emphasis has been on strengthening the clients' corporate branding equity in their respective spheres of business. Prior to joining EPAPR in 1988, Thamboo, a marketing communication and media relations specialist, held senior positions in Malaysia with two of the world’s largest public relations firms.
	ACCOUNT DIRECTOR Elsy Tan Is an account director of EPAPR. Elsy has been actively involved in the Public Relations industry for over 20 years and has extensive experience working with a variety of clients in the areas of corporate communications, community relations, financial relations (including Initial Public Offerings on Bursa Malaysia), event management and publications, among others. She has serviced clients in telecommunications, IT, housing development, insurance, shipping, commodity exchange, manufacturing, retail, automobile and hotels. Elsy has established good media relations with both the print and electronic media, as well as Bernama, the national news agency over the years.
	ACCOUNT DIRECTOR Sunita Kanapathy Bachelor of Arts (Translation and Interpretation) Is an account director and has over 10 years of experience in public relations consulting. Her PR play list cuts across diverse industries, with a strong leaning toward technology and financial entities, and IPO strategy. She began her PR career working on a broad range of IT, financial and government clients. Since then, she has broadened her scope to include corporate communications, events management, strategic marketing and copywriting to cover various other industries including manufacturing, telecommunications, construction and publishing. Sunita also served as a foreign correspondent aide for BBC and CNN before joining an IT services provider as head of content development. Sunita has a degree in Translation & Interpretation from Universiti Sains Malaysia.
	MANAGER, EVENTS & SPECIAL PROJECTS Alexandra Lee Abraham Bachelor of Arts (Communications & Media Studies) Is a manager responsible for employee attraction and recruitment communication. She also assists in creating and executing corporate and marketing communication campaigns. Alexandra was a media planner with an advertising firm prior to joining EPAPR.
	SENIOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE Ida Fazila Ismail Master of Professional Comm (PR) Is a senior account executive and assists in creating and executing corporate and marketing communication campaigns. Ida’s client list includes F&N Coca-Cola, Michelin, Novartis, CCM and Colgate-Palmolive.
	SENIOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE Nadia Izuddin Bachelor of Mass Communications (Hons) Public Relations Is a senior account executive with a keen interest in the field of communications. Graduated from University Technology MARA (UiTM), Nadia is involved in outlining and implementing marketing communication plans, corporate communications strategies as well as handling media relations for her clients.
	ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE Nelly Chai Is an account executive and assists in marketing communications, corporate communication and media relations assignments. Nelly was a freelance writer and a project manager specialising in web-content management and web-design prior to joining EPAPR.
	ACCOUNTS MANAGER Janice Chia Is the accounts and administrative manager. She oversees the office administration and management accounting of EPAPR and its holding company.
	ACCOUNTS ASSISTANT Nor Azlina A. Rahman Bachelor of Accounting (Hons) Is the accounts assistant for EPAPR. She assists Janice in the office administration and management accounting of EPAPR and its holding company.
	PERSONAL ASSISTANT Liz Khoo Bachelor of Arts (Business Administration) Is the personal assistant to directors of EPAPR. Liz Khoo oversees all site management at clients' events. She also manages media liaison and media monitoring for the Chinese and East-Malaysia media.
	CLIENT SERVICE EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT Suraya Hani Shamsudin Is an executive assistant and is responsible for client and media liaison. She is also responsible for overseeing translation of all editorial materials into Bahasa Malaysia. Suraya assists with various client servicing assignments including F&N Coca-Cola, Malaysia Exhibition Services, Michelin and CCM.
	MEDIA MONITORING SUPERVISOR V. Rajindran Is the supervisor in charge of EPAPR's media monitoring service. Raj oversees EPAPR’s daily print media monitoring and logistics.