YBhg Dato’ Mohamed Sharil Tarmizi is a consultant focused on corporate and regulatory advisory work. He started his career as a lawyer specialising in construction law and subsequently became a corporate advisor involved in several corporate turnaround exercises.
He was a former regulator on the internet, telecoms, online media as well as the postal and express delivery industry. He had two tours of duty serving Malaysia’s telecoms, media and postal and digital signature regulator, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) where he was in the pioneer team during the formative years of MCMC (2000-2006) after the cessation of Telekom Department of Malaysia (Jabatan Telekom Malaysia) and the Broadcast Licensing Division, Ministry of Information (Bahagian Perlesenan Penyiaran, Kementerian Penerangan Malaysia). After several years in the private sector, he was invited to return to MCMC to become its Chief Operating Officer before later being appointed as its Chairman and Chief Executive in late 2011.