Datuk Bazlan was appointed Non-Independent Executive Director of TM on 25 April 2008 and was TM's Executive Director (ED)/Group Chief Financial Officer until 31 March 2017. He was then appointed ED/Deputy Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of TM effective 1 April 2017 and was appointed ED/Acting Group CEO of TM effective 6 June 2018.

Datuk Bazlan began his career as an auditor with a public accounting firm in 1986. He served the Sime Darby Group, holding various finance positions in its corporate offices in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Melaka from 1989 to 1993. He then had a stint with American Express Malaysia Berhad before joining Kumpulan FIMA Berhad in 1994, where he was subsequently appointed Senior Vice President (SVP), Finance/Company Secretary. He joined Celcom Axiata Berhad in 2001 as the SVP, Corporate Finance and Treasury and was appointed the CFO in 2002 prior to his appointment as TM Group CFO in 2005. He was a member of the Issues Committee of the Malaysian Accounting Standards Board from 2006 until 2010.

He currently sits on the board of several subsidiaries of TM Group including VADS Berhad, Webe Digital Sdn Bhd including as chairman of Fiberail Sdn Bhd and GITN Sdn Bhd. He is also a director of Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation Sdn Bhd (MDEC) and a member of UniKL Industrial Advisory Board.

In 2016, Datuk Bazlan was awarded Best CFO (Malaysia) at the 10th Annual Alpha Southeast Asia Institutional Investor-Corporate Awards as well as CFO of the Year (Excellence in Financial Planning & Analysis) at the 5th Annual CFO Innovation Awards, on top of the many other accolades given to TM in the fields under his purview.

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1) Holds 2,134 ordinary shares in TM; and

2) Rights to 454,000 ordinary shares via a Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) which will be vested in 2020 or at a date to be determine by the LTIP Committee.