Upward mobility in Maybank
MERITOCRACY and diversity flourish in Maybank. It's a culture that serves the group well - and something that group president and CEO, Abdul Farid Alias, can personally vouch for.
The banker says he grew up poor; his late father was a "beat cop", while his late mother was a housewife.
Mr Farid went to a MARA boarding school in Malaysia for poor families and won a scholarship there that sent him to the United States for his university education. The MARA Junior Science College is a group of boarding schools created by the People's Trust Council, a Malaysian government agency. The institution provides learning facilities for bright students in local schools throughout Malaysia.
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