Chari is a Business / financial consultant engaged with a local listed conglomerate, high-tech 5G

infrastructure company, a global forensics & valuation company, large infrastructure company in the aviation sector, High-tech semi-conductor chip manufacturer amongst others. He is also a Board member of a few listed and non-listed entities in Malaysia and abroad including UEM Sunrise Bhd, Airasia Aviation Group Bhd, Redone Group Bhd, Phil Tower Inc, Philippines

Chari Tvt served as the Group CFO of Malaysia’s Axiata Group & Celcom Telecommunication up until December 2016. Axiata is one of the largest telecommunications groups in Asia with more than 200 million customers and a market cap of approximately US 10 B. Chari has also served as the CFO of Celcom Axiata since mid-2009 and was responsible for a series of new initiatives which helped Celcom to receive an Award for generating the highest ROIC within Malaysia.

Prior to joining the Axiata Group, he was Vice President of Sales for Asia Pacific and Japan at Hewlett Packard and had served HP for over twenty years of which he spent 4 years in Hong Kong, 12 years in Singapore and 4 years in Thailand and Malaysia. In his 20 years stint in HP, the first 10 years was spent in various finance positions and the last 10 years in Sales & Marketing, Business Unit head at Asia Pac level.

In his down time , he continues to deliver a range of talks at local and international conferences, on topics like Importance of Analytics, Digital Disruptions, Digital Transformation, Technology Risk Assessment, Purpose Driven Leadership, Business Model innovation , Investment Portfolio Management etc.

He is an advisory member of a subcommittee of Malaysian Institute of Accountants . He is also a mentor for entrepreneurs under Endeavor Malaysia and an advisory member to a plastic recycling company.

He holds an MBA from State University of New York at Buffalo, and is a Fellow member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants UK, a Fellow member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and a Member of Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India