QSR Brands appoints new chairman and MD

QSR Brands (M) Holdings Bhd, the food chain brand that operates KFC and Pizza Hut Malaysia, has appointed Datuk Mustafha Abd Razak as chairman and Nehchal Khanna as managing director, effective today.

The appointments follow the retirement of managing director of QSR Brands, Datuk Seri Mohamed Azahari Mohamed Kamil, who left the company yesterday.

Prior to joining QSR Brands, Nehchal was the corporate business adviser for Johor Corporation, a state investment corporation established by the Johor state government.

“In his previous capacity, Nehchal was managing director in the Singapore office of Wall Street firm Morgan Stanley between 2010 and 2016,” said QSR Brands in a statement today.

Nehchal’s wealth of experience includes advising on some of the largest transactions for Malaysian corporations including Khazanah, Petronas and Sime Darby.

Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in 2010, he was managing director at Deutsche Bank in Singapore where he was head of investment banking for Malaysia and Indonesia.

QSR Brands also welcomes Mustafha, who has more than 24 years of professional experience in the corporate and banking sector in Malaysia, as its new chairman. — April 1, 2020, Bernama

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