Riad asmat biography of william hill

This article first appeared in Options, The Edge Malaysia Weekly on July 23, 2018 - July 29, 2018

AirAsia CEO Riad Asmat tried very hard to take a different path from that of his father — AirAsiaX independent non-executive director Tan Sri Asmat Kamaludin.

But fate intervened, bringing them together under one umbrella, with a little help from Tan Sri Tony Fernandes. In a candid interview with Anandhi Gopinath, Asmat and Riad open up about their relationship, lessons that have been passed down and living a life with no regrets.

In the case of family-owned businesses, succession planning often dictates that father and son end up working together in the same company.

This is especially common in Malaysia; and there are a number of father-son teams that have been particularly successful — the late Tan Sri Yeoh Tiong Lay and his son Tan Sri Francis Yeoh of YTL Corporation, Tan Sri G Gnanalingam and his son Ruben of Westports Holdings, and Tan Sri F D Mansor and his son Datuk Ser