Malaysian Digital Association names Nicholas Sagau and Eileen Ooi to leadership roles

The Malaysian Digital Association (MDA) has named Nicholas Sagau Tony Ngimat (pictured right) as president and Eileen Ooi (pictured left) as vice president. Ngimat is the chief product officer at REV Media Group while Ooi is MD of PHD Malaysia.

At the same time, GroupM Malaysia's head of supply and product development, Aravind Menon (pictured below left), and ADV Malaysia's head of strategy and business development, Southeast Asia, Sophia Toh (pictured below right), have been appointed secretary and treasurer respectively.

The elected council members are 16TWO Communication Labs, Astro Radio, Carat Media, Google Malaysia, Mediabrands, Mudah.my, Nuffnang, Rev Social Malaysia and Star Media Group. Antsomi's co-founder and CEO Serm Teck Choon and Google Malaysia's head of agency Nick Drew were previously president and vice president of MDA respectively.

Ngimat said he is honoured to be given the opportunity to lead the association. "It has been a challenging year but we will work hard to broaden MDA’s capacity as a platform to address the pressing challenges of local digital publishers, media agencies and digital agencies through the ongoing pandemic as it significantly impacts businesses. We aim to achieve this by working closely as an ecosystem and more importantly, represent these three digital sectors’ agenda to the government," he said.

Meanwhile, Ooi said: “It is an honor to take on the position of vice president and what more together with an elite council team. I look forward to continuing to elevate MDA’s role in making the leap in Malaysia’s digital industry." MDA was established in 2009 and has hosted several successful projects and activities such as Digital Wednesday, offering networking opportunities for local publishers, media agencies and advertisers.

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