Riad Asmat (born 17 November 1971 in

Petaling Jaya ) , website = , image_skyline = , image_caption = ''From top, left to right:Skyline of Petaling Jaya, the 1 Utama Mall integrated with Bandar Utama Station, the Kota Darul Ehsan arch, the Petaling J ...

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) is a Malaysian businessman. He is the son of

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Chairman Tan Sri Datuk Asmat Kamaludin. He is the former CEO of the

Caterham F1 Team The Caterham F1 Team was a Malaysian, later British owned Formula One team based in the United Kingdom which raced under a Malaysian licence. The Caterham brand competed in the Formula One World Championship from to , following the acquisitio ...

and Team Principal of the

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GP2 team.

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and fellow shareholders

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and SM Nasarudin later promoted Asmat to Group CEO of

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for

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, merchandising, engineering and all related interests. , Asmat is CEO of Air Asia Group.

Career

The team announced the appointment of Asmat as the

chief executive officer A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ...

of 1Malaysia F1 Team Sdn. Bhd. (1MF1T). Asmat, 38 years old, was formerly working in the managing director's office of

Proton Holdings Berhad Proton Holdings Berhad (PHB; informally Proton) is a Malaysian automotive company and automobile corporation active in automobile design, manufacturing, distribution and sales. Proton was established in 1985 as Malaysia's sole national badged ...

general manager A general manager (GM) is an executive who has overall responsibility for managing both the revenue and cost elements of a company's income statement, known as profit & loss (P&L) responsibility. A general manager usually oversees most or all of ...

. In

in 2006. Asmat also managed the company's involvement in

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References

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