CONSULTANTS & SALES TRAINERS

Shaharuman Shahadan

Shaharuman (or Shah) graduated in Plantation Industry Management from ITM (now UiTM) in 1970, spent 2 years in the agricultural sector before moving on to the advertising industry. He obtained his Advance Management Diploma from GTE “U” (USA) in 1985.

ant & Trainer

Shah has been involved with sales and advertising media since 1972 in various capacities. This involvement has led him to work in several countries including Malaysia, USA, Sri Lanka, Brunei, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, India, the Maldives, Bangladesh and the Philippines - heading business operations, or as consultant.

Shah’s other passion is conducting training and counseling in sales, marketing and management. Ad agency experience includes a 8-month marketing consultancy with Grey Advertising Malaysia in 1990 where he helped “pitch” for several of Grey’s major clients.

His advertising media expertise includes telephone directories and the Yellow Pages (1972-1993), Outdoor Advertising (7 years with UPD) and electronic video boards/electronic outdoor advertising (with UPD SuperScreen, MDC and VisionScape/KUB).

Shah is now semi-retired and provides training and counseling to various companies on a project-by-project basis in sales, marketing and management.

A Rashid Jamil

Abd Rashid Jamil has been involved with professional selling and advertising media since 1973 when he began his career in sales with GTE Yellow Pages (Malaysia). He moved to directory production in 1975 as Production Coordinator and was promoted to Production Manager in August 1980.

Rashid returned to sales as Sales Manager of GTE Malaysia’s telephone directory publishing subsidiary in Brunei from 1983-1985. He returned to Malaysia in 1986 with overall responsibility for sales & marketing for Malaysia and subsidiaries in Brunei, Sri Lanka and Singapore.

Abd Rashid Jamil Senior Consultant & Trainer

Rashid joined the Utusan Melayu group in 1990, initially with UPD Sdn Bhd, and later to become the first General Manager-print of UMES (Utusan Media Sales Unit). During his tenure as General Manager-print, he managed to increase the yearly advertising revenue from RM17 million in 1990 to RM142 million in 2004.

Due to his vast knowledge and outstanding contribution to Utusan’s advertising revenues, he was appointed the Chief Executive Officer of UPD (an Utusan Melayu wholly-owned subsidiary) in April 2005 until March 2007. During that two year period he managed to turn around UPD into a profitable position. However, due to the take-over of UPD by Media Prima Berhad. Rashid left to join Three Communications & Design Sdn Bhd on April 2007 as its new Group Chief Operating Officer and Chairman & CEO of Three Communications & Media Sdn Bhd and Three Communications Outdoor Sdn Bhd.

Having worked with Rashid before during their younger days, Shah has invited Rashid to share his knowledge and experience in sales and sales management with clients of InfoConsult Services.