Datuk Idham Nawawi

Datuk Idham Nawawi serves as CEO of CelcomDigi Berhad, Malaysia's largest telecommunications company formed through the merger of Celcom Axiata and Digi Telecommunications in November 2022. The merger combined Celcom's extensive rural coverage and enterprise relationships with Digi's strong urban subscriber base and digital capabilities, creating a mobile operator with over 20 million subscribers and the most extensive network infrastructure in Malaysia. Idham previously led Celcom as its CEO and was instrumental in negotiating and executing the merger — one of the largest corporate combinations in Malaysian history. The integration challenge is immense: combining two distinct corporate cultures (Celcom's government-linked heritage and Digi's Nordic-influenced Telenor legacy), consolidating duplicate network infrastructure, and extracting the RM8+ billion in synergies promised to shareholders. Under Idham's leadership, CelcomDigi is focused on three strategic priorities: completing network integration to create Malaysia's most comprehensive 4G/5G coverage, growing enterprise and digital services revenue beyond traditional mobile subscriptions, and achieving the cost synergies that justify the merger premium. His decisions on 5G rollout pace, fiber broadband expansion, enterprise ICT services growth, and dividend policy (CelcomDigi is one of Bursa Malaysia's highest-yielding blue chips) are the primary drivers of the stock's performance.