XOX Berhad announced appointment of Karina Bt Idris Ahmad Shah as Independent and Non Executive Director. Ms Karina is a lawyer by profession. She has over fifteen (15 years) of extensive in house experience in a wide variety of disciplines with emphasis in commercial contracts for the telecommunication, construction, fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) and oil and gas industry. Ms Karina started her career as Federal Counsel Ministry of Defence in the Attorney Generals Chamber in 1994. Her role was managing procurement contracts for the Army, Navy and Air Force. She moved to private practice in 1996 with Abu Talib Shahrom & Zahari as an Advocate & Solicitor and was later seconded to PLUS Bhd to manage the legal department and was involved in various corporate exercises. In 2000 she moved to Johor Bahru and joined Merit Properties Sdn Bhd (Kuok Group of Companies) as Senior Legal Counsel overseeing commercial agreements for the retail outlet and managing litigation cases for tenancy and infringement of copyright matters. In 2007 she joined Iskandar Regional Development Authority (IRDA) a statutory body to develop Iskandar Malaysia in Johor. She was instrumental in setting up the legal department and secretarial unit for IRDA. She and team successfully organized 5 members of the authority and advisory council meetings with the Prime Ministers office, government stakeholders and joint ministerial meetings between Malaysia and Singapore.
In 2011, she took a legal role in Doha, Qatar for WCT Berhad that was involved in the construction of the Ministry of Interior, Doha and a dispute resolution in Dubai for the Meydan race course. Upon her return from the Middle East, in 2016 she joined Zico insource as a Legal Consultant and was assigned various assignments for organizations like Time dot com, Heng Yuan Refining Co. (fka Shell Refining Co.), Dutch Lady Milk Industries Bhd, Genting Bhd, Bumi Armada, Maxis Bhd and Axiata Business Services Sdn Bhd.