Full Name
Madam Annaliz Abu Bakar
Company
PETRONAS Global Technical Solutions Sdn Bhd
Job Title
CEO
Speaker Bio
Annaliz Abu Bakar holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University, USA. She joined PETRONAS in 1991 and since April 2022 is the Chief Executive Officer of PETRONAS Global Technical Solutions Sdn. Bhd. (PGTSSB). She led her technical and engineering team for the record-breaking year on year performance. She has elevated Clients' and partners confidence and trust on PGTSSB as their long term preferred solutions providers. 
Prior to this appointment, she was the Head of PETRONAS Group Technical Capability Management and Head of RESCISCO Implementation Phase Project for PETRONAS, as on June 2020 and August 2018 respectively.  Prior to the above assignment, she was seconded to Prince Court Medical Centre, a Malaysian Premier Hospital and the world’s 10 best hospitals for Medical Tourism, to help to turnaround and complete the hospital’s business transformation exercise. During her secondment, Prince Court Medical Centre had become profitable for the 1st time after 10 years of establishment and also secured the top prize award such as of Ministry of Human Resource Award under PSTM’s Major Services Company category in 2017. She had been a Turnaround Managers for a numbers of Clients turnarounds  between 1995 and 2006.
She is now the CEO of PGTSSB, the commercial arm of PETRONAS Project Delivery & Technology responsible to design, deliver and execute Project Management, Engineering Services and Solution including Digital Engineering for Oil, Gas, Petrochemicals, Energy and adjacencies industry and companies.  
Her nick name is “Energizer Bunny”. She’s a Gemini personality that is on the move, charming, persuasive, and multi-skills. She is also creative, energetic and an optimist. Her strength is the ability to orchestrate, turnaround and drive an organization’s dream or best hopes to a reality, moved with a good speed and sustainable momentum. Her positive outlook is the source of her resilience and innovativeness amidst challenging circumstances. Her humble rapport, resourcefulness and concerns for others i.e., to the team, stakeholders and clients/customers, is also the source of successful co-creations and collaborations.  
Annaliz Abu Bakar