MC Lai Named Kantar Malaysia CEO

Kantar Malaysia has promoted MC Lai to the role of Chief Executive Officer, leading the combined divisions of Kantar TNS and Kantar Millward Brown, alongside his current role as MD of TNS. He succeeds Tim Kelsall, who will now focus on his broader role as Regional Chief Client Officer.

Lai (pictured) joined the group twenty years ago as Research Manager of TNS Malaysia. He was promoted to his MD role in 2015, having previously been the firm's Regional Qualitative Director and Director of Client Service for TNS Research International. Kelsall, whom he replaces, has worked for the group for more than twenty years, and had been in his previous role for two.

Kantar APAC CEO Adrian Gonzalez comments: 'I would like to thank Tim for his leadership over the past two years and his commitment to building our team in Malaysia. I look forward to continuing to partner with him in his broader Kantar responsibility as regional CCO. MC has demonstrated formidable leadership skills as Head of Kantar TNS, steering the business in towards an agile, digitally-focused future. I'm confident that he can deliver similar successes at the helm of the insights division in Malaysia'.

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