Lailatul Azma Abdullah began her career as a Quantity Surveyor at Davis, Langdon & Seah from November 1995 to September 1997, where she was a project quantity surveyor and responsible over management execution on behalf of the Northern region office for all Central region projects in Malaysia. 

Subsequently, she joined GCS Engineering Sdn Bhd, a civil infrastructure engineering and project management consultancy company that carried out major civil infrastructure engineering projects, as its Chief Operations Officer and headed amongst others, the Cost and Contracts Department for all major projects for civil infrastructure engineering with an accumulated project value of RM1 billion. 

She then joined X-TXT Asia, a mobile telecommunications application and content development company based in Perth, Australia with headquarters in Kuala Lumpur for the Asean market. The company was eventually acquired by a venture capitalist from San Francisco, USA. 

During her tenure in CIMB Group from April 2006 to April 2011, she was responsible over managing matters relating to property development, investment, asset management and fund raising and serving her last position as the Director of Asset Management and member of the Investment Committee, notably managing a fund size of AUD320 million for JV Australian Property Fund CIMB Trust Capital Pte Ltd.

Subsequently, she served as the Head of Branding & Advertising (Destination Resorts & Hotels) from September 2012 to August 2014 as a team leader on all branding and advertising for hospitality products and projects owned by Khazanah Nasional Berhad (Leisure and Tourism) sector, namely The Datai Hotel and Desaru Coast.

In addition, she was also a Partnership Director, Specialised Sports Services, responsible for fundraising and acting as a media liaison for partners in Malaysia and United Kingdom, a spin-off from the sports sponsorship portfolio of Air Asia.

1) Al-Aqar Healthcare REIT
2) Al-Salam Islamic REIT

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