SINA AMINI AND 'TEAM TRANSFORMERS' ANNOUNCED AS TOP WINNERS OF MAYBANK GO AHEAD. CHALLENGE (MGAC) 2019

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 13 (Bernama) -- After an intense 10-day competition, the Top Winners of the Maybank GO Ahead. Challenge (MGAC) 2019 were revealed at The Party in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. MGAC, Maybank’s award-winning, multi-disciplinary talent acquisition and recruitment programme, which is in its 8th instalment this year, remains an innovative recruitment platform to spot, build and nurture diverse, global talent.

Sina Amini from Iran was named the Global Champion of MGAC 2019. Sina Amini from Monash University was awarded an opportunity to pursue a two-week internship at any Maybank office around the world. Meanwhile, ‘Team Transformers’ comprising Finalists from Malaysia, Cambodia, the Philippines and Thailand emerged as the Global Champion, and walked away with an all-expenses paid trip to attend the Future Festival Chicago – an innovation conference that gathers all of Chicago’s top innovators to experience future trends while prototyping disruptive ideas using the same award-winning innovation workshops used to help NASA prototype the journey to Mars. ‘Team Dark Knight’, with Finalists from Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Iran, and Cambodia was the 1st runner-up and won an all-expenses paid trip to the Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal where Fortune 500 companies, ground-breaking start-ups and world class speakers will gather later this year. The 2nd runner-up went to team ‘The Guardians of the Galaxy’ comprising finalists from Hong Kong, Singapore, and the Philippines who will be attending the Singapore Fintech Festival. This Festival will bring together key executives and decision makers from global financial institutions and corporates, innovators and technologists from FinTech start-ups to unicorns, investors, and academia.
 
MGAC has taught me that you can do whatever you want if you put your mind to it and you've got to be open to taking on new challenges. The simulations we experienced have taught us to be resilient even when things are not in your control but having the Maybank team and our assessors guide us definitely helped us to keep moving forward and grow as individuals and a team,” said  Lee Dai Wei, Team Leader of Team Transformers.

The ultimate reward for the shortlisted Finalists is a conditional offer to join Maybank in its entry-level pipeline programme, the award-winning Global Maybank Apprentice Programme (GMAP). The two-year rotational management trainee programme offers best in-class development, on-the-job training, and assigned coaching by Maybank’s senior management and the opportunity to undergo international assignments at any Maybank office in the 18 countries it is present. 

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