Khairil was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Axiata Digital Services in January 2015. He first joined Axiata in 2012 and served as Group Chief Marketing and Operations Officer. Prior to Axiata, Khairil was a Partner at Bain & Company, Inc., a leading global management consultancy. He was with Bain for more than 15 years. Prior to joining Bain, Khairil was an operations consultant at Coopers & Lybrand, Management Consulting Services. He was also founder and operations manager of P-Shift Consulting (Southeast Asia) from 1996 till 1997, and manufacturing consultant with PERA Consulting in London and Kuala Lumpur from 1995 till 1996.