Sheikh Raffie (Sheikh Raffie Abd Rahman) is the

Chief Operating Officer A chief operating officer (COO), also called chief operations officer, is an executive in charge of the daily operations of an organization (i.e. personnel, resources, and logistics). COOs are usually second-in-command immediately after the C ...

BERNAMA The Malaysian National News Agency (), is a news agency of the government of Malaysia. It is an autonomous body under the Ministry of Communications. Headquartered at the Wisma Bernama, off Jalan Tun Razak near National Library, Kuala Lumpur ...

(2007-2011), and co-founder of Radio24,

Malaysia Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. Featuring the Tanjung Piai, southernmost point of continental Eurasia, it is a federation, federal constitutional monarchy consisting of States and federal territories of Malaysia, 13 states and thre ...

's first new radio in 2007.

Education

He studied in the United Kingdom in International Politics & Strategic Studies.

Career

Raffie was the main

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ntv7 Natseven TV Sdn Bhd, operating as NTV7 is a Malaysian free-to-air television channel owned by Media Prima, Media Prima Berhad. The third private commercial TV station in Malaysia, the network focused on the urban area with various types of ...

(Natseven TV) when it launched in 1997. In 1999, Raffie was Head of News at ntv7. Following that, he became an anchor for

Channel News Asia CNA (an initialism of Channel NewsAsia) is a Singapore-based multinational news channel owned by Mediacorp, the country's state-owned media conglomerate. The network is broadcast in Singapore on free-to-air terrestrial television and Mediacorp ...

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until 2001. In the next year, he returned to ntv7 to become Vice President of news and current affairs. From 2003 until 2005, he was the General Manager and Vice President of news, production, and engineering at Channel 9 and then became Head of Content in the following year. Raffie then joined

as a consultant in 2007 as part of the set-up team for Radio24.

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