Uthaya Kumar is currently Audit and Risk Committee (Chairman) and Nomination and Remuneration Committee (Member) of Maxis Berhad. He is also an Independent Director and Chairman of the Audit and Risk Management Committees of Bumi Armada Berhad.

Previously, he was a senior partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers Southeast Asia Peninsula (PwC) and he was with PwC for 35 years. He has led and worked on some of the most challenging and complex assignments, both in Malaysia and globally, working with multinational and blue-chip national clients in audit, business advisory, mergers and acquisitions, valuations, privatisations, initial public offerings and cross-border transactions.

Kumar is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales,CF Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, Member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants and a Member of the Malaysian Association of Certified Public Accountants.