Operator-built compliance credibility
ABMS Consulting was founded to do one thing well: help organisations build anti-bribery and compliance systems that actually work — led by someone who has done it inside a regulated business, not only advised on it.
Ashok Sarangapani
Founder & CEO, ABMS Consulting Sdn. Bhd.
Ashok brings more than 26 years of experience spanning governance, risk, compliance, finance, and IT — gained across banking, energy, telecommunications, manufacturing, and public-sector environments in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific. That includes a 14-year tenure at Puma Energy, where he led the APAC region's Compliance & Risk function and directed the design, implementation, launch, and audit of the ISO 37001:2016 anti-bribery management system across the region. Earlier, he founded the India shared-services team at Ford Business Services Centre and held a finance role at Almarai in Riyadh. That is the difference ABMS brings: the standard is not theory here. It has been built, audited, and lived inside complex, multi-jurisdiction businesses.
He is a PECB Senior Lead Auditor and Lead Implementer across ISO 37001, 37301, 37101, and 42001, and a PECB Certified Trainer — through ABMS's partnership with PECB Canada. He holds CCEP-I, CFCS, GRCA, and LIFA designations and Fellow membership of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India, and brings a mathematics degree, a certified management accountant designation, Six Sigma Green Belt, and integrated management systems auditor training — analytical and financial rigour alongside the compliance expertise.
ABMS Consulting Sdn. Bhd. was established in 2019 and has served Malaysian and regional organisations since — under Ashok's “Educate, Engage, Enlighten” philosophy, helping organisations move beyond box-ticking compliance into the practical, operational execution of ISO standards. ISO 37001 anti-bribery is the core, alongside compliance management (ISO 37301), sustainable development in communities (ISO 37101), AI governance (ISO 42001), Section 17A, and wider GRCE advisory.
Ashok has delivered ISO training and audit programmes across Malaysia, Singapore, India, the UK, Hong Kong, Indonesia, and Brunei — working with organisations including Tata Group, Bank Rakyat, Chevron, Deloitte, EY, and DNV. He is an internationally engaged voice in anti-corruption governance: a participant in the 2025 Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption and the 2022 UN Private Sector Forum, and an alumnus of the International Anti-Corruption Academy in Austria.
Credentials
- PECB Senior Lead Auditor & Lead Implementer — ISO 37001 · 37301 · 37101 · 42001
- PECB Certified Trainer
- CCEP-I · CFCS · GRCA · LIFA
- Fellow, Institute of Cost Accountants of India
- 14 years leading APAC Compliance & Risk at Puma Energy
How ABMS is different
Practitioner-led, proportionate, and built to be audited
Practitioner, not theorist
Systems designed by someone who has implemented and been audited against the standard.
Proportionate
Sized to your organisation and your real risk — not a template that fails on contact with reality.
Audit-ready
Documentation and evidence that hold up in front of a certification body, regulator, or court.
In the field
Training, auditing, and speaking on anti-bribery — in practice
ABMS has delivered ISO 37001 implementation and Lead Auditor training to organisations including Bank Rakyat, Yinson, RHB Bank, and Technology Depository Agency — and Ashok has spoken on corporate liability and Section 17A at MACC, IACA, and United Nations forums.
Talk to a practitioner
Bring an active mandate, an open question, or a draft policy you want reviewed.
Whether you are facing the CIDB G7 deadline, building a Section 17A defence, or preparing for an ISO 37001 audit — start with a direct conversation, not a sales pitch.