Mazlan bin Ismail was the Chief Operating Officer for Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC). He retired as Vice President of Telekom Malaysia (TM) and entered Malaysian politics, first as an appointed advisor to the Ministry of Communications and Multimedia Malaysia with specialised duties. He is best known for running in the 13th general election in Malaysia in Permatang Pauh, a parliament in the state of Penang. He lost to PKR leader Anwar Ibrahim with a majority of 11,721 votes, though he brought his party nearly 10,000 more votes than it had gotten in the previous election held in 2008, an increase of 64%. He currently advises and guides the Malaysians Communications and Multimedia Commission in the planning and implementation of the government's Digital Nation Development.
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