To ensure compliance with the University’s goals and objectives, Zahdi oversees regular internal audit exercises and he has been instrumental in inculcating a culture of excellence at his previous institution in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur. In his role, Zahdi led in quality and compliance targets of ISO9001 Quality Management System in coordination and planning for internal audit exercises across all 13 faculties in the university and its campuses including validation and compliance audit on its collaboration partners (franchise program) in Mauritius, Myanmar, Vietnam, Turkey, China, Bangladesh, Egypt and Nepal. In his 9 years with the university, Zahdi had been a leading figure in strategizing the university rankings initiatives in which the university continues to be ranked among Malaysia’s top private universities in QS World Universities Ranking (WUR) - top 1%, regional ranking (Asia), as well as WUR By Subject Ranking.

Prior to this, Zahdi served as a Lecturer at Faculty of Business and Information Science, UCSI University, Universiti of Kuala Lumpur (UniKL) and continues to provide training and consultation with University of Malaya (UM) in the area of quality management, entrepreneurship and rankings.

A Professional Technologist (Ts.) by Malaysia Board of Technologists (MBOT), Zahdi received his Master of Science in Business Decision Management and Bachelor of Art (Honours) Business IT with International Business from Coventry University UK, and Postgraduate Diploma in Social Science Research Methods from Cardiff University UK.