Professional Development

Jan 11

TeAM Book: Go for Broke! Tales of Malaysian Technopreneurship


This is a book about local technopreneurs and the journey in their business. The book covers a wide variety of heroes such as Chris Chan of TMS, William Du, Ganesh of M.O.L. Access Portal and the always vocal Harres Tan. One thing which is noted, most of these “technopreneurs” are not from the tech background. (Eg. Chris Chan has a degree in Music.) They all believed in the vision of the MSC and thus decided to leave their comfort zone and venture into what was back then the total unknown.

Following is the list of all 21 technopreneurs (with their company and core business).

Ashran Ghazi
Asia Stream Digital TV – video streaming

Chris Chan
TMS Asia – knowledge management etc.

Mathavan Chandran
InfoValley – bioinformatics, biotech and medical informatics

Stephen Chia
BizSurf MSC – internet service provider *

Wei Chuan Beng
REDtone – IPTV, mobile and internet service provider *

William Du
Ingenious Haus – advisory, private equity and venture capital

Datuk Wan Mohamed Fasil Wan Mahmood
Mesiniaga – ICT solution and service provider

Ganesh Kumar Bangah
MOL AccessPortal – online payment service provider

Irman Nawawi
MYGO Solutions – online game developer and service provider

Leo Ariyanayakam
Scicom – offshore business process outsourcing

Norbik Bashah Idris
Scan Associates – ICT security solution provider

David Oh
Mindvault – IAM and IP consulting

Rais Hussin
The Red Snapper – wide area wireless broadband solution provider

Rajen. M
Holista Biotech – natural supplement R&D and distribution

Ritakamal Sadiman
Technology Innovation Resources – ICT solution and service provider

HY Sia
Ionnex – mobile transaction and content delivery platform provider

Harres Tan
HT Consulting – ICT consulting and outsourcing service provider

Edwin Tay
Netinfinium – IT marketing solution and service provider

Teoh Eng Kee
EKTECH Consulting – advanced CCTV product and solution provider

Harald Weinbrecht
ISS Consulting – SAP consulting

David Wong
Ship’n Track – e-fulfillment business process outsourcing

This book is supported both by the Multimedia Development Corperation (MDeC) and Cradle Investment Program. Below is an excerpt of the book. If you are interested, grab the book to find out more about them by contacting Wing Yew at or +603-2264 5320

Book excerpt

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