Dash is the founder of StartupMalaysia.org and the Host for the Global Entrepreneurship Week since 2008.

Dash’s mission in life is to help increase the number of fundable startups in the ecosystem. To this end, Dash has inspired hundreds of young people both in Malaysia and South East Asia to consider the path of high-growth entrepreneurship.

Under his leadership, the Global Entrepreneurship Week in Malaysia became one of the most active campaigns in the world. In 2009, Malaysia won the Host of The Year Award for the Global Entrepreneurship Week. In 2010, Dash was an invitee to the Presidential Summit in Entrepreneurship in Washington D.C hosted by President Obama.

Dash is also an alumni of the State Department’s prestigious IVLP (International Visitor Leadership Program) in the domain of startups.

In 2012, Dash became the Co-Director of the Founder Institute in Perth. The Founder Institute is the worlds largest idea stage accelerator in the world with a mission to create 1,000 high growth startups every year. Dash is educated both in Edinburgh Business School and the University of Cambridge.

Renuka has a degree in law and a Masters in Intellectual Property and Technology Law from Kings College London and is a Barrister at Law, Lincoln’s Inn. She has been called to the Malaysian Bar and practiced as an advocate and Solicitor at Skrine in the Intellectual property unit.

After leaving Skrine, she joined a multinational technology company, Sema, where she was part of a unit that managed the legal requirements for the group for Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan.

For over a decade since leaving practice and the corporate world, Renuka has been a serial entrepreneur participating in a dozen different entrepreneurial ventures. She was the co-founder and CEO for Mindvault, a boutique intellectual property consultancy which she helped build for seven (7) years. She exited Mindvault following a management buy-out exercise and since 2008, she has been working exclusively with passionate Technopreneurs via her most recent venture, Proficeo – a venture she founded to pursue her true passion – entrepreneur coaching, investment and mentoring.

Renuka is CEO of Proficeo Malaysia and has designed and implemented national level entrepreneur development programs for technology entrepreneurs. She is a coach, mentor and Angel Investor and in the past 5 year alone has designed and implemented entrepreneur development programs touching the lives of over 1000 entrepreneurs.

She often tells her peers (and bewildered parents) that chasing “success” is an uninspiring goal and that her aspiration is to live a life of significance. In the past 5 years since founding Proficeo – that’s exactly what she’s been doing.

Low Huoi Seong has over 26 years of experience in the content industry, having started Vision with his partner in 1985. Today the group is vertically integrated, from content development to production and distribution as well as licensing and merchandising. The production capabilities range from TV and film production to animation and games. Distribution is regional (clients being the major broadcasters in Asia) and the production partnerships global (working with partners in Australia, Europe and North America).

Seong is passionate about doing things right and is always striving to build world-class capabilities in all aspects of his life. Apart from managing Vision New Media, he is often consulted about the Malaysian digital content industry, is currently a member of the Local Advisory Panel of MSC Malaysia, a member of the FINAS and TeAM boards and writes an occasional piece about the industry.

He holds a B.Sc. (Hons) in Human Physiology, 1978 (University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne), an M.Sc. in Management Science, 1979 (Imperial College, University of London) and an M.Sc. in Human & Applied Physiology, 1980 (King’s College, University of London).

He is a member of YPO/WPO and was the Asia Pacific Regional Chairman in 2005/2006. He loves diving/underwater photography and is the National Instructor of the Malayan Sub Aqua Club (MSAC).

Azlan Yaacob is focused in developing a low carbon and green economy through venture capital & private equity, consultancy and program management. His passion is entrepreneurship and commercialization, and his forte is the market development of discontinuous innovations.

In his entrepreneur career, Azlan founded several technology and program management companies. These ventures include the nationwide deployment of ICT infrastructure for 10,000 schools, a public private initiative to provide broadband access via corporate sponsorship and an integrated waste to wealth scheme for rural development.

Via his private company Hijau Mikro, Azlan is currently incubating a number of new ideas and that includes sustainable urban transportation, green leadership development and applied research learning centers close to ecological sensitive areas.

Azlan was formerly with leading ICT companies where he held senior regional positions in product management, business development and sales. These companies include Motorola, Boston Technology and Andersen Consulting. Azlan held expatriate postings in Indonesia, Singapore and France, and is familiar developing markets in ASEAN, Australia, South Korea and India. Azlan graduated from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in Industrial and Operations Engineering.

In his spare time, Azlan plays for his amateur basketball team, RECON, and is the oldest active player in the New Community Basketball League (NCBL).

Bikesh is the co-founder of iTrain, South East Asia’s No 1 tech training centre and has been in the IT industry for the past 15 years. Highly motivated and ambitious, Bikesh has vast experience in the developer’s world.

Currently Bikesh is actively involved in training and mentoring mobile app developers on the iOS, Android and HTML5 platforms. His work on such platforms has attracted the attention of Apple that has undertaken iTrain for iOS education outreach programmes in SEA and Google nominating iTrain as one the first Google Web Academy’s in the world.

Bikesh has also recently founded 1337 Ventures which runs the 1337 Hub, a co-working space for app developers and 1337 Accelerator, Malaysia’s first accelerator for App Development with an initial RM5Million seed fund.