Making a Difference

Vani is a qualified accountant who has been actively involved in Project Management and entrepreneurship for over 25 years. Vani is a seasoned entrepreneur who has successfully co-founded and run ventures in the past including StartupMalaysia where she designs, develops and implements programs and projects that help young people become more entrepreneurial in their thinking. Vani co-founded TechSprint Academy in 2019 after realising the gender inequality in the tech industry and seeing that women need additional support to step into these careers which can give them flexibility as they juggle multiple commitments. Having taken a career break herself, Vani understood the challenges involved in making a successful career comeback and designed Rebound as a not-for profit initiative to help and support other women in their own journeys. Vani loves to read, travel and is also passionate about cooking.

Vani Mahadevan Founder, TechSprint Academy & Mentor

Emily, from Canada, holds an International MBA specialising in Cross-Cultural Management. She started her career in the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and came to Kuala Lumpur as the Executive Director of the Malaysia Canada Business Council. She subsequently joined Warisan Global Sdn Bhd to help conceptualize and execute Corporate Social Responsibility programs. Here she also developed initiatives to inspire, create and connect entrepreneurs across Malaysia to a global eco-system through various programs including as Malaysian host for the inaugural Global Entrepreneurship Week events. Emily is currently based in Kota Kinabalu, where she has co-founded The Borneo Tribal Squad MMA & Fitness Factory–with her husband, focusing on self-defense programs and fitness for women. She continues to work to inspire entrepreneurial ecosystems in Sabah and Malaysia.

Emily S. Barner Program Coordinator/Mentor

Nadhirah is from a finance and accounting background. In 2013, she took a leap of faith and joined StartupMalaysia – a company that provides programs to help build an entrepreneurial mindset. She has overseen a portfolio of programs aimed at creating more entrepreneurial youth in Malaysia over the years. Through her work, Nadhirah has been fortunate to impact people’s lives through the programs she has managed which include entrepreneurship training for over 10,000 youth nationwide. She has also worked on programs involving rural school children as well as regional social entrepreneurs. Nadhirah has also mentored many university students and startups whilst building strong network with various government agencies, universities, NGOs and corporates through collaborative initiatives. When she is not busy contributing to small impacts at work, Nadhirah enjoys outdoor activities mainly running, hiking and cycling, and she is also a self-proclaimed MasterChef!

Nadhirah Mustafa Program Coordinator/Mentor

Irina holds a Bachelor's Degree in Mass Communications from UiTM Shah Alam and a Digital Marketing Quantum Degree from NEXT Academy. She currently heads and manages the social media presence of the various initiatives of both TechSprint Academy and StartupMalaysia. Prior to joining StartupMalaysia, Irina was a marketing communications executive at Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC) and a public relations intern at Ogilvy PR Worldwide - where she was professionally trained to handle media relations, content development, influencer engagement and brand perception audit. She has also led various social media campaigns for major events like Malaysia's National Youth Convention for several years and the inaugural Commonwealth Youth Summit which took place in Malaysia in 2017.

Irina RidzwanCommunity Builder

Adelina Iskandar now focuses on special projects on matters pertaining to Public Relations and Communications. Adelina's previous post was Vice President of Corporate Affairs at Tenaga Nasional Berhad. She was also in SYABAS as General Manager, Customer Service Division (PUSPEL). Adelina had also served as Director of Corporate Communications with the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC). Adelina has more than 30 years’ experience in public relations and training. Adelina holds a Degree in Humanities and a Masters in Linguistics.

Adelina Iskandar Trainer/Mentor

As the first lady licensed financial advisor in Malaysia to be inducted into the Million Dollar Round Table – an association for the world’s top 1% financial practitioners, Brenda believes that financial planning is one of the key factors to living well. She also maintains a healthy balance between running her businesses and being a single mother to 3 lovely children. As the Group MD of KP Global Holdings Sdn Bhd, she founded the “Wealth of Life” series, a rapidly growing life and financial education program for all ages. Brenda holds qualifications in advertising, usiness management, financial planning and as a licensed Financial dvisor runs a successful financial planning practice licensed by Bank Negara & Securities Commission with UOB Kay Hian Wealth Advisors Sdn Bhd

Brenda YongTrainer

Dash is a seasoned entrepreneur whose passion is to help people discover meaning and purpose through entrepreneurial endeavours. Dash believes everyone should be entrepreneurial; however not everyone will start companies. Dash’s expertise is in helping early stage and aspiring entrepreneurs figure out what they need to do to get started. Dash has founded several ventures, including Startup Malaysia. Dash is one of the judges for MIT Review’s Innovators under 30 for Asia Pacific and also a Founding Council member for the Allied for Startups, a worldwide network of advocacy organisations focused on improving the policy environment for startups. Dash is an IVLP alumni and an alumni of the Judge Business School, Cambridge University and Edinburgh Business School, Heriot Watt University.

Dash Dhakshinamoorthy Trainer/ Mentor

Freda Liu is a highly sought after moderator, emcee and trainer. In the past decade, she has been with Malaysia's only business radio station and has conducted over 5,000 interviews that include prominent personalities like Stephen Covey, Nick Vijucic, Jack Welch and Julian Assange. She was awarded the ASEAN Rice Bowl Awards for Journalist Of The Year and the Kanebo Exceptional Award for Voice. Freda is a member of NAWEM and the Malaysian Association of Professional Speakers (MAPS). Freda is also a judge for Chivas Regal’s The Venture programme. A spokesperson for sustainability, she’s a World Vision Malaysia advocate for WASH (Clean Water & Sanitation). Freda is an ambassador for Women of Global Change KL Chapter and a mentor for the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women. Majoring in Marketing with a Bachelor of Business she has also recently completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Design Thinking.

Freda Liu Speaker

Geetha is a pioneer, data science practitioner in Malaysia with more than 15 years’ experience in delivering data-driven insights and strategy in telecommunications, financial and education industries, across ASEAN and North Asia regions. Having led impactful analytics projects with double digit, sustainable returns at Maxis Communications, Celcom Malaysia, UMobile, Progresif Brunei, Unitel Mongolia, Astro Malaysia as well as Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Optimization in Citigroup Transaction Services (CTSM). Geetha holds a Phd in Management from Putra Business School (AACSB accredited). Core team member of Women in Artificial Intelligence (WAI) Malaysia. Geetha is presently attached with Priority Dynamics S/B as its Data Scientist.

Geetha Nadarajan Trainer

Hanaa is passionate about women empowerment and has been active in entrepreneur and leadership groups in Sabah, nationally in Malaysia and internationally in the Commonwealth. Hanaa has been in the education arena for more than 20 years from when she lived in Sydney, Tokyo, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur before returning to her hometown in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. Hanaa founded her training company in 2013 and has mentored women and young entrepreneurs to develop the best version of themselves, to discover and optimize their character strengths to achieve personal success in the areas they decide to focus on. Diversity and Inclusivity are important values which Hanaa shares in her work and which she lives by. When not working, Hanaa spends time on her NGO work as President in both Soroptimist International Kota Kinabalu and the Commonwealth Association of Leadership Malaysia.

Hanaa Wong Abdullah Trainer/Mentor

Jasmine graduated in Art and Design and has a decade of work experience in the design field. Jasmine's skills and knowledge have shaped her into a dignified expert in creating exceptional logo and web design. Jasmine is also a natural entrepreneur and is the founder of Gizwiz Studio and LogoDesignCreation.com, an agency providing logo design, web design and web software development services. Her work have thus far been featured in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, WIRED Magazine and Logolounge.com.

Jasmine HorTrainer

Lalitha Wemel is the Regional Director of Community for APAC at Techstars. Since 2015, she has overseen partnerships, programming and startup ecosystems development across the region. Lalitha has worked with over 25+ corporate & government partners in APAC; developing strategy, executing corporation innovation programs and leading over 300 community growth activities, annually. She proudly leads Techstars Global Startup Weekend Women program series; a series of weekend programs focused on creating more exposure, leaders and opportunities for women in tech.Lalitha is also the co-hosts of the startup & wellness podcast, Happy Messy Humans; where she leads honest, funny & deep conversations with founders about the messy pursuit of happiness in startup life.

Lalitha WemelSpeaker/ Mentor

Malinda Coler, CEO at LessonsUp, started her career as a teacher in California, and was recruited into tech through her network. She was able to be successful in a new industry because she had access to a network of talented and generous professionals who helped her upskill along the way. In the last ten years she's led growth and operations teams at five different tech companies, notably scaling workforces and communities. She's now on a mission to give everyone access to one of the most lucrative networks in the world, and the skills they need to move forward in their career. Reach out to chat networking, career pivots, tech, growth marketing, leadership and team building.

Malinda Coler Speaker

Shareen is CEO & Co-Founder of Sorga Innovation (SI), a boutique human capital/talent strategies and solutions advisory firm. SI is the entity behind the gigxglobal.com, a gig economy talent platform for high value fractional work, connecting with experts and professional talent. Prior to founding SI, Shareen was CEO of TalentCorp, a Malaysian government agency responsible for talent strategy and planning for the country. At TalentCorp, Shareen was instrumental in the design and execution of a national talent/human capital strategy and action plan with a focus on optimising top talent to meet demands of key economic growth sectors. She advocated and implemented strategic interventions in building the right talent ecosystems in response to global trends with particular focus on digitalisation, IR 4.0 and its impact on the future of work.

Shareen Abdul GhaniSpeaker

Shubhra has over a decade of experience as a front end developer. She is also a creative professional in the fields of theatre, short films and interactive content. She enjoys working on projects that are at the intersection of these disciplines. She recently served as a developer for HalApp, a project selected as part of the Virtual Beings Summit, that involved taking the poems of Hal Sorowitz to motivate people to improve their speech via an HTML web voice reactive interface. She was also a selected participant of Garage Stories by Cannes XR Festival as part of a team that has created an AR based comic book. Shubhra continues her journey as the paradigms shift and the world accepts developers in various avatars such as technologist storytellers.

Shubhra PrakashLead Instructor

Sin Lee, based in Silicon Valley, is currently a Research Manager at Facebook and leads a research team who shape product direction through deep understanding of behaviors, needs, and goals of users and businesses globally. Her team builds end-to-end tools for businesses and specializes in new and early-stage product research and strategy - it's just more fun when you're early on the innovation bandwagon! Her previous researcher role shaped the creation of Facebook Marketplace, into the largest C2C platform in the world. She has also created Design Thinking and Brainstorming Toolkits for internal R&D use and co-founded the Mentorship Program for Women in Design at Facebook. Sin Lee holds a graduate degree in Human Factors and Ergonomics, with a specialization in Human-Computer Interaction.

Sin Lee LohSpeaker/ Mentor

Tami Wloch is the Director, Social/Digital Media of Strategic & Creative Marketing, Inc., a Chicago based organisation. Tami is a dynamic, international speaker uses real language to make the complex world of Social Media easy to understand. She encourages business owners to transform their social presence and get more sales! Her friendly, engaging presentation style captivates audiences & encourages questions. In her sessions, Tami shares her years of knowledge with clear, step-by-step instructions, so attendees always leave with powerful skills, ready to jumpstart their business! She’s right there in the trenches with her team, using expert strategies to run campaigns that can obtain 50,000+ views in a month and have engagement rates 200%+ higher than average. She is also certified in both SEO and Google Analytics.

Tami WlochSpeaker

Adrienne Palmer is a proven, accomplished entrepreneur. She founded her first technology company, Insite Interactive, in 1998. After successfully growing and selling Insite, she continues to serve as a coach, mentor and leadership consultant for technology business owners. Adrienne is frequently featured in media for her technology and entrepreneurial achievements, and her company has been internationally recognized for its work with top industry awards. She has served as a Global Director of Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), and recognized as one of Dallas’ Top Women in Business, and as one of the North Texas Women in Technology. Adrienne frequently speaks at conferences focused on entrepreneurship’s role in the global economy, ways to support entrepreneurs and empowering women entrepreneurs.

Adrienne PalmerSpeaker

Esther started her career in Price Waterhouse Coopers as an auditor and was exposed to various companies and industries. She later moved on to Hewlett Packard and was handling credit analysis and risk management for HP businesses for 10 years for Asia Pacific. Esther has experience in managing credit risk for HP for India, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia. Subsequently she moved on to IBM and then joined Jason Tan & Associates (JTA), an accounting firm. She is the director of JTA Global Advisory and handles the accounting and book keeping for a portfolio of clients with her team of staff. JTA is also an audit firm, tax agent and company secretarial firm. Esther is a qualified accountant, graduated from Bristol, UK and also has an MBA from University of Strathclyde UK.

Esther Lee-TanSpeaker

A HR professional with over 20 years experience in senior HR roles in Australia and Malaysia Daphne Lok holds a Bachelor of Commerce from UNSW and a Master in Labour Law and Relations from USYD. Her industry experience is diverse including healthcare, logistics, shared services, property management and professional services. Having moved from Malaysia to Australia not once but twice, Daphne has had to pivot her career several times. Daphne is grateful to her mentors who have helped her in her career journey and would enjoy mentoring those who would like to know how to move from their current roles and circumstances into new challenges.

Daphne LokTrainer/Mentor

As the CEO of marketing agency Wavemakers.co, Nadzirah has over 8 years of experience in marketing & communications. Through her extensive knowledge, she has successfully led multilayer brand activation campaigns for companies such as ClassPass in Malaysia, Lelewatu Resort in Indonesia, and the Miru Collection Hotels in Japan. Her unique perspective on creating 360 marketing strategies has given her the ability to adapt easily to any company she works with. Nadzirah currently mentors via Futurelabs where she offers advice to mentees on how to select a suitable career path, mastering public speaking, and picking up the fundamentals of marketing.

Nadzirah HashimTrainer/Mentor

Fay Ulrica poses a new narrative in tech through Spatial Computing - the harmonisation of man, machine and environment. She lives her passion by creating compelling, immersive and memorable experiences that unite our digital and physical worlds with her team at Ministry XR. She is the VP of XR Production where she focuses on being the primary force for improvement and leads a multi-disciplinary team across a wide client base. Her role extends beyond the scope of project management to reimagining engaging storytelling styles and user experience that simplify life by making computers naturally and seamlessly interactive to humankind. Fay is a believer that XR can thread magic into the fibres of every business by enhancing our capabilities, facilitating immersive storytelling and collaboration.

Fay UlricaSpeaker

Charissa Ong is the Head of Product Design in Inmagine with a background in educating, mentoring, consulting, and venture building in various industries like fintech (Boost-eWallet), Medtech, and e-commerce. She is also a best-selling author and Founder of Penwings Publishng. Her passion for education drives her to create impactful modules and workshops for all institutes suitable for all ages.

Charissa Ong Ty Trainer/Mentor

Hanniz Lam runs a creative agency, Best Events Productions which is currently working on a FB Live Selling solution. They produce their own tech related events such as the Global Drone Conference & Hackathon and create pop up art experiences for brands to engage with their audience. Hanniz is also the host of Malaysian Entrepreneur Network with 5000+ members and Communications Director in the Malaysian Autonomous Intelligence and Robotics Association.

Hanniz LamTrainer/Mentor

Yienyee is the cofounder and Group COO at AVANA - a social commerce enabler that empowers more local businesses in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia to bring their products online and scale to compete on a global level During her university years, she founded an online fashion aggregator called A Shopaholic’s Den - pioneering a strong community of online sellers in Malaysia. Yienyee’s passion for helping local businesses to grow has powered her successful career trajectory. In 2016, Yienyee teamed up with Luqman, to build AVANA as an affordable and scalable end-to-end platform for local businesses to automate their business operations, tap into social media as discovery and sales channels as well as partner with logistic and payment Today, with a team of more than 80, AVANA empowers more than 100,000 businesses of all sizes and KOLs across the region to grow their business and is looking to empower more across Southeast Asia

Yienyee SohSpeaker/Mentor

Sivalee Anantachart (SoMA SoM) is an Impact Investor and a Community Igniter. She's the Director of S.P.S. Gems & Jewelry Co.Ltd and the Founder of Blockchain Mango and SoMA SociaL. With background in Broadcasting, Tech and business management and a strong passion in design, health, wellness and innovation, she has helped businesses grow their client base and increase online and social media presence as well as building a strong brand awareness across the globe. She's also an advocate for Diversity and Women in Tech. She's the Women Will Lead for Thailand and also the Community lead for GBG ( Google Business Group) Bangkok. She also hosts and curate several tech events and conferences globally. SoMA also advises startups, co-working spaces and also on the board of the Women's Fund Asia and is the International Partner for World Business Angels Investment Forum.

Sivalee AnantachartSpeaker/Mentor

Jasmine Ng is the co-founder of EnGame, a game development start-up that seeks to help enterprises gamify their services and products to enlarge their customer acquisition reach and also inspire customer loyalty. With over 20 years of experience in the financial services sector, including blockchain and cryptocurrency, Jasmine’s roles have included Chief Revenue Officer of iPay88 and CEO of Razer Fintech, a subsidiary of Razer Inc. Presently, Jasmine is also serving as a Board Member of public listed company and also on the advisory boards of an online FinTech school, a prop-tech start-up, several social enterprises and also serve as the Secretary to the ACCESS blockchain association of Malaysia. She is a Member of the Board of Trustee to Junior Achievement Malaysia, and executive committee member to the Malaysian Crime Prevention Foundation (MCPF) – KL Chapter, specifically focussing on advising for Cyber Crime Prevention. Jasmine is the co-founder and advisor to EPIC Homes, a non-profit organisation; they have been building homes for the underprivileged communities of Malaysia since 2010.

Jasmine NgSpeaker/Mentor

Ophelia is an audiologist by profession. She is the owner of Ophelia Hearing Specialist, a hearing care center that has been around for 10 years. Ophelia is also the founder of Tipsy Tiramisu, a home-based dessert business that was born by accident in early 2020 and flourished during MCO. She finds joy in juggling between being an audiologist in the day and a tiramisu maker at night. Ophelia, who is also an experienced mentor and public speaker, believes that every woman can excel when given the right tools.

Ophelia DomingoTrainer/Mentor

Chen Zhao, IT Specialist at the Asian Development Bank leads the Cyber Security Operations Center at this multilateral development institution. His team is responsible for IT Security infrastructure engineering, monitoring and incident response activities. Prior to joining ADB, Chen was the IT Security Director at Sequoia Capital where he managed the firm's IT infrastructure and security in the Greater China region. Earlier in his career, Chen was a cyber security consultant at PwC US and Hong Kong, providing security and risk consulting services for Fortune 500 companies in the US and APAC regions.

Chen ZhaoSpeaker

Lance Cheang has started several businesses in the past 17 years and currently owns and manages 4 different companies in technology, shared services and business/technology consultancy. He currently oversees engagements in 7 countries across Asia and is a pioneering and leading Microsoft cloud service provider in the SME space in Malaysia. One of his MDEC certified companies is credited for being the first partner in Asia for Zendesk, a complete cloud-based service desk solution and remains the only Zendesk partner in Malaysia. The same company is also credited to be the first systems integrations partner for HubSpot Cloud CRM and Xero Cloud Accounting in South East Asia.

Lance CheangSpeaker

Dr. Tiffanie Ong is a cognitive psychologist & Chief Operations Officer at Naluri. She oversees day-to-day operations and is also responsible for the delivery of Naluri’s digital health coaching capability, the development of their digital coaching platform and curriculum which comprises of modules in mental wellbeing, resilience, readiness to change and growth mindsets. Prior to Naluri, Tiffanie was a consultant at Kearney and Accenture, where she focused on large-scale operating model transformation, growth strategy and technology implementation projects across different industries within Southeast Asia. Additionally, she is also experienced in developing digital roadmaps for large multinational companies, specifically in the areas of organisation model and digital culture. She holds a PhD in Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences from University College London, UK, where she specialised in the psychology of motivation, face perception, and social hierarchy.

Dr. Tiffanie OngSpeaker

Amina Ahmad is the Founder and CEO of Datharm, a company building tools and providing platforms for data capture and analysis to enable data driven decision making by government agencies, development partners and policy makers in the public health and education sector. Prior to starting up her firm, she has successfully administered a number of projects with clients from different countries (Finland, UK, Malaysia, Korea and Indonesia) while working in Kuala Lumpur as an IT Project Manager. She was part of the development team of Ebola Sense App, an award winning mobile software application developed to help contain and monitor the Ebola outbreak in Nigeria.

Amina Ahmad K.U Nagogo Speaker

Denise Jones is originally from Seattle, USA, and is a 25-year veteran of the software industry, as both a software engineer and a Product leader. She is currently the Director of Product for Caravelo, a B2B airline travel tech scaleup in Barcelona. During her career, she has specialized in Search, data science, and travel tech products with companies such as Microsoft and Expedia, in the USA, London, and now in Barcelona. Since 2019, she has been working with startups in Barcelona to create Product-centric organizations, and to mentor and coach other women in tech. She is also an accomplished international speaker and writer on technical and career topics.

Denise Jones Speaker

Suren completed his Bachelor’s of Degree in Computer Science majoring in Networking as Certified Cisco Networking Administrator. He started his 15-year journey in the technology industry as a Helpdesk Agent and progressively transformed into a Business Consultant on his CX Journey. As the Head of Sales for VLAN Asia, Surindren has successfully garnered approximately 40 Small Medium Enterprise / Businesses as part of his Customer Experience portfolios to enable them to digitalizate in their respective industries.

Surindren (Suren) Manickam Speaker

Han Yang completed his Bachelor’s of Degree in Computer Science. Han Yang has been in the technology industry for 13 years already, first starting off in the Helpdesk role answering calls, emails and debugging applications. He is currently building applications, integrations and providing technical consulting for VLAN Asia. Han Yang provides Customer Experience expertise by translating customer-support process into the technical applications.

Tenh Han Yang Speaker

Norman Lim is the Marketing Manager of Vlan Asia, having managed an event management company and an online radio station for the past 18 years, he is no stranger in the field of customer relationship, having to manage local and international brands. He is now leading a team of young and innovative technology service providers, paving the way to help Malaysians to digitalise their businesses.

Norman Lim Speaker

Feidah completed her degree in Information Technology and majored in Multimedia Technology Management. She started her career as an Oracle Database Engineer, and continue to climb up as Team Leader and Project Manager in several companies and in a variety of industries before joining VLAN Asia. Feidah is now a CX Consultant at VLAN Asia as where she assists clients in understanding that business digitalization is necessary to compete in today's business world.

RafeiDah Jamal (Feidah) Trainer

Florence is obsessed with the world of business, technology, blockchain and data science with the vision of inspiring the younger generation to build a better future. Being a graduate in Bachelor of Science (Hons) Actuarial Studies from Sunway University, she started to embark on an entrepreneurial journey in the fintech industry at the age of 21. Prior to starting up the new venture, she has begun to document her experience and learnings in brand building and digital marketing as a key opinion leader on social media for a few years. She is currently working with a passionate and innovative team on cloud technology solutions to help digitalise businesses.

Florence Wong Yoke Yan Trainer

Lillian brings in a vast experience across different industries including education consulting, real estate and software development. Being cross-disciplined herself, Lillian is driven to teach and encourage others to also take the leap and broaden their knowledge. She strives in streamlining workflows and processes in medium to large organisations through the adoption of technology.

Lillian Toh Trainer

Meera Eeswaran, is a Senior Lecturer School of Accounting & Finance Asia Pacific University and a passionate Blockchain Enthusiast. She has over 8 years of corporate experience in Accounting, Auditing and Taxation having work at one of the Big 4 firms, a firm in Singapore, ACCA Malaysia, The Confederation of Asian and Pacific Accountants (CAPA) and The Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA) on the development of professional accounting standards, policy recommendations and accounting practices. Currently, with over 10 years lecturing experience, which includes emerging technology in Accounting and Finance, Blockchain where she is actively involved with her fellow teammates in designing modules incorporating use cases and application of disruptive technology. She has her BSc (Hons) in Accounting & Finance (Multimedia University Cyberjaya), MSc in Accounting and Financial Management (University of West England) and has begun her PhD in Accounting, in Financial Reporting and Blockchain Technology. In 2019, Meera has been appointed as a member of the ACCA Global Education Forum and the Malaysian Institute of Accountants Young Professionals Committee (YPC). Within YPC, she represents the Women’s Chapter Sub Committee.

Meera Eeswaran Trainer

Winnie is a lifestyle photographer who loves capturing the moments of auspicious events. Her 12 years’ experience in photography has exposed her with various occasions which have sharpened her photography and interpersonal skill. She has been doing photoshoots commercially for the last 2 years like corporate event, birthday celebration, naming ceremony and products. Also, she was invited to numerous platforms to provide training for business owners, refugees and also young kids. Winnie is currently focusing on Smartphone Video Editing and Smartphone Photography with the objective of encouraging more people to create DIY videos and photos conveniently and efficiently.

Winnie Wong Trainer

Jamie is a mompreneur who started her own business in the small town, Kuala Krai, Kelantan with only RM500 after being employed for 8 years in an MNC company. Jamie sacrificed six years focusing on building skills and strategies for her online business, learning from scratch how to dropship, stock tracking, products outsource, designing, sales and marketing, customer service, logistic, purchasing, and quality control. Since this humble beginning, Jamie has built many strong stores in the marketplace, has a positive reputation for doing what she says on Shopee & Lazada platform, and is proud of the fact that her business made millions in revenue last year. Jamie is a SHOPEE XPERT, certified Trainer by SHOPEE, and LAZADA Trainer, certified by Alibaba Business School. Her passion is to coach business owners, having trained more than 10,000 sellers, as well as to help other women who want to achieve the same success.

Jamie Thoo Trainer

Julia Juremi is a Lecturer under the Network, Security & Forensics cluster in Asia Pacific University of Technology & Innovation (APU). She received her PhD from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) in 2018 where the focus of her study is Security in Computing focusing on Cryptography and Block Cipher Encryption. She is currently the Head of Forensic & Cyber Security Center, FSeC, APU. She is also the Coordinator for APU Security Operation Center (SOC) and have been managing the SOC ELITE Program, which is a platform for the students to conduct Simulation, Research & Development on Cybersecurity under the collaboration with TecForte Malaysia. She is a Certified SOC-IR (Security Operation Center-Incident Responder), Certified TecForte SOC (Training the Trainer), Certified ISACA CSX where she is one of the Trainer for Empowering Women in Cyber Risk Management Programme. This programme is part of a strategic ongoing effort to build up talent in the cybersecurity field as well as to provide skills needed for women to return to the workforce. She is a Certified HRDF Trainer and has also earned a badge as Rocheston Certified Cyber Security Engineer Level 1 (RCCE). She is currently one of the FRGS Grant Holder awarded by the Ministry of Education Malaysia where she works as the Co-Researcher in a research entitled “Crime Scene Investigation Framework Incorporating 4IR Technologies”.

Julia Juremi Trainer

Malcolm brings over 25 Years of diverse CX Experience in Retail, Hospitality, Airlines, Banking, Financial Services, large startup, tech-vendor and is a Regional Speaker on CX, sharing best practices and trends. At Zendesk, Malcolm works with the largest enterprise clients and is a Specialist in improving operations, channel optimization and Business case analysis.

Malcolm KohSpeaker

Jolyn is currently a Manager of Customer Success at a US tech company called Zendesk who builds customer service and engagement software to help businesses provide the best customer experiences. Her team works with existing client relationships in APAC as their trusted advisor. She has been working in Customer Success since 2015, prior to this, she has 2 years of Operations and over 8 years of experience working in Sales/ Account Management in companies such as App Annie, Google Japan / Singapore, and Experian Singapore. Jolyn has lived in Asia for over 13 years and worked in the UK, APAC, and the US. Jolyn holds a 1st-class Honours degree in Business Administration from Middlesex University, London.

Jolyn IsabeloSpeaker

Margaret Bridge is currently a software engineering intern with Zendesk, based in Dublin. She has just completed a diploma in Computer Science at University College Dublin, having previously worked as a full-time freelance opera singer and voice teacher. She still sings professionally and when not singing or programming, she likes to hike, read, cook and spend time with her husband and dog.

Margaret BridgeSpeaker

Anna is working as a User Experience (UX) Research Manager based in Singapore. Currently, she is working for Zendesk, a global SaaS company that builds software for better customer relationships. She has 11 years of experience working as a user researcher in both the technology and financial industries. Anna is passionate about educating designers and product development teams about the benefits of research and taking a pragmatic approach to delivering successful results. Her specialities include international research, experimental research methods, growing research as a function and research processes for scaling research.

Anna Lee AndaSpeaker

Giulia joined Zendesk in March 2021 as an Outbound Research Representative after 3 years working in the German Publishing Industry. At Zendesk she works on different Outbound campaigns for the Enterprise and Commercial segment covering all European markets and languages.

Giulia RiccardiSpeaker

Darya has almost 10 years of experience in various roles within IT, consulting services and tech. Originally from Russia, Darya led a small team driving IT education & certification business for a regional system integrator company before relocating to Ireland. In 2014 Darya moved to Dublin where she first spent several years with GLG, knowledge marketplace & professional learning platform, working with leading professional service firms and helping manage a rapidly expanding team. In 2018 Darya joined Zendesk as a Customer Success Consultant where she worked with a book of business to drive technical and business value helping organisations be the company their customers want them to be. Currently, as a Partner Success Manager at Zendesk, Darya is involved in developing process, infrastructure and knowledge to support partners with running best in class customer success programs for joined customers.

Darya KolobovaSpeaker

Meiyea brings over 15 years of experience in HR Consulting, Executive Coaching, Management, Leadership, and Organizational development in the information technology and service industries. At Zendesk, Meiyea’s role as a “Director, People Partner” involves defining and creating unique employee experiences for employees across the Asia Pacific region. She strives to champion Zendesk’s commitment in building a Digital First culture that embraces diverse and innovative mindsets, where people feel supported and with a sense of belonging.

Meiyea NeoSpeaker

Sharlene joined Zendesk in March 2021 as an Associate People Partner after 4 years working at EssilorLuxottica in areas of Talent Development, Employee Engagement, HR Projects & Transformation. She is aligned with Meiyea in the APAC People Partner Team, and hopes to bring people together in a more inclusive way as Zendesk reimagines how employees work and connect in a Digital First world.

Sharlene WongSpeaker

Amalina Ariffin is the Program Coordinator of the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI), after becoming the YSEALI Academic Fellow and an award recipient for the YSEALI Seeds for the Future grant for Chili Padi Academy, an environmental accelerator for school students. She is also an Asia-Pacific Obama Leaders, a content contributor for Zero Waste Malaysia, a mentor for Closing the Gap 2020 and McKinsey Youth Leadership Academy 2019. She graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from the International Islamic University Malaysia.

Amalina AriffinMentor

Andal Krishnan holds a Masters in Training and Development from the University of Leicester, UK, has been awarded a Doctorate Specialist by Oxbridge Institute of Professional Development. She also has an advanced certificate in training and assessment and a diploma in adult learning in curriculum development, instructional and assessment designs from the Institute of Adult Learning, a subsidiary of Singapore University of Social Sciences. Andal has been involved in upskilling and reskilling in nationwide projects in Malaysia. She creates curriculum and assessment content to meet the demands in the employment sector. Her assessment portfolio for the Human Resource arena includes measuring the performance of a candidate with a variety of approaches, including digital tools. One of her recent projects is mentoring entrepreneurs in their digital marketing skills.

Andal Krishnan Mentor

An advocate for the underprivileged children in Malaysia, Anne is the CEO of The Budimas Charitable Foundation, a NGO. She also provides guidance and funding in support of the welfare and well-being of the underprivileged community in Malaysia. She has now ventured into the education sector as the CEO and President of the Edumaax Group of Companies and Imperium International College (IIC). As a striving trendsetter, Anne fundamentally established the space to e-learning and technological platforms through her work at the IIC while ensuring the quality achievements of the learning objectives. Recognised as a passionate leader and a recipient of the Women Icons Award Malaysia 2019, Anne firmly believes in the importance of women leadership and equal opportunity while embracing diversity in Malaysia.

Anne RajasaikaranMentor

An experienced general manager, startup enthusiast and strategist with a passion for building businesses and challenging the status quo. 10+ year track-record of launching new products and ventures, defining new business strategies, and delivering operational impact in various organisations as a founding team member, founder and employee. Major experience lies in kicking off ideas from the ground, mobilising people and leading cross-functional teams to bring about fundamental change and improvement in strategy, process, and profitability. Proven track record in HR, Product, PR, Communications, Marketing and Project Management. Audra is currently the Head of Strategic Initiatives and PR at Fave Group, one of the South East Asia’s fast growing Fintech platform, supporting organization’s growth from start-up to scale-up building platform providing payments & loyalty solutions to offline merchants.

Audra PakalnyteMentor

Aya's professional growth originates from an unpredictable environment that taught her to be resilient and adaptive. She started her career at 17 as a Central Asia analyst and a journalist. She has since been contributing to the empowerment and social inclusion of people with disabilities in Turkmenistan. After working as a Project Assistant for the UNDP, she then pursued a Master's Degree in Public Administration in the U.S as a Fulbright Scholar. Aya has called Malaysia home for the past 3 years as a Program Manager of the YSEALI Boot Camp at Me.reka. She has organised 16 bootcamps and mentored 10 teams of young Malaysian changemakers and countless webinars and online sessions. Aya firmly believes in life-long education and development.

Aya Mametnazarova Mentor

Cheryll is a “Hacker”, Interdisciplinary & Serial Executioner who is passionate about growing people and businesses. She is an experienced Operational Manager with a startup industry background focused in operations management, relationship building and customer experience. Cheryll serves as the Director of Operations at Dropee, a B2B Ecommerce solutions provider and Wholesale Marketplace that enables businesses to buy and sell confidently. Previously, Cheryll was Head of Strategic Development at GoCar Malaysia (the first car sharing company in Malaysia acquired by Tan Chong Group). Back in the early days, she single-handedly built, installed and repaired fleet trackers for the first 80 cars in their fleet. She grew the fleet from five cars to 400 and a team of five to 30.

Cheryll WongMentor

Christine is the Founder and CEO of Jota.ai. She has extensive B2B experience in technology and finance, with a global perspective having worked in San Francisco, London and Seattle. Her work experience includes Product Partnerships at Google Cloud, Channel Sales at Microsoft and M&A at Goldman Sachs. She was previously Founder & CEO of The Steps, a mentoring platform in Malaysia and Singapore. Christine graduated with an MBA from Harvard Business School and BSc Economics from University College London.

Christine Yoong Mentor

Elain is the Co-Founder and Director in Ata Plus, an Equity Crowdfunding platform. She believes nothing is impossible and views challenges as opportunities, which fueled her career in the areas of Management, Business Strategy and MarComm during her career in many notable organisations. Elain is a Board Member of Reservoir Link Berhad and Western Union Payments Malaysia from 2012-2019. Elain is the President of the Registered Digital Markets Association Malaysia. She was recognized by BERG 2019 Women Icons Malaysia for her achievements in Fintech; and by Digital News Asia in the 2020/2021 Batch of Digerati50 for pursuing her passion and pushing the boundaries in shaping the Digital Economy in Malaysia. Elain graduated from the London School of Economics with BSc in Actuarial Science and MSc in Operational Research.

Elain LockmanMentor

Farah Fauzi is the Regional Manager for Asia Pacific in Techstars where she builds entrepreneurship communities and helps startups. In her role, she supports partnership building, relationship management and startup programs across the region. Farah is currently a partner in a knowledge process outsourcing company and has previously built 2 other startups while completing her legal education. Her global experience includes facilitating innovation programs for corporate and governmental partners, advising, mentoring and judging startups as well as guest lecturing in global universities. She also serves as an Expert for the Impact Collective and is advising a number of impact-driven startups/organizations.

Farah Fauzi Mentor

Ching Yee is a member of the senior leadership team at QS Enrolment Solutions, a business unit at QS Quacquarelli Symonds and oversees over 100 employees at the QS KL Office. She joined QS in 2016 after 17 years in the technology industry. She has a Computer Science degree from the University of Malaya and an MBA from the University of Nottingham Malaysia. She started her career as a software engineer managing the Asian development team for Intel’s Global Procurement Group, and co-founded a tech start-up that was later acquired by a multinational business services company. Ching Yee is also an IVLP Alumna for Women in Technology. Her background has given her a wide range of skills and experience ranging from solutions development to tech entrepreneurship.

Fu Ching YeeMentor

Grace is a human resources leader with more than 25 years’ experience in the areas of talent acquisition, development and management, succession planning, performance management, learning and development, and employee engagement from roles in the FMCG industry, banking, insurance, KLSE and diversified conglomerates. Currently the Senior General Manager of Group Human Resource and Administration at Berjaya Corporation Berhad, Grace led her company to win the ‘Employer of Choice Award (Gold Winner)’ in November 2017, Asia’s Best Employer Brand Awards 2017, 2018 and 2019. She is one of 4 women HR leaders honoured by LinkedIn for her contribution to the people industry. She is a certified coach and also certified practitioner in Neuro Languistic Programming. Grace is also currently the Program Quality Director for Toastmasters International District 51.

Grace ChanMentor

Juliana is the CEO of Biji-biji Initiative, an impact-driven enterprise that champions sustainable living and practices. Having a strong passion for sustainability and the creative field, Juliana has also co-founded Me.reka, an alternative education space nurturing creativity and sustainability in STEAM-centric education; Taboo Enterprise -an events-based enterprise focusing on sustainable event management; and Tick Talk, a sustainability consultancy and impact reporting company. Juliana is driven to reach out to the masses in building impact and awareness towards sustainable living. Juliana has an innate deep passion to help people realise their hidden potential, and to nurture growth within the individual. She is an Acumen Malaysia Fellow, and strongly believes in creating changes through understanding the links between human behaviour, culture and sustainability.

Juliana Adam Mentor

JUNE YAP founded Shine From Within, a 1- stop personal coaching consultancy that focuses on empowering women to transition from Pain to Gain. She aspires to help women experience life changing results by embracing self-love, charting a renewed vision and having a deeper passion to live a full and abundant life. June’s wealth of experiences comes from her 15 years of corporate background in both multinational and local conglomerates that spans across a myriad of industries, combined with her recent 5 years of entrepreneurship journey collaborating with various SMEs, as well as, her personal journey competing in 2 international world acclaimed beauty pageant. June enjoys going to the gym or going into the greens to hike and for some fresh air in her free time.

June YapMentor

Over 20 years of experience working in multi country organizations in areas of IT systems implementation, project management, digital transformation, Robotics Process Automation (RPA), business intelligence and reporting. At least 10 years in leadership and management roles including co-founder of a tech startup.Most recent accomplishments include the successful multi country implementation of RPA to support a leading service organization's strategic direction in efficiency gains and headcount savings. Role and responsibilities include vendor evaluation and management, stakeholder management, scoping, quality assurance and extensive BI reporting on adoption trends, cost savings and ROI analyses.

Karyn MakMentor

After studying in Europe and working in finance and education, Katka worked in Silicon Valley for more than a decade - on innovation, entrepreneurship and related topics for the Institute of International Education, and in the U.S. Department of State programs/White House initiatives involving startups and other organizations from more than 170 countries. Since 2013, she has led startup innovation activities in Asia including engagements with Startup Malaysia and co-founded a bioactive demo-cosmetics startup in Prague and helped to scale it through Europe. She also co-founded and leads Kickstart Innovation working on innovation with startups and private and public sector organizations. She coaches student entrepreneurs in her free time helping them build businesses. She was also awarded for her efforts in diplomacy and innovation by the Department of State/White House.

Katka LetzingMentor

Lennise Ng is the CEO & Co-Founder of Dropee - a B2B eCommerce platform that enables brands and wholesalers to be closer to their customers - both online and offline. Being very passionate about entrepreneurship and innovation, Lennise has worked with venture-building accelerators, venture capital companies, and multinational tech companies before starting Dropee. Lennise is also the 3rd-generation of a family business that manufactures and distributes rubber products. Combining the two worlds, Lennise started Dropee to address the issues of a growing brand and wholesale businesses. Up to date, Dropee has helped thousands of B2B businesses to leverage eCommerce to their growth advantage. A startup cheerleader by heart, Lennise is currently an active mentor for various startup events and hackathons.

Lennise NgMentor

Puan Sri Maimon is a strong advocate for sustainability and collaboration to reduce inequity, especially in rural areas. She is also a dynamic mentor for many social leaders, changemakers and NGO leaders focused on personal development, growth, leadership and management. She brings her vast insights and experiences to inject professionalism, governance and sustainability in the NGO trustee boards where she volunteers. She comes with in-depth experience in property development and manufacturing. Prior to retirement, she was the Director of CSR in Hap Seng Group and was responsible for the Group Sustainability report. A practitioner of life-long learning, she is currently midway in her ICF coaching certification and having fun learning online to be a baker and a personal tailor to her grandchildren.

Maimon Arif PatailMentor

Michelle Ann Iking is Group Chief People Officer of Sime Darby Property, a leading property group in Malaysia. She drives the Group's People Priorities strategic direction in creating a high performance and collaborative workforce that operates in an agile and empowered environment. Michelle is a passionate advocate for gender diversity issues, volunteering for the 30% Club Malaysia chapter and mentoring for women’s empowerment non-profit Lean In Malaysia. She is a believer in the creation of safe spaces for people to tap into the power of vulnerability, ultimately enabling individuals to be their best selves - in their workplaces as well as for their families and their communities.

Michelle Ann IkingMentor

Monsy graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Boston University in the United States. Having had a few stints in marketing related roles in her early years of her career in a bank and multinational oil & gas company, she transitioned to HR in the professional services industry. Armed with more than a decade of experiences in various HR roles, she is now the Executive Director for the People, Performance and Culture team for KPMG in Malaysia. Her unique blend of marketing and HR experience has put her in good stead to champion the People agenda and help support the leadership team in driving their overall agenda and strategic priorities. She is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD).

Monsy SiewMentor

Norfaranina is an Online Branding strategist and founder of FaraBosnita. A graduate in Bachelors of Science (Hons.) majoring in Media Innovation, Fara has 6 years experience in retail & online business. She founded the first baby swim spa in Sabah called Little Penyu and recently received an award from the prestigious BabyTalk Parenting Magazine (Kuala Lumpur) for one of her baby products. She was also one of the Sabah Shell LiveWIRE 2018 winners and was recently selected to become one of the trainers in charge of digital marketing content. In 2019, Fara was selected to showcase her products for the CAEXPO trade show in Nanning, China. She hopes to use her experience and knowledge to help local entrepreneurs and SMEs create strong brands and be unforgettable online.

Norfaranina ZakiMentor

Priyanka has worked for a total of 7 organizations in 6 distinct industries across 3 countries in the Asia Pacific Region. Upon graduating, she co-founded “Thrive”, a platform for women’s career building. This platform was supported by Monash University Malaysia and endorsed by Talent Corp. She is currently the Digital Analytics and Trend Specialist for a Public Listed Metal Fabrication Company in Malaysia which has operated for 39 years, serving customers in more than 15 countries globally. Her role involves business process enhancement, business process mapping, data analytics, technical marketing, B2B digital marketing, and digitization of customer experiences across touch points. In 2020, she led the automation of the firm’s customer feedback system.

Priyanka PuriMentor

Purry Wijendra, started her career as a Civil Engineer and subsequently pursued studies in Computer Science and picked up coding and application building. Purry has over the last 6 years been developing mobile and web applications from scratch for various startups and organisations. While doing this Purry has further developed her interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and recently completed her Masters in Artificial Intelligence majoring in Machine Learning from UTM.

Purry Wijendra Mentor

Qistina has extensive experience working across multiple sectors including government, consultancies and think tanks on issues related to international development. Among them include having conducted research on social movements in Malaysia and Thailand, Malaysia’s Role in South-South Cooperation and assisted in a study to develop women’s economic empowerment indicators. She previously worked on an ASEAN youth initiative that involved regional workshops and summits in Southeast Asia, bringing her skills in project management, intercultural relations and public outreach. She currently manages regional programs on digital literacy, youth empowerment and women leadership. She recently obtained her Master’s Degree from the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.

Qistina Kamarudin Mentor

A HR person with true passion for business and people success. Sara has more than 25 years working experience with both local and regional exposure within Asia in various aspects of Human Capital, Business Process Management, Administration and Quality. She is presently working with an oil & gas Company as their Group HR & Admin Manager. She has strong interpersonal, people management and negotiation skills, as well as excels as both a leader and a team player. She firmly believes that people will always be our greatest assets! Outside of work, Sara is the Global Operation Head for Wealth of Life Women to enable women to discover their identity and fulfilled life’s purpose by being excellent stewards of their finances, talents and time.

Saraswathi RajendranMentor

Serene Chaw started her career as an auditor with Ernst and Young, and later was a Mergers and Acquisition specialist with PricewaterhouseCoopers. Shireen’s growing passion in developing people led her to a career in Human Resources 13 years ago. Serene is now the Director of Group Talent Development for DKSH Group. She oversees the global talent management and leadership development practices across 28 countries. Her work involves identifying future leaders and accelerating their development. Serene is a mentor and certified coach. Outside of work, Serene is the Chief Transformation Officer for the Wealth of Life women that enable women to discover their identity and fulfill their life’s purpose by being excellent stewards of their finances, talents and time.

Serene ChawMentor

Shamala is the CEO and Co-Founder of HU Deccan Technologies Sdn Bhd. Hu Deccan specialises in Software Projects, Outsourcing and Software Testing services. The Company provides services to clients from various industries. Shamala leads the business development as well as the operations of the company and is also responsible for the long term growth of the company. Shamala has an in-depth knowledge of outsourcing and recruitment processes. Shamala designs and executes successful strategies to enhance her client’s growth. Shamala is also a Recruiters Association Malaysia (RAM), Board member. RAM in an industry driven initiative to unite recruiters to find solutions in the employment market to address challenges currently faced by organisations.

Shamala Mentor

Alia is the Business Development Director at Dropee.com – a YCombinator-backed B2B SaaS company that solves procurement and distribution challenges for 10,000+ businesses. Being a problem-solver by nature, Alia has established win-win strategic partnerships and led supply chain technology adoption which resulted in a 300%+ Year-on-Year growth rate since 2018. Prior to Dropee, Alia spent 4 years at Maxis where she spearheaded the mass roll-out of digital retail solutions for their Enterprise customers as a Product Manager; on top of other notable distribution management and sales channel transformation projects. Alia is extremely passionate about helping individuals unlock their potential and grow into the best possible version of themselves. She holds a degree in Finance & Marketing from the University of Melbourne.

Sharifah Alia AlsagoffMentor

Sharifah Shahirah Idid has a strong interest in development work. She started her career with The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Malaysia where she was involved in a project to identify and reduce statelessness in Malaysia. She is now a Program Officer with The Asia Foundation Malaysia. Apart from managing private and government funded programs, Sharifah is also the focal person for the Books for Asia program and also a Country Advisor for Give2Asia.

Sharifah Shahirah IdidMentor

Sri is the Country HR Manager and Senior HRM (Power) for GE Malaysia since April 2016. In this role, Sri is responsible to set and lead the human capital agenda for the company in Malaysia. Sri has been with GE for 13 years. Prior to joining GE, Sri has worked as a HRBP in the electronics, manufacturing, cement industry with companies such as Aiwa Electronics, ABB Malaysia & Holcim Malaysia. She has 20 years of experience in Human Resources Management at Senior Manager position and has been involved in coaching and training for the past 10 years. She is well-established HR professional and speaker in the field of Human Resources Management including Performance Management, Employee Experience, Young Graduates Employability and Motivational Talks.

Sri Vidya NadarajahMentor

Sunita comes from a Business IT background, where she has had the opportunity to work in both government-linked and private sector environments. At The Asia Foundation, Sunita exercises her exceptional organizational and interpersonal skills in two areas - Malaysia-based programming and she also works closely with the Country Representative on government funded programs, handling projects under the U.S. Department of State and Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Sunita Anandarajah Mentor

Uma has more than two decades of exposure and experience in managing human resource functions at both local and international hotel chains as well as multinational manufacturing, FMCG, retail and consumer product organisations. She is currently the Head of Human Resources at FFM Berhad. Uma’s wealth of HR knowledge and insights span across HR as a strategic business partner, organisational change agent, employee advocate and beyond. She is experienced in managing HR both at operational and strategic level. She advocates employer branding and employee engagement initiatives and is a sound adviser in the function of people agenda. Uma received BA Hons (Humanities) from USM and has an Advanced Certificate in Training & Development from Singapore Hotel and Tourism Centre (SHATEC). She is also a certified Master Performance Coach.

Uma IyavooMentor

Yen holds a PhD in Geotechnical Engineering from the University of Cambridge. As a strategy consultant in a boutique KL firm Kuala Lumpur, she has helped advise clients in the tourism, power and agriculture industries. She then moved to London to take on a role as a consultant for M&A deals, analysing different sectors across industries for private equity clients looking to acquire businesses in those sectors. After returning to KL, Yen served as a director in a health therapy retail business and in 2014, co-founded Science Bridge Academy (SBA). SBA focuses on delivering innovative, hands-on science learning programmes to school students. SBA was awarded In 2020 as the “Best STEM Education Provider – Malaysia” in the SEA Business Awards by APAC Insider.

Yen ChuaMentor

Rupa has 25 years of experience in the consulting and services sector. Her 15 years in consulting lies predominantly in change management, talent development and strengths-based coaching. She has served within the Big Four international consulting firms, in senior managerial roles leading projects focusing on operations and strategic turnaround’s. Subsequently, she served 5 years in a regional shared services centre for a Fortune 500 company. As CEO of Talent Tribe Solutions, she continues to work on engagements locally and in more than 15 countries across Asia Pacific. She is also involved in coaching and mentoring initiatives for startups, youths and seniors returning to work, as part of her efforts to give back to the community.

Rupa SivanoliMentor

Grace is a human capital strategist of more than 30 years. Her professional experience in the areas of talent acquisition, development and management, succession planning, performance management, learning and development, and employee engagement emerged from previous roles in the FMCG industry, banking, insurance, Kuala Lumpur stock exchange, and diversified conglomerates. She was one of 4 women HR leaders honoured by LinkedIn for her contribution to the people industry. She won numerous HR Leader Awards and in December 2020, she was presented with Malaysia Women Leader Award by World Women Leadership Congress Awards. Grace holds an MBA degree, a Bachelor of Arts (Honours in Economics) from Carleton University, Canada, and a Diploma in Personnel Management from MIHRM. She is a certified Executive coach and NLP Practitioner. She is passionate about people development and believes in continuous learning for improvement. She is a mentor for Rebound and new Toastmasters members. She is currently the District Director for District 51, Toastmasters International for the term 2021-2022.

Grace Chan HweeMentor