Joel Neoh made his first entrepreneurial venture at age 21 where he spearheaded a marketing promotions agency. As an undergraduate, he has successfully conceptualized on-ground programmes for clients targeted at delivering powerful brand experience, and has achieved audited revenue of over RM 1 million during first year of operations.

Coupled with a high zeal in empowering the youth community of Malaysia, he founded YouthMalaysia.com, an online youth platform which serves to empower youths. Under his leadership, the organization currently stands with over 4000 members online and has bagged the AYA Dream Malaysia Youth Friendly Company of the Year 2007 title. As the organizing chairperson of YOUTH‘08: Malaysia’s First Youth Lifestyle Showcase and the 1st National Youth Entrepreneur Youth Convention 2008, Joel was also the Project Manager of a nationwide youth programme, Gegar U! Colours of Our Nation.

In 2007, Joel emerged as the winner of Malaysia’s first corporate reality television show, The Firm. He was also the youngest amongst the 10 executives within the show. In addition, Joel is a Motorola Youth Ambassador and has won several awards such as Martell’s 50 Rising Personalities Award and Levi’s 501 Man 2004/05. Maintaining passion as the driving force behind his success, it is Joel’s heartfelt desire to share his experiences and knowledge with others so that they, too, can perform to their full potential, whether in a corporate light or on a personal note.

Raj Ridvan Singh has passionately worked towards the progress of the socio-economic status of youths by empowering them with capacity- building, life skills, leadership and employment skills that positively affect the development of the community and nation on a macro-level. For over 7 years, he has co-led Science of Life Systems 24/7 (SOLS 24/7), an organization committed to the holistic education and long-term development of youths throughout Southeast Asia where 25,000 youths have gone through SOLS 24/7’s training in academic, job, leadership and life-skills education.

For his continuous efforts in youth education, he was awarded the YouthActionNet Award-2004 by International Youth Foundation, The Youth & ICT Award-2005 by Global Knowledge Partnership and was presented the Youth Social Enterprise Fellowship by YSEI in 2006. Raj Ridvan Singh has represented ASEAN, Malaysia & Cambodia in several distinguished international conferences in Malaysia, Tunis, Argentina, Colombo, San Francisco, Sydney, Singapore, Thailand and Cambodia. He was a plenary speaker at several of these conferences presenting on youth related issues and sharing his work experience in implementing sustainable socio-economic development programs for the youth community.

At the age of 16, he was awarded the Youngest Microsoft Certified Professional in ASEAN and at 17, he became the Youngest Certified Systems Engineer in ASEAN. He then became Head of Technical Department & Professional Computer Trainer for New Horizons Int’l Computer Learning Center – Melaka, Malaysia.

Nor Akmar Hanif & Aida Nurlin Hanif, or better known as the Millionaire Sisters, founded Platinum Wealth Advisors – a unit trust consultancy firm. Having generated a monthly income of 5-digits during their university days, the Millionaire Sisters are driven with the sheer belief that all individuals deserve to have more in life. At 23, elder sister Nor Akmar made a committed decision to be in Financial Business and open her agency at a young age of 25. She produced 7 GAMs at the age of 28. Together, they have both won multiple awards with their Platinum Wealth Management Presentation, Platinum Easy Investment Methods and Platinum Customer Experience Program.

Oh Joo Nee founded Let’s Dance Malaysia, a dance studio dedicated in setting new trends in the youth community. Specializing in various dance lessons, Let’s Dance aims to set the trend of a healthy and recreational dance culture in Malaysia.
Joo Nee is the winner of the Nescafe Kickstart reality TV show. With a passion in dancing and a business degree in hand, she established a Let’s Dance within a tight time frame of 3 weeks.
Let’s Dance Malaysia aims to introduce the concept of dance as not only a form of recreational activity, but also as a healthy culture in itself. Joo Nee aspires to be instrumental in the growth of the dance industry in the country and has set herself out on this journey, never looking back.

Mia Palencia, a Malaysian songwriter is actively on the look out for ways to help improve the present status quo of Malaysia’s performing arts scene. She believes there is an abundance of local aspiring talents impatiently waiting for the right opportunity to grow and develop into successful artistes. She is also aware that there is an urgent need in Malaysia to build upon a source of inspiration to preserve and perhaps protect such heritage.  She aspires to be instrumental to the growth and development of Malaysia’s local music industry. Savoy, Swinging Down to Business, The Summer Jazz Series and The Falalas, “A Christmas Choir Project” are some noted ongoing projects also created by Mia Palencia herself.
Mia Palencia released her first single “Sayang” on the 2nd of September, 2006. She is a member of Malaysia’s local famous duo “Double Take” and has recorded two albums known as One Voice, 6 Strings, Twelve Moods; and One Voice, Six Strings, Twelve Days of Christmas.  Mia Palencia’s original work is also found in both albums. What seems credible and worthy about Double Take in the local music scene is that both Double Take as artistes and their albums have been reviewed by an American music writer and critic, Jim Trageser, who lives in San Diego, California. These articles may be read at www.turbula.net from the Fall 2003 issue and also published the North County Times, San Diego, in December 2005 alongside reviews of world renowned jazz musician such as Diana Krall. As a songwriter and musician, it is of relative importance to have the substance of American appeal, gaining exposure, and presence in their marketplace.

Mia gives private vocal coaching and loves working particularly with children.

Mia, is contracted with Warner Chappell, Hong Kong. Some of her songs are successfully recorded by famous Taiwan artistes, the likes of Harlem Yu and Garden Sisters in the Chinese language. One of her song “She Says” is a theme song for a series in Taiwan, “Tokyo Juliet” as a sound track.

Kenny Sia is a well-known blogger who rose to prominence with his blog Kennysia.com. Established in January 2005, Kenny's blog started out as a collection of anecdotes by a Kuching boy returning to his hometown from overseas and experiencing culture shock in the process. Today, Kennysia.com is a dotcom brand which boasts a traffic of over 20,000 unique visitors and 30,000 pageviews per day and is ranked the number one Malaysian blog according to blog search engine Technorati.
Whilst Kennysia.com has no central theme, it covers a myriad of topics, from the reality of life; to male-female relationships; to travelogues of places he has visited. Kenny Sia is especially known for his wit and pop culture references, such as his take on Kuching's long road names and his parody on OSIM's advertising campaign, which have seen them forwarded from inboxes to inboxes around the world.

Kevin Zahri is a US AFTA Certified Personal Trainer & Nutritionist and has been active in the local Health & Fitness industry for the last couple of years. He is best known as “Cikgu Fitness” in the recent season 4 of Malaysia’s number 1 reality show “Akademi Fantasia”. Over this period he has left his mark in health & fitness as TV Host, speaker, writer and also as health & fitness model.

Kevin is actively involved in TV programs seen here in Malaysia. He is now known as Cikgu Fitness for “Akademi Fantasia 4”, hosted a Malay Health & Fitness show called “Gaya Hidup Sihat” (TV2) and also hosted “Get-Set-Go” (TV2) for their nutrition & fitness episodes. Kevin is also a host for other non-health & fitness related shows.

As a recognizable public figure with a down-to-earth demeanor, Kevin is a well sought after speaker for subjects related to health & fitness. Being a former scholar and certified career development consultant, Kevin is also an avid speaker on subjects not only pertaining health & fitness to educate Malaysia’s youth on career aspiration, education, practical motivation,entrepreneurship and other areas.

He writes actively on health & fitness in both Malay & English with local Magazine’s in Malaysia. He currently has a monthly column with UMPH and InTrend magazine and also writes for Men’s Health Malaysia.

Kid Chan, the ONLY photographer to be listed in the inaugural list by the Asian Regional Tatler, is the founder of Kid Chan Studios. Specialising in Asian weddings, especially inter-ethnic unions, he has clients from all continents, including countries like Brunei, Belgium, Canada, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, France, Singapore, Sweden, UK, USA and Vietnam.

He has also crafted portraits for Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop, Malaysian Finance Minister II; Tan Sri Dr Zeti Akhtar Aziz, Governor of Bank Negara Malaysia (Malaysian Central Bank); Cherie Blair, wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair; Jackie Chan, Hong Kong celebrity known for his blockbuster ‘kung fu’ movies; and Pointer Sisters, American Grammy Award-winning R&B group.

Among his corporate clients are Pricewaterhousecoopers, Bank Negara Malaysia (Malaysian Central Bank), Montblanc, NTV7 and the Office of the Chief Justice. Additionally, the studio offers editorial services, family portraits, and increasingly baby and pregnancy photos.
With almost a decade of experience, he is now regular guest on television talk shows and speaker at photography seminars, like Imaging Expo Singapore held by the organiser of the world’s top imaging show Koelnmesse, Photo Imaging Exchange.

Timothy co-founded Nuffnang - Asia’s first blog advertising company. At its birth, Nuffnang brought to the table a concept that shook the Malaysian blogosphere; suddenly, advertisers could harness a previously untapped advertising medium, and bloggers could earn money from simply blogging – a business model which advertisers and bloggers alike embraced.

Starting as a four-man team in Penang, the Nuffnang team expanded quickly, and within the same year saw the opening of new offices in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. Within a short span of time, Nuffnang has garnered an impressive portfolio of clients, ranging from local titans Maxis, DiGi, Air Asia, Media Prima and TM to multinational brands like Nokia, Nike, Honda, Nestle, Unilever, Citibank and F&N.

Nuffnang has also caught the attention of the media, having appeared in The Star InTech, StarBIZ, R.AGE, Guang Ming Daily, Sin Chew Daily and in the Singapore Straits Times. Nuffnang has also been covered in many magazines from technology magazines like HWM, to lifestyle ones like KLue in which Timothy was featured as one of the “20 Under 40” people.

Timothy and his partner Ming are both extremely proud of Nuffnang, but they both remain undistracted by their achievements thus far, and remain insistent that Nuffnang has a long way to go before they would both consider it a success story to tell.

Back in 2005, Khailee co-founded a local indie music promoter Project Bazooka and a socio-political webzine TheCICAK.com as a university student, just to experiment with his ideas.

Today, at 23 years old, both have grown into profitable projects which have received recognition from both local and international press. He also graduated a top student, having studied marketing and entrepreneurship in University of Technology Sydney, San Francisco State University, and UC Berkeley.

His latest venture is BunchOut.com – launched in major metropolitan cities across the world to help people pursue hobbies, activities and new groups of people. BunchOut is funded and co-owned by MindValley, a tight team of entrepreneurs and programmers from over 12 countries.

With MindValley, Khailee has helped to develop and grow 2 profitable web ventures - BlinkList and SocialRank, and is working hard with the MindValley team to build a new kind of "entrepreneurial organization" for young, unconventionally bright people to turn good ideas into influential, profitable ventures.

His projects have won him various awards, including the KLue Blue Chilli Award and the Asian HSBC Young Entrepreneur Award 2006.

On the side, he makes time to meet new people, perform songs in the open mic circuit, share his stories and ideas on www.Khailee.info, and write about internet entrepreneurship on www.Webwatch.com.my.

Kenny Goh, winner of the Ernst & Young Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2006, has come a long way since founding MACROKIOSK in 1998 with 2 other brothers. At age 28, he has transformed MACROKIOSK into a multi-million dollar as well as a multinational Mobile Messaging Technology company from a mere 9 man team to over 120 employees from 10 different nationalities in less than 6 years.

Today, MACROKIOSK is an award-winning company, with a string of accolades awarded by internationally acclaimed establishment and faculties. Macro Kiosk Berhad is the preferred Mobile Messaging Gateway and Solutions Provider to a multitude of local and global clients. With its offices located in Asia’s major capital cities in Bangkok, Beijing, Brunei, Hanoi, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Singapore and Taipei, all connected to its proprietary-developed Global Mobile Messaging Network (etracker), MACROKIOSK is certainly your mobile messaging gateway to Asia.

Kenny graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce from Australia in year 2000. MACROKIOSK is also a Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific Award winner for 2 consecutive years (2005 & 2006), ranking 62nd fastest growing technology company in Asia Pacific and 4th in Malaysia for year 2006.

Ganesh Kumar Bangah is the Chief Executive Officer of MOL Access Berhad. He possesses a Certificate in Computer Studies issued by the National Center For Information Technology, United Kingdom in collaboration with the CAL Computer Training Centre, Malaysia. He was a Microsoft Certified Professional in 1998 and has more than 11 years of experience in portal development and e-commerce operations. Previously, he was the Technical Director of Cyberfield Sdn Bhd where he was involved in various software development, project management, internet infrastructure and internet commercialisation efforts. He has been certified by the Malaysia Book of Records as the youngest Chief Executive Officer of a public listed company in Malaysia. He was a top nominee for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the year - Malaysia 2004 awards, is acknowledged by Society Magazine of Malaysia Tatler as one of the 100 people you must know in Asia and is recognised as a key industry leader by the Association of the Computer and Multimedia Industry of Malaysia.

He is also an active industry player in the promotion of information and communication technology activities in Southern Malaysia and has been appointed as the Secretariat of the Johor Broadband Stakeholder Group and a Director of MSC Cyberport Sdn. Bhd., a public private partnership spearheaded by the State Government of Johor to expand the MSC Malaysia roll-out to the Iskandar Development Region.