Chief Transformation Officer, MUI GroupMalayan United Industries Berhad · Bursa Malaysia 3891
Twenty years between government, institutional capital and technology. National transformation at the Prime Minister's Office. Corporate venture capital in Asia and the Gulf. Now group-wide transformation of a listed Malaysian conglomerate.
One executive role, a small number of institutional commitments, and the systems I build on my own time.
Second-most senior executive of a diversified group across retail, hospitality, property and food & beverage. The mandate covers strategy, operations and technology across five functions:
Volunteer role. Execution authority across six divisions, multi-country programmes and institutional engagement.
Leads Module 4, Scaling & Market Expansion: market-entry decisions and partner-versus-build trade-offs.
Cross-border capital and ecosystem platform across ASEAN and China.
Endeavor mentor (Malaysia & UAE) since 2022. Deputy Treasurer, SEAMAT. URIIS 2026 working group, Malaysia Private Capital Association.
Engineering first, then the state, then capital. Each move built on the one before it.
| 2026 – now | Chief Transformation OfficerGroup-wide transformation across strategy, operations and technology. | MUI Group, Kuala Lumpur |
| 2025 – 2026 | Chief Operating OfficerRM 3.0M P&L target; institutional mandates with MDEC and the Securities Commission, Enterprise Singapore and MIMOS; Uzbekistan semiconductor strategy with the ADB. | Intrinsic SEA, Kuala Lumpur & APAC |
| 2024 – 2025 | Senior Vice President, Head of Ecosystem DevelopmentEcosystem strategy for an agency supporting 5,000+ early-stage ventures; launched the Bengkel Inovasi GLC pilot with MOF and MOSTI. | Cradle Fund (MOSTI) |
| 2022 – 2024 | Senior Vice President, Co-founder & Head of Venture BuilderCo-founded Digital Venture Partners; CVC investment committee member; 500+ startups scouted. | Qatar Insurance Group, Doha |
| 2020 – 2022 | Head of Digital Innovation Strategy & PartnershipsDesigned a US$12.5M corporate venture capital vehicle and a two-year incubation programme. | FWD Group, APAC |
| 2017 – 2020 | Senior Vice PresidentSovereign transformation mandates across Europe, CIS and Africa; set up BFR Institute in Moscow with full P&L. | PEMANDU Associates |
| 2010 – 2016 | Associate DirectorEconomic Transformation Programme; head of programme management for Tanzania's Big Results Now, 2013–2016. | PEMANDU, Prime Minister's Office of Malaysia |
| 2005 – 2009 | Senior RF EngineerNetwork performance programmes in Indonesia and Vietnam; Huawei Global Presidential Award, 2009. | Huawei Technologies, APAC |
| 2002 – 2005 | Project Engineer200+ turnkey telecoms projects for Maxis, Digi and Celcom. | R&A Telecommunication Group |
Each figure is the size of the programme, with my role in it stated plainly.
Head of the programme management team for the President's Delivery Bureau. A team of 28 across 18+ ministries; TSH 8.0 trillion mobilised from domestic and international sources.
PEMANDU · 2013 – 2016Engagement and programme manager for the Economic Recovery & Growth Plan lab: public-private projects targeting 500,000 jobs across six focus areas.
PEMANDU AssociatesArchitected the national data centre strategy under the Economic Transformation Programme, and later the National Innovation Ecosystem Development Plan.
PEMANDU · 2010 – 2011Designed the investment thesis, governance and portfolio allocation for an early-stage InsurTech and FinTech CVC.
FWD Group · 2020 – 2022Led the semiconductor strategy engagement with the Ministry of Economy and Finance and the Asian Development Bank.
Intrinsic SEA · 2025 – 2026Set up the Russian subsidiary and its Moscow office with full P&L; a self-sustaining advisory platform at about 40% margin.
PEMANDU Associates · 2018 – 2020Outside the day job I build agentic AI systems and run them on my own estate. They are measured on live systems, and the code is public where it can be.
A fleet of 28 agent lanes coordinating on 8 boards, mounted to one knowledge vault.
The same pattern runs a daily intelligence briefing and a family harness designed to pass knowledge, not only assets, across generations. I speak about AI from what I have built and operated, not from vendor decks.
Keynotes, panels, masterclasses and closed-door roundtables, in English, Mandarin or Malay. Drawn from direct operating experience.
Data first, platforms later, and AI that pays its own way. Governance before tooling.
From strategy labs to delivery units. Lessons from Malaysia, Tanzania, Nigeria and Russia.
Multi-agent architectures, guardrails and operating-model change, from a practitioner who runs them.
Standing up CVC vehicles and venture builders inside large insurers and corporates.
Market entry, partner versus build, and deal structures across ASEAN, China, the GCC and Central Asia.
From Malaysia's E&E 2.0 NKEA to Uzbekistan's semiconductor roadmap.
| 2026 | Malaysia Private Capital Forum 2026 | Speaker |
| 2026 | Generali Malaysia GROW 2026 accelerator | Trainer, Module 4 |
| 2026 | STI Forum 2026, virtual side event (SEAMAT) | Speaker |
| 2026 | MIMOS Tech Café | Speaker |
| 2026 | Asia School of Business | Guest speaker |
| 2025 | AiSEM@Selangor 2025 | Panel moderator |
| 2025 | Penang Slush'D 2025 | Speaker |
| 2022 – 23 | InsurTech MENA Summit | Speaker · moderator |
| 2019 | St Petersburg International Economic Forum | Presenter |
Formats. Keynote, 20–45 min · Panel or moderation, 45–90 min · Fireside, 30–60 min · Masterclass, half or full day up to 30 people · Roundtable by arrangement.
Professional registration, formal education and memberships.
For keynotes, moderation, institutional programmes and board-level conversations. Based in Kuala Lumpur, GMT+8, and regularly across ASEAN, Greater China and the GCC.