{"id":17677,"date":"2019-04-02T12:16:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T04:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=17677"},"modified":"2019-04-02T12:24:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T04:24:05","slug":"malaysian-entrepreneurs-make-the-forbes-30-under-30-asia-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=17677","title":{"rendered":"Malaysian Entrepreneurs Make The Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Forbes Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Steve Forbes during a press conference in Singapore. File photo courtesy of Bernama<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

KUALA LUMPUR, April 2 (NNN-BERNAMA) — Several Malaysian entrepreneurs are among the 300 from 23 Asia-Pacific countries listed in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forbes said the group of young stars were chosen from over 2,000 entries, heavily researched by a team of reporters and vetted by an A-list of judges for their work in technological innovations and disrupting age-old industries, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Malaysian entrepreneurs were Aaron Patel, Bobby Ong, TM Lee, Chris Khristie, Michelle Tan, Jin Xi Cheong, Joolin Chuah, Kendrick Wong, Melvin Poh, Sarah Chen and Wen Shin Chia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patel is the chief executive officer of iHandal Energy Solutions, an engineering and contracting firm specialising in improving the thermal energy efficiency of commercial and industrial buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bobby Ong and TM Lee are co-founders of CoinGecko, a cryptocurrency data aggregator that tracks price, volume, social and developer stats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo courtesy of Endeavor Malaysia YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The company has collaborated with Western University in Canada and Humboldt University in Berlin in producing cryptocurrency research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Khristie and Michelle Tan are co-founders of digital media group, INFLUASIA, which caters to the English, Malay and Mandarin-speaking communities of Malaysia via their portals, World of Buzz, Lobak Merah, and NOODOU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jin Xi Cheong is the founder of Poladrone, a company which took the drone to the palm oil industry to boost the efficiency in Malaysian palm oil plantations and crop farms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joolin Chuah, is an associate in Insignia Ventures Partners who was instrumental in nearly 10 investments in 2018, including promising startups such as igloohome, CoHive and Sayurbox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is widely known as the go-to advisor for many entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia and sits on the board of Finhay, a robo-advisory platform in Vietnam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kendrick Wong, is the co-founder of Omnilytics, a fashion analytics platform that offers real-time market intelligence data across 75,000 brands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Omnilytics’ big data services are used by retailers worldwide, as well as by financial market clients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Melvin Poh, 27, is the co-founder of The Asian Entrepreneur, an international publisher and media platform with an active readership in 13 countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Asian Entrepreneur recently partnered the governments of Malaysia, Macau and South Korea to initiate several startup communities and events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah Chen is a co-founder of The Billion Dollar Fund for Women, the primary goal of which was to tackle the gender funding gap faced by female founders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fund hopes to have invested $1 billion in startups driven by women by 2020, and has secured pledges of over $750 million from global investors including Gobi Partners, Golden Gate Ventures, Rethink Impact, Springboard Growth Capital, Backstage Capital and Different Funds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Wen Shin Chia is the founder of Green Yards, an eco-products company that makes soaps and candles from recycled cooking oil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company, which sources oil from Malaysia’s restaurants and households, sells the products online and in gift shops in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

–NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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