Members & Invitees
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Dato' Sri Mohd Najib Tun Abdul Razak Dato' Sri Mohd NajibTun Abdul Razak was appointed Malaysia's 6th Prime Minister on 3 April 2009. Dato' Sri Mohd Najib received his primary and secondary education at St John's Institution before continuing his secondary education at the Malvern Boy's College, Worcestershire, England. Dato' Sri Mohd Najib graduated from the University of Nottingham in Industrial Economics in 1974. more |
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Tan Sri Dato' Muhyiddin Hj Mohd Yassin Tan Sri Muhyiddin Hj. Mohd Yassin was sworn in as the new Deputy Prime Minister as well as the Education Minister of Malaysia on 10 April 2009. Prior to these new portfolios, he served as the Minister of International Trade and Industry of Malaysia from 18 March 2008 to 9 April 2009. more |
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Datuk Seri Panglima Dr. Maximus Johnity Ongkili |
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Tan Sri Abdul Halim Ali |
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Datuk Badlisham Ghazali |
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Invitees
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Jawed Karim Jawed Karim is a co-founder of the popular video sharing website YouTube. He founded the concept and website with Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, whom he had met while working at PayPal. Karim had been attending the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, but left campus after co-founder of PayPal and Illinois alum Max Levchin approached him to become one of PayPal’s early employees. While at PayPal, he implemented the company’s first real-time anti-fraud system. more |
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Konstantin Guericke Co-Founder, LinkedIn Konstantin Guericke co-founded LinkedIn and, as vice president of marketing, led the company’s marketing activities from launch to first six million members and profitability. Konstantin also served as CEO of jaxtr, a social communications start-up with over ten million registered users that was purchased by SabSe Technologies. In addition to serving on the boards of several startups and mentoring Stanford student entrepreneurs, Konstantin continues to advise LinkedIn on the company’s international activities. more |
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Naval Ravikant Naval is an entrepreneur and angel investor, a co-author of Venture Hacks, and a co-maintainer of AngelList. Previously, he was a co-founder at Genoa Corp (acquired by Finisar), Epinions.com (IPO via Shopping.com), and Vast.com (large white-label classifieds marketplace). He has advised Bix.com, iPivot, and XFire, among others, and invested in many companies, including Twitter, FourSquare, DocVerse (sold to Google), Mixer Labs (sold to Twitter), Jambool (Social Gold), SnapLogic, PlanCast, Stack Overflow, Heyzap, and Disqus. more |
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Brian Mefford Connected Nation founder Brian Mefford is sought after as a trusted resource amongst global corporations, policy makers, and community leaders interested in designing and implementing initiatives that fuel economic growth through accelerating the impact of technology. Mr. Mefford has been featured in numerous publications including The Economist and The Wall Street Journal and is quoted regularly in technology trade publications internationally. more |
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Timothy C. Forbes Timothy C. Forbes serves as Chairman of Forbes Digital, a member of the Board of Forbes Media and one of the company’s chief strategists. Previously he was President and Chief Operating Officer, responsible for the day-to-day operations of Forbes’ magazines and Forbes business divisions. He was also involved in the strategic planning and business development of the company, and he served as Chairman of Forbes.com. more |
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Steve Koskie Steve is a renowned link between the entertainment world of Hollywood and the high tech startup world in Silicon Valley. Steve was the co-founder and CEO of DipDive.com, together with Will.I.Am from the Black Eyed Peas, DipDive is a global web/mobile startup, though which Steve runs production of live and taped content and all social media for the Black Eyed Peas. Steve won an Emmy Award winner for the production of “Yes We Can”. more |
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Paul Bragiel |
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Leon He Li Yang |
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Dr. Terry Cutler Dr Terry Cutler is an industry consultant and strategy advisor with a background in the information and communications technology sector. Terry Cutler has authored numerous influential reports and papers on the Digital Economy and innovation. During 2008 he chaired the Australian Government’s Review of the National Innovation System which culminated in the Report, Venturous Australia. more |
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Dr. John Gage Gage was the Chief Researcher and Director of the Science Office for Sun Microsystems, Inc, and a partner in the venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers. Gage attended the University of California, Berkeley, the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and the Harvard Business School. He did doctoral work in mathematics and economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and left Berkeley in 1982 to join Bill Joy as one of the original employees of Sun Microsystems. more |
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Aiman Izzat Aiman Ezzat is the Chief Executive Officer of Capgemini’s Financial Services Global Business Unit (FS GBU), as of January 1, 2009. He was previously Chief Operating Officer of this unit. As CEO, Aiman is responsible for growing Capgemini’s Financial Services business, client relationships and offerings globally, while leveraging the principles of Capgemini’s i3 philosophy: Intimacy, Industrialization and Innovation. more |
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Elias Ghanem Elias Ghanem is the General Manager of PayPal South East Asia, India and Korea, where he is responsible for the business performance and overall P&L for this growing and highly-diversified region. In this role, Elias leads a 25-strong, dynamic team that manages all aspects of the business including Sales, Marketing and Products. He is also in charge of cultivating new strategic partnerships, merchant acquisitions and product launches across the region. more |
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Dato' Devinder Kumar Devinder Kumar is Senior Vice President and Corporate Controller of AMD. In addition to being AMD's Corporate Controller, he is responsible for Global Accounting and Financial Services, Corporate Accounting, Global Internal Controls, Corporate Financial Planning, Worldwide Customer Claims and Credit Operations, Revenue and Inventory Accounting, Finance Process Reengineering, SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley 404) compliance and worldwide financial policies. He also leads the Global Real Estate, Security and Facilities team. more |
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Chris Whitney Chris Whitney is director of the Data Center Design for Cloud Computing Lab at HP Labs Singapore, the company’s central research and development arm. In this role he leads the effort to develop an enterprise cloud software platform. Whitney has been involved in service automation and integration since joining BT Labs in 1985 where he was responsible for developing algorithms and prototypes of intelligent service and network management systems for use in public and private communications networks. more |
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Cordelia Chung Ms. Cordelia Chung was named Regional General Manager, IBM ASEAN in January 2009. In this role she oversees IBM’s regional operations that include sales and distribution, manufacturing, procurement, global delivery and support functions in Southeast Asia. Prior to her current appointment, Ms. Chung served as Vice President, Financial Services Sector, IBM Asia Pacific. more |
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Gabe Zichermann The chair of the Gamification Summit where top thought leaders in this burgeoning industry gather to share knowledge and insight. Zichermann is also an author, highly rated public speaker and entrepreneur whose best selling book, “Gamification by Design” (O’Reilly, 2011) looks at the technical and architectural considerations for designing engagement using games concepts. more |
