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Izam Nawi Ghazali

Associate Director
Kajang
Izam Nawi Ghazali

Overview

30
years of professional experience
5
years of post-secondary education
1
Certification

Work History

Unit Peneraju Agenda Bumiputera (TERAJU)

Associate Director
09.2012 - Current

Job overview

  • Manages Dana Kemakmuran Bumiputera (DKB) applications for approval, endorsement, CP compliance, disbursement and post monitoring.
  • Facilitates and collaborates with local universities and agencies to help elevate the income of targeted B40 communities through Dana Pembangunan Usahawan Bumiputera (DPUB) program.
  • Provides business advisory to Bumiputera entrepreneurs including for business expansion, equity, and funding opportunities.
  • Provides support to special project programs designed to facilitate Bumiputera companies go to the next level.
  • Establishes good rapport with relevant Federal and State agencies particularly in Johor and Iskandar Malaysia Regional Development Authority (IRDA) by providing necessary entrepreneurial and facilitation support.
  • Creates and participates in relevant Federal government business initiatives and collaboration with other government agencies and Non-Governmental Organization (NGOs).
  • Led TERAJU@IRDA programmes and ran TERAJU initiatives at southern region from 2012 – 2021.

Multimedia Development Corporation Sdn. Bhd. (MDeC)

Senior Executive
01.2011 - 12.2011

Job overview

  • Managed Funding Advisory and Business Intelligence unit.
  • Handled any query about funding landscape in Malaysia especially in ICT and Technology sectors.
  • Gathered data from all stakeholders, strategic partners, and channels about the funding landscape in Malaysia; its trends, fund availability, stage of companies, exit mechanism etc.
  • Advocated policy changes to encourage private venture capital to participate and invest in ICT and technology sectors.

Multimedia Development Corporation Sdn. Bhd. (MDeC)

Senior Executive
01.2011 - 12.2011

Job overview

  • Planned, designed, executed and project managed 2 MSC Malaysia InnoTech Pitching platforms for 2011 with secured investments from the VCs and Angels amounting RM8.3 million.
  • Handled more than 10 portfolios over the span of 3 years that were funneled to the MSC Malaysia InnoTech Pitching platforms.
  • Collaborated with relevant local and international institutional funders or commercial entities or venture capital or business angels i.e. PNB Equity Resources, SME Bank, Pikom Angel Network (PAC), Virtuous Investment Council (PAC) to entice them to invest in MSC Malaysia companies.
  • Worked with relevant government agencies and stakeholders i.e., SME Corp, Biotech Corp, MTDC, MOSTI to promote and funnel companies for Venture Capital funding.
  • Worked with ICT-based companies and associations like TEAM and MyNEF to prepare and funnel them for potential investment via alternative funding i.e. Malaysia Debt Venture, Cradle etc...
  • Analyzed and identified funding requirements for each category (Debt and Equity Financing).

Multimedia Development Corporation Sdn. Bhd. (MDeC)

Senior Executive
03.2008 - 12.2010

Job overview

  • State roll-out development programs with the state partners.
  • Industry partnership development with New Entrepreneur Forum (NEF), Technopreneur Association of Malaysia (TeAM), MCA ICT Resource Center, MyPartners, SKALI etc.
  • Project managed International collaboration projects and partnerships i.e. Go Global USA program in Silicon Valley, California, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) UNITECH program in Chicago and TiECon Asia Pacific Conference in Kuala Lumpur.
  • Managed collaboration between MDeC and Ruwad Establishment from United Arab Emirates (UAE).
  • Managed for Software Park Alliance (SPA)secretariat in Malaysia.
  • Involved in MSC Malaysia Institute of Higher Learning Business Plan and Business Idea; and Microsoft Imagine Cup competition judging.
  • Involved in preparing technopreneurs for Venture Capitalist (VC) business pitching for MSC Malaysia Innotech programs.

Multimedia Development Corporation Sdn. Bhd. (MDeC)

Senior Executive
05.2007 - 03.2008

Job overview

  • Coordinated Go-To-Market Model Development workshops.
  • Coordinated MDeC-TeAM Clinics.
  • Coordinated Business Assessment & Advisory Panel sessions (BAAP).
  • Assisted companies to go through other developmental programme available within MSC Malaysia Enterprise Development Unit as well as with other MDeC’s partners.
  • Matched funding requirement that were needed by the start-ups or their commercialization ventures.
  • Coordinated with other related government ministries and agencies i.e. MOSTI, SMIDEC and MATRADE.
  • Main committee member (Logistics and B2B) for MSC Malaysia World Congress Information Technology (WCIT) 2008 in Kuala Lumpur.

VADS Berhad

Business Manager
02.2007 - 04.2007

Job overview

  • Acted as sales executive for Managed Internet Services and other related bundled and managed value-added services.
  • Supervised Managed Internet team.
  • Managed yearly sales quota for the team as well as personal sales quota.
  • Engaged strategic business partners with potential service providers.

JARING Communications Sdn. Bhd.

Assistant Product Business Manager
04.2000 - 02.2007

Job overview

  • Company Overview: previously a business unit under MIMOS Berhad
  • Managed consumer/corporate products and services under the Access category consisting of, but not limited to JARING Satellite Broadband, JARING Secure IDC, JARING Secure VPN, JARING Managed Security Services, Malaysia Internet Exchange (MyIX), JARING Dedicated Access, JARING Fixed Wireless Access and JARING Office Broadband.
  • Managed the entire product lifecycle from strategic business planning, roll out and commercialization, to customer-fronting activities and processes.
  • Determined the 5Ps (positioning, packaging, pricing, placement & promotion) of products and services in ensuring the competitiveness in the market and inline with market (consumer and corporate) trends.
  • Previously a business unit under MIMOS Berhad

TIME QUANTUM TECHNOLOGY SDN. BHD.

System Engineer
09.1995 - 12.1998

Job overview

  • Provided second level support to Helpdesk personnel.
  • Maintained TIME Enterprise Network daily operations.
  • Troubleshoot any LAN and WAN related problems.
  • Installed, administered and managed UNIX servers i.e. Network Information System running on Sun Solaris 2.3, Motif and Geonet.

BANK ISLAM MALAYSIA BERHAD

ATM Officer
06.1995 - 08.1995

Job overview

  • Installed and troubleshot the Automated Teller Machines (Olivetti).
  • Responsible for the making and issuance of ATM SMART BIMB cards.

Education

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
Coral Gables, FL

Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from Computer Information System, Telecommunication Management
01.1993 - 01.1994

University Overview

GPA: 3.77

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
Coral Gables, FL

Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) from Computer Information System, Business Administration
01.1991 - 01.1993

University Overview

GPA: 3.07

MARA COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Kuantan, Pahang Darul Makmur

American Associate Degree (AAD) from Computer Information System
01.1989 - 01.1991

University Overview

GPA: 3.48

Skills

Team collaboration

Certification

CISCO Sales Expert (2002)

Personal Traits

  • Quick learner
  • Committed
  • Interacted well with all levels of people

College Activities

  • President, Malaysian Student Association of Miami
  • Committee member, Council of International Students Organization
  • Committee member, Malaysian Development Student Project
  • Display participant, Asian Festival of Miami
  • Member, Telecommunication Management Association
  • Basketball
  • Badminton
  • Sepak Takraw

Network Equipment

  • IBM
  • Cisco
  • BayNetworks
  • 3Com
  • AlliedTelesyn
  • US Robotic
  • Hayes
  • AT&T Paradyne

Date Available For Employment

3 months

Nric No

711004-01-6159

Twitter Skype Id

@izamng, izamng

Telephone No

016-2026250

Language Written

  • English
  • Bahasa Melayu

Personal Information

  • Age: 52
  • Height: 1.78M
  • Weight: 75KG
  • Health Status: Excellent
  • Date of Birth: 10/04/71
  • Gender: Male
  • Nationality: Malaysian
  • Marital Status: Married with five children
  • Place of Birth: Johor Darul Takzim

Accomplishments

Managed and disbursed up to RM60 Million TERAJU Facilitation Fund in Southern Region from 2012 - 2021

Assisted startups to be able to pitch and obtain seed funding from grant provider or financing provider

Consulted and provided advisory to micro/macro entrepreneurs

Collaborated effectively with many stakeholders

Participated in many community based funding programs


Interests

Entrepreneurship

Advisory

Community-based project

Timeline

Associate Director

Unit Peneraju Agenda Bumiputera (TERAJU)
09.2012 - Current

Senior Executive

Multimedia Development Corporation Sdn. Bhd. (MDeC)
01.2011 - 12.2011

Senior Executive

Multimedia Development Corporation Sdn. Bhd. (MDeC)
01.2011 - 12.2011

Senior Executive

Multimedia Development Corporation Sdn. Bhd. (MDeC)
03.2008 - 12.2010

Senior Executive

Multimedia Development Corporation Sdn. Bhd. (MDeC)
05.2007 - 03.2008

Business Manager

VADS Berhad
02.2007 - 04.2007

Assistant Product Business Manager

JARING Communications Sdn. Bhd.
04.2000 - 02.2007

System Engineer

TIME QUANTUM TECHNOLOGY SDN. BHD.
09.1995 - 12.1998

ATM Officer

BANK ISLAM MALAYSIA BERHAD
06.1995 - 08.1995

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI

Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from Computer Information System, Telecommunication Management
01.1993 - 01.1994

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI

Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) from Computer Information System, Business Administration
01.1991 - 01.1993

MARA COMMUNITY COLLEGE

American Associate Degree (AAD) from Computer Information System
01.1989 - 01.1991
Izam Nawi GhazaliAssociate Director