Entrepreneurship
Hi, I’m
Izam Nawi Ghazali
Associate Director
Kajang
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 MIAMICoral Gables, FL
Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from Computer Information System, Telecommunication Management
01.1993 - 01.1994
University Overview
GPA: 3.77
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMICoral Gables, FL
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) from Computer Information System, Business Administration
01.1991 - 01.1993
University Overview
GPA: 3.07
MARA COMMUNITY COLLEGEKuantan, Pahang Darul Makmur
American Associate Degree (AAD) from Computer Information System
01.1989 - 01.1991
University Overview
GPA: 3.48
Skills
Team collaboration
Experienced in strategic leadership
Organizational growth strategies
Collaborative decision-making
Coaching and mentoring
Professional networking
Program development
Process improvement
Diversity and inclusion initiatives
Product management
Key relationship management
Systems development
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
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