Tun Musa Hitam, who is currently Chairman of the World Islamic Economic Forum (WIEF) Foundation was Malaysia’s Deputy Prime Minister until 1986. In the course of his service in the Malaysian government, he held various positions including Minister of Home Affairs, Education, Primary Industries and Trade and Industries and Chairman of the Federal Land Development Authority (FELDA). Among his major official activities were as Leader of Malaysian Investment Missions to Europe, United States and Japan, Leader of the Commonwealth Observers Delegation to the Malawi and Pakistani general elections and Member of the Commonwealth Ministers Action Group Delegations to Nigeria, Fiji and the Gambia. He also represented Malaysia at UN, UNESCO and United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) related negotiating and regular conferences. He was also elected for one term Chairman of the UN Commission on Human Rights.

Since Tun Musa’s retirement from politics in 1987, he held Chairmanships of three Public Listed Companies and various business related institutions both at domestic and international levels. He was Chairman of the Malaysia – China Business Council, Co-Chair of the Eminent Persons Group (EPG) of the ASEAN – China, 15 year economic cooperation programme and Chairman of the EPG to draft the ASEAN Charter. Currently, Tun Musa is Chairman of the International Advisory Panel of CIMB Bank, Chairman of the International Selection Panel of the Royal Award on Islamic Finance and member of the Advisory Panel of the Iskandar Development Authority as well as member of the High-Level Group (HLG) on Commonwealth Governance. He also represented the Malaysian Prime Minister to the 32nd ASEAN Summit 2018 in Singapore.

Tun Musa holds a BA from the University of Malaya and an MA from the University of Sussex and held a resident Fellowship at Harvard University. For his services to the nation, The Yang Di Pertuan Agong, King of Malaysia, conferred him Malaysia’s highest award which carries the title ‘Tun’.

Nasser Munjee sits on 15 corporate boards in India including Tata Motors, Tata Chem, Britannia Industries, Cummins India, ABB India and Ambuja Cements (now part of the HOLCIM group). He’s also chairman of Development Credit Bank and other Aga Khan institutions in India.

He was the president of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry, which is the city’s oldest chamber of commerce and he has served on numerous government task forces on Housing and Urban Development.

He holds an MSc in economic from the University of Chicago.

Ebrahim Patel, a South African entrepreneur with a passion for business, started a number of successful ventures. He’s the managing director of TransAfrix Holdings and serves on various company boards.

He’s the current national president of the Minara Chamber of Commerce, deputy chairperson of Business Forum South Africa, international advisory member of the World Islamic Economic Forum, chairman of the WIEF Young Leaders Network, trustee of the eThekweni Community Foundation and advisory board member of the University of KwaZulu Natal ELC.

Ebrahim serves on the KwaZulu Natal Economic Council which advises the provincial government on economic strategy and is a lead member of the KZN Halaal Hub Task Team. He is passionate about youth and entrepreneurship and is regularly asked to speak on various platforms locally as well as internationally.

Razif Aziz is a senior executive with over 23 years’ experience in a variety of different roles. He is passionate about the dynamics between business, government and technology acquired through roles in both the public and private sectors. Razif was appointed as chief operations officer of Cradle Fund Sdn Bhd in 2016 and is currently the acting group chief executive officer for the organisation.

He has written extensively in Malaysian daily newspapers on the impact technology, policies, regulations and public sector frameworks have on the growth of business. He has participated in the development of the Malaysian converged telephone company, broadcast and biotechnology sectors. His access to government machinery and its engagements with the industry have enriched his experience in building conducive ecosystems from the ground up. It also taught him about the challenges of bringing products and innovations to the market.

Razif studied law at Coventry Polytechnic and is a Barrister-at-Law from Lincoln’s Inn, London

Jyothi is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of HiveMinds Innovative Market Solutions, an online marketing strategy and services firm based in Bangalore, India. HiveMinds was acquired by Madison Media, the second largest media agency in India.

Over the last 12 years, Jyothi has built, seen and supported many products and businesses perfect their business journey from the ground up. She has gained vast experience working with startup founders and venture capital on rapid growth startups.

She is an entrepreneur, angel investor, marketer, engineer and a mother with an interest in pre-schoolers’ education. As a renowned marketer, she has been the key marketing strategist and consultant for many Indian startups. Few of her early and long standing engagements include TutorVista, Dailyhunt, MobiKwik, Hoopos, BigBasket, Simplilearn, RedBus.in, NewsCred, Voonik, TaxiForSure and many others.

Anisa Hassan is the Founder of Joompa, a mobile dating and matchmaking app for Muslim singles in Southeast Asia. She is also the Founder of Date High Flyers and is an award-winning entrepreneur better known as Asia’s ultimate matchmaker to millionaires and high net worth individuals. For the last 15 years, she has paired more than 1,000 couples through her international luxury matchmaking service Date High Flyers.

Anisa is a regular columnist on regional publications, from Singapore to Jakarta and Bangkok, and is also the author of two guide books on dating and relationships. She was a former news anchor with Channel NewsAsia based in Singapore and is active in the startup space as she has taken her business from idea to implementation.

Anisa holds a Bachelor of Social Sciences in International Relations from the National University of Singapore.

Becky Kux is Portfolio Manager at 500 Startups, one of the most active seed stage venture capital firms on a mission to discover and back the world’s most talented entrepreneurs globally. Based in Kuala Lumpur, Becky is the touchpoint for the 160 Southeast Asian portfolio companies throughout their lifecycle with the regionally focused fund, 500 Durians, monitoring and reporting on their progress and aiding in access to later stage capital.

Prior to joining 500, Becky led Customer Success for startup TrustedCompany across South America and Asia, providing her with the insights on operating a startup with a global footprint, her first foray into entrepreneurship after being an active concert pianist in Toronto, Canada.

Jan Lambrechts is the Chief Executive Officer of CXS International, Malaysia. CXS International owns Scandinavia’s oldest education technology organisation. It provides talent analytic solutions to enterprises, education institutions and governments across Singapore, Malaysia and Scandinavia. CXS is also in the process of setting up entities, running pilots and establishing customer base with identified local partners in Netherlands, Estonia, Mexico, India and Turkey, as part of key operational activities in 2018.

After establishing CXS International in Singapore in 2016, he saw the potential of Malaysia as a market which could leverage CXS technology to rapidly develop its workforce to be able to take its place at the forefront of the digital economy, hence making the move of its global headquarters to Cyberjaya in Malaysia. CXS is actively exploring opportunities with credible partners in the various countries and regions.

Ameya Salatry is the founder of, and practicing lawyer at, Legal Minds LLP. Legal Minds LLP is the first of its kind as a full service legal firm in Goa with an associated Pan-India presence. His focus is on the areas of corporate law, real estate law, intellectual property and litigation services.

Ameya has worked for over a decade in regions including India, United States and Middle East. With his extensive global experience and working in-house for multinational companies as a general counsel, has been advising several companies and individuals on a variety of issues such as restructuring, investment into startups and legal structure, commercial contracting, real estate investments and litigation.

His clientele currently includes companies in sectors such as manufacturing, information technology, construction and real estate, e-commerce, venture funds and education.

Ameya has dual master’s degrees in law from the University of Mumbai, India, and Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago, United States.

Pranay Gupta is the Co-founder of 91springboard, the first co-working hubs company in India. They have a pan India network of co-working hubs and are instrumental in creating communities that help businesses grow.

Pranay loves to coach and help entrepreneurs and is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi and Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad. He was instrumental in setting up and running IIM Ahmedabad's incubator, including programmes like MentorEdge, Power of Ideas and iAccelerator.

Farheen Sayed is the founder of Brushflicks, a digital platform for uploading, sharing and monetising any creative content, to help people with creative talent make a living. As a software engineer with an entrepreneurial drive and passion to scale up businesses globally, she founded Boxifer in 2017, a sub product of Brushflicks. Boxifer is a clean tech-based product that converts acrylic plastic waste into unique packaging boxes with the Internet of Things (IoT) integrated technology.

She’s also a columnist in the in-business section with Goa's leading daily Herald and has been featured in over 60 magazines and newspapers. She was also a leading speaker with state innovation council covering over 50 institutes with over 4,500 students in the last year. Farheen won Goa’s Chief Minister’s Startup Challenge 2017 and emerged as Goa's leading startup of 2017. She’s also the brand ambassador of the Chief Minister’s Rozgar Yojana (CMRY). Her company Boxifer has also represented India on clean-tech in World Environment Day 2018. She has received the GEMS Innovation Award 2018, among others.

Farheen holds a software engineering degree from Goa University in India and a clinical hypnotherapy as well as a healing degree from California Hypnosis Institute (CHI) in the United States.

Jatin Chaudhary is the co-founder and salesman of eChai Ventures, one of the largest offline-online startup social networks in India. He has conceptualised and hosted eChai programmes in over 40 cities to provide a platform to young entrepreneurs across India. Every month over 5,000 entrepreneurs, professionals, students and mentors come together at various eChai programmes. They connect, share and collaborate with each other to get eChai's CoRise experience.

Jatin was selected as a Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum. He was also selected by the leading daily Ahmedabad Mirror as one of the top 35 Agents of Change of Gujarat, India and won the GCCI-Youth Wing Business Idea Award 2011 in the presence of the Chief Minister of Gujarat and leading industry icons.

Sachin Karnik is the president of Mumbai Angels Network in India. He has over 20 years of experience in diverse domains ranging from consumer electronics, e-commerce, retail and IT across companies like Onida, UTV Interactive and the then Aditya Birla Minacs, where he was vice president of operations.

He has led e-commerce startup teams right from the start and has worked closely with startups in India as well as the United States where he leveraged his diverse functional experience across vendor development, product management, business development, operations and strategy. His accomplishments in supporting high growth initiatives include clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to startups and unicorns.

Sachin is a certified private equity professional (CPEP), a certification awarded by private equity investor’s group (PEIG). He is also a certified mentor for startups. He studied production engineering at the University of Mumbai, India.