Futurist Advisory
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If you want to succeed in your business, you’ll need to do more than simply respond to existing trends. You’ll also need to figure out future developments today. Business planning for the future isn’t optional if you want your business to succeed. In fact, it’s imperative to strive for a proactive mindset and plan for the future.
Sheikh Faleigh bin Sheikh Mansor
Founder | Futurist | President
The Futurist Foundation
Usahawan Nusantara Ventures S/B
PT. Futuris Ventura Nusantara
The FUTURIST Engagement
The challenges of many companies either big or small varies on the realistic mind set of their future strategic growth plans.
We specialise in the ‘Futurist Advisory to Enhance and Implement the Entrepreneurial Synergy & Business Ecosystem in the Nusantara Region namely, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, and Brunei. We have proactively learned the realistic possibilities of the best practices in collaborating business ventures especially in Indonesia and Malaysia.
We can be engaged as your Futurist Advisor to implement your business venture from the Ideation phase to executing the resources required to materialize the business plan throughout Indonesia and the Nusantara Region.
* Certified by the Malaysian Book of Records as the Youngest Entrepreneur in Malaysia having to open his first company at the age of 18 years old in 1994.
Building a Greater Malaysia-Indonesia Ecosystem
It is timely for the two great nations, Malaysia and Indonesia to develop and implement a GREATER MAL-INDO ECO-SYSTEM to exponentially grow and becoming a Global Economic Leader.
In sha Allah the many applied researches, connections, and trust that have been gained since the establishment of The Futurist Foundation since 2010 will enlighten a practical execution of many projects for the benefits of the Entrepreneurs in both countries.
H.E. Datuk Ir. Dr. Hamim bin Haji Samuri (born 13 June 1958) is a Malaysian politician and was the Member of Parliament of Malaysia for the Ledang constituency in the State of Johor from 2004 to 2018. He is a member of the United Malay National Organisation (UMNO) party.
He has a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Glasgow. In 2013, he obtained his Master in Management and later in 2016 a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Development Management – GreenTech, from Universiti Utara Malaysia.
He has served as the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (2013-2015) and the Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment (2015-2018).
H.E. Datuk Ir. Dr. Hamim Samuri
GOVERNMENT LIAISON
Advisor
The Futurist Foundation
Executive Chairman
Usahawan Nusantara Ventures S/B
Shahril Anwar Mohd Yunos
INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO
Serial Entrepreneur
Chairman – Investment
The Futurist Foundation
Investment Futurist
Usahawan Nusantara Ventures S/B
Koperasi Futuris Nusantara
Building a Greater Investment Portfolio in the Nusantara Region
Shahril Anwar Mohd Yunos, 55, a highly-qualified venture capital practitioner offering more than 20 years of finance, investment management and technical experience in various operating positions specific to ICT, Integrated Chip (IC) design and Venture Capital. Results oriented a nd proven ability in assisting early-stage companies in fund raising, human capital, management operations, business matching, technology innovation, R&D collaborations, venture strategy, business/technology acquisition and exits.
Shahril was the Chairman of Malaysia VC Association and the Committee Member of Securities Commission’s VC & PE working group.
Currently, Shahril is a serial entrepreneur and a Board of Director of University Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM) and advisor to a few VCs in Malaysia.
The Futurist Foundation are raising funds for Food Security Investments and High Potential Exponential Growth Companies in the Nusantara Region especially in Indonesia and Malaysia. The FUTURIST FUND will be chaired by Shahril as the Chairman of Investment Panel of The Futurist Foundation.
The Corporate Training Engagement
Over the last four decades Dr Kamal has contributed to many Human Capital initiatives and establishment for the government and big corporations in Malaysia.
Under his leadership, we have an interdisciplinary team whose collective skills and experiences allow us to work seamlessly across a variety of platforms, mediums and activities for a diverse range of industry in the Nusantara Region.
Our core expertise and specialization in organising people orientated events and activities have been developed and customized to meet the clients needs to developed and enhance their working system.
Dr. Mohd Kamal Khir
CORPORATE TRAINING
Co-Founder | Deputy Chairman
Human Capital Futurist
The Futurist Foundation
Aaren Abdulah
VALUE MANAGEMENT
Advisor
The Futurist Foundation
Chief Content Officer
Usahawan Nusantara Ventures S/B
Usahawan Nusantara Ventures S/B
Aaren Abdulah, 50, has had decades of collaboration with the Founder of the Futurist Foundation on various projects and is currently the CCO of Usahawan Nusantara Ventures S/B .
His experience on market trends, behavior and response in various industries began in 1993 conducting market research for Frank Small & Associates. After serving in the past as Executive Director in various companies including Taipan Venture Sdn Bhd, Linertec Consolidated Sdn Bhd and S.F.R. Consultants Sdn. Bhd, he pursued entrepreneurship facilitating trade between Malaysian and Indonesian companies.
With experience in creative development, production, marketing and both mass and niche consumer behaviors, he brings critical analysis and strategy formation as tools to project business direction and growth prospects of client companies and entrepreneurs.
Ernie Chen
VALUE MANAGEMENT
Serial Entrepreneur
CEO
The Futurist Foundation
Portman Education Group
Ernie is the Chairman of PORTMAN Education Group that include Education & Training, Talent
Development & EdTech businesses and Dreamtalents Media Group that includes Digital Media, Social
Media, Creative Production & Event Marketing. Ernie is also the Bureau Chief for Capital & Project
Development for Malaysia Datoship Foundation (Yayasan Dato’ Malaysia) and CEO of Futurist Foundation. He is a very seasoned property entrepreneur and investor that does project development and marketing for Top Tier property developers and state governments.
He graduated with his Master of Arts in Communication & Bachelor in Mass Communication and currently completing his dissertation for his Doctorate in Business Administration. Ernie is an awardwinning entrepreneur, reputable business advisor and international speaker with proven track record in leading speaking engagements internationally particularly in the areas related to personal development, business development, stock & property investment & capital markets. He has extensive experience in structuring & negotiating deals, funding & financing projects, a deal maker and the top Pitch Master in the country. A Venture Capitalist and Funding strategist that helps propel SME businesses growth exponentially.
Ernie is a media personality and also the host of “THE ERNIE CHEN SHOW”, an online business and entrepreneur content show that interviews successful entrepreneurs, key opinion leaders (KOLs) and movers & shakers of the business world. Ernie has also advised more than 500 corporate clients that include Fortune 100 & 500 Multinational Corporations and Large Local Conglomerates such as
Financial Services Institutions,Telecommunications, Property Developers, High Tech Industries, Hospitality, Retail, Education, Advertising and Entertainment. His success and achievements have been featured in TV1, TV2, TV3, NTV7, 8TV, Astro, Hitz FM, Fly FM, BFM, FHM Magazine, Channel V, The Edge, New Straits Times, Berita Harian, Harian Metro, The Star and The Sun Malaysian newspapers and also numerous magazines.
Empowering Value Management (VM)
Value Management originated in the United States emerging resulted from components and materials shortage in the manufacturing sector during World War Two. Mr. Lawrence Miles (The Founder of Value Management, then known as Value Analysis) of The General Electric Company was greatly responsible for the establishment of the 2 technique in 1942 and since then the technique is very much accepted in various industries. Presently United States Government and many other nations such as United Kingdom, Japan, Korea, Australia, Saudi Arabia amongst others adopt Value Management technique to be applied for their Capital work projects.
In Malaysia, Value Management was formally introduced in 1986 by Assoc. Professor Roy Barton from Canberra University, Australia to the Quantity Surveying Department in the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) that was in later years lead by Dr. Mazlan.
Dr. Mazlan has adopt the best practices of VM in Malaysia for both Public and Private sector Organisations. He initiated the Value Management practise at Economic Planning Unit of PM’s Department for Fed. Government’s Funded projects of US12M and above
Dr. Mazlan is the first Certified Value Management Practitioner in Malaysia. Founder of MCM Value Management Sdn Bhd and the Founding President of the Institute of Value Management Malaysia.
Dr. Mohd Mazlan Che Mat
VALUE MANAGEMENT
Serial Entrepreneur
Advisor | VM Futurist
The Futurist Foundation
Razam Mohammad Rashid
EMPOWERING ICT
Serial Entrepreneur
ICT Futurist
The Futurist Foundation
The Empowering ICT Engagement
Over twenty-five (25) years of technology-driven experience, especially in mobile solutions and value-added services (VAS) for the South East Asia market, Razam could definitely provide extensive insights in Empowering ICT of your organisation.
The Founder and CEO of IrIDEA Sdn Bhd back in 1999, a company that specializes in Mobile Application & VAS. IrIDEA achieved several local and regional awards including Developer Challenge Winner from Celcom; Winner of Creative VAS Solution from Indosat; Celcom’s 2014 Winner at The League of Extraordinary Developers Challenge and Best Social Network Services from Celcom in 2015.
Razam also played a key role in a Finnish company called PRYTE Oy, not only as its Asia Pacific Business Development Director, but also as an early investor and Board of Directors member. He helped build interest in the technology the company developed, and secured LOIs with ten (10) mobile operators in the region in less than two (2) years. He made a successful exit when Facebook acquired PRYTE Oy in 2014.
Awarded the Bullseye Award by Motorola, and a Bronze Medal from the National Productivity Centre, Malaysia.
Via his Finnish Company, PRYTE Oy, Razam made a successful exit when Facebook acquired the company in 2014.
The Business Intelligence Engagement
In the era of Globalisation and Information Technology businesses are finding it hard to stay competitive. They need to have their ears on the ground and remain agile to adapt to the ever-changing environment. Business intelligence (“BI”) is a competitive advantage; Information is key, and Data is its fuel.
However, most companies find it hard to adopt a BI solution that can enable them to make smarter, data driven decision. Two of the major challenges is to do with costs and the data itself. With the rise of self-service BI software, cost may no longer be a deterrent, yet data-related issues are still a huge challenge.
Large investments on ERP systems or front-end data visualisation software are wasteful without understanding and solving this challenge head-on. Our approach to developing a BI solution is more data centric.
This requires minimal investments on software or systems, yet cater for the business specific needs, as well as enable the client to manage its own reports and dashboards enhancements in the future.
Rosnan is an ICAEW qualified accountant with 22 years of working experience, including 6 years in two of the Big 4 accounting firms, and 7 years of UK experience, mostly in the capacity of a Regional Financial Planning & Analysis (“FP&A”) Manager/ Business Partner within multinational companies. Consistently drive value through development of business intelligence and management information solutions, and delivery of robust analysis to support decision-making in relation to business case, pricing, funding, or investment opportunities. Successfully led cross-functional teams in both traditional and matrix reporting environment. An advanced financial modeler with strong data analysis and synthesis skills.
Rosnan Bin Rosli
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
Financial Futurist
The Futurist Foundation
Dr. Anas Afandi bin Dato’ Ahmad Apandi
LEGAL FUTURIST
Legal Futurist
The Futurist Foundation
Chief Editor
Usahawan Nusantara Magazine
Empowering the Legal Framework in Business
Dr. Anas Afandi bin Dato’ Ahmad Apandi is an advocator for sound legal understanding towards sustainable development of entrepreneurship within the business landscape.
Being a futurist, he wishes to examine new areas and likely future scenario by contemplating the faith and future of entrepreneurship through prediction of possible future implementation of what the law would look like.
Anas holds Bachelor and Masters of Law and PhD in Transport and Logistics Law. He had work with MNC’s and GLC’s as their legal counsel and in order to brush up his knowledge delivery skills and his wish to contribute to the society, he is currently working as a lecturer in Xiamen University, Malaysia.
Serial entrepreneur with intensive experience in the technology company.
In semester 3 at university, she has already established her first business. Just right after graduating she received many awards, such as winner Bank Mandiri award, runner-up Global Entrepreneur (GEPI). This event is the same event that Nadiem, the founder of Go-Jek received the same award winner and started first his venture that turnout to be a billion dollar company. Winner at GIST Indonesia that another year award winner was Natali tiket(dot)com.
Currently, Mita is leading a few special development projects with the corporates and government. She ventures in fintech sharia and also advisor some startups in Southeast Asia.
Mita have a MBA in that same place with my bachelor’s degree at Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB). This MBA class has the same curriculum as Harvard University. She don’t study abroad because she always parallel doing business that running at Indonesia, also have mentored and give mentoring from around the world for some events such us at Silicon Valley, Stanford, Harvard USA, Cape Town South Africa, Bangalore India.
Mita have been active in entrepreneurial organizations and have been a leader in the region for a couple of years.
Nurana Indah Paramita
President | Co-Founder
Yayasan Futurist Indonesia
Hendri Djoesan
R&D | AGRO TECH
Futurist | Serial Entrepreneur
Advisor
Yayasan Futuris Indonesia
Empowering and Commercialising R&D | AGRO-TECH
Hendri is a retired consultant engineer with more than 25 years E&P experience with major international oil and gas operators and consultant. He has solid experiences in reservoir engineering in particularly in field development of oil and gas. His projects cover Indonesia/Saudi Arabia/Malaysia/Turkmenistan/Sudan/Iraq/ Myanmar/Australia/China/Russia fields. Hendri also involved in some asset acquisition, new venture/business development.
Hendri is a graduates of Master in Petroleum Engineering.In early 2010, Hendri together with a few Indonesian oil and gas expert, founded Exploration Think Tank Indonesia (ETTI), an oil and gas consultant company and took up the position of commissioner in the company.
In 2015, Hendri co-founded Lentera Bumi Nusantara (LBN), an R&D company in the field of renewable energy and sociopreneurship. Since the establishment of LBN, he has been acting as the commissioner of the company. In 2016, he established a new venture in the field of integrated agriculture called Lentera iFarm located in Desa Tugu Cisarua Lembang Bandung which from here he incubated a start-up called Griin.id in 2017 focusing in Research and Innovation of Agroindustry for added value and product diversification. Hendri also active in coaching of young talented in their startup.
Helma Agustiawan
Bapak Helma Agustiawan is the Advisor for YAYASAN FUTURIS INDONESIA and KOPERASI FUTURIST in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia.
Being one of the youngest AgroPreneur in Indonesia Helma have contribute many ideas to the government departments related to Agriculture for the growth of farmers, small businesses and cooperatives.
Helma is also the Secretary General of Himpunan Pengusaha Muda Indonesia (HIPMI) West Java and also a committee member (economy) of Majlis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) Bandung. As a very pleasant, humble and helpful individual, Helma is very famous in West Java as a ‘Networking King’ as is he known to many business ecosystem and also to the government senior officials including the Governor of West Java and the Minister of SME and Coorperatives of Indonesia.
Since 2015, he has contribute tremendously to The Futurist Foundation initiatives in providing mentorship and business opportunities especially for the young entrepreneurs in West Java.
Currently, under his leadership together with the Founder and Futurist, Sheikh Faleigh SM, we will be focussing on exporting more famous fashion brands and soon agro products to the Nusantara Region namely, Singapore, Brunei and Malaysia. We target to export to the Middle East, Europe, Canada, Australia and Japan in 2021 onwards.
Helma Agustiawan
The Nusantara Futurist
Advisor
Yayasan Futuris Indonesia
Koperasi Futurist
Tim W.
Gamification Futurist
GCM Incubator
The Futurist Foundation
Empowering Gamification
Tim W. is a world renowned game writer and critic. He is the founder of the historical indiegames.com (now its indiegamesplus.com), a news portal that responsible to feature indie game studios that end up being big, famous and made a lots of money. One of them is called MINECRAFT.
Tim & Faleigh created many benchmarking initiative in game industry and mentored many game studios and later created their own studio under the roof of GCM | The Futurist Foundation.
Together with other partners around the globe, Tim is always busy in making another benchmarking game and gamification projects.
Leading Edutech
Husni is the co-founder and president of Planet Mahir Sdn Bhd, Malaysia’s leading edutech company. He is also member of the Committee of Thought Leadership of Yayasan Pempangunan Ekonomi Islam Malaysia. His extensive connections and insights into the Malaysian and regional economies have solidified his personal brand and positioned him as a respected leader in both public and private sectors.
He had outstanding career experience as CEOs, COOs, and CGOs in both government-linked and private enterprises, local and international, has exemplified visionary leadership across various domains. His expertise spans corporate finance, investment, venture capital, private equity, entrepreneurship development, business strategy, management, and public policy. Notably, he advocates for analytical thinking, innovative strategies, and entrepreneurial empowerment through collaboration and networking.
Husni played pivotal roles in national economic and business transformation. As the founding CEO of TERAJU, he led the national economic transformation of the Bumiputera community, while also serving as Chief Secretariat to the National Bumiputera Economic Council. He was also appointed to chair the national committee of impact studies of Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement on Malaysia’s SMEs and Bumiputera Community in 2013/14.
His transformative leadership style has earned him several prestigious awards, including the Global Leadership Award for Community Transformation (2016), the Innovative Leadership Award from Limkokwing University (2017), and the Jewels of the Muslim World Award for Top Movers and Shakers of the Islamic Economies (2019).
Dato’ Husni Salleh
The Nusantara Futurist
Advisor
The Futurist Foundation
Co-founder & President
Planet Mahir Sdn Bhd
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