Thursday 21 February 2013

Tengku Farith Rithauddeen Top 10 Inspiring Technopreneurs


In the last two decades, Malaysia has witnessed a prolification of local technopreneurs who have emerged to take advantage of the new technologies in the ICT, internet and mobile industries.

Congratulations to Tengku Farith Rithauddeen
Technopreneur Tengku Farith Rithauddeen is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of SKALI, a pioneer in e-business and e-government services. SKALI burst onto the scene in the mid nineties when it successfully launched the Asian-based mirror website for the search engine Alta Vista, the world’s most popular search engine before the emergence of Yahoo and Google. SKALI was among the first nine companies to be awarded MSC Status and today has a workforce of more than 400.Guided by Tengku Farith, SKALI successfully negotiated the challenges posed by the dotcom bubble and managed to overcome it by sheer resilience and persistence. In 2002, Tengku Farith was selected as one of the 100 Global Leaders for Tomorrow (GLT) by the World Economic Forum. He became the first recipient of the Young Entrepreneur Award by the Malay Chamber of Commerce in 2004 and was awarded Most Outstanding Entrepreneur for 2008 by the Asia Pacific Entrepreneurs Award (APEA) Organisation.

Tengku Farith Interviewed by Media


Books about Tengku Farith Rithauddeen

Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of SKALI 
(Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif dan Pengasas Bersama) 


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