Foodie Media | Co-founder

Colony Coworking Space | Executive Director

Timothy Tiah is co-founder and CEO of Colony, a premium coworking and serviced office brand that has signed some of Malaysia’s largest flexible workspace deals. Before that, he co-founded Nuffnang, one of Asia’s first blog advertising networks.

Timothy was a student in the UK when a chance meeting through friends introduced him to Cheo Ming Shen. In 2007 the pair launched Nuffnang and helped build the creator economy before it had a name. At 23, Timothy was the youngest on BusinessWeek’s list of Asia’s 25 best young entrepreneurs, and the only Malaysian. Nuffnang’s parent company, Netccentric, later listed on the Australian Securities Exchange in 2015.

After leaving Netccentric, he moved from digital to bricks and mortar, launching Colony in 2017 with his wife, Audrey Ooi. He speaks candidly about building, exiting and starting again in a completely different industry.

Exabytes | Owner

PolicyStreet | Co-Founder & COO

Wilson Beh is co-founder and Group COO of PolicyStreet, a Southeast Asian insurtech that has raised RM200 million from investors including Khazanah Nasional. He also helped start the FinTech Association of Malaysia, which he led as President for two terms. He also serves as Vice Chairman of the Asia Fintech Alliance.

Wilson grew up in a small town, where he learned grit and resourcefulness early. He started his career as an investment banker, working on large financing deals for companies across China and Southeast Asia.

But he saw a different problem worth solving: for many people and businesses, insurance felt complicated and out of reach. In 2016 he left banking to co-found PolicyStreet, which makes insurance simpler, more affordable and easier to access. It was named one of Forbes Asia’s 100 to Watch in 2023. He speaks on fintech, digital insurance and entrepreneurship.

1% Advisory & Coaching | Founder

Founder of 1% Advisory & Coaching, as well as sit in board of directors of 3 listed companies (Chairman of Foodie Media Berhad, Independent Director of SRKK AI Berhad and Audience Analytics Limited).

Formerly co-founded Fave Group, which was acquired by Pine Labs. Alumnus of Cornell University and Eisenhower Fellow

MacroKiosk| Co Founder & CEO

Dato’ Henry Goh is Co-founder and Executive Chairman of MACROKIOSK, a regional technology enabler trusted by more than 40 banks and financial institutions, with customers in 37 countries.

He was 18 when he and his brothers, Kenny and C.S., started the company in 2000. He had just finished an engineering diploma but chose to build the business instead, later completing an MBA. Along the way, the brothers sold majority stakes twice and bought the company back each time. MACROKIOSK reported revenue of US$63.6 million in 2023.

Today Henry is also a Fellow of the Institute of Corporate Directors Malaysia and a mentor with Endeavor and Founder Institute. A TEDx speaker, EY Emerging Entrepreneur Award winner and keen aviator, he speaks about navigating disruption, building teams and regaining control of the company he built.

The Circle Ventures | Co Founder

Shirmein Leong is the co-founder of DeliverEat, Penang’s first online food delivery platform, which AirAsia’s logistics arm, Teleport, acquired for US$9.8 million in 2021.

She started DeliverEat in 2012 with her husband, Tan Suan Sear, with just two riders and one restaurant. It was also the first platform to let customers combine orders from different restaurants into a single delivery. Without large funding, the couple grew it across Penang and the Klang Valley and delivered more than a million orders.

After the acquisition, Shirmein joined Teleport as Head of On-Demand. Tony Fernandes later compared their journey to AirAsia’s early fight against far bigger airlines. She shares what it takes to build, defend and eventually sell a homegrown startup from Penang.

FlowGo | Co-Founder

Anthony See is co-founder and CEO of FlowGo, a Kuala Lumpur AI startup whose AI agents turn invoices and purchase orders sent by WhatsApp, Telegram and email into entries in a company’s accounting software. Founded in 2025 and backed by Startmate and Google for Startups, it serves SMEs in Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and Thailand.

He spent more than a decade as a software developer and solutions architect, including at Intel, before investing in an F&B venture. It failed, and he saw exactly why: disorganised inventory and manual ordering were quietly draining the business.

In 2017 he and Shayna Teh co-founded Food Market Hub to fix exactly that. It raised US$12.5 million in Series A funding and grew to serve about 3,000 F&B operators. Anthony speaks about turning a business failure into software, and building again in the age of AI agents.

EasyParcel | Founder & CEO

Clarence Leong is founder and CEO of EasyParcel, a Penang-based logistics platform that helps 1.5 million micro SMEs book deliveries with multiple couriers across Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia. He also co-founded last-mile delivery company Pgeon.

Penang-born, Clarence started out as an aerospace engineer in the UK, then came home in 2010 to become an entrepreneur. His first two ventures, the deals site EziVoucher and the free magazine EasyCorner, taught him hard lessons about scale.

He launched EasyParcel in 2014. It reached RM25 million in revenue by 2016 and later raised Series B funding from AirAsia and Gobi Partners. A Ten Outstanding Young Malaysians honoree, named among Asia’s Most Influential (Malaysia), Clarence speaks about learning from startups that didn’t work and building for the sellers who keep Malaysia’s online economy moving.

Xilnex | CEO

Ooi Boon Sheng is CEO of Xilnex Holdings, the Penang-headquartered company behind Xilnex, one of Southeast Asia’s pioneering cloud-based point-of-sale and retail management platforms, used by more than 5,000 retail and F&B merchants.

Since 2007, Xilnex has helped merchants run their outlets, stock and sales from the cloud, long before cloud POS became the norm. It now serves businesses in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Canada and Australia, and counts listed logistics group GDEX as a strategic shareholder. In 2023 the company opened a working café in PJ Midtown that doubles as a retail tech experience centre.

A Universiti Sains Malaysia alumnus, Boon Sheng speaks about building a regional tech company from Penang and helping brick-and-mortar businesses go digital.

ArmourZero | CEO & Founder

Tho Kit Hoong is co-founder and CEO of ArmourZero, a cybersecurity company backed by Gobi Partners through a Khazanah-backed impact fund, helping SMEs and software developers defend against cyber threats in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia.

A Penang Free School and KDU Penang alumnus, he has spent his career where technology meets day-to-day business operations. After senior roles including Assistant General Manager at VADS Berhad, he co-founded Swingvy, an HR and payroll platform for SMEs, and founded CSP Global Technologies.

In 2022 he co-founded ArmourZero with Chong Wai Lun. Its cloud-based platform combines AI-powered application security with round-the-clock managed detection and response, and the company is a licensed provider under Malaysia’s National Cyber Security Agency. Kit Hoong speaks about practical cyber defence for growing businesses and making security accessible to businesses of every size.

Pingspace Robotics | CEO & Founder

Chuah Di Ken is founder and CEO of Pingspace, a Penang company that builds robotic storage systems to help warehouses process orders faster.

He studied food science at the University of Leeds, but spent much of his time there teaching himself to code and planning a business. Living in the UK, he noticed that online orders arrived the next day, while Malaysians usually waited two or three. He wanted to close that gap.

Back in Penang, he set up a micro-logistics company at 24, then founded Pingspace. He led his team to build the entire robotics system from scratch in about three years, has deployed projects in Penang and signed an exclusive distributor in Thailand. Di Ken shares a young founder’s view of building deep-tech hardware in Malaysia and bringing automation within reach of smaller warehouses.

Richard Ker Digital | Chief Storyteller

Richard Ker is the founder and Chief Storyteller of Richard Ker Digital, a creative marketing agency that helps businesses grow through storytelling, and a content creator with around half a million followers across social media. He was also appointed a Nationhood Fellow at the National Academy of Malaysia under the Prime Minister’s Office.

Born in Tawau, Sabah, Richard grew up on a rubber estate with little internet access and taught himself to build websites. He studied engineering in the UK and spent more than a decade in Beijing’s tech scene, at one point running a global iPhone repair business from a Starbucks.

Back in Malaysia, he co-founded AirShoppr, helped build the startup ecosystem at MaGIC and Cyberview, and served as Chief Marketing Officer of drone company Aerodyne Group. Richard shows founders how a good story turns attention into customers.

RakanSales | CEO & Founder

Alain Lye is the founder of RakanSales, an AI-powered sales automation CRM that helps SMEs manage leads, follow-ups and customer conversations from WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, email and live chat in one place.

He is also founder and Managing Director of VeecoTech Solutions, which he started in Penang in 2011 after graduating in software engineering from Universiti Sains Malaysia. VeecoTech Holdings now spans six organisations, including creative video agency Bold Media.

Drawing on 15 years of building software for SMEs, Alain created RakanSales to help sales teams stay organised and stop leads slipping through the cracks. He speaks about practical AI, sales automation and digitalisation for growing businesses.

The Ship Campus | Deputy COO

Shaun Yeoh heads the Entrepreneur Growth Hub (EGH) at The Ship Campus in Batu Kawan, Penang, and leads Founders & Funders, a flagship event that connects ASEAN startups with venture capital firms, investors and government agencies.

He brings 17 years of sales, marketing and business development experience across IT, corporate training, manufacturing, engineering and the non-profit sector, spanning brand campaigns, events and key account partnerships. 

Under his leadership, EGH has grown from a 5,000 sq ft coworking space, started in 2020, into a platform that gives founders access to funding, mentors and new markets. The 2025 Founders & Funders drew almost 200 participants and more than 20 investors and agencies, with speakers from Gobi Partners, 500 Global, MDEC and Cradle Fund.

A multilingual sales and marketing professional, Shaun has one clear goal for EGH: to help incubate Malaysia’s next tech unicorn from Penang.