Chief Executive Officer

Professional Experience :

Nallen is the CEO & Founder of Orissa Wicomm (M) Sdn Bhd.

He started his career as an auditor in London, UK upon earning his professional qualification from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA). He is also a member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants.

Upon his return, Nallen joined Ernst & Young as a senior consultant where he was directly responsible for handling various receivership and liquidation matters in the Corporate Recovery & Insolvency unit.

He was then employed by Maxis Communications (formerly known as Binariang Sdn Bhd) and as one of its pioneers he was very involved in growing the mobile and fixed network for Maxis. His career at Maxis was from June 1993 – August 1998 and during this time, Nallen had served in numerous roles, namely Head of Fixed Network, Head of Business Development (Fixed Line Services).

Nallen’s leadership ensured various groups such as marketing, technical and sales functioned in a streamlined manner and only viable projects where undertaken with management’s consent and approval. It was also during this period, Maxis managed to secure significant numner of right of ways to allow a rapid roll out of its HFC network.

As a pioneer in the telecommunications industry, Nallen was offered many positions by various telecommunications company in Malaysia & the Philippines. Nallen subsequently joined Eltek, a Norwegian based company as its Chief Operating Officer for both its Malaysian & Philippines operations, having been invovled in opening of these 2 operations for Eltek. He was then promoted to its Chief Executive Officer within 2 years due to his ability to grow Eltek’s business in the DC Power Systems market for telcos.

With Eltek’s continued year on year growth in the he region, Nallen was appointed Deputy Managing Director for the APAC region in tandem with his existing role as CEO for Malaysia and Phillipines. Under Nallen’s stewardship, offices in Malaysia and Philippines then continued its unprecedented growth as all major telco operators in both countries were on Eltek’s order book. He was also influential in opening new operations in Cambodia and growing other businesses for Eltek in the Region.

Nallen has also served in various other capacities such as Director (Project Development – APAC) at CH2MHILL and Chief Operating Advisor for Broadband Philippines and in the process has accumulated vast experience and a wealth of knowledge in telecommunication industry at large.

In his spare time, Nallen loves to hang out with his family and contribute to charitable causes. He is also an avid golfer.

Chief Operating Officer

Professional Experience :

Ruben graduated with a Bachelor of Electronics & Computer Engineering from The Robert Gordon University, Scotland United Kingdom in 2002. He completed his Advanced Diploma in Computer Engineering from Informatics College, Kuala Lumpur before advancing his studies overseas.
 
Ruben has been working since the age of 17 alongside completing his education. After graduating from The Robert Gordon University, he started his Professional Career in Scicom (M) Sdn Bhd as a Technical Consultant for Nokia. After a year, he was offered to work in Singapore for PCS Peripherals Pte Ltd, handling InFocus Projectors Supply Chain & Engineering Services.
 
He was then offered to work for the principle company, InFocus Systems Asia Pte Ltd, as they required his expertise in the Service Engineering department as they were migrating operations from USA to Singapore.
 
Due to the passion in Sales, Ruben was offered to work as a Sales Engineer at Eltek Valere Pte Ltd handling local Sales. Due to his outstanding performance and achievements, he was appointed to handle the Sales for Malaysia, Sri Lanka and also involved in the setup of Eltek Valere’s Industrial Power segment head quartered in Singapore. With the experience, influence & achievements in these markets, Ruben was picked to lead the Sales & Technical for Orissa Wicomm (M) Sdn Bhd focusing in the Telecommunication, Industrial Power & Renewable Energy market in Malaysia & Philippines.
 
As the Chief Operating Officer, Ruben will help to further strengthen the portfolio of the company by providing top solutions and ensuring that the product or solution being carried is of top quality.

General Manager (GM) of Engineering & Operations

Professional Experience :

Salleh Imran Bin Ramli (Salleh) has over 21 years of experience and accomplishment in the telecommunication industry. He graduated from University of Missouri at Kansas City with a bachelor degree in Computer Science.

Salleh started off his career as a NOC engineer with Celcom (M) Berhad and made his way as a Technical Specialist over the 7 years of his tenure with the organization. He architect and technically designed the NOC surveillance operation technique, fault management process and system support for 2 major network operations center migration projects namely Network Management Centralization (2001) and Celcom –TM Touch Network Integration (2003) which became the framework foundation of the Celcom Axiata NOC today.

He then joined Formis Network Services Sdn Bhd where he pioneered and managed the Transmission team for the organization. He is responsible for driving the Formis and Huawei collaboration project engineering and roll-out for Celcom Axiata national fiber backbone equipment projects from early 2007 till end 2011. In 2012 he was offered to join HD Tech Sdn Bhd, a distributor for Huawei enterprise to manage the pre and post sales team which added value to his business acumen competencies.

Salleh pursued his career in YTL Communications Sdn Bhd in 2013. He started off his 8 years tenure by transforming a brown field network operation center into YTL’s own fully functional NOC after a successful 2 years transition take over from Cisco Malaysia Managed Services. Aside from leading the 4G YES and 1BestariNet operations for network surveillance, fault/incident, change and inventory management, he spearheaded operations support system transformation development and engineered operation readiness focusing on network management system, EMS and IT Service Management (ITSM) application development. He accomplished brainchild and drove the development of 2 in-house operations support systems namely Power & Environment Management System (PEMS) - open source element management system application developed for rectifier system and outdoor cabinet. Another one is NOC Portal - operations support system module for ticketing, inventory and knowledge base.