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.

 

Group Chief Operating Officer

Professional Experience :

Peter Cho comes with 27 years of experience in the Telecommunications industry. Graduated from University of Malaya as the King's Scholar with 1st Class Honours, Peter was among the very first engineers in Maxis. He has vast technical knowledge and experience in Network Planning, Design and Implementation.

Peter was specially trained in Swindon, UK for complete mobile network architecture and BSS scripting. He was responsible for setting up the Optimization and Operations teams in the early years of Maxis' network. He later consulted for Nokia in the effort to start the GSM network in China.

Back in Malaysia, Peter has spearheaded the project teams as the Project Director in Trisilco Folec and later as the CTO in R&A Telecommunications during their days as a turnkey contractor for Maxis.

In his past 12 years in YTL Communications, Peter has successfully accomplished his missions as the Head of Program Management, Head of Core Services Network and later became the Director of IT & Network Operations. Peter is a knowledgeable leader and as well as an enthusiastic team worker.

Acting Chief Operating Officer (Malaysia)

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.

Finance Director

Professional Experience :

Shobana Kumarasamy is the Finance Director of Orissa Wicomm (M) Sdn Bhd. She started her career as an Auditor with Arthur Andersen & Co, upon earning her Bachelor in Commerce (Major in Accounting & Finance) from University of Western Australia.

She subsequently completed her Australian CPA programme and currently is a member of both CPA and MIA.

She confirmed her career with GP Batteries (M) Sdn Bhd as an Accountant where she was in charge of preparing full set of accounts, liaising with government sectors, auditors, tax agents and ensuring compliance with statutory requirements.

She then confirmed her career Software AG Operations Malaysia Sdn. Bhd as an Accountant before moving on to Rohas Euco Industries Bhd where she was both the Accountant and company Secretary.

She also has a degree in Music Performing Arts in her spare time enjoys gymming and playing the piano.

Country Head (Philippines)

Professional Experience :

Dinky is a Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Communications Engineering graduate and brings with him over 30 years of experience in the Telecoms Field.

He was longest with Ericsson (including Ericsson Egypt). He spent over 18 years in Ericsson. He held many different positions including Heading the Project Office for Ericsson Philippines. He spent over 5 years with Huawei and had stints also with operators such as Bell Telecom, Globe and Camusat in Myanmar. He was also with ZTE Philippines.

Financial Controller (Philippines)

Professional Experience :

A seasoned internal auditor by profession with more than twenty-year experience in the field of accounting, finance and auditing. Started professional career with Carlos Valdes & Associates until joined private companies such as Solar Entertainment Corporation (Media Industry), North Luzon Expressway (NLEX), MH Almana (Doha, Qatar).