Recognisably one of Malaysia's key figures in advertising, filmmaking, animation and special effects, Mr Chan has been involved in the industry for nearly 20 years. His wide ranging experience, spanning across the continents, coupled with an impressive list of international accolades to his name, led him to become an influential figure in Malaysia's development of post production over the past decade.

Since Mr Chan formed Moon FX - a cutting edge design and animation studio, which offers an impressive range of services through state-of-art technology and infrastructure in late 2001, he and the studio have created an indelible impact towards the Malaysian post production industry. In four years MFX has won 51 international awards including New York Festival 2005, Australia Effects & Animation Festival (AEAF) 2002-2004, British Design & Art Direction 2004, 15th Times Asia-Pacific Advertising Awards 2004, Malaysian Video Awards (MVA) 2001-2004 Citra Pariwara Awards Indonesia 2003 and Asia Pacific Advertising Festival 2004.

Besides being an advisor to the Faculty of Creative Multimedia at The Multimedia University, Mr Chan is also the founder of the Malaysian Video Awards Festival, a festival dedicated to the development and growth of the various crafts of filmmaking which is now in its tenth year. @ Sept 05

With a keen interest in science and mathematics, Mr Goh Peng Ooi was offered a Mombusho Scholarship to study nuclear physics in Japan.

He graduated in 1980 from the prestigious University of Tokyo with a Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Electronics. Upon his graduation, Mr Goh started his career with IBM. He was a sterling performer, receiving numerous recognitions from IBM for his many outstanding accomplishments.

In June 1989, Mr Goh decided to venture out to set up his own software development company, Silverlake System. With an excellent advanced state of the art banking solution offering and with Mr Goh's persistence and determination, Silverlake quickly secured several local banking clients. Soon, Silverlake clinched contracts with large regional banks in Singapore and Indonesia. Today, Silverlake provides banks in many countries with a seamless customer centric branch automation and Internet banking solution that has the ability to deliver complete banking functionality across all channels in real time. Additionally, Silverlake provides a complete suite of solutions to meet the requirements of Islamic banking. Silverlake is, undoubtedly, one of the largest banking system developer and integration provider in ASEAN serving customers spanning from South East Asia to China, Europe and the USA. @ Sept 05

A chemist by training, Madam Yeo has been in the oleo industry for over 30 years. Fuelled by her passion to research and develop, she acquired a palm oil mill in Johor in 1992, and soon, with the availability of ample supply of empty fruit bunches (EFB), Madam Yeo diversified Ecofuture Group into the biomass industry.

Through creativity, innovation and sheer doggedness, Madam Yeo developed a machine in 1996 to produce refined fibre from EFB. This fibre is used to manufacture downstream products such as ECOMAT, a flexible and light mulching mat, now widely used in Malaysian plantations for soil conditioning and for prevention of soil erosion on hill slopes in Malaysia, the Middle East and China. After successful trials, Ecofuture has been awarded contracts to implement desert and sandstorm control projects in China. A new biodegradable disposable packaging product, ECOPAK, is already attracting orders from Europe, Japan and Korea. Ever innovative, another of her focus is to produce pulp and paper using biomass technology from EFB and its pulp making plant is expected to begin production in 2006.

Fourteen years on, Madam Yeo listed the Group on the MESDAQ in 2005, the first agrotech company promoting biomass technology. @ Sept 05

Tan Sri Dato' Professor Dr Lim is a rare combination of a creative mind with sharp business acumen.

Having joined the advertising industry at an early age, Tan Sri Lim quickly rose through the ranks of McCann Erikson advertising agency to become the Regional Creative Director. He was 29 when Tan Sri Lim founded Wings Creative in 1974 and in less than 10 years, its turnover grew to RM44 million. The mid 80s and early 90s saw him as a strategic communicator, building campaigns for companies, governments and humanitarian causes. With a vision to propel Malaysia as a centre of excellence for education as well as to evoke design consciousness among Malaysians, Tan Sri Lim established Limkokwing Institute of Creative Technology in 1991 and in just 12 years nurtured it to University status. Today Limkokwing University is one of Malaysia's leading brands, recognised for international quality education. What started as a college with 200 students in rented premises is today a fully-owned full facility RM100 million campus in Cyberjaya with 4,000 students from 65 countries.

Ever the philantrophist, Tan Sri Lim is closely associated with more than ten charity organisations, and over the years, has received numerous accolades for his many accomplishments. @ Sept 05