Vincent Leusner is the President of AMCHAM, the American Malaysian Chamber of Commerce, a position that he has held since May 2005. AMCHAM Malaysia is an international, non-profit, private-sector business association comprised of more than 750 members representing over 330 American, Malaysian, and other international companies.

Vince also spent 7 and a half years as the CFO for Asia for a US based advertising and communications company overseeing operations in 17 countries employing 1600 employees with annual revenues of US$100.0 million.

Vince is also a board member of MACEE (the Malaysian American Commission on Educational Exchange) which administers the Fulbright Scholarship program in Malaysia.

Vince is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and is a graduate of a small school in America's industrial heartland, West Liberty State College in West Liberty, West Virginia. @ Sept 07

Mr Devanesan Evanson, a Malaysian, is a fellow member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA) and a member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants. He also graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of London in 1989. He is a Governor and past president of the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors Malaysia and a Member of the Malaysian Advisory Committee of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

He has more than 15 years of experience in the field of external and internal audit and has held various key positions within the Bursa Malaysia group including Head of Internal Audit, Senior Vice President (Compliance and Inspection), Senior Vice President (Legal Advisory - Market Supervision), Head of Group Internal Audit and Risk Management and Deputy Chief Regulatory Officer since September 2005 prior to his appointment as Chief Regulatory Officer effective 1 August 2006. @ Sept 07

Dato' Musa Muhamad, is the Secretary of the Ministry of Entrepreneur and
Co-operative Development. Equipped with a Masters Degree in International Affairs, Ohio University, USA, Dato' Musa served 30 years in public service in various capacities in the goverment sector as follows:

i) Secretary General (MeCD) - 29 April 2007 to present
ii) Deputy Secretary General (Development) - 18 September 2005
iii) Secretary of Commercial Vehicles Licensing Board (CVLB), MeCD - 16 November 2005
iv) Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Finance- 1 January 2001
v) Trade Commissioner, Santiago, Chile, Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (MATRADE) - 16 January 1994 to November 1997
vi) Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Primary Industries - 26 March 1987 to 15 January 1994. @ Sept 07

Dato' Dr Abu Talib Bachik holds BSc/MSc degrees from the Louisiana State University, USA and from the University of Gent, Belgium. He had held numerous positions in the Rubber Research Institute of Malaysia including serving as the Deputy Director General (Development) in the Malaysian Rubber Board before he joined Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) in 1999. A well-known researcher in the rubber industry, he has authored approximately 50 scientific research papers.

Dato' Dr Abu Talib is currently the Senior Vice President of the Technopreneur Development Division in MDeC. Prior to holding office in this capacity, he held various other positions, including a stint as the President of Streetmarkets.com, a subsidiary company of MDeC. He had also initiated many collaborative programmes, including the JAVA Technopreneur Development Centre and a programme with MARA to promote technopreneurship amongst the Bumiputra in various states with other developing countries under the Malaysian Technical Cooperation Programme (MTCP) and with several countries to open markets for MSC companies.

He is the founder member of the MSC - Asia Pacific ICT Awards in 1999, which led to the formation of the International APICTA event with 14 member economies participating. Over the years, Dato' Dr Abu Talib has represented MDeC at various local and international speaking engagements. @ Sept 07

Y Bhg Dato' Hazimah Zainuddin is the President of Persatuan Wanita Bumiputra Dalam Perniagaan & Profesyen Malaysia (Peniagawati). She is a Board Member of the Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (Matrade) and is actively involved with the National Association of Women Entrepreneurs of Malaysia (NAWEM). Dato' Hazimah also sits on the Board of Scientex Incorporated Berhad as a nominee for Permodalan Nasional Berhad.

Dato' Hazimah is the Founder and Managing Director of Hyrax Oil Sdn Bhd which designs and develops top quality and high performance automotive, industrial and specialty lubricants and other petroleum derivatives. Her astute business acumen propelled Hyrax Oil to grow from strength to strength, now exporting to 15 countries including Australia, New Zealand, Africa, and the Middle East.

Over the years, Dato' Hazimah received numerous accolades for her contributions and achievements including the Ernst & Young Woman Entrepreneur Of The Year® - Malaysia 2002. In 2004, she was the Project Director for the Antarctic Solo Expedition when she organised the expedition and raised funds for Datin Seri Paduka Sharifah Mazlina who achieved a world record for crossing the South Pole. Through her promotion of entrepreneurship, Dato' Hazimah has inspired many budding entrepreneurs of both genders to venture into the business world. @ Sept 07

Ms Dorothy Teoh was among the pioneer batch of journalists who launched The Edge - Malaysia's first and only business and investment weekly - in 1994. She joined The Edge as Chief Copy Editor and was made Deputy Managing Editor in 2000. From March 2003 to May 2005, she was concurrently Managing Editor of the regional monthly Asia Inc.

In December 2003, she assumed the post of Deputy Group Editor in Chief at Nexnews Bhd, publisher of both The Edge and theSun.

Prior to joining The Edge, she was a journalist with The Star from 1983 to 1984 and again from 1986 to 1989. In 1990, she took a break from journalism and spent the next three-and-a-half years at the think-tank ISIS Malaysia as Deputy Editor of the ISIS monthly newsletter.

Dorothy graduated from Universiti Sains Malaysia in 1982 with a BA (Second Class Upper with Hons), majoring in Mass Communication. She earned her MA in Communication from the University of Hawaii in 1986. @ Sept 07