Equipped with a Masters degree with honours in Information Science, Mr. Ang Kim Jhew started his career as an employee. In 1991, he established a recruitment firm specialising in placement and contracting of IT professionals, which won several excellence awards. In 1997, Mr. Ang co-founded JSP Consulting in the midst of the economic crisis to provide enterprise solutions consulting and implementation services, using SAP’s suite of e-business platform as the technology enabler. Recognising the Y2K opportunity, JSP participated in many such projects, recording significant annual growths during this period of economic downturn.

Today JSP is a certified SAP R/3 national implementation partner and is a leading SAP implementer with more than 199 consultants. Clients include multinational corporations and local organisations from the petroleum and gas, manufacturing, banking, trading and distribution and automotive industries. JSPC has won several quality awards. The growth of JSPC is credited to its entrepreneur-driven spirit, prudent and strong management, customer focus and a team of dedicated staff. @ Sept 02

asiaEP began when Dr. Tan in 1995 envisioned the huge potential for internet-based business activities in the coming century. After formulating the appropriate internet business strategies, Dr. Bernard and his co-founders created asiaEP in 1998 with a handful of staff in a small back office in Puchong to provide services in the areas of e-marketplace development and other customized e-solutions. asiaEP has a horizontal portal which hosts eight vertical portals for various manufacturing sectors. Through these portals, products and services from small-to-medium scale enterprises are promoted worldwide.

Its web-site has more than 100,000 products displayed online, with a cumulative indicated buying value in excess of USD88 billion across 5 continents, estimated at about 16% of Asia’s total e-merchandising. Today asiaEP, an MSC-status company, is the Southeast Asia’s largest manufacturing e-marketplace provider. Dr. Bernard Tan, who holds a Doctorate of Business Administration in e-Business, is also actively involved in social activities through non-profit organizations. @ Sept 02

Mr. Jaspal Singh, an Engineer by training, founded PKTech in May 1992. PKTech specialises in the provision of products and systems to the financial services industry as well as to major corporate organizations by offering leading edge technology and applications from global leaders and adding on high value add services to deliver working solutions. Mr. Jaspal’s credo is that there is no customer that he could not make a sale to, provided that he and the staff are earnestly hungry for the customers’ businesses and willing to guarantee results.

Over the past ten years, PKTech has successfully expanded beyond Asia, participating in the implementation of banking and corporate systems in many major financial centres across Europe, Africa, the Middle East and North America. Today, PKTech has over 200 staff in Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Hong Kong and India. PKTech is proud to the first Malaysian IT company to be listed in SESDAQ in Singapore in 2000.@ Sept 02