Mr Simon Loh founded e-pay (M) in 1999 to provide reliable, secure and flexible electronic prepaid solutions to service providers, and at the same time to create business opportunities to retailers, thus revolutionizing the traditional purchase process of physical top up cards among consumers. e-pay secured its first Mobile Operator partnership with Digi in 1999 and this was rapidly followed by tie-ups with Celcom, Maxis, Telekom and Time in 2000, with 7-Eleven, Guardian Pharmacy, BP, and Petronas in 2001, and with Satelindo, Indonesia's second largest mobile operator in 2002.

Today, e-pay is the leading provider of electronic top up services for prepaid
mobile users in Southeast Asia, and operates in Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan and Thailand, processes about 70 million prepaid mobile transactions per annum through a network of over 20,000 points of sale with an impressive compound revenue and profit growth of approximately 50% per annum over the past few years.

In January 2006, e-pay Malaysia was injected into e-pay Asia Ltd, which is dual listed on ASX (Australia Stock Exchange) in 2000 as well as on AIM (Alternative Investment Market) of London Stock Exchange in 2005, the first Malaysian company to be listed on that Market.

Mr Loh was one of the founder members of Young Entrepreneurs Organization Malaysia Chapter, a global, non-profit educational organization for business owners. @ Sept 06

Predisposed to turning adversities into opportunities in a humble background, Mr Lim self-financed his way through a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering. Mr Lim's pioneering spirit was expressed at university where he developed probably the first Materials Requirement Planning system software, a precursor to the Enterprise Resource Planning system, which ran on the first desktop IBM PC in 1980. This was a major breakthrough as most software then ran on mainframe computers.

After two decades with multinational companies, Mr Lim co-founded and self-financed the K-One Group in 2001, having been declined by banks as a highly risky venture. The Group designs, develops and manufactures electronic end products for the communication, computer, consumer electronic / multimedia and automotive industries. The magnum opus of its array of products is the optical module, used in the world's first digital pen, which it co-developed with Sweden's Anoto. The Group exports all their products and services, mainly to Europe, besides America and North Asia with clients including major OEMs such as Sony Ericsson Mobile Communication, Logitech, C Tech and Nokia.

K-One Technology attained MSC status in 2002 and was listed on the MESDAQ in January 2006. Under Lim's creative force and visionary leadership, the Group is now Malaysia's premier one-stop technology provider and has, over the years, received numerous quality and excellence awards. @ Sept 06

Y Bhg Dato' Mukhriz Mahathir founded Opcom in 1994 when he spotted a niche to be filled - a growing demand for fibre-optic cables. Opcom strategically entered into a joint venture arrangement with a large multinational to manufacture and supply fiber optic cables, and since then Dato' Mukhriz painstakingly nurtured and guided the Company. Variously described as focused, dynamic, sincere, and unassuming, Dato' Mukhriz infused Opcom with his own brand of pioneering leadership, vision and spirit over the years.

In a little over 10 years, Opcom, now a listed Company on the Mesdaq, has become the premier fiber optic cables manufacturer in Malaysia and supplies fiber optic cable and network systems to major telecommunications companies in Malaysia and the Asia-Pacific region. Its products meet the highest international industry standards while the Company has been ISO certified for environmental management.
Importantly too, Dato' Mukhriz, the visionary achieved the transfer of high technology to Malaysia by empowering Malaysians to learn, implement and improve on the high technology transferred. Since 2000, the resourceful entrepreneur has grown the Company from RM32 million in revenue to its latest 2005 revenue figure of RM78 million, representing an average annual growth rate of 24% over the 6 year period.

Under Dato' Mukhriz's leadership, Opcom realized its vision of providing an affordable broadband infrastructure for all Malaysians. @ Sept 06