Tengku Farith Rithauddeen
Technopreneur Tengku Farith Rithauddeen is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of SKALI, a pioneer in e-business and e-government services. SKALI burst onto the scene in the mid nineties when it successfully launched the Asian-based mirror website for the search engine Alta Vista, the world’s most popular search engine before the emergence of Yahoo and Google. SKALI was among the first nine companies to be awarded MSC Status and today has a workforce of more than 400.Guided by Tengku Farith, SKALI successfully negotiated the challenges posed by the dotcom bubble and managed to overcome it by sheer resilience and persistence. In 2002,Tengku Farith was selected as one of the 100 Global Leaders for Tomorrow (GLT) by the World Economic Forum. He became the first recipient of the Young Entrepreneur Award by the Malay Chamber of Commerce in 2004 and was awarded Most Outstanding Entrepreneur for 2008 by the Asia Pacific Entrepreneurs Award (APEA) Organisation.
Of success can be seen from Tengku Farith Rithauddeen of a successful entrepreneur for reflection I should follow him as a figure who managed to achieve my long term goal of someday becoming a successful entrepreneur in addition to being an engineer. To achieve the long term goal, I need research in a particular field from the bottom before it reaches the required level. With my interest in my business will definitely be able to achieve my wish.
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