Dr. Soraya Dato’ Seri Azmi, Research Consulting Services
Managing Director

Having trained as a physician at the University of Adelaide, Australia, and obtained a Masters in Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, Soraya has project expertise leveraging her clinical training as well as research consulting experience regionally and in the United States. She has served as a physician and researcher for the Malaysian Ministry of Health, provided public health policy and programming analysis for the United Nations Population Fund (New York headquarters), as well as outcomes research for Pfizer Pharmaceuticals (New York headquarters), and NDCHealth (Arizona). As executive Director, Soraya also heads our research consulting team. Soraya also volunteers in multiple non-governmental organizations at the leadership level.

Ali Burhani, Management Consulting Services
CEO/COO

As a graduate from the prestigious Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy-League university, Ali has more than 15 years of US and international management consulting experience working with Arthur Andersen, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte and Touche. He has extensive experience in leading high-impact projects for large multinational corporations spanning across various industries, for example, General Electric, Nestle, Lehman Brothers, Unilever, Compaq Computers, Alcoa, Yum Brands International, Merck Pharmaceuticals, Sanofi-Aventis amongst others. His diverse skills range from project management, business process optimization, internal controls and risk assessment through to ERP implementation. As CEO, Ali is responsible for management of our entire consulting practice. Ali has a proven track-record of managing cross-functioning teams, delivering vision and results.

Manimohan Manickam, Information Technology Consulting Services

With over 30 years of information technology experience, Manimohan has knowledge, skills and know-how from strategy to implementation in many industries. He has also been involved in the planning and design of education delivery as well as training and support. He is most recently engaged with Tenderdirect Sdn Bhd as a Chief Technology Officer and was responsible for setting up its initial system development infrastructure. He also continues in academic teaching and curriculum work at the Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology in Kuala Lumpur. With vast practical experience over the course of his career in various capacities, his special expertise is in the practical application and alignment of technology with business and market strategy.

H. Gopal, Human Resource Consulting Services

With almost 30 years of experience in the business world and 21 years in the business of human resources, Gopal’s experience has spanned all aspects of human resources including personnel recruitment, supply and personnel outsourcing. Some of his clientele include Citibank, Telekom Malaysia, TNB, Petronas and the 1998 Commonwealth Games. Gopal has also represented the Malaysian Human Resource Ministry to several International Labor Organization (ILO) meetings and acted as moderator during a working tour of the Japanese Labor Ministry in 2000. Gopal is a leader in this field who brings a hands-on perspective as our human resource services lead.