Tengku Farith Rithaudeen President Skali.com www.skali.com SKALI Block C, UPM-MTDC Technology Centre One, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43409 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia Tel: 603 8656 8468 Fax: 603 8656 8458 farith@skali.com

Presenting paper on: Strategic Directions and Success Strategies of Electronic Commerce in Malaysia: Session 6(iv)

Tengku Farith Rithauddeen is responsible for the strategic vision, overall management and leadership of Skali. With more than 8 years of management and business experience, Farith drives the growth of the company. He was recently selected as one of the World Economic Forum’s 100 Global Leaders for Tomorrow (GLT) for 2002.

Farith is also the Advisor to Venture 2001, which promotes innovative and successful business models among Malaysians. He also sits on other advisory boards both in the public and private sectors which focus mainly on Industry and Netpreneur development in Malaysia.

His career began with Commerce International Merchant Bankers (CIMB) in the corporate finance division. Throughout his career at CIMB, Farith established relationships with various investment bankers, analysts, researchers, venture capitalists and private investors, and was involved in corporate advisory services for Penang Port, agencies under the Ministry of Rural Development and KPJ Healthcare Bhd.

He then moved on to Road Builder (M) Holdings Berhad and was responsible for its business development in property and infrastructure projects. Prior to joining Skali as its President, Tengku Farith led a team to turn around a local manaufacturing company involved in the building materials industry. In his four years as CEO of this company, he earned valuable experience in managing the day-to-day and hands-on operations of two factories employing 160 employees.

At Skali, he is also instrumental in the establishment of Skali's new division and program called SNAP or Skali Netpreneurs Acceleration Program. SNAP is an initiative for Asian netpreneurs to leverage the pool of SKALI's experience, expertise, resources and business networking. SNAP creates and adds further value for investors, netpreneurs and communities in general by sharing an in-depth knowledge base and widening the reach of Internet opportunities;

Tengku Farith obtained his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada in 1992.