Our Team
Our people are from varied industries and academia with outstanding backgrounds, vast experience and a broad range of skills around sustainability and social impact measurement.
Our Team
Prof. Dr. Ainurul Rosli, Co-Founder
Social Impact Champion, Strategic Innovation,
Entrepreneurial Team Coach.
Prof. Dr. Ainurul Rosli
Ainurul is a thought leader in strategic innovation and social impact, contributing to the UK nation-building through small business support projects at the regional, and national levels.
She is passionate about purposeful and sustainable business practices with a proven ability to deliver innovative and effective solutions that positively impact business performance. She is currently a board advisor on several UK institutions; and a Director of Business Engagement at Brunel University London. Ainurul has successfully transformed the community (urban and rural) for sustainable entrepreneurship and has been Influencing and crafting social impact and social value at the grassroots level.
She is the Chair for Practice and Impact Special Interest Group of Institute of Small Business Enterprise (ISBE), UK, and has written various peer-reviewed articles and spoken at international conferences on issues such as collaboration, knowledge co-creation, entrepreneurship, social value, and social impact.
- BIRKBECK UNIVERSITY OF LONDON UNIVERSITY, PHD BUSINESS INNOVATION.
- LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE (LSE), UK MSC OPERATIONAL RESEARCH.
- ENTREPRENEURSHIP TEAM COACH, TEAM ACADEMY (FINLAND).
- UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, UK CERTIFICATE IN HIGH IMPACT LEADERSHIP.
- MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY, MALAYSIA BACHELOR OF FINANCIAL ENGINEERING.
Dr. Jane Chang, Co-Founder
Social Value Practitioner, Entrepreneurial Mindset,
Entrepreneurship Education, Team Coach
Dr. Jane Chang
Dr Jane Chang is the subject matter expert on Social Value in Malaysia. She draws upon over 35 years of cross-sector experience while working with clients ranging from £1m to £100m in turnover. Jane has catalysed SIM & Gritse on the belief that any organisation can be value-led.
Within the past 4 years, she has supported charities, social enterprises, public sector spin-outs, local authorities, universities in both UK and Malaysia in embedding social value.
Jane has been working with several universities in Malaysia in creating awareness and embedding Social Value in research projects. A visionary leader who incorporates social innovation and practical entrepreneurship education in everything she does, Jane brings together an impressive eclectic mix of skills and experience.
She has previously initiated six entrepreneurial ventures and is a specialist scholar of cognitive entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education with a passion for bridging academia with real-world impact.
- UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA SABAH, PHD CORPORATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP.
- ENTREPRENEURSHIP TEAM COACH, TEAM ACADEMY (FINLAND).
- UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, UK CERTIFICATE IN HIGH IMPACT LEADERSHIP.
- UNIVERSITY OF MONASH, AUSTRALIA MASTER IN ADMINISTRATION (MBA).
- UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA BACHELOR OF APPLIED SCIENCE ENGINEERING.
- ASSOCIATE PRACTITIONER, SOCIAL VALUE UK.
Shyue Wern Tan, Consultant
Strategist, International Marketing, Brand and Communications, Social Entrepreneurship
Shyue Wern Tan
Wern has more than 17 years of experience in building, managing and strategising successful brands. He is well experienced in regional business strategies, digital, marketing, communications and branding for large corporations around the world. His strength lies in leading regional strategies for businesses across Asia Pacific, China, Dubai, Africa and Europe in business development, strategic brand and marketing.
In his previous position as the Director of Regional Marketing for a multinational company, he was incharge of the strategic marketing development for 10 countries across Asia Pacific. His experience grew widely when he was a business consultant to assist large companies on change management, marketing and brand strategies.
He was also invited to lead business development & marketing for one of the largest youth agency in Malaysia and had transformed the organisation. Under his leadership, he was awarded the Marketing Excellence Bronze Award in 2017 for Best CSR campaign.
Wern is a Chevening scholar and was selected as 2018 ASEAN Young Leader. He is a frequent panellist at international forums and conferences such as Digital Marketing Asia Conference 2018 and ASEAN Youth Marketing & Engagement Conference 2018.
- THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, UK MSC IN INNOVATION MANAGEMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
- CHEVENING UK SCHLOLAR AND ALUMNI YEAR 2019
- ASSOCIATION OF BUSINESS EXECUTIVES, UK POST-GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
- MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY, MALAYSIA BBA IN MARKETING MANAGEMENT
Melissa Yeoh, Consultant
Agriculture Sustainability, Social,
Environmental & Stakeholders Engagement
Melissa Yeoh
Melissa has more than 15 years of experience in the palm oil industry covering the complete value chain of the business from industry associations, government-linked companies, international nonprofit organisations and private sector players across Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia.
An expert in sustainability, she demonstrates a strong understanding of project management, due diligence for M & A and trading & marketing and completing a task in critical times. She is also wellversed in market transformation strategy as well as risk management on environmental and social sustainability for the world’ s largest crude palm oil producers and major sustainability organisations such as WWF, RSPO, MSPO and ISPO.
Melissa completed her fellowship as Asian Venture Philanthropy Network AVPN Ford Foundation, currently assisting Asia’ s largest agribusiness company in the areas of social impact partnership work and investment sustainability by working closely with customers for partnership opportunities.
- UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON, UK MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS)
- UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, UK POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN SUSTAINABLE VALUE CHAIN
- UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA, AUSTRALIA BACHELOR OF BIOTECHNOLOGY
- UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA, MALAYSIA POSTGRAD DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS MANAGEMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Jonathan
Impact Coordinator
Jonathan
As an early-career researcher, Jonathan has over 5 years of quantitative and mixed methods research experience in various fields including neuropsychology, psycholinguistics, cognitive psychology, and social psychology. Over the years, his research has been presented at conferences both locally (MAPSA and MIPC), and internationally (International Connect’M).
Jonathan completed his Bachelor’s in Psychology at HELP University with First Class Honors and was later offered a scholarship to pursue a PhD in Psychology at the University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus. Currently, he leads his research team in investigating the effects of multilingualism on brain and behavior. The results of his thesis would have important implications for Malaysia’s existing educational policies as well as for populations diagnosed with pathological cognitive decline or otherwise.
He believes that unless academic research can be transformed into actionable plans to improve or impact society, academia would remain in a bubble, disconnected from pervasive issues in society.
- UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM MALAYSIA CAMPUS, PHD PSYCHOLOGY CANDIDATE
- FULBRIGHT GLOBAL UGRAD 2017
- HELP UNIVERSITY, MALAYSIA BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGY (HONS)
Jia Yi
Project Assistant
Jia Yi
Energetic short video and live stream assistant with over two years of experience in media operations. Knowledgeable of social media and short video/ livestream content proficiency.
Currently, she has being focused on social impact studies.
- TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN UNIVERSITY OF MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY, BACHELOR OF TOURISM MANAGEMENT (HONS)
- TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN UNIVERSITY OF MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY, MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Our Committee
Dr Ainoriza Mohd Aini
Senior Lecturer in Real Estate
University of Malaya
Dr Bonaventure Boniface
Associate Professor
University Malaysia Sabah
Dr Tiong Ying Ying
Associate Dean, Research and Development Faculty of Business, Curtin University, Malaysia
Dr Nathanael Yong
MRCOG (UK) - Specialist Registrar in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Kent, Surrey, and Sussex
Dr Steward Giman Stephen
Lecturer at AMC College