The Wacky Team Behind Socialwalk
At Socialwalk, the entire team is either wacky or totally happening – because we love events and socialising. We love connecting with people and making new friends. And while we work towards providing the best for our clients, we have a little fun along the way to make things totally happening for you.
We’re crazy, funny and we take a mammoth-sized pride in our work. Check out some of our profiles below to know us better. The names are not in particular order because we simply work together as one wacky team.
Tham Keng Yew
CEO
A graduate of Michigan State University with a bachelors in Computer Engineering, Keng Yew made an exit from a PhD program to join a Silicon Valley startup (eXS Inc). Kengyew has 5 years working experience with multiple Silicon Valley startups, developing high-tech telecommunications products. Working with eXS, Kengyew has experienced first-hand, starting a company with nothing but an idea, through seed-funding, to commercial deployment with a solid product.
In mid 2008, Kengyew returned to Malaysia to start up Socialwalk. The idea behind Socialwalk is to transform conferences & business events into lasting communities. Use the Socialwalk platform to facilitate networking and B2B business matching among guests and attendees. Socialwalk also provides an easy to use web-based interface (SAAS) to do online registration and ticketing. Socialwalk was awarded a RM150K pre-seed grant by MDEC to develop and launch this software. Their current client list includes events by TEDxKuala Lumpur, TiE Asia Pacific Conference 09, Barcamp, Bursa Malaysia, and more.
Ooi Pauline
Project Consultant
Graduated from the Multimedia University, Cyberjaya with B.MM (Hons) Software Engineering and Games Design, Pauline has been actively involved with the development of Socialwalk. As the project consultant, she has experienced handling the clients while providing them solutions to their problems. As a person with passion for event organizing, she is always open for exciting ideas and ventures to head into.
Asyraf Rahman
CTO
Asyraf graduated from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with a degree in Electrical Engineering. His passion, however, was in computer science, and after working in the petroleum and auto industry, decided to pursue business in ICT. Understanding the power of keeping a lean organization, he has always placed importance on agile practices, and using open source software for development activities.
Ismail Noor
Chief Systems Analyst
Graduated from University of East London, UK, with a masters degree in Business Information System. The system architect of CS8 with 15 years experience working in multinational company.
Fadhli Rahim
Chief Coder
Web developer, system designer & open source advocate. Graduated with a software engineering major and has extensive experience developing the web since 1998.
Azzart Moideen
Infrastructure
Graduated from University of East London, UK, with a masters degree in Business Information System. The system architect of CS8 with 15 years experience working in multinational company.
Cheryl Goh
Advisor
As the Head of E Media for NSTP, Malaysia’s largest and oldest newspaper publisher, Cheryl is in charge of spread heading the company’s growth into new media via new product development, strategic partnerships and acquisitions. Previously as Friendster’s Vice President of Products, she managed the company’s Asian product and business development portfolio that comprised of online payments, games, mobile and music. Cheryl specialized in the development and execution of business strategies related to virtual goods, online content and micropayments.
Prior to Friendster, Cheryl was the Senior Vice President of Business Development for MOL AccessPortal Berhad. Her role focused on expanding the company’s global distribution network by setting up local offices, strategic partnerships, joint ventures and acquisitions across Asia.