Ganesh Kumar Bangah (original) (raw)
Ganesh Kumar Bangah (born 18 August 1979) is a Malaysian serial entrepreneur, technology industry leader and startup investor. He is the founder of MOL Global and Commerce.Asia. He was named the Ernst & Young Technology Entrepreneur of the Year Malaysia in 2002 and at the age of 23, was certified by the Malaysia Book of Records as the youngest Chief Executive Officer of a Malaysian public listed company. He was recognized as one of Southeast Asia's Top 30 Tech Founders by Tech In Asia in 2016 and one of the Most Inspiring Malaysian Technology Entrepreneurs by Top 10 of Malaysia. Within the local tech community, he is also known as “Malaysia’s Bill Gates”, a fact affirmed by the Malaysia's oldest newspaper, the New Straits Times.
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| dbo:abstract | Ganesh Kumar Bangah (born 18 August 1979) is a Malaysian serial entrepreneur, technology industry leader and startup investor. He is the founder of MOL Global and Commerce.Asia. He was named the Ernst & Young Technology Entrepreneur of the Year Malaysia in 2002 and at the age of 23, was certified by the Malaysia Book of Records as the youngest Chief Executive Officer of a Malaysian public listed company. He was recognized as one of Southeast Asia's Top 30 Tech Founders by Tech In Asia in 2016 and one of the Most Inspiring Malaysian Technology Entrepreneurs by Top 10 of Malaysia. Within the local tech community, he is also known as “Malaysia’s Bill Gates”, a fact affirmed by the Malaysia's oldest newspaper, the New Straits Times. Ganesh founded his first internet business, MOL AccessPortal, in the year 2000 at the age of 20. The self-made technopreneur developed the business to become Southeast Asia's leading online payment gateway and Southeast Asia's first internet company to be listed on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations System (NASDAQ) in 2014. He also founded the investment holding company, MOL Ventures, which made successful private investments in global social media and mobile internet companies such as Facebook, Friendster and Kakao. In 2017, Ganesh founded Commerce.Asia, an eCommerce platform. (en) |
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| rdfs:comment | Ganesh Kumar Bangah (born 18 August 1979) is a Malaysian serial entrepreneur, technology industry leader and startup investor. He is the founder of MOL Global and Commerce.Asia. He was named the Ernst & Young Technology Entrepreneur of the Year Malaysia in 2002 and at the age of 23, was certified by the Malaysia Book of Records as the youngest Chief Executive Officer of a Malaysian public listed company. He was recognized as one of Southeast Asia's Top 30 Tech Founders by Tech In Asia in 2016 and one of the Most Inspiring Malaysian Technology Entrepreneurs by Top 10 of Malaysia. Within the local tech community, he is also known as “Malaysia’s Bill Gates”, a fact affirmed by the Malaysia's oldest newspaper, the New Straits Times. (en) |
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