Presenter, master of ceremonies, singer, model, actress

Multi-talented 28-year old Azura Zainal started her career as a child, dabbling in a multitude of performances and acts. From the national choir "Suara Mas" to various television commercials, she was always comfortable where most aren't – in the limelight!

Fresh from high school, she was selected from thousands of young hopefuls for the coveted job as a presenter on Disney Buzz, Disney Channel's flagship show in 1999. It was there that she excelled in what came naturally to her- to entertain, host, present and most of all, bringing smiles to millions of homes across the region. From scuba diving with sharks in Singapore to climbing active volcanoes in the Philippines, Azura has done it all; with a healthy dose of wit, humour and a devil-may-care attitude.

Her latest stints as a presenter are in Get in Shape, a reality programme on health and well-being which will be aired on TV2, and Xplorasi Season 6, a travel and adventure programme currently being screened on RTM1.

Owner, founder and director, Talent Hub

This 26-year-old with a Latin American dance background noticed that busy parents had a common headache – they had to rush all over the place to send their children to different arts classes at different venue.

In 2005, she decided to come up with Talent Hub, a multi-arts centre in Desa Sri Hartamas which offers dance, drama, music and martial arts classes, all under one roof.

Fiona, who holds a degree in communications and marketing, teaches Latin American dance at her centre and is currently one of the faces of SK-II in Malaysia.

Dr.Irfan Khairi was offered a job at Netmedia (UK) Ltd – one of the biggest IT companies in Birmingham, Britain upon graduation. It was there during his stint as a multimedia systems designer and Internet negotiator that Irfan created an Internet learning system for British schools called Learning Grid. Today, more than 5,000 British schools are using that Learning Grid.

His interest and Internet business background saw Irfan eventually starting his own part-time Internet business in 1999. A year later, with the business and profits steadily growing, Irfan decided to focus fully on his Internet business

Since then, Irfan has been working full-time from home, with a laptop and the Internet as his only tools. Within three years, one of his businesses earned him his first net profit of RM1mil – all without the help of any staff or sophisticated machinery. All at the age of 25! And to think that he began with start-up capital of just RM500.

Irfan has also written a best-selling book, Rahsia Internet.com: Rahsia Jutawan-Jutawan Internet Terbongkar and Secrets of Internet Millionaires Revealed which was the first Malaysian book to be launched in Oxford, Britain.

Irfan is regularly featured in the local media from print to broadcast. He also has regular columns in magazines like Maskulin, NUR, and Dewan Ekonomi.

Since 2005, he has conducted hundreds of seminars on Internet business, entrepreneurship and success, throughout the country. He is frequently invited to give talks on success and wealth.

In 2006, he received the Young Innovation Award 2006 from the Oxford Association of Management in Britain for his efforts in educating and inspiring the new generation of Malaysians in business and success.

Co-owner and Managing Director of Cuffz

Steve Ng has a Masters in Finance and started off in corporate finance before becoming a venture capitalist with a local bank. He is very familiar with business proposals and what it takes to make a successful business.

He left his venture capitalist job in 2007 to fully focus on Cuffz, which is a unique boutique that offers cufflinks and premium cotton shirts for men and women. The brand’s range of items now includes cufflink collector boxes, money clips, titanium bracelets, tuxedo and Baju Melayu dress studs, and contemporary tie clips.

A passion for cufflinks and fine shirting led to the inception of this concept store and the opening of its first outlet, in Bangsar Shopping Centre, Kuala Lumpur on January 1, 2007.

A second store soon followed in August 2007, opening at the 1 Utama Shopping Centre in Bandar Utama.

Cuffz made its debut in Singapore last year, with its third outlet opening at Raffles City in May 2008. Its flagship store in Bangsar Village II opened in August 2008 and the brand has plans to further expand.

Executive Director, Nuffnang

Timothy Tiah, an economics graduate from UCL very much wanted to be an investment banker after his graduation. However, since stepping into the blogging world in his university days, he became very much in touch with the blogging community. It was then, when he started to have passion and see the needs in the blogging community. His working experiences in JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank saw him being offered an investment banking job upon graduation but he turned them down to set foot in the blogging world.

That passion and interest sparked the birth of Nuffnang. In the year 2006, Timothy together with partner Ming and a few others cracked their heads and at 2.00am on the 27th of February 2008, Nuffnang was officially launched.

Today Nuffnang has grown with over 80,000 bloggers under the network in various countries and is still very much growing. To date, Nuffnang has grown to hold offices in Penang, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Manila and Melbourne. In 2007, Timothy was nominated along with fellow Co-Founder Ming as one of Business Week's Top 25 Young Entrepreneurs in Asia.