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Dr Abu Hasan Ismail
Founder & President / Group CEO
Dr Abu Hasan Ismail is currently the President / Group CEO and founder of Prestariang Berhad (now AwanBiru Technology Berhad). Since the Company's inception in 2003, Dr Abu oversee the financial and strategic growth of the company and formed successful partnership with global ICT organisations such as Thales, Microsoft, Autodesk, IBM and Oracle; and world renowned institutions, namely; Imperial College of London and University of Melbourne, Australia.
Under Dr Abu's stewardship, Awantec has evolved from being a leading ICT Training & Certification and Software License Distribution & Management, to a Technology & Talent Platform Innovator in Malaysia. Graduated and trained as an architect, Dr Abu is a professor turned entrepreneur with a vision to build a sustainable global business. In 2015, he was appointed into the CEO Faculty Programme by Ministry of Education Malaysia under the Malaysian Higher Education Blueprint. He believed that his business are scalable and has the right recipe to replicate for other industries. To unlock the value of Prestariang, Dr Abu took the company public in 2011, leading AwanBiru Technology Berhad into a Digital Transformer as we see it today.