Dr.Azman Firdaus Shafii, Chairman & CEO

QUANTUM BEEZ SDN.BHD.

Quantum Beez Sdn. Bhd. was established in 1998.This company developed Malaysia’s first Linux based Parallel Cluster in 1998 and was awarded MSC Malaysia Status. Quantum Beez is a pioneer in high performance computing, bioinformatics, grid computing, portal development, Linux, and open source based solutions.

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As a Colombo Plan Scholar, Dr Azman studied at the University of Sydney, Australia where he graduated with the ICI Australia and New Zealand Prize for Chemical Engineering. He then went to Aston University, UK, to do his PhD in Computer Process Control, and later an MBA at Harvard Business School, USA.
He first taught Chemical Engineering and Computer Programming at Universiti Malaya, and moved on to hold top management positions in public listed companies such as Golden Hope Plantations Berhad, Intria Berhad and Costain PLC, UK.
In 1998, Dr Azman decided to pursue his technopreneurial vision. He founded the Aldrix Group (http://www.aldrix.net) spearheaded by an R&D driven company, Quantum Beez Sdn Bhd (formerly known as Open Source Systems Sdn Bhd) a Malaysian pioneer in Linux based Cluster Computing, Open Source software and Bioinformatics.

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