Venture Founder | Speaker | Author
Azran is a professional speaker and rated as London Speaker Bureau’s most booked Asian speaker for 2017, 2018 and 2019. He shares his hands-on experiences with disruptive innovation, challenging in the status quo, corporate entrepreneurship and agility. He is also Endeavor Malaysia’s 2017 Mentor of the Year.
He is currently active in the internet technology space as co-founder, investor and advisor to iflix, Moneymatch, Cognifyx, Adventoro and YellowPorter. He chronicles his lessons learned from all of this business building experiences in his book, 30 Days and 30 Years. He was previously the CEO of iflix in Malaysia and its Group Coo – a disruptive internet television video-on-demand service that was launched in Kuala Lumpur in May 2015, and now operates across over 30 markets across Asia, Middle East and Africa with 700 employees less than three years from launch.
As someone who has built and continues to build businesses and lead teams from start-up to IPO, Azran passionately believes that organisations and corporations can deploy similar structures, focus and creativity that single-minded entrepreneurs have used to create break-through business models and innovative products and services. As a founding CEO of AirAsia X, the world’s pioneer low-cost long-haul airline, he led the start-up team that developed the business plan, raised capital, secured relevant licenses, and launched AirAsia X’s first flight in November 2007. AirAsia X since expanded from one aircraft to 26, employing over 2,500 staff, and approximately US$1 billion in annual revenue in 2014. Azran has delivered hundreds of presentations, sharing real-life experiences in revolutionizing traditional ‘old economy’ industries and developing ‘new economy’ media and technology businesses and shows that world-beating breakthrough innovation need not be high tech or complex.
