JUDGING PROCESS

There is an in-depth search and selection process for the Awards composed of extensive primary research carried out by the research division. A secondary research obtained from industry experts and market participants to determine best practices in the industry serves as a testimony to further pre-qualify an enterprise and/or entrepreneur as an eligible nominee of the awards.

Supporting information and documentations as mentioned in the nomination form will be collated from the nominee for screening purposes, and to permit a quantitative and qualitative audit by the appointed Official Auditors, Judging Panel and International Advisory Council for each nominee.

Nominees who qualifies all stages and receive undisputed endorsement shall emerge as the recipient of the Awards.

Audit Partner

As the most prestigious recognition program for Enterprises in the region, we seek to recognize Industry’s best and most deserving. Audits are performed to ascertain the validity and reliability of information; also to provide an assessment of a system's internal control. The goal of an audit is to express an opinion on the nomination in question, under evaluation based on work done on a test basis. Therefore, we seek to work with industry experts and professional in processing the nomination and select the industry’s best.

International Advisory Council

The judging panel is made up of regionally recognized icons from a diverse field of industry sectors and disciplines. The judges are bound by a strict confidentiality agreement and are required to declare any conflict of interest in entries over which they deliberate and to stand aside from deliberations concerning those entries.

From Left to Right:

• DATUK SERI DR FONG CHAN ONN, Former Minister of Human Resources of Malaysia
• NICHOLAS BROOKE, Chairman of the Hong Kong Science & Technology Parks Corporation, Chairman of Hong Kong Coalition of Service Industries
• DATUK DR. VICTOR WEE, Chairman for the Tourism Council of Malaysia
• TAN SRI RAMON NAVARATNAM, Former President of Transparency International Malaysia
• TAN SRI AHMAD FUZI, Ambassador at Large for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Malaysia
• PROFESSOR GOPAL KANJI, Chairman of the European Masters Program in Total Quality Management
• TAN SRI IZZUDDIN DALI, Board Member of the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation

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