Speaker

Mr. Mohamed Shajahan Mohamed Iqbal

Mohamed Shajahan bin Mohamed Iqbal is the former Vice President & Treasurer of the FTTH Council Asia-Pacific. He is also the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of a dynamic telecommunications company, Three-OPP (M) Sdn. Bhd. He has extensive professional experience with significant leadership accomplishments in the telecommunications industry as a result of his passion and commitment towards advancing the local telecommunications industry. Shajahan’s proven executive management track record with over 20 years’ experience in the field has successfully driven sales growth for 3OPP through innovation, research and development of the Malaysian telecommunication industry. In 1991, he developed and created a local industry for telecommunications products under the brand name 3OPP. Prior to this, Shajahan has a wide-ranging experience of 7 years as an Accountant and Consultant in Peat Marwick and Arthur Andersen. His job scope is in the area of audit, tax, insolvency, management consultancy and corporate advisory work. Under Shajahan's able stewardship, 3OPP pioneered the FTTH project locally in 2007 by being the main contractor to complete the first 17,020 homepass in Subang Jaya, Malaysia for Telekom Malaysia Berhad. This was an achievement for the company which competed against 23 international and local companies to be awarded the contract. 3OPP continues to grow in strength and until today, supports Telekom Malaysia Berhad to complete its 1.4 million homepass. In 2013, Shajahan brought the same FTTH Technology to Sri Lanka through Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT). The company has an ongoing project in Colombo for 10,000 homepass for their FTTH project Phase 1 & 2 for this year. In 2014, Shajahan brought the FTTH Technology to Indonesia through PT Telkom and we have ongoing project for 362,000 homepass. In the course of charting milestones for 3OPP, Shajahan has received four awards namely Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) 100 Award 2010 Fast Moving Companies; 2nd Runner Up – Professional Category in Innovative Idea Design Competition Consumer Product Modern & Contemporary;1Malaysia Technology – 1Malaysia Enterprise Award 2012 and SME Industry Excellence in Technology 2016 Award. Shajahan holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration (Finance & Accounting) from University of Wisconsin, USA. He is also an Associate member of the Australian Society of Certified Practicing Accountants (CPA Australia), Member of Malaysia Management Institute (MIM) and a Board of Director and Treasurer of the FTTH Asia Pacific Council and focus on smart city solutions recently. He is also a Trustee and Director of Yayasan Pendidikan Islam, a charitable organization. He has vast background experience in the telecommunications industry (especially in FTTH) coupled with a strong sense of commitment towards bringing about change and improvement in this field globally. He like to contribute his efforts and experience towards achieving company's objectives through convening, facilitating and building concensus among other Telco's in order to chart further milestones for the Telco Industry. His personal qualities of integrity, credibility and passion in the field of telecommunications as demonstrated from his role as the Chief Technology Officer of 3OPP, is testimony of his leadership abilities. Furthermore, having implemented FTTH deployment in Malaysia and Sri Lanka, his team and Shajahan are in a position to assist and work together with other Telco's in expanding FTTH Network Technology through training and collaboration programmes to support the increasing demand for high-speed broadband connectivity and key sector IP-based applications among the developing nations. Some of his past working experience and projects are as project director for supply and deliver of accessories for Optical Fiber Cable and other passive components with Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM). Then, he takes the role as a project manager for Fiber Optic Trunking System across Malaysia with TM. Other than that, he also the person in charge for the FTTH roll-out in Subang Jaya. Currently, he is the project director for 3OPP’s Smart Utility Node (SUN) for 5G Nationwide Rollout project with Digital Nasional Berhad. In addition, he is also actively involved with association and organizations. He is currently Assistant Secretary of the Malaysia Smart City Alliance Association (MSCA). Then, he is also Co-chairman of working group in the Malaysia Standard Committee (TC 29-2 Smart City). Other than that, he is also a member of ISO Global (ISO/TC268/SC1, Convenor of IEC/SyC Smart Cities/WG2) and IoT Technical Group (Smart City Infrastructure Framework).