UMK Holds Entrepreneurship Lectures

February 13, 2009 13:02 PM

UMK Holds Entrepreneurship Lectures

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 13 (Bernama) -- University Malaysia Kelantan (UMK), a centre of excellence under the East Coast Economic Region (ECER), will be holding a lecture on entrepreneurship on Feb 14.

Titled, Entrepreneurship: From Dreams to Reality, the lecture is part of the university's Chairman Lecture Series (CLS) programme, aimed at boosting entrepreneurship and developing first-tier human capital, ECER said in a statement today.

Among the featured speakers are Tengku Rozidar Tengku Zainal Abidin, chief executive officer of Nineteen O One Sdn Bhd of 1901 hotdogs and Professor Datuk Dr Mohd Nawi Ab. Rahman, UMK's professor of statistics in the entrepreneurship and business faculty.

ECER said the lecture series is the brainchild of the chairman of UMK's board of directors, Tan Sri Datuk Hamad Kama Piah Che Othman.

In the line-up for the lecture series in March are AirAsia Bhd's chief executive officer, Datuk Anthony Francis Fernandes and Professor Abdul Hamid Mohamed, the senior fellow of UMK's institute of small and medium-sized enterprises.

Both will be speaking about branding and creative entrepreneurship, ECER said.

Meanwhile, Asian Finance Bank Bhd's chief executive officer Datuk Mohamed Azahari Kamil, will speak about asset management and corporate entrepreneurship in a subsequent lecture.

-- BERNAMA