Ms. Wee currently heads the MDeC eCommerce Enablement Division where she is responsible to galvanize eCommerce as a critical enabler to accelerate the growth of the Malaysian Digital Economy. She was previously leading the Digital Malaysia SME Community and Initiative, Environmental Dimension, and the development of MSC Malaysia Knowledge Infrastructure Ecosystem. Prior to that, she spearheaded the development of Cyberjaya as the nation’s ICT hub and Cybercities and Cybercentres nationwide.
 
Before joining MDeC, she was attached to the Federal Department of Town and Country Planning from 1980-1997, responsible for development of strategic plans at national, regional, state, district and local plans.

Ms. Wee has also written numerous articles and presented conference papers on matters relating to Digital Malaysia, MSC Malaysia, Urban and Regional Planning, Smart Cities, Green Technology, eCommerce and SMEs.
 
Ms. Wee graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree (Hons.) in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Technology Malaysia followed by MSc. in Environmental Technology and DIC from the Imperial College of London, UK.  She is a registered Town Planner with the Board of Town Planners and has served in the jury of various local and international city planning excellence award and competitions under the ambit of Malaysian Institute of Planners, of which she is a Fellow Member. She also sits on the Council of the Intelligent Transportation System Association of Malaysia and State ICT and eCommerce Council, Vice-Chairman of the Green ICT SIG under MCMC and one of the champions of the Cyberjaya Low Carbon City Framework. She has also served as director in various Board positions.

In recognition of her contribution, Ms. Wee was conferred the DSM and PKT award from the Malacca and Penang State Government respectively, and also the Government Public Service and MDeC Excellence Service Awards.

After joining British American Tobacco Japan as head of its legal department and co-founding a FinTech startup, he is now the General Counsel of Lazada Malaysia, an Alibaba Group company. Prior to this he was in private practice in Europe and Japan for 13 years and also worked for the EU Commission.

Rakesh heads PayPal’s enterprise business segment in SEA where his remit is to accelerate PayPal’s cross border business through the acquisition of new merchants and relationship management of PayPal’s largest merchants in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and Philippines. Rakesh has twenty years of experience in the consumer and merchant payments industry covering product development, sales, relationship management, marketing and business development in Citibank and NETS Singapore and leading SEA payments provider 2C2P, prior to joining PayPal in early 2015.

Sungkyu Chang is a partner in Ernst & Young Advisory Services Sdn. Bhd. and EY’s Asean Customer Leader. Working at the intersection of business and technology, his customer and digital competencies and experience include operational strategies and implementation of digital, customer and information experiences across different industries. He has led major customer-focused projects for top-tier companies. His current focus is in the areas of digital experience design, customer analytics and omni channel realisation. He builds and delivers programmes in the areas of customer strategy, digital enablement, e-Commerce, mobile and social networking.

Some of his e-Commerce experience includes launching new e-Commerce platforms, upgrading the UX and UI of existing sites, designing customer experiences across digital channels and assessing e-Commerce capabilities of potential players.

Sungkyu holds an MBA degree from INSEAD, France and graduated from Yonsei University, Korea with a BSc degree majoring in computer science.