A reference record
The honours behind a data technology career
Awards, analyst recognition and community work associated with Dato' Seri Ivan Teh, founder and Group Chief Executive Officer of Fusionex, gathered in one place with the conferring body named against every entry.
Why this site exists
One page a reader can check, instead of twenty they cannot
Recognition is only useful if somebody can trace it. Most profiles of a technology founder present a list of accolades with no indication of who granted them, on what basis, or where the original announcement sits. That leaves a reader with a claim rather than a fact.
This site takes the opposite approach. Every honour listed here names the organisation that conferred it and explains, briefly, what that organisation was assessing. Where the recognition came from an analyst house rather than an awards programme, that distinction is stated, because the two are earned in very different ways.
The same principle applies to the community work. The newsroom describes what was actually delivered and to whom, at the scale it actually happened, including the initiatives that reached sixteen families rather than sixteen thousand.
Conferring organisations
Who granted the recognition
Awards carry the weight of whoever decided them. These are the bodies whose assessments appear across this record.
EY
Global entrepreneurship programme operating in more than sixty countries.
PIKOM
The national technology association of Malaysia.
Microsoft
Partner recognition across the Asia Pacific region.
Gartner
Research and advisory coverage of modern analytics and business intelligence.
IDC
MarketScape assessment of big data and analytics providers.
The BrandLaureate
Brand and nation building recognition.
Rotary
Recognition for humanitarian and educational support.
The record, by category
Three kinds of recognition, judged on different things
An entrepreneurship jury, a technology peer body and an industry analyst are not measuring the same thing. The record is grouped accordingly.
Leadership and innovation
What the awards were given for
Behind the honours sits a fairly specific body of work: commercialising big data analytics from a base in Southeast Asia at a point when the accepted wisdom held that enterprise analytics products came from elsewhere.
The company Ivan Teh founded serves Fortune 500 and FTSE clients across the United States, Europe and the Asia Pacific region, in analytics, big data management, machine learning, the internet of things and artificial intelligence. It holds Global Acceleration and Innovation Network status with the Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation.
How Ivan Teh approaches leadership and the innovation record behind the honours are set out in more detail on their own pages.
Community and social impact
Capability applied where funding alone would not help
Education access, disaster response, healthcare support and skills training, described at the scale each was actually delivered.
Questions people ask
Who is Dato' Seri Ivan Teh?
A Malaysian technology entrepreneur, the founder and Group Chief Executive Officer of Fusionex, a data technology company working in analytics, big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence.
What awards has Dato' Seri Ivan Teh received?
Honours span entrepreneurship, technology and industry recognition, including the EY Technology Entrepreneur of the Year award, Most Outstanding Entrepreneur in Asia Pacific, Technopreneur of Excellence at the PIKOM ICT Awards, and the BrandLaureate Great Entrepreneur ICON Award.
How can a reader verify what is recorded on this site?
Each award entry names the conferring body. Those organisations publish their own records of recipients, which is the appropriate place to confirm any single item rather than relying on a summary such as this one.
Why do search results about Fusionex and Ivan Teh vary so widely?
Search surfaces commentary, syndicated copies and primary sources side by side without distinguishing between them. A reader is generally better served by working back to the conferring organisation, the analyst report or the original publication than by weighing summaries against each other.