Professional Team

Founder/ Program Director

Dr. Rashad Yazdanifard

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Rashad Yazdanifard is a certified HRDF trainer who holds a Ph.D. in management with the specialization of marketing and a master’s in industrial management with the specialization of Production Management and a bachelor’s in business administration. As an experienced academician and professional trainer cum consultant with more than 15 years of undergraduate and postgraduate experience as well as soft skills and hard skills training, he has a significant record and promise of teaching and training effectiveness and excellence at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, an active scholarship, a fine track record of professional development plus students and clients advising abilities in addition to an extensive business consultations track as well as other services to the academic and non-academic entities and business community. As an associate professor in different well-known universities and colleges and teaching and training mostly international students and clients (local / international) in different levels of undergraduate and postgraduate (MBA/DBA/ PhD), he has become a skilled educator with a wide range and variety of different experiences. He has published widely at both national and international conferences and journals in different disciplines including marketing and human resources, contemporary issue and aspects of management and leadership, digital marketing, marketing strategy, international marketing, and high-tech marketing.

Management & Business analytics Expert

Dr. Shaheen Mansori

Dr Shaheen Mansori is a certified HRDF trainer with more than 15 years of experience in corporate training and consultancy. He has done his PhD in Marketing at UPM, Masters in Business Administration (Multimedia Marketing) and a degree in Industrial Engineering (System Analysis & Planning). His expertise is in the areas of strategic planning, market research, and service quality. Dr Shaheen excels in brand repositioning, ensuring operation optimization and delivering remarkable revenue growth. He highly focuses on profitability goals, employee relations, management development and customer relations management. He has conducted various in-house training and seminars in his past and present organizations, particularly in the areas of Strategy, Market Analysis and Branding. He has also been invited as a speaker and trainer in external events, such as:

“Knowing Affluent Property Buyers” – Selangor State Development Corpora (PKNS)
“Accumulative Property Stocks and Strategies to Dispose of Them” – Selangor State Development Corpora (PKNS)

  • “New Era of Education: Towards A Lean Learning Environment”- MPH Group Malaysia
  • “International Export Policies and Strategies”- Cologne Business School-Germany
  • “Strategy Planning and Implementation”- Malaysia Retail Chain Association
  • “Serve by Quality to Gain Your Customers’ Loyalty”- Malaysia Retail Chain Association
Furthermore, he also published more than 60 articles in various international journals. To date, Dr. Shaheen has supervised more than 100 students at Doctorate and Master Level.

Marketing & Brand Consultant

Dr. Vincent Wee Eng Kim

Asst. Prof. Dr. Vincent Wee Eng Kim, PhD ED. (Digital Branding, Malaysia) M.A (Marketing, UK), BA (Marketing, UK)

Asst. Prof. Dr. Vincent Wee has a vast experience in advertising and marketing. He is currently a marketing & brand consultant and an adjunct professor. He has more than 20 years of working experience as art director, management consultant, post production executive and client servicing. He has worked with Deloitte Management Consultant and TV3. He has written 18 books related to branding and advertising which is currently available on Amazon.com, advertising and marketing magazines, branding magazines and also international and local academic journals. He has been lecturing in more than 20 years in various higher education institutions for courses like Marketing for the Digital Age, Marketing, Management, Research Methodology, Strategic Management & Social Media Marketing. In addition, he is also supervising many student research projects including 19 DBA students.

Multidisciplinary Expert

Dr. Khashayar Yazdani

Dr. Khashayar Yazdani is an experienced lecturer, trainer, and technology specialist. He is a multidisciplinary expert who has served in different positions possessing excellent skills and solid expertise in a variety of fields including Technology Transfer, Commercialization and Startup, Systems Engineering and Management, Project Management, Internet of Things (IoT), and Industry 4.0.

Dr. Khashayar obtained his Ph.D. in Management in the field of Technology Transfer and Commercialization from the School of Management, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). UTM ranked in the top 200 in the world. He holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering and a Master of Industrial Management from Iran. He has over 12 years of teaching, training, research, and industry experience.

Dr. Khashayar is a part-time lecturer in few local and international colleges and universities. Furthermore, he is the authorized Trainer/Expert in IoT and IR4.0 by International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and HRDF Certified Trainer (TTT). He is also Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and Microsoft Certified Educator (MCE) in Microsoft Azure, Azure Data, Azure AI, Dynamic 365, Power Platforms, and Data Science. Furthermore, he is certified by AWS in Cloud Practitioner Essentials and IoT Device Management, IBM Cloud Essentials, and Certified by Cisco in IoT, Cybersecurity, and Networking Essentials.

Multidisciplinary Expert

Dr. Seyed Mohammadreza Ghadiri

Dr Seyed Mohammadreza Ghadiri (Dr Reza) is the Associate Professor, Dean of School and the program coordinator of MSc and Ph.D. of Transportation and Logistics at Malaysia University of Science and Technology. Dr Reza is the authorized Trainer/Instructor for courses leading to the FIATA Diploma in freight forwarding by FIATA Advisory Body Vocational Training (Switzerland), CMILT of the Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport (UK), and the TTT Certified trainer of HDRF (Malaysia). Dr Seyed Mohammadreza Ghadiri holds a Ph.D. in Highway, Traffic and Transportation Engineering in the field of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) and a Master of Structural engineering and a Bachelor of Civil engineering.

His main research areas covered variety of disciplines including Intelligent Transport System (ITS), logistics, supply chain management, road safety, modelling and simulation in transportation, sustainable and green mobility, civil and structural engineering, smart city, and optimization techniques. Dr Reza is also an academic board member of Swiss Institute of Management and Innovation, Switzerland. During the past years, Dr Reza was the keynote speaker and a panel member of many international events in Asia and Europe. He is also a guest professor of INEA Business & Technology School (Spain), MBA Institute (Vietnam), and DBA supervisor of University of Information Technology and Management (Poland). Dr Seyed Mohammadreza Ghadiri has published many scientific papers and is also a reviewer and editorial board members of different international index journals.