Persatuan Alumni AOTS Malaysia

The event-organizing team were:

Mr. Yap Choon Ming, (Organizing Chairman)
Mr. Yang Chor Leong (Project Manager)
Ms. Maggie Yap (Chief Coordinator)
Mr. K.T Khor (Treasurer)
Ms. Angela & Ms. Siti (Coordinators/staff members)

The opening ceremony for this program was graced by Acting High Commissioner of Ghana Madam Akua Sekyiwa Ahenkora representing Ghana High Commission (KL). Apart from many study tours to our local factories, participants of the 8 day entrepreneurship program attended the following lectures, delivered by our own resource pool:-

1) Japanese Way of Learning by Ms. Tomoko Takahashi
2) Total Quality Management by En. A. Aziz Y. Kamaruddin
3) Supply Chain Management by Mr. Kenny Simon Lee
4) Entrepreneurship by Mr. Eric Koh
5) Inventory & Logistics Management by Mr. Alan Lai

This program had initially attracted a total of 18 participants but due to last minute withdrawal and other unforeseen circumstance, we had to been content with a final list of 11 participants.

The participants were:

1. Mr. Nana Asiendu-Kotwi	– Head of Procurement, Public Procurement Board
2. Mr. Stephen Yeboah-Ampedu	– Senior Operations Officer, Public Procurement Board
3. Mr. Adams Alhassan	– Administrative Manager, Timber Ind. Development
4. Mr. Godfried Amankwah	– Head of Data Processing Unit, Timber Ind. Development Division, Forestry Commission
5. Mr. Loveland Delali Agbo	– Director, Alfadel Consult
6. Mr. Timothy Mbia-Coleman	– Sectional Manager (T&D), Electricity Company of Ghana
7. Mr. Elvis Agyeman Fosu	– Managing Director, Ellfasons Cons. & Trad. Enterprise Ltd
8. Mr. Louis Kofi Maglo	– Director, St. Louis Electrical Eng. & Const. Co. Ltd.
9. Mr. Adam Shehu Wumbei	– Managing Director, SMICE International Ltd.
10. Ms. Fati Wumbei	– Managing Director, NDIBO Enterprise
11. Mr. John Asane Mensah	– Managing Director, Sasane Ventures

The program exposed the 11 participants to the various management techniques and best practices e.g. 5S Management and Kaizen, etc. To reinforce the lectures, factory visits were arranged to the Nippon Paint (Shah Alam), Teck See Plastics (Bangi) and Autolive Hirotako (Seri Kembangan) which were eye-opening experience to most of the participants. The program was not all work and no play. A full-day sightseeing/tour to the city center and Putrajaya/Cyberjaya was also organized to enable the participants to enjoy the beauty and special cultural aspects of our country.

The program was a great success with everything executed as planned without any major hitches. All the participants left for home greatly impressed with this program. Of greater importance were the interaction and networking gained both by the Africans as well as our local entrepreneurs/members throughout the session.