Jaffri Ibrahim, Vice President, Business & Technology Advisory Division

Jaffri Ibrahim is the Vice President, Business & Technology Advisory (BTA) Division of Malaysia Debt Ventures Berhad (MDV).

The BTA Division provides guidance to MDV and clients by providing insights into the latest trends and breakthrough technologies The team also assists in anticipating potential pitfalls and maximizing opportunities in the ICT and High Growth markets. BTA provides regular technology updates through the monthly newsletter, and MDV’s Business & Technology Speakers’ Series.

In his career, Jaffri has often been associated with companies in their start-up stages be it local start-ups to multinational companies establishing a new line of business/service in Malaysia. Jaffri began by helping initiate a locally-conceptualised 24-by-7 telephone-based information service for Klang Valley called Dataphone Sdn Bhd in 1986. After a short stint at Projek-Lebuhraya Utara-Selatan in 1988, he joined Oracle Corporation Malaysia in 1990 where he later became Managing Consultant for the professional services organisation. He later assumed the role of Head of MSC Business Unit at Oracle. Jaffri was also senior manager of Arthur Andersen’s Business Consulting division in 1998 and later Senior Manager of Technology Consulting and Technology Integration Services at Cap Gemini, Ernst & Young in 2002. He has also had a stint teaching, on a part-time basis, Engineering Applied Sciences to first-year Engineering students at KPP/ITM – State University of New York in 1987.

Jaffri obtained his B.Sc. from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA where he majored in Computer Science and minored in Business Studies.