Brief Biodata
Lilyana Abdul Latiff is a “CTO-For-Hire” for several tech-based startups. She helps young businesses create products on solid architecture, scalable, and yet working within constraints and limited resources that startups have. She heads a geographically dispersed product development team. Her peers consider her lively, personable, dedicated, level-headed, with a sense of adventure. Lilyana is a spirited entrepreneur having founded several other companies – including Aleph One, Joota.com, e-commerce platforms Jooblii and Dropee. She was also CTO for PurelyB and iResidenz. Her career has carried her through diverse industries such as education, media and advertising, business consulting, product development, social media and even event management. But she has consistently infused communication and web/mobile technologies in each of her venture – setting her companies slightly apart from other industry players. She currently holds the position of CEO for BETA Foundation – which focuses on technontrepreneur development and SME digital transformation. She also served as member of PayNet’s Industry Advisory Panel and MDEC’s Innovative Policy Council.
Her latest projects included the development and deployment of a talent management platform called mynext.my for Talent Corporation Malaysia, the design and execution of a “national scale” hackathon for the CRADLE and the Ministry of Science Malaysia, and integration of Dropee.com’s supply chain platform into PETRONAS’ procurement platform on SAP.
Lilyana graduated from University of Iowa with Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and loves her coffee in the morning.
last updated: August 2021
