Our Team

Last updated on 2 November 2020 at 10:23 am

One of the most successful social entrepreneurs in Malaysia, educational revolutionist and social activist, Teacher Raj Ridvan Singh began his career amid the social and financial poverty of Cambodia in the late ’90s. As a 14-year old, Teacher Raj experienced sacrifice, selling his material possessions as he co-founded an NGO, SOLS 24/7 Cambodia, to provide free education and personal development to Cambodian youth. By the age of 17 and becoming the youngest Microsoft Computer System Engineer in ASEAN, Teacher Raj once again faced the choice of continuing his successful career in Malaysia or sacrificing financial comfort for the life of a social worker.

With spirituality and a strong social activist background governing his decision, Teacher Raj left the comforts of Malaysia and returned to Cambodia, before heading to Timor Leste during a time of civil war to found and run SOLS 24/7 Timor Leste. His innate business skills and continuous activism guided him through the challenges of setting up and running an education-based NGO, helping it grow to become the largest non-formal education provider in the country.

After returning to Malaysia, and now with more than 20 years in the social service sector, Teacher Raj started a tax-exempted, humanitarian organization, SOLS 24/7 Foundation and began tapping into his entrepreneurial strengths to pioneer the concept of blending the worlds of social service (NGO) and entrepreneurship. 400,000+ individuals have benefitted from SOLS 24/7’s programmes and projects and it has grown into one of the leading and most innovative NGOs in Malaysia.

In 2010, he set up SOLS Social Enterprises, from start-up stage to a multi-million Ringgit organization within nine months. SOLS Social Enterprises focuses on four sectors, Education, Technology, Mental Health and Renewable Energy, all which play a crucial role enhancing the quality of life of people transcending race, gender, culture and age.

Most recently, Teacher Raj was elected President of TeAM (Technopreneurs Association of Malaysia) in 2019.

I enable people to develop their talent by providing access to free online education. Education is a human right and should be accessible to anyone. Through SOLS 24/7 Education, I work with donors, foundations, companies, ministries, and volunteer networks, to offer online classes for free, with a special focus on reaching out to the B40 community, school teachers, and students.

I have been working in the education sector in Malaysia since 2011. My Dutch roots, combined with my international experience, gives me a well-rounded perspective on education and human capital development. I have grown my skills in end-to-end project management, fundraising, and impact assessment, through having worked with a plethora of partners on large-scale education and training programmes.

I love the work I do and I have turned my passion into a career. I work daily on education programmes that help people to grow and become a better version of themselves. It gives me a great sense of fulfilment and satisfaction when this happens as I know how hard change can be at first. But when it happens, the results are mind-blowing. Education truly is the most powerful weapon to change the world – no matter what stage you are in life.

Last updated on 5 November 2020 at 04:09 am

Ash Luques is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) for SOLS edu Pro the social enterprises at SOLS 24/7.

Ash graduated with a Bachelor in International Hospitality and Tourism Management.

She started her journey with SOLS 24/7 in 2008 when she first joined as a volunteer in Melaka. Since then, Ash has been freelancing with SOLS 24/7 off and on. In 2018, she decided to join the SOLS 24/7 family full time and came on board as a Digital Marketing Executive.

Ash has spent 4 years in Advertising & Print industry and another 4 years in E-commerce Marketing. She also has experience in Mobile & UI/UX development.

Jaran began working for SOLS 24/7 Foundation in February 2014 after completing his Bachelor Degree (S.E) in Marketing from BINUS International University Indonesia and earned his Masters in International Business from MONASH University Malaysia.

The 2013 National Debate champion for Indonesia, Jaran is a debater who has received many national and international awards for representing his university at debating competitions in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Bangladesh, India, China, and Germany. He also participated in marketing competitions in Indonesia and Singapore. Jaran hosted debating events for his university and was Tournament Director for both national (National Schools Debating Championships, 2013) and international competitions (Asians British Parliamentary, 2012).

Jaran joined SOLS 24/7 as he has always been very passionate in regards to social issues that are occurring in the current world. He wishes to join the cause in providing equal education opportunities for all and improve the conditions of the underprivileged communities.

After acquiring his Masters in International Business at the age of 22, Jaran joined SOLS 24/7 in February 2014. Previously he’d studied Marketing. All the way through his tertiary education he’d been active on debate teams and competitive marketing teams, he took multiple international awards home, and hosted various events locally.

During his time with SOLS 24/7, Jaran has been able to aid in the setting up and day-to-day support of over 50 community centers when SOLS 24/7 was building a strong community presence throughout Malaysia; three projects he directly supervised on the ground, while the others he was able to oversee, organise and coordinate. He has assisted in setting up our first solar lab by procuring and setting up equipment in order to facilitate technicians’ learning in our academy. Jaran helped SOLS 24/7 move from a new-comer in the solar industry into one which trained technicians and fulfilled installations to the highest quality. Alongside aiding the technicians, Jaran was also one of the first ones to install Solar PV systems for SOLS Energy, after having negotiated with companies in China, Canada, Germany, Switzerland & Austria in order to establish reliable partners for the materials as a part of the SOLS Energy offerings.

After aiding in developing these projects he coordinated English training in four schools, which supported over 100 students in their foundational English training. This was the first time SOLS had visited schools in order to aid in learning. It’s a testament to Jaran’s skill that we’ve never left these schools since. After getting to grips with the manner in which the SOLS 24/7 educational system functions, Jaran trained over 85 teachers and trainers in the Google Certified Educator program. The Google certification system was new to SOLS 24/7, but he was able to navigate it quickly and effectively. He then assisted in running the National program, by coordinating Cambridge exams for over 375 students, and Google training 150 teachers from across Malaysia.

Currently Jaran spearheads the SOLS Energy side of SOLS 24/7, but is also responsible for working with the SOLS Smart team, and SOLS tech. He is the youngest ever director at SOLS 24/7.

Shara likes solving problems and building things. He is a passionate learner and loves making software to automate life for himself and other people. He has helped make hundreds of apps for millions of people, mostly in education. His first interaction with SOLS 24/7 was in one of his earlier lives as an organizer of Hackweekend in 2011/2012.

SOLS 24/7 were happy to sponsor events that were about getting talented developers and designers to build and demo apps over a weekend. Technology is transformative in its effect on the world and can be used to create and propagate the most positive of changes. Those early hackathons and the people that believed in creating a space for people to use technology to solve problems played a tiny part in seeding the early generations of startups in Malaysia and their ecosystem; an ecosystem that has now blossomed to a huge value-creating industry for a tremendous amount of people on an almost global scale.

SOLS 24/7’s visionary foresight in empowering people with education and technology means that his and SOLS goals will always be in alignment. He also loves reading, travelling, and bandanas.

Last updated on 28 October 2020 at 05:20 pm

Danutcha Catriona Singh is the Director for SOLS Academy of Innovation.

She is responsible for leading human-resource related initiatives that support the organization’s strategic goals, as well as guiding the strategy for all communications, media and content that consistently articulate the organizations mission.

After winning the title of Miss MalaysiaIndian 2003, Danutcha was selected for a cultural exchange program to Cambodia. There she met with the Malaysian Ambassador to Cambodia, the Minister of Woman and Community Affairs, along with various NGO’s, to get a clearer idea of the struggles faced by Cambodian women and children.

She was also part of a week-long recce mission to Banda Aceh, Indonesia, after the tsunami disaster in 2004. While there she displayed cool-headed compassion, meeting displaced villagers and assisting in translation for the foreign aid workers.

With what she’d seen burning in the back of her head, Danutcha acquired a degree in Communications from Murdoch University, Australia. While still in university, she spearheaded an Alzheimer’s disease awareness campaign for the Alzheimer’s Disease Foundation Malaysia (ADFM), while participating in various cancer and HIV/AIDS campaigns in universities and colleges throughout Malaysia.

After graduation she worked as an editor with national broadcaster, Radio Television Malaysia (RTM) and as a journalist with the New Straits Times. During this time she was part of various community service projects.

She then took a bold step to join SOLS 24/7 as a volunteer in Timor Leste. She made the decision to continue in the humanitarian sector upon her return to Malaysia. As SOLS 24/7 expanded Teacher Danu, as she was now known, took on ever-increasing responsibilities until she found herself in her current position, leading the humanitarian troops.

She strongly believes that the success of the various programmes and projects run by SOLS 24/7 is a testament to the wonderful women and men who are and have been a part of #teamSOLS.

Last updated on 31 October 2020 at 11:49 am

With more than five years of project management and training experience in international non-formal education in Europe, Daniela moved to Malaysia in 2014 to start working in grassroots education, currently being Head of Education and Training Department in SOLS 24/7 Foundation.
Having a Business Administration bachelor degree and a Geopolitics and Foreign Affairs Master degree, prior to joining the organization, she also worked in a multinational corporation as Accounts Payable, being as well the liaise between international stakeholders, managing client communication and team professional training.

She believes that besides theoretical information, personal and professional development must be a part of education. Because she feels that updated and valuable education is not yet equally available for everybody, but a luxury for some groups, she decided to join efforts with Malaysian education providers to make it happen.

Her goal in life is to generate a positive change for the people around her. She works to help others reach their full potential and be the best of themselves.

Last updated on 5 November 2020 at 03:56 am

A cheerful, Double degree holder from Malaysia & London college. With many years of experience in the corporate world, Alya decided to be a social activist, a very active one.

She has been on the ground for seven years (and still counting) focusing on helping to empower high-risk kids, their parents, families and other communities. Her philosophy is to work smart and play harder, and in her opinion that makes her stand out among other NGO leaders.

“Everyone keeps on talking about leaving a better planet to our children, instead why don’t we leave better children to our planet?” This drives her to join SOLS 24/7 team. She believes that education is the main key to transform communities in order to develop people’s true potential and break the cycle of poverty.

Alya also is a Google Certified Educator, UN Volunteer , Rakan Yayasan Kebajikan Negara and Program Director of PMG DBKL.

Harvind is a full-stack marketer with a knack of building complex digital strategies. His skill set covers various aspects of digital marketing, from SEO and PPC to SEM and performance marketing.

Having worked in the Malaysian entertainment industry for three and a half years, Harvind decided to take on the challenge of making the world a better place with SOLS 24/7 at the start of 2018.

He currently leads a data-driven international Marcomms team at SOLS 24/7 with an emphasis on building a growth culture. He works with his team to set the organisation’s digital marketing strategy with a focus on generating quality leads, optimizing conversion rates, growing website traffic and increasing brand awareness.

A Taylor’s University graduate, he received his Bachelor’s Degree in Communication (Public Relations & Marketing) and initially ventured into the entertainment industry as a talent manager. In the process, he’s had the opportunity to manage some of the biggest names in the industry.

“Never think it’s good enough, always think about how it can be better.”

With a constant craving for growth, he enjoys keeping up with the latest digital marketing tools and best practices, experimenting with new strategies and optimizing existing ones.

If you want to keep his attention outside the office, try initiating a conversation about the universe or mechanical watches.

Hakim currently serves as an in house consultant for businesses in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, and Jakarta. Delivering strategic and partnership services for companies in the Travel, Education, Renewable energy and Emerging technology spaces.

Hailing from a background in advertising and communication he has managed to involve himself in several other related industries over the last decade. Branding, printing and production, technology development, training for youth, as well as social impact. His primary interests and skills revolve around product development matched with complementary business models and how technology can be used to usher impact.

In real life he is a little bit of a nerd that enjoys board games, sharing random facts, and learning about new industries. It is said that the best way to retain something you’ve learned is to apply it and teach it. With that in mind, Hakim often does training on the subject of product development, design thinking, and lean startup methodologies such as business model development.

Having run a large number of events during his career ranging from the first Hackathon in Malaysia to education workshops that span the whole of Malaysia Hakim how has taken a step back from organizing these events for commercial purposes and chooses to run 2 international community events: PechaKucha and Creative Mornings for the Petaling Jaya and Kuala Lumpur chapters respectively.

Zoran came to SOLS 24/7 from his native Serbia looking for challenges and new experiences. After finishing his studies at the Technical School, he worked as a graphic designer and manager in Belgrade. With a great will to learn, he first came to Kuala Lumpur in March 2016 to work as the personal assistant to the CEO.

Zoran likes to make music with his drums when he is out of the office and he also enjoys playing futsal with his friends. He came to widen the Balkan community in SOLS 24/7 and having greatly enjoyed his time in Malaysia, he hopes to stay a long time in the country.

An ambitious and hardworking NGO worker, who has built a career in the social world. Extensive experience with community project management and youth development.

Syaeista is an avid learner with a passion for philosophy, education and psychology. Having studied Political Science in Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, she decided to advocate for equality in education. After graduating in 2016, she began working with SOLS 24/7 as a Centre Administrator under the Bahasa Inggeris 1Malaysia (BI1M) Programme. During this period, she discovered that there are many ways to contribute back to society and teaching is the perfect way of doing it.

Given her interests, she wants to help as many individuals possible in getting the best education they deserve. Continuing her career in SOLS24/7, she is currently getting more experience on teaching English to youths. Being aware of the process of delivering knowledge is as important as the knowledge itself and English as the main instrument that has impacted people around her, she believes that everyone has the chance to learn the language that will definitely benefit them and SOLS 24/7 being the organisation championing this mission truly energise her.

Last updated on 5 November 2020 at 04:14 am

Ho Kee Keong is a Chartered Accountant registered with Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA) and Fellow member of professional accountancy body, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). After spending many years working in the Finance and Accounting field with local and multinational corporations, he decided to do something meaningful. Kee Keong is glad to be part of SOLS247. He believes everyone has a role to play in serving the underprivileged communities, be it involve directly in the front line or contributing indirectly at back office.

Last updated on 31 October 2020 at 11:47 am

Siti Khadijah Korai or known better in the office as Khaty is SOLS 24/7’s Scholar Development Program Executive who was born in Federal Territory of Labuan is someone who is never tired of going around and fixing people who keep saying Labuan, Sabah to change their sentence to Federal Territory of Labuan.

It is always been her dream since she was a kid to travel and leave her footprint all around the world and her passion towards travelling is the main trigger of the reason why is she applying to be part of the Change Makers program in April 2014. In the name of work she has been travelling outside KL to Kedah, Perlis, Perak, Melaka, Penang, Terengganu, and like a dream come true, she was given an opportunity to travel out of the country and flew all the way to Europe, Portugal for Erasmus+ program to share what is SOLS 24/7about with other NGOs from Europe.

When it comes to work, multitasking is her best friends. Other than sitting behind her desk and cracking her head to think about her 53 scholars, she is in charge of doing Bahasa Melayu translation for SOLS Education department which include the content that you can find the book and the SOLS Edu app. Beside training her scholars in the evening, she is also coming in and out from the office and teach English for Secondary and Primary school in Kuala Lumpur area. She is Google for Education Certified Trainer since 2015 and as a main SOLS’s Google trainer, she trained over 1,000 of teachers around Malaysia every single year.

During her free time, she enjoys running with her ex-uni athletic club’s members, singing with her dorm mates, dancing with her Sabahan buddy, reading horror novels, eating chocolate, travelling with her family, watching Korean drama and playing Mobile Legends on her phone.

Last updated on 31 October 2020 at 11:48 am

Fazhar graduated from Universiti Malaysia Kelantan in December 2015 as a Geologist. Following his passion for teaching, he started to teach since 2014 for 3 years in Tuition centres, secondary schools, home tutoring, and as a motivator. Driven to contribute in empowering youth in both English language and life skills, he joined Bahasa Inggeris 1 Malaysia (BI1M) program in June 2017 as a local facilitator. The 7 months program of teaching students of age 9 to 75 in applied English skills moulded a solid view of his goal towards education in Malaysia. Promising a flourishing great cultures of future colleagues from around the world, he knows the offer from SOLS 24/7 in December 2017 to be part of the Education Team is the only nurturer of his budding ideas.

Anand is from India, He worked many years in IT businesses as Software and App Developer and as an individual contributor for centre IT organisations like IBM, Mindiii Systems and Man Power Group.

He gets a kick out of the chance to take care of issues and offer the right ways for the work processes, share thoughts.

He loves to create automation tools, programming projects and applications. He has created a variety of applications with a large number of downloads in training, travel and sites for different fields like blogging, picture control, portals, created own content, applications and web instruments.

He is an inquisitive and procedure driven person. He likes to compose verse, make inspirational recordings, quotes, compose thoughts, cooking, watch scientific and time travel space films.

Nurul Nadia is an enthusiastic, multi-skilled and focused professional who brings passion, drive and a winning mentality to any endeavour. She graduated from Universiti Tun Abdul Razak with an MBA and has extensive industry experience in retail and tourism.

Nurul Nadia always involved with activities that give back to the people. She is the creator of Projek Suci, a home-grown initiative to distribute hygiene kits to KL’s homeless. Together with the help of volunteers and the Kampung Baru Youth Club, she secured enough funding to distribute 200 hygiene kits. She hopes to make Projek Suci a continuous, long-term project.

Muslim came to SOLS 24/7 with a lot of experience and a versatile background. He has a background of HR, Administration, Operations, Customer Services & Sales. He looks for challenges and his passion leans more towards Operations & Administration. With a great will to learn, he first came to SOLS Energy in April 2019 to work as the Operations and Administration Executive.

Muslim loves to play bowling and badminton when he is out of the office, and he also enjoys watching movies and travelling.

Sabrina received her final education from the University of Bedfordshire, majoring in Bachelor of Laws (LLB). A non-practising lawyer who spent 11 years in Global Banking, she developed an interest in sales after having worked for Liberty of London.

She left her position as a team leader in a fast-paced environment and the glitz and glamour of corporate world to the Solar Energy sector where she wishes to prove to be an invaluable resource in maximizing awareness on renewable energy as well as sales and profitability of its brand.

Always having a can-do attitude, she is a determined professional who is looking for a career challenge. Thriving in excellence in a competitive environment, her perseverance and can-do attitude have earned her previous promotions and performance track records.

He was born in the town of Ipoh, however, spent most of his younger life in Oman, Muscat. After completing his IGCSE’s O Level at an international school in Muscat, he came back to Malaysia to do his diploma in Process Instrumentation and Control at GMi. There he found out that his passion was not just in engineering but also debate. He won several inter debate as well as public speaking competitions throughout his 3 years diploma and went on to represent GMi as an official debater.

During his Bachelors’ Degree studies in Chemical Engineering, he was exposed to the importance of expanding the renewable and sustainable energy sector due to the intense global warming effects. His final year project was based on harnessing biomass energy (2nd generation biofuel). He strongly believes that one day the energy usage will shift towards a much cleaner and efficient renewable energy and the first step is via the solar system.

Having worked in the media publishing industry since 2005, Amilin decided to take on a new challenge in the task of changing people’s lives and exploring the solar industry in August 2019.

Graduated from Universiti Utara Malaysia, he received his Bachelor’s Degree in Accountancy (Hons.) and started working as Account Executive in Utusan Media Sales. He has experience as an Accounting Manager with Mongoose Publishing, Focus Malaysia and The Edge Media Group. He loves to play football, bowling, tennis, and also enjoys collecting action figure toys and Lego.

With 10 years experience handling Operations in Banking, Tourism and Airlines, Sreedhar altered his career in the mission to revolutionize his life as well as the lives of other people by exploring and leaping the solar industry.

An avid Marvel fan, he hopes to avenge nature by reintroducing renewable energy. This Gunner is a sports enthusiast and a people person.

The thought of giving back to society and helping others has always been a nagging voice at the back of her head. The opportunity to do so slipped by when she was in her schooling days as well as in university. Now a graduate with a degree in Islamic Finance from International Islamic University Malaysia, she is both proud and thankful to have found a place where the main goal and purpose of its existence is to help others.

Kudzai Charlton (K.C) is an experienced Learning and Development specialist with a demonstrated history of 5 years working in the telecommunications industry.

Graduated with a BA. Hons in Marketing, he found his passion for educational training and English empowerment within Malaysia. He specialises in corporate training, soft skills facilitation and early childhood and adults learning.

K.C is always curious about finding new ways to deliver information and to make the world a better place for everyone.

She received her Master Degree in Renewable Energy from the University of Malaya and continued to pursue her passion in the renewable energy industry. Having worked in another social enterprise that uses sustainable living and open-source education platform involving energy classes and workshop.

Now, working with SOLS .ai as Solar PV Trainer and SOLS energy as Engineer. Passionate anything related to technology, energy and education because she believes it is something that future generation needs for a better nation.