Hock Aun Khoo

Current

Managing Director/CEO at Ark Bio Sdn Bhd/Cosmo Biofuels Group
Senior Associate at Digital Industry Alliance

Past

Senior Advisor at D1 Oils South East Asia
Executive Director at Association of the Computer and Multimedia Industry

Education

University of Sussex
Universiti Putra Malaysia

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Industry

Biotechnology

Websites

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Hock Aun Khoo’s Summary

He is Managing Director of Ark Bio Sdn Bhd, a biotechnology company developing improved genetic material for jatropha curcas, oil seed plants and organisms for the biofuel industry.

He currently oversees the Cosmo Biofuels Group which is involved in biodiesel feedstock production and processing in the Asia Pacific Region. He is also the Adviser/Strategist for the International Jatropha Organisation.

He is also a consultant in the MICE businesses and was representative for South East Asia for a global tourism e-commerce platform from 1999-2002.

He is also a Senior Associate with Digital Production Associates, a member of the Digital Industry Alliance. He was the Executive Director of the Malaysian Association of Tour and Travel Agents in 1999 and before that from 1996, the Executive Director of the ASEAN Business Forum.

From 1989 to 1996, he was the Deputy Executive Director of the ASEAN Tourism Information Centre. He was Executive Director of the National Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Malaysia from 1986-87 and concurrently Executive Director of the ASEAN Chambers of Commerce and Industry.

He was also Regional Director of SVP South East Asia Sdn Bhd and a Executive Director of Online Advanced Systems and Integrated Services Sdn Bhd from 1986-93 engaged in developing online databases.

From 1983 –1985 he was Head of Market Research in the Malaysian Overseas Investment Corporation Sdn Bhd and was Staff Writer on the Malaysian Business magazine from 1978 to 1983.

Mr Khoo Hock Aun graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Agribusiness) from Universiti Putra Malaysia, in 1978 and was a Nuffield Foundation Study Fellow in 1988 attached with the Science Policy Research Unit of the University of Sussex, UK.

Hock Aun Khoo’s Specialties:

writing, conceptualisation, networking, funding and financing, project formulation and execution.

Hock Aun Khoo’s Experience

Managing Director/CEO

Ark Bio Sdn Bhd/Cosmo Biofuels Group

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Biotechnology industry)

September 2006 — Present (2 years 11 months)
Senior Associate

Digital Industry Alliance

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; DIA; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

September 2005 — Present (3 years 11 months)

The Digital Industry Alliance is a non-profit global, regional and national network that links companies and entrepreneurs engaged and active in the digital content industry collectively striving for the vigorous development and growth of their own companies, the industry and the imagination economy as a whole.
Senior Advisor

D1 Oils South East Asia

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; D1 Oils; Oil & Energy industry)

October 2003 — November 2006 (3 years 2 months)

D1 Oils South East Asia is in the renewable energy business vigourously pursuing the bio-diesel supply chain agribusiness continuum from jatropha plantations to bio-diesel refining and logistics operations and trading.
Executive Director

Association of the Computer and Multimedia Industry

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2004 — September 2005 (1 year 5 months)

Hock Aun Khoo’s Education

University of Sussex

Study Fellow, Science Policy Research Unit , Biotechnology , 1988 — 1988
Universiti Putra Malaysia

B Sc Agribusiness , Agribusiness , 1974 — 1978

Additional Information

Hock Aun Khoo’s Websites:

My Website

Hock Aun Khoo’s Interests:

Regular travel to ASEAN and Asian countries, Europe and North America to develop contacts in trade and tourism, to keep abreast of the latest developments in the MICE industry and to meet up with trade associations and companies organizing world and regional level events such as conferences and exhibitions. Closely monitoring technological trends, the impact of globalisation and capital flows, from the perspective of individual entrepreneurs. Keenly interested in developments in travel, telecommunications and information technology primarily in the internet and prospects for e-commerce-based economies.