Founder & Chairman for the AI World Summit / Founder & Group CEO, MyFinB Group, Singapore
M Nazri Muhd is the Founder of MyFinB, Centre of AI Innovation (Global), and Chairman of the AI World Summit. He specializes in AI and cognitive analytics with more than two decades as a practitioner in these fields. As an early pioneer to deploy AI-based analytics in Asia-Pacific since early 2000, Nazri leads the digital transformation strategies for public, private, and non-profit organizations globally where he serves as their AI advisor. Through these roles, he has successfully built a strong global community of AI adopters and practitioners in more than 50 countries.
On 12 July 2021, Nazri was ranked the Number One Thought Leader in AI, Digital Transformation, and Predictive Analytics by a US-based, independent group called Thinkers360. He was recently awarded the Global Chamber 2020 Excellence Award for Global Partnerships and Innovation. In 2018, Nazri was named one of the World’s Top 500 Influential Personalities in the Islamic world and economy by Islamica500. He was also awarded the Asia Pacific’s Top Young Business Leader Award in 2010 by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry.
Nazri was previously part of the investment and research team of international asset management groups where he managed a portfolio of more than USD5 billion in Asia-Pacific (ex-Japan) – before joining an international rating agency (Fitch Ratings) where he covered regional financial institutions in Asia.
He is presently the Honorary Consul for The Republic of Cabo Verde (West Africa); a Member of the Board of Governors for Republic Polytechnic (Singapore) and Advisor to its School of Infocomm. Nazri was previously appointed as the Chairman of the Investment Committee of the Malay Heritage Foundation (a statutory body of the Singapore government) where he was also its board member.