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Ts. Azmi has 30 years of experience in both public and private sector in Malaysia. He began his carrier as a Refinery Process Engineer, ESSO Malaysia Berhad (now EXXON Mobil) in 1992 after undergoing exposure and training with British Petroleum (BP) during his undergraduate as BP sponsored student.

Following his professional career with EXXON, he joined various Malaysian SMEs in the area of advanced material production under the private investment of prominent businessman Tan Sri Wan Azmi Wan Hamzah. He then joined Malaysian Technology Development Corporation Malaysia (MTDC), the first venture capital entity in the country.

He started his entrepreneurship endeavour in 1999 by establishing advanced material design and production house to the oil & gas and energy industries.

He then started his technology management consulting business in 2004 focusing in the area of technology transfer, technology assessment & benchmarking, technology funding, technology start-up, business turnaround, policy study & blueprint, regional planning and business strategic implementation plan.

His expertise covers digitalization, renewable energy, green technology, high tech and SME development in commercialization, start-up, technology development, turnaround, strategy and market access. He brings together knowledge and network in both public and private entities and players of orange or creative economy, MSMEs, tech start-up and commercialisation in the country. Azmi is among the prime mover of SME digitalisation in Malaysia.

He had also served as Subject Matter Expert to Malaysian Industry Government for High-Technology (MIGHT), a government think-tank under the Patronage of the Prime Minister; Technology Depository Agency, a government entity focusing on “counter-trade” matters under the Ministry of Finance; VentureTECH (formerly known as A-Bio), a technology investment entity under MIGHT, Prime Minister Department; and MYBIOMASS, a joint-venture business entity between FGV-SIME Darby-VentureTECH.

He was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of SME Corporation Malaysia, a government Central Coordinating Agency overlooking about a million MSMEs in 2018. He left the organization in 2020.

Ts. Azmi was a Non-Executive Chairman of MyCreative Venture Sdn Bhd. MyCreative Venture is a business entity owned by the Ministry of Finance Malaysia. Now Ts. Azmi is a Chairman of FRIM Incorporated Sdn Bhd, the commercialization arm of Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Human Life Advancement Foundation.