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ALUMNI FEATURE
BOUNDLESS ASPIRATION "The growth of the SME sector continues to
outpace that of the general economy, serving
as the bedrock of our country’s economy and
Dr. Ho Wai Loon graduated from Universiti contributing significantly to the country’s
Malaya for his B.Sc. degree majoring in gross domestic product, exports and
Physics in year 2011. Subsequently, he employment"
furthered his doctoral study in Theoretical Hence, the duo came to an accord to startup
Physics specializing in Intense Laser Field. In ABBE Group Malaysia and develop it into a
year 2014, he attained his Ph.D. from world-class business entity as their first step
Universiti Malaya at the age of 25 where he of chasing the dream where ABBE Group will
was one of the youngest scientists in act as a financial resource to support the
Malaysia. What started Dr. Ho off on the research institute in the future. ABBE Group
entrepreneurial path was an academic Malaysia was founded in 2015 initially with
observation. During his doctoral study, he its core business as a leading technology
had immersed himself with industrial solution provider specializing in providing
experiences through numerous invitations research, development and consulting
and participations by local and overseas services to solve challenging problems for a
corporates in solving their industrial wide range of manufacturing industries
problems. Throughout his experiences, Dr. including semiconductor, automotive,
Ho noted that Research and Development pharmaceutical, oil and gas, food and
(R&D) play an integral role in helping the beverage, manufacturing and automation.
country to achieve its high-income nation The Company has since extended its services
status, and most developed nation has their from offering solutions for stated
own private research institutes. Hence, Dr. automation needs, offering consulting and
Ho aspired to set up a private research R&D services for the purpose of addressing
institute in Malaysia with the aims to produce the core needs of the customer to build
and retain local talents, develop and innovate great product, speed up processes, enhance
technology to improve local industries, to automation, efficiency improvement, cost
enhance awareness to local society about the reduction thus assisting customers in digital
importance of R&D, and last but not least to transformation and preparing them for
create more job opportunities to our local Industry 4.0. After achieving a firm footing
people. with drastic growth, ABBE Group developed
Dr. Ho Wai Loon shared his “Boundless into a diversified group and further the
Aspiration” with his best friend Ooh Wei Chee expansion with its subsidiary companies to
who was holding a Master Degree in cater for more business pillars such as
Economics from Universiti Malaya as well, industrial supplies, e-commerce,
they both had the same “big vision”. However, engineering, marine aquaculture technology,
“Rome was not built in a day”, the dream information technology includes hardware
requires massive funding. and software development.
