Fadzarudin Shah Anuar, 29, was born and raised in Kuala Lumpur. He moved to London in 2004 where he graduated with a Masters in Aeronautical Engineering from Imperial College London. In 2010, Fadza co-founded FashionValet with his partner, Vivy Yusof, with the mission of elevating the local fashion industry. FashionValet is an online fashion and beauty store offering the best Southeast Asian designers. The online shopping site hosts more than 500 curated Malaysian, Indonesian and Singaporean brands, and ships parcels daily to customers all over the world. Now a multi-million dollar company with 150 employees has offices and warehouses in Malaysia, Jakarta and Singapore.

Since their start six years ago, FashionValet has grown its online presence and attracted customers from all over Southeast Asia as well as Australia, UK and the Middle East. As of 2015 last year, FashionValet expanded its physical reach by launching three retail stores – in Bangsar, KL and Singapore. The third and most recent location opened recently in October 2016 in Pavilion, the heart of KL. As the CEO, Fadza has taken FashionValet through three rounds of funding from Bursa Malaysia-listed MyEG, San Francisco-based VC Elixir Capital and Japan’s largest online fashion portal, Zozotown. He also leads the company’s strategic planning and business development.

He has been awarded one of Augustman Men of The Year in 2015. FashionValet has received awards from MATRADE which include the youth ‘Anugerah Peneraju Eksport’ and from #MYCYBERSALE as the top exporter for its annual 2016 campaign.

Fadza actively speaks about his experiences in universities and entrepreneurship events. He has also given talks on entrepreneurship and e-commerce at industry events such as the Kuala Lumpur International Trade Fair organized by MATRADE.

He married his co-founder Vivy Yusof in 2012 and have two beautiful children, Daniel and Mariam.