Angela Sp Yap Email & Phone Number

CEO & Head of Research at Awake Minds Centre, a training facility and spin-off from the multi-award-winning social enterprise, Akasaa. It is the first and only training facility in the region dedicated to slowing and/or reversing cognitive decline, including dementia.Director/Founder of Akasaa, a boutique content development, publishing and editorial consultancy based in the UK and Malaysia. A member of the UK Publishers Association. Her accolades include:• Ex Board of Governor for Convent Bukit Nanas, a historic mission school and one of Malaysia’s Premier cluster schools.• One of 8 invited Malaysians to a women’s discussion group with Her Royal Highness, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, and British High Commissioner Her Excellency Vicki Treadell (Nov 2017).• British High Commission’s Women’s Action Group (2015-current).• Delegate – Wilton Park Conference on ‘Women in Business’ (2014).• Speaker – Women of the Future Summit in London (2014), UKEC, LSE, IMU, Warwick Intl Dev Summit (2012)• Most Successful Women Award (2012) by Jessica magazine.• ‘Top 40 Under 40 Award’ by The Prestige. • ‘The League of Extraordinary Women’ by The Prestige and TAG Heuer.• 'Successful Women's Entrepreneurs' by the Women's Ministry, Malaysia.Angela began her career with the UNDP and subsequently the media as a financial news copy editor. Her career in financial services includes corporate banking, associate at a bond pricing agency, and Strategist with a Big Four firm. In corporate finance, she has raised millions in investments and commercialised patents in biotech for businesses in the US, UK, and Asia.At age 22, Angela was the youngest elected Board of Governor for Amnesty International in Malaysia, representing Malaysia at the International Council Meeting in Amsterdam. Her book, Managing Yaa-hoos!, has received reviews by professors from LSE and Harvard Medical School. Her articles have appeared in publications including Asian Institute of Chartered Bankers, Unreserved, The Edge, and has interviewed global thinkers such as Nobel Laureate Dr. Barry Marshall and Mikko Hypponen.Her book, Answering Is An Art, was praised by the Western Australian education council as “an innovative approach to teaching business issues”. Her latest book, The Legal Lion of the Commonwealth: Judgments, is the first in a series of books to revive the legacy of His Lordship Justice Eusoffe Abdoolcader and Sir Husein Abdoolcader.