The Olayan Family Lubna S. Olayan (No. 2)

	Net Worth	$12.90 bn
	Age	58
	Source of Wealth	Olayan Financing Company
	Marital Status	Married with 3 daughter

 
Orphaned at the age of six, Olayan had more humble beginnings than most of his business counterparts from the Kingdom. Olayan's rise to great wealth reflected his acumen, an ability to cross cultural barriers, as well as extraordinary timing.
Over a 55-year career as an independent businessman, he served as entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. Under his guidance and leadership, the Olayan Group became both a leading diversified enterprise in Saudi Arabia and a major participant in global investing.
The story of his entrepreneurial journey begins in the town of Unayzah in north central Saudi Arabia. For centuries, the town had been a haven for caravans venturing across the Najd, Saudi Arabia's heartland. The merchant families of Unayzah had developed important trading links with the world outside central Arabia - the cities on the Red Sea and Persian Gulf coast, which had ties to Africa and Asia.
In 1918, Suliman Olayan was born into one of these merchant families. His father, Saleh, had recently returned from Medina, where he had been a spice trader. Suliman spent the first years of his life in his family's ancestral hometown.

This year marks the 65th anniversary of one of the most well-respected firms in the Gulf. The Olayan Group owns more than 50 companies, with hefty stakes in various multinationals and blue-chip names such as Credit Suisse, in which it upped its stake from 3.4 percent to 3.6 percent in 2009 Its multi-billion-dollar portfolio is spread over continents including North America, Europe, Asia and, of course, the Middle East.
Established in 1947, the Olayan Group began as a trucking concern. In 1954 its founder, Suleiman Olayan, launched General Trading Company (GTC), the group’s food and consumer distribution business and was instrumental in bringing commercial insurance to Saudi, founding Arab Commercial Enterprises — which went on to become the region’s largest insurance and reinsurance broker.
Suleiman, who died in 2002, played a key role in developing Saudi Arabia's earliest electrical power companies, and also founded the country's first public utility, the National Gas Company.In the 1960s, Suleiman extended his business empire, adding interests in paper, cold storage and meat processing, and the manufacturing of pipes and fittings. Suleiman is survived by his son Khaled and his three daughters - Hayat, Hutham and Lubna.
This year, the Olayan Group put its faith in the King Abdullah Economic City project by purchasing four plots of land on the gigantic site just north of Jeddah.

Mohammed Al Moudi (No. 3)

	Net Worth	$11.50 bn
	Age	67
	Source of Wealth	Energy
	Marital Status	Married

 

Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Ali Al Amoudi (Ge'ez:, Arabic: محمد حسين العمودي; born 1944/1945) is a Saudi Arabian/Ethiopian businessman and billionaire who lives in Ethiopia and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. As of 2011, Forbes has estimated his net worth at $12.3 billion, making him the 63rd richest person in the world. This listing also ranks him as the richest person in Ethiopia and the second richest Saudi Arabian citizen in the world. As of March 2013, Forbes ranked Al Amoudi as the second richest black person in the world. Al Amoudi made his fortune in construction and real estate before branching out to buy oil refineries in Sweden and Morocco. He is said to be the largest foreign investor in both Sweden and Ethiopia.

There’s no sign of 67-year-old Mohammed Al Amoudi letting up – only this October he signed a deal with an Italian firm to build an $800m steel factory in Ethiopia.
One of the Arab world’s most successful businessmen, Al Amoudi’s father is Hadhrami Yemeni and his mother is Ethiopian. He immigrated to Saudi Arabia in 1965 and became a Saudi citizen. His wife is Sofia Saleh Al Amoudi who is a shareholder of Midroc Construction.
He is said to be the largest foreign investor in both Sweden and Ethiopia. He holds an Honorary Doctorate in Philosophy from the Addis Ababa University and has been honoured with the Order of the Polar Star by King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.
Al Amoudi made his first fortune in construction and real estate before branching out into buying oil refineries in Morocco and Sweden — where he was honoured with the Royal Swedish Order of the North Star by King Carl XVI — and his native Ethiopia. His holding and operating companies, Corral Group and the Midroc Group, employ more than 40,000 people. Corral Group has an investment portfolio in Europe and the Middle East that includes Preem Petroleum, the largest integrated petroleum firm in Sweden, Svenska Petroleum & Exploration, SAMIR, Naft Services Company (Saudi Arabia) and Fortuna Holdings (Lebanon).

Mohamed Al Jaber (No. 10)

	Net Worth	7.00 bn
	Age	54
	Source of Wealth	MBI International & Partners
	Marital Status	Married & 3 child

 

Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber is chairman and CEO of MBI International & Partners, headquartered in London
Born in 1959 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Bin Issa Al Jaber has built the MBI Group over the past 30 years into major international companies. In 1982, he established his first major endeavour in Saudi Arabia where he founded Jadawel International Construction & Development.

His MBI International group compromises the following companies:

• JJW Hotels & Resorts, including luxury hotels in Austria, France, Portugal and the United Kingdom, Amarante 4-star hotels in France, Portugal and Egypt as well as Median 3-star hotels Stars budget hotels in France
• AJWA Group for Food Industries, an agricultural and food processing company
• Jadawel International, a company developing residential compounds for expatriates in Saudi Arabia
• Continentoil, and oil field services and petroleum company.

Within twelve years Jadawel ranked seventeenth largest privately owned company in the country. JJW Hotels & Resorts was established in 1989 in Portugal and is now the owner-operator of more than 60 hotel and leisure resorts in Europe and the Middle East.
Al Jaber has funded scholarship programmes at some of the world’s finest educational institutions through his own MBI Al Jaber Foundation — and the alumni family now extends beyond 1,000. He is also the founder of the London Middle East Institute.

Said Khoury (No. 9)

	Net Worth	7.20 bn
	Age	90
	Source of Wealth	Consolidated Contractors International Company
	Marital Status	Married & 3 sons

 
Khoury was born in 1923 in Safad, Palestine, to a wealthy landowner father who held fishing rights for the Sea of Galilee. Khoury returned to Safad after graduating in 1946 to start his own construction company but was forced to leave in May 1948, when hostilities broke out.

Said Khoury is renowned as much for his business acumen as his passionate support of the Palestinain cause. He chairs the Palestinian Businessmen’s Association, he’s governor of Arab Monetary Fund and he’s a major shareholder in the Arab Palestinian Investment Company. But of course none of this would have been possible without his enormous commercial success. With cousin Hasib Sabbagh, in 1952 he founded Consolidated Contractors International Company (CCC), one of the first Arab construction companies.

The company sees sales of $4bn a year and manages projects in 40 countries, with a focus on Middle East and North Africa. Born in Safad, Palestine, Khoury moved to Lebanon in 1948 after the Arab-Israeli war and got his first job helping to build Tripoli Airport. He is now based in Athens. CCC has built landmark projects in everything from Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison (built in 1969, before the ascent of Saddam Hussein to the presidency of the country), to the Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, DC.

The company has undertaken major projects in Azerbaijan, Turkey, Africa and the Gulf. The success of CCC is rooted in the early 1960s, with Sabbagh and Khoury securing a contract related to oil pipe storage facilities for the Iraq Petroleum Company, which entailed working with the Bechtel Group, the world’s largest construction company. That deal cemented a long and lasting relationship between CCC and Bechtel and it defined CCC’s scale of operations across the world.

The Bukhamseen Family (No. 8)

	Net Worth	7.20 bn
	Age
	Source of Wealth	Bukhamseen Group
	Marital Status

 
Bukhamseen Group was launched half a century ago as the vision of one man, Jawad Ahmed Bukhamseen. He founded the Jawad Bukhamseen Commercial Corporation in 1957, and under his able leadership the company grew and diversified, ultimately evolving in status from a small family business to a fully-fledged institution with interests across several economic sectors. As well as a primary interest in financial investment and banking, the firm has concerns in hospitality, travel and tourism, industrial production, media and communication work, consultancy services in urban planning, civil engineering, and major development projects in Kuwait.

Today, Jawad’s sons Emad, Osama, Anwar and Raed all occupy senior management positions within the company. Bukhamseen Holding’s Kuwait National Cinema Company also established Al Sharqia Cinema, the first movie theatre in Kuwait, in 1954.

The BinLadin Family (No. 7)

	Net Worth	8.10 bn
	Age
	Source of Wealth	Construction & Industry
	Marital Status

 
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was founded by King Abdul Aziz Al Saud. In 1931 Mohammed Binladin established a construction company within the Kingdom. In 1950, when King Abdul Aziz was planning the first Saudi Extension to the Prophet's Mosque in Madina.He honored Mohammed Binladin by turning to him fulfill his wishes. Work on the extension was completed during the reign of King Abdul Aziz's son King Saud bin Abdul Aziz. As a result of the success of this project, Mohammed Binladin was asked to undertake the extension to the holy Mosque in Makkah, the first for the thousand years. Work on this huge enterprise started in 1955...

...it continued through the reign of King Saud's successor King Faisal...ceremony at completion of the First Saudi Extension of the Makkah Holy Mosque and was completed after twenty years, during the reign of King Khalid. In 1964 Mohammed Binladin was commissioned to work in the third Holy sanctuary of Islam, re-cladding the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. As the developing kingdom expanded its infrastructure, so Mohammed Binladin played an integral part in these pioneering years by building a network of new highways throughout the country.
As Saudi government spending keeps rising, so do the fortunes of the Gulf’s most prominent family construction empire. Last year, the Binladin Group won deals to construct Prince Alwaleed’s Kingdom Tower and the expansion of the King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah. Between then the contracts are worth over $20bn. Adding to those deals was a bumper contract to help build the first phase of the Haramain railway link.

The family fortune is based on a construction business that paid immense dividends when decades ago it was awarded contracts for major renovations at Mecca and other religious buildings in Saudi Arabia and abroad. Founded by Mohammed Binladin, the family also built several palaces in Riyadh and Jeddah for the royal family and carried out restoration work following an arson attack on Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa Mosque in 1969. Salem, Mohammed’s eldest son, ran the empire left behind by his father upon his death in 1968 until he died when his private plane crashed in Texas in 1988.
Mohammed left 54 sons and daughters from several marriages. Thirteen of his sons sit on the board of the family’s firm — the most prominent being Bakr, Hassan, Islam and Yehya. Bakr, Mohammed’s second son, succeeded Salem at the head of the firm, which employs tens of thousands of people across the region.

The Kharafi Family (No. 6)

	Net Worth	8.60 bn
	Age
	Source of Wealth	MA Kharafi Group
	Marital Status

 
Two years on from the death of the head of the Kharafi family, Nasser Al Kharafi, Kuwait’s biggest private business is going strong. Nasser Al Kharafi’s younger brother, Mohannad, took the reins of the firm alongside Jassim, Nasser, Fawzi and other family members.

Established in 1956, MA Kharafi and Sons is one of the largest of its kind in the world, and has operations in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Tanzania, Botswana, Cairo, Kenya, the Maldives, Abu Dhabi and Albania. A diversified conglomerate, the group also oversees stakes, through the Americana food division, in various high-profile American eateries, and has the exclusive franchise rights in the Middle East for fast food brands including KFC, Wimpy, TGI Friday’s, Cadbury’s, Pizza Hut and Saint Cinnamon. He is also the largest individual stakeholder of popular doughnut company Krispy Kreme.

The empire also spans sectors including construction, manufacturing, an airline and investments that include Kuwait’s leading financial institutions and other companies listed on the stock exchange. With an annual turnover of over $4bn, the MA Kharafi Group now operates in more than 25 countries around the world and has more than 100,000 employees.

Issam Al Zahid (No. 5)

	Net Worth	11.00 bn
	Age
	Source of Wealth	Alzahid Group of Companies
	Marital Status

 

Issam Alzahid is the chairman of the Alzahid Group of Companies. It got its start in 1951 under the banner Alzahid Construction, when it had a hand in smaller-scale planning of roads and other city infrastructure. Later it would be tapped to build the kingdom’s first coast guard stations.

By 1958 the company was in full swing, building everything from bridges to tunnels and flyovers — indeed much of the basic transport infrastructure upon which the kingdom still relies. Today, with offices located in Al Khobar, the diversified conglomerate has over 41,000 strong employees and has significant interests in mining, logistics, oil and gas, manufacturing, information technology, foodstuffs, retail and many other sectors.

Like the other members on the list, Alzahid has no plans to rest on his laurels. It has announced plans to increase international investments by 23 percent during the course of this year. The recession may have been unkind to others, but not to Alzahid; his group saw total domestic turnover rise 14 percent in 2009.

Today, the diversified conglomerate has over 40,000 employees and significant interests in mining, logistics, oil and gas, industry, manufacturing, IT, foodstuffs, retail and many other sectors.

The Sawiris Family (No. 4)

	Net Worth	11.20 bn
	Age	Naquib : 59 Samih : 56 Nassef : 52
	Source of Wealth	Technology, construction, telecommunications & tourism

 

The Sawiris family is a Egyptian Coptic family that owns the Orascom conglomerate, spanning telecommunications, construction, tourism, industries and technology.^[1][2] In 2008, Forbes estimated the family's net worth at $36 billion.

Onsi Sawiris (born in 1930), now retired, is the patriarch of the family. Various companies in the group are run by Onsi Sawiris' three sons as above.

Onsi Sawiris founded Orascom in 1950 that has grown into a conglomerate of companies including Orascom Telecom Holding (in Arabic أوراسكوم للإتصالات), and Orascom Technology Solutions (OTS) (in Arabic أوراسكوم للتكنولوجيا), both run by Naguib Sawiris, Orascom Construction Industries (OCI) (in Arabic أوراسكوم للإنشاء والصناعة) run by Nassef Sawiris, Orascom Hotels and Development (OHD) (in Arabic أوراسكوم للفنادق والتنمية) run by Samih Sawiris.

Naguib Sawiris is investor in Mobinil, Egypt's main mobile phone company, and has expanded into Algeria, Tunisia, Pakistan, Bangladesh and even North Korea. He has also invested through affiliates in Italy (through Wind Telecomunicazioni SpA and Canada (through Globalive Wireless and its Wind Mobile). Naguib Sawiris is also investor in a highly influential Egyptian independent newspaper Almasry Alyoum and the owner of TV interests, most notably in OTV (Orascom Television).

The Sawiris family also actively engages in charity and economic and social development through Sawiris Foundation for Social Development (in Arabic مؤسسة ساويرس للتنمية الإجتماعية) that includes Sawiris Foundation Awards for Egyptian Literature (in Arabic جائزة مؤسسة ساويرس للأدب المصري)

The aggregated wealth of the Sawiris family - a scion of Egypt's most successful Coptic business house - has surged over the years since Onsi, the patriarch of the family handed over the reins to Naguib his eldest son and two brothers Nassef and Samih. They took over and expanded the Orascom conglomerate into a telecommunications, construction, real estate, hotel and development business. Naguib, 58, launched the first mobile operator in Egypt, Mobinil in 1998, was executive chairman of the telecommunications companies Wind Telecom and Orascom Telecom Holding (manages 11 GSM operators around the world ) and launched Koryolink, the first mobile operator in North Korea in 2008. Naguib turned to politics as a wave of protests swept Egypt overthrowing longtime leader Hosni Mubarak in 2011.

HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Al Saud (No. 1)

	Net Worth	$25.90 bn
	Age	58
	Source of Wealth	Banking & Finance
	Marital Status	Married

A Saudi Arabian businessman and investor. He is a member of the Saudi royal family.
Al Waleed bin Talal was born on 7 March 1955. His parents are Prince Talal and Mona
Al Solh, daughter of Riad Al Solh, Lebanon's first Prime Minister after its independence.
Al Waleed is Prince Talal's second son. Therefore, Al Waleed is the grandson of Saudi
Arabia's founder Ibn Saud.

Al Waleed’s father, Prince Talal, was Saudi Arabia’s finance minister in the early 1960s,
before he went into exile due to his advocation of political reform. Al Waleed's parents
separated when he was 7, and he returned to Saudi Arabia with his mother. As a youth Al
Waleed would run away from home for a day or two and sleep in the back of unlocked
cars. He would later attend military school in Riyadh, where he learnt a strict discipline to
which he continues to adhere.

Al Waleed received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from
Menlo College in California in 1979. He then received a Master's degree in Social
Science with honors from Syracuse University in 1985.

The rapid rise in the price of KHC stock means that the Prince’s 95 percent stake in the
Company, together with his private assets, which include real estate and other local,
regional and international assets, and Rotana, which is 80 percent owned by the Prince,
now bring his total wealth to $25.9bn. It also places the prince in pole position for the
eighth year in succession.

But arguably, the past twelve months have been amongst his very best. By early
December Kingdom Holding shares registered a remarkable 147 percent rise over the
previous twelve months.

Kingdom Holding is active in thirteen sectors; financial services; real estate; hotel
management; hotel real estate; aviation; petrochemicals; media and publishing;
entertainment; private equity; healthcare and education; consumer and retail; agriculture,
and various African investments.

Second-quarter results for this year show a net profit of SR178.9m ($47.70m), compared

to SR163.5m in the same period a year earlier. That equates to a 9.4 percent rise, while
first-quarter profits went up 11.3 percent, thanks in part to the sales of its stake in
Toronto's Four Seasons Hotel and its share of the Oasis Kingdom project in Riyadh.

But it’s the Prince’s key investments that have made a huge difference, including a 34
percent jump this year in News Corp’s share price, a company in which he holds a 7
percent stake. Kingdom Holding also made a $300m investment in Twitter last year,
which sources suggest equates to around 4 percent of the company.

As in previous years, our estimate for the Prince’s total wealth has been verified by his
private office.

Mohd Shahrul Daud

	Graduate	UPM
	Age	27
	Source of Wealth	MND Agroternak Farm
	Marital Status
	Source	Utusan

Berkelulusan Diploma Pertanian memilih untuk mengusahakan sembilan projek pertanian dan asas tani di beberapa lokasi sekitar Kulim.

Projek tersebut ialah menternak lembu tenusu, lembu pedaging, itik telur, tanaman pisang berangan dan emas, tanaman nenas, tanaman fertigasi (cili merah dan terung), produk hiliran (telur masin dan dadih) dan baja kompos.

Menurut Mohd. Shahrul, penglibatan aktif dalam bidang pertanian bermula kira-kira tiga tahun lalu setelah melihat potensi luas di samping teruja dengan konsep Pertanian Adalah Perniagaan yang diperkenalkan kerajaan.

Mohd. Shahrul yang pernah memenangi hadiah Anugerah Usahawan Majlis Amanah Rakyat (Mara) Kedah 2007 dan Anugerah Belia Kedah 2007 (Wira Tani) berharap dapat menambah bekalan susu pada masa akan datang.

Sementara itu, Mohd. Shahrul turut menternak lebih 1,000 ekor itik jawa yang mampu menghasilkan telur kira-kira 750 butir sehari.

Harfirdaus Che Lah

	Graduate
	Age	25
	Source of wealth	Perfect Fresh and Frozen
	Marital Status

Tidak ada yang lebih istimewa bagi seorang siswazah apabila berpeluang menimba pengalaman sebagai pengurus operasi perniagaan peruncitan dan pemborong sedangkan baru sahaja menggenggam segulung ijazah. Lebih istimewa, kerjaya barunya menuntut lebih usaha untuk mendapatkan pengetahuan kerana ia berkaitan pemasaran produk berasaskan ternakan, sedangkan  ijazah yang dimiliki dalam bidang kejuruteraan elektrik. Harfirdaus Che Lah yang memegang jawatan Eksekutif Operasi, Perfect Fresh and Frozen nyata enggan menambah bebanan fikirannya bahawa bidang yang agak asing baginya boleh menjadi batu penghalang mencapai kejayaan. Malah dia yang pernah bertugas sebagai pelatih pengurus di sebuah syarikat makanan segera akan memanfaatkan ilmu yang dimiliki untuk memajukan syarikat berkenaan yang baru membuka outlet di Jalan Impian Murni, Saujana Impian, Kajang, Selangor.

Syarikat yang diuruskan oleh KMJ Supplies Sdn. Bhd itu beroperasi sebagai pemborong dan peruncit bekalan daging lembu, kambing Boer, rusa, unta, burung unta, arnab dan ayam kampung. Selain itu, syarikat terbabit juga memasarkan ayam turki, burung puyuh, itik dan susu kambing. Syarikat terbabit menawarkan sistem francais kepada mana-mana pengusaha yang berminat memasarkan produk-produk berkenaan, dengan tujuan membantu pengusaha ladang di peringkat pengeluaran untuk memasarkan hasil mereka. “Ada masa ini, kami memperoleh bekalan dari merata tempat di seluruh negara dan ini sekali gus dapat pengusaha memasarkan hasil ladang mereka,” kata Harfirdaus. Sebagai contoh, bekalan ayam kampong diperoleh dari projek penternakan membabitkan ibu tunggal di Kuala Selangor, burung puyuh (Pulau Pinang), itik (Tampin), arnab (Broga) dan burung unta dari Beranang, Selangor. Pengusaha menghantar bekalan daging mereka selepas diproses manakala syarikat terbabit membungkusnya dengan potongan dengan saiz tertentu memudahkan suri rumah menyediakannya untuk dimasak. Apa yang pasti, konsep pemasaran bekalan produk berasaskan daging itu memperkenalkan konsep baru dalam pemasaran daging yang bukal sahaja, segar tetapi halal dan bersih. Menurut Harfirdaus, meskipun baru dibuka pada 24 November lepas, pengunjung sudah mula memenuhi outlet tersebut sejak awal pagi khususnya pada hari cuti. Ini kerana konsep yang mudah untuk membuat pilihan dan jenis daging ternakan yang pelbagai, mendorong mereka mendapatkan produk yang diperlukan. Meskipun tidak semua daging yang dijual hasil daripada ladang ternakan tempatan, syarikat terbabit menjanjikan produk yang segar dan berkualiti. Malah, selain pasaran runcit, pengguna juga boleh membuat tempahan untuk mendapatkan daging yang dikehendaki dan akan dihantar ke destinasi yang diminta Menurut Harfirdaus, pihaknya juga menyasarkan kepada syarikat penyajian makanan (catering) kerana ia menawarkan satu pasaran besar bagi bekalan daging mentah. Selain itu, syarikat terbabit juga membekalkan susu kambing segar berjenama Vcals ke beberapa buah hospital selain dijual secara runcit.

Siti Mariam Abdullah

	Net Worth
	Age	41
	Source of wealth	Clear Insight Technology Sdn. Bhd
	Marital Status

SIAPA sangka wanita yang berusia 39 tahun ini adalah usahawan bumiputera pertama yang mengusahakan perniagaan sport rim kereta yang biasanya dilakukan oleh kaum lelaki dan bangsa lain. Pemilik syarikat Clear Insight Technology Sdn. Bhd., iaitu Siti Mariam Abdullah kini boleh berbangga apabila kedudukannya kini setanding dengan bangsa lain yang mengusahakan perniagaan yang sama. Katanya, memang sukar untuk memulakan perniagaan yang biasanya dilakukan oleh kaum lelaki itu tetapi berpegang kepada prinsip ingin berjaya dan kaum wanita juga boleh maju ia menjadi pembakar semangatnya.

"Sport rim kereta yang diusahakan oleh kilang saya di Sungai Petani ini menjadi pembekal kepada syarikat Naza dan Proton, sekarang kami ingin meluaskan pasaran lagi kepada orang ramai yang berminat untuk menjadi pembekal di pasaran terbuka," ujarnya ketika di temui Kosmo! di Pendang semalam. Syarikat Clear Insight Technology Sdn. Bhd. adalah antara syarikat tempatan yang mengambil bahagian dalam Karnival Silatulrahim dan Expo Perdagangan 2008 (Karsep) di Stadium Mini, Pendang yang bermula 18 hingga 20 Disember ini.

Tambah Siti Mariam, platform di Karsep diharap dapat membuka jalan dan dijadikan strategi pemasaran untuk mencari pembekal rim syarikatnya di pasaran terbuka tempatan. "Target saya adalah untuk melihat kereta nasional atau kereta import memakai rim tempatan yang diusahakan oleh bangsa kita sendiri. "Kualiti syarikat kami tidak kurang hebatnya dengan rim yang diimport dari China dan Eropah," jelasnya. Kata beliau, apa yang ditawarkan oleh syarikatnya sudah tentu rim yang jauh lebih murah daripada yang diimport di samping menjaga kualiti dari segi ketahanannya. "Rim bersaiz 14 dijual dengan harga serendah RM400 sehingga saiz 16 dengan harga RM1,000.

Mohd Zalalnudin

	Graduate	UMS
	Age	33
	Source of wealth	Star Arowana
	Marital Status

Sebagai seorang saintis yang mengkaji kehidupan flora dan fauna menjadi titik tolak kepada Mohd. Zalalnudin Latipi, 31, membuka sebuah kedai menjual spesies ikan terancam kelisa atau juga dikenali sebagai arowana. Demi minatnya yang berputik sejak kecil Mohd. Zalalnudin nekad meninggalkan jawatannya sebagai seorang saintis. Minatnya kian bercambah apabila beliau berjaya menghabiskan pengajiannya dalam bidang Sosiologi Pemuliharaan di Universiti Malaysia Sabah. Ikan kelisa kepada Mohd. Zalalnudin bukan sekadar ikan hiasan malah kepada mereka yang tahu menilainya, ia boleh menjadi sumber pendapatan. Harganya mampu mencecah ribuan ribu ringgit selain ia digemari oleh kaum Cina di negara ini yang dipercayai membawa tuah kepada pemiliknya. Namun Mohd. Zalalnudin tidak menyangka hobinya yang suka memelihara ikan itu mampu memberikannya sumber pendapatan tetap kepadanya.

Mohd. Zalalnudin tidak menyangka, kedai yang baru dibukanya itu mendapat sambutan menggalakkan daripada penduduk setempat malah ikan kelisa juga mendapat permintaan daripada orang Melayu.

Rusila Yusof

	Graduate	UKM
	Age	34
	Source of wealth	Fatisha Agro Farm
	Marital Status

Latarbelakang Akademik: Lulusan Ijazah Sarjana Muda Sains Dengan Kepujian dalam bidang Teknologi Kimia (UKM) tahun 2003 dan Sarjana Sains Kimia (UKM) pada 2007.

Berhasrat untuk menjadi usahawan wanita yang berjaya dalam bidang cendawan. Bukan hanya setakat menjadi penanam cendawan, tetapi meluaskan skop dengan meneroka pelbagai bidang yang berkaitan dengannya.

Musleha Zainuddin

	Graduate	UUM
	Age	30
	Source of wealth	MHP Enterprise
	Marital Status

Berkelulusan Ijazah Sarjana Muda Kepujian dalam bidang Perniagaan Antarabangsa dari Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM), Musleha berjaya membawa pelbagai peningkatan kepada produk jenama Masri dan MHP Enterprise.

Sebagai pengurus MHP Enterprise, Musleha berjaya melonjakkan jualan kasar selain mendapat pengiktirafan halal daripada Majlis Agama Islam Selangor dan Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia (Jakim) dalam usaha membawa produk syarikat ke pasaran yang lebih luas.

Mendapat pelbagai anugerah dan pengiktirafan MHP Enterprise kini mempunyai 40 orang pekerja tetap dan sementara.

Bukan itu saja, kini MHP Enterprise juga menjadi pusat jualan untuk produk-produk makanan ringan tradisional yang diusahakan oleh penduduk sekitar.

Kini MHP Enterprise banyak menerima pelawat yang menginap di hotel dan inap desa sekitar Kuala Selangor, Sekinchan dan kawasan sekitarnya selain peserta kursus dari agensi kerajaan dan swasta.

MHP Enterprise akan terus memandang ke hadapan dan disasarkan selepas ini, syarikat terbabit akan mengembangkan perusahaannya dengan mewujudkan lebih banyak cawangan.

Di samping peningkatan kualiti terhadap produk melalui kerjasama penyelidikan bersama Lembaga Pemasaran Pertanian Persekutuan (FAMA), Sirim Berhad dan Institut Penyelidikan dan Kemajuan Pertanian Malaysia (MARDI) di harap produk selepas ini boleh menembusi dan bersaing di pasaran global pula.