Awardees

GOPIO International Renown Entrepreneur Excellence Award 2010 – Australia

Dr. Maha Sinnathamby
Creator Of ‘Greater Springfield – The World’s Best Master Planned City’

Hailing from Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. Dr. Maha Sinnathamby moved to Australia 20 years ago with a visionto become an entrepreneur to build an entire planned city.

Dr. Sinnathamby founded Greater Springfield almost 20 years ago on circa 2860 hectares outside of Brisbane. Today, Greater Springfield is an Australian success story. After two decades of persistence, the project has attracted more than 9 billion MYR of investment and that figure is increasing at a rate of 1 billion MYR every year.

GOPIO International Renown Entrepreneur Excellence Award 2010 – Sri Lanka

Chandra Schaffter
Model of Resilience

Mr.Chandra heads a group of five listed companies engaged in insurance, housing, finance and dairy products – providing direct employment to over 5,000 employees.