Dato’ Dr Anuar Md Nor is a specialist in the area of innovation management, venture capital and business networks as strategic resources. He teaches these subjects at Azman Hashim  International Business School, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He is also Adjunct Professor at the the School of Management, Asia e University, Malaysia.

He founded Bison Consulting, a consulting firm that offers services such as intellectual property valuation, firm valuation, grant application and “halal” certification application.He has authored three books, Securing Private Equity in Malaysia, The Palm Oil Multinationals from Malaysia, and The Role of Networks in Internationalization Process. 

He has an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from University of Birmingham, England, an MBA from School of Management, University of Bradford, England, an MSc. in Management of Technology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA. He completed his PhD in Business Management from Universiti  Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Shah Alam, Malaysia.

Before establishing Bison Consulting, he was CEO of PNB Equity Resources Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of Permodalan Nasional Berhad, the largest investment company in Malaysia and CEO of Malaysian Technology Development Corporation Sdn Bhd, the venture capital company owned by Malaysian government. During his tenure, he had invested in high technology companies in Silicon Valley, USA.

Dato’ Dr Anuar Md Nor lives with his wife, Datin Azimah, in Seremban, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. It is a commuter town about one hour drive to Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia. He tends his garden plot planting several fruit trees, while his wife tends her orchid plants. Our four children work in Kuala Lumpur. Our second son is a famous artist with sculptures installed in London and Singapore, having graduated from Rhode Island School of Design, USA,  and Central Saint Martins, London, UK. Our daughter graduated from the Australian National University, Canberra. Our eldest son manages his own design company while our youngest son works as a securities trader in a Malaysian Investment Bank.

We share our home with seven cats, namely, Junior, Baby, Yen, Charlie, Malaya, Tuya and Momo, and they like to be fed with boiled sardines.