Award icnb 2019 Tan Sri Dr. Anthony Francis Fernandes

Tan Sri Dr. Anthony Francis Fernandes is a Malaysian entrepreneur. He is the founder of Tune Air Sendirian Berhad, who introduced the first budget airline, AirAsia, to Malaysians with the tagline “Now everyone can fly”. After 18 years with Tony Fernandes at the helm, the airline has grown from having just two planes and 250 employees, to a group of companies with a total of 220 planes and 20,000 staff in its payroll and has contributed RM837 billion to Malaysia’s GDP. Fernandes managed to turn AirAsia into a highly successful budget airline public-listed company that have a great positive impact not only in Malaysia but Asia-wide.