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The team

Active delivery. Founding advice.

Cohesys separates who runs the work day to day from who advises on strategy. Leadership & Technical Execution owns architecture and delivery. The Founding Advisory Board provides direction without operational C-suite titles.

Active partners

Leadership & Technical Execution

Active partners responsible for daily operations — architecture, delivery and the work clients see every week.

Param

Co-Founder & Chief Solutions Architect

Malaysia

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Sets the architecture, reviews the hard technical decisions and stays accountable for them through delivery.

Param has spent more than a decade as a full-stack engineer across edutech, fintech and proptech, taking projects from ideation through to production. Much of that work has been the unglamorous kind that matters most: modernising legacy codebases, untangling multi-environment deployments and putting repeatable delivery procedures in place. He works across React, Node.js, Ruby on Rails, PHP and Laravel, teaches web development as a technical trainer, and holds a bachelor's degree in Technology Management and Computing from the University of Portsmouth.

Disciplines

  • Software architecture
  • Full-stack engineering
  • DevOps and deployment

Background

  • Principal full-stack engineer — multinational content and digital platform organisation
  • Technical trainer — industry software courses
  • Bachelor's degree, Technology Management and Computing — University of Portsmouth

Azfar Azman

Co-Founder & Chief Technical Delivery Officer

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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Runs delivery — turning an agreed design into working software on a cadence clients can plan around.

Azfar is a technical lead who has taken projects from concept to implementation and built the teams that keep them running. His background spans enterprise software engineering and founding a technology services practice, and his strength is the translation layer: turning complicated business requirements into something a team can actually build, then holding the line on quality and timing. He holds a master's in Computer Science from Multimedia University.

Disciplines

  • Technical leadership
  • Product delivery
  • Scalable systems

Background

  • Technical lead and software engineer — Malaysian credit-rating and financial services institution
  • Founder — technology services practice
  • Software engineer — regional software house
  • Master's in Computer Science — Multimedia University

Advisory

Founding Advisory Board

Passive partners providing strategic direction. They advise on capital, growth and experience architecture without day-to-day operational duties.

Mark M. Charles

Co-Founder & Board Advisor (Strategy & Capital Allocation)

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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Advises on how engagements are framed commercially and how capital is allocated across the technology portfolio.

Mark built his career in finance and business development before co-founding Cohesys, moving from investment and fund management into advising where the commercial case and the technical one have to agree. He is an approved Financial Adviser's Representative with Bank Negara Malaysia. On the Founding Advisory Board he contributes strategic direction and capital-allocation judgment without day-to-day operational duties.

Disciplines

  • Strategy and capital allocation
  • Investment and fund management
  • Commercial framing

Background

  • Co-Founder and Board Advisor — Cohesys
  • Finance and business development — insurtech
  • Approved Financial Adviser's Representative — Bank Negara Malaysia

Faisal Rashly

Co-Founder & Strategic Operations Advisor (Growth & Systems)

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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Advises on growth systems and how client operations stay coherent as the practice scales.

Faisal's background sits on the client side of complex products: employee benefits, insurance and account renewal. He has led benefits programmes and senior account renewal inside an insurtech, and earlier managed client relationships at a major Malaysian bank. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in International Business from California State University, Dominguez Hills, after the American Degree Transfer Programme at Sunway University. As a Strategic Operations Advisor he shapes growth and systems thinking without carrying day-to-day operational titles.

Disciplines

  • Growth and systems
  • Client relationship strategy
  • Operational design

Background

  • Co-Founder and Strategic Operations Advisor — Cohesys
  • Account renewal and employee benefits — insurtech
  • Relationship manager — major Malaysian bank
  • BBA, International Business — California State University, Dominguez Hills

Jermaine Imerio

Co-Founder & Product Design Advisor (Experience Architecture)

Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia

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Advises on how products are experienced — interface, flow and the design decisions that should carry through to build.

Jermaine works across UX research, interface design and visual identity. He came to design the long way round, teaching himself the craft after four years as an aircraft maintenance technician, and later formalised it with a diploma in multimedia design. That mix shows in the work: careful about how something is put together, and equally careful about how it looks. On the Founding Advisory Board he guides experience architecture without holding an operational design-office title.

Disciplines

  • Experience architecture
  • Product design
  • UI and UX

Background

  • Co-Founder and Product Design Advisor — Cohesys
  • UI/UX designer — insurtech
  • UX/UI designer — digital product studio
  • Diploma in Multimedia Design — SEGi University

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