Vijay Eswaran is the founder and executive chairman of the QI Group, a multinational conglomerate with interests in direct selling, retail, travel and leisure, education and lifestyle sectors. Educated in the UK and the USA, Vijay had a successful corporate career in North America, working with top technology and consulting companies before the call of entrepreneurship brought him home to Asia in the early 1990s. Since growing the QI Group into a successful conglomerate, he is now focused on his legacy project, the Quest International University in Malaysia, which he aims to turn into an Ivy League institution of the East.

A proponent of value-based leadership, Vijay Eswaran, a Malaysian of Indian descent, has ensured the QI Group adheres to sustainable practices in business, making a positive impact in the communities it operates in. He has committed 10% of the Group’s revenues towards RYTHM Foundation, the social impact initiative of the QI Group which focuses on contributing to the UN Sustainable Development Goals on Gender Equality, Quality Education and Sustainable Community Development. He also founded Vijayaratnam Foundations, with a focus on community development and children with special needs in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Among its many projects, the Vijayaratnam Foundation established TAARANA, a Malaysian school for children with learning disabilities.

Vijay hosts V-Convention, a motivational, training, and networking event with up to 20,000 attending entrepreneurs, and leads QNET’s international partnerships including with Premier League Manchester City FC. He has published three bestselling books on leadership and mindfulness, with ‘In the Sphere of Silence’ selling half a million copies to date. He is a regular speaker at global events including the World Economic Forum and has received numerous awards, amongst them the ASEAN Business Advisory Council and Lifetime Achievement Award for Global Entrepreneurship in 2016.