Asia's Best Younger Entrepreneur 2009

Darran Nathan
Singapore

Age: 29

Company: Progeniq

After graduating from Ngee Ann Polytechnic Singapore, Darran Nathan continued to work with the institute on developing reconfigurable computing technology. He pursued commercialization after seeing reconfigurable computing's potential to change the way applications use computational resources. Darran co-founded Progeniq in 2005, offering computing hardware accelerators for the bioinformatics industry. Within six months, Progeniq already had customers from countries in Asia, the Middle East, and the U.S.