Adastra Valuation & Advisory is closely affiliated with Adastra IP, a leading full-service intellectual property firm in Malaysia. Adastra IP covers the complete IP lifecycle, including patent and trademark filings, prosecution, enforcement, analytics, and commercialization support. In parallel, Adastra Valuation & Advisory was established to focus exclusively on valuation, advisory, and strategic services relating to intellectual property and intangible assets. This specialization ensures that our clients not only secure their innovations but also unlock their full economic potential—whether for financing, M&A, licensing, or long-term strategic growth. Together, Adastra IP and Adastra Valuation provide businesses with a complete ecosystem for IP protection, management, and value creation.
Dato Anuar is an experienced venture capitalist and had evaluated over two hundred ventures since 1996. He was a CEO of PNB Equity Resources Sdn Berhad and Malaysian Technology Development Corporation. Over the years, he had developed an expertise in the valuation of firms, ventures, technologies and intellectual properties in a number of industries and sectors in Malaysia and Silicon Valley, USA. Dato’ Dr Anuar has both engineering and business backgrounds including an MBA from the University of Bradford, England and MSc in Management of Technology from Sloan School of Management of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Valuation Associate
Asher brings a foundational understanding of financial integrity and compliance from his experience in external audit at KPMG, where he worked across diverse sectors including property development, construction, and capital market funds. His exposure to these industries has equipped him with a broad perspective on financial structures, reporting requirements, and industry-specific regulatory standards. He holds a degree in Applied Accounting from Oxford Brookes University, is an ACCA Affiliate with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), and has obtained the International Certified Valuation Specialist (ICVS) designation, reflecting his expertise in business and intangible asset valuation.
IP Attorney
Tommy Nguyen is an intellectual property (IP) attorney with over 10 years of experience, specializing in IP rights, e-commerce disputes, IP evaluation and corporate law. He holds degrees in Law and Business Administration and is a registered IP attorney with the Hanoi Bar Association, Vietnam Bar Federation (VBF).
As an IP Attorney, he has helped establish 100+ companies, 150+ payment gateway accounts, and resolved over 120 IP dispute cases while collaborating with large corporations. He has successfully assisted many Vietnamese technology entrepreneurs in evaluating their IP assets before seed rounds of investments.
Earlier in his career, he worked with top-tier IP firms, securing and enforcing IP rights for global corporations such as CVS Pharmacy and Bridgestone.
Tommy is the representative of our Valuation division in Vietnam aside from serving as the Director of Adastra IP Vietnam.