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Vach Pillutla

CEO

Vach Pillutla, Chief Executive Officer of Al-Ikhsan Sports has more than 26 years of global lifestyle and
retail experience having run businesses in different markets across Asia for Global brands like Adidas,
Sony Corp, New Balance, VF Corp and Samsonite. He has been instrumental in rolling out over 2500 stores across more than 70 key cities across the world including India, South East Asia, North Asia, Australia, South Africa, Middle East, Europe, USA and even Latin America for these global behemoths.

The most interesting facet of his experience is that while he has worked with all these iconic brands,
he has always been put into a role which is either about starting a new brand, a new market or a new category for these organizations.

He joined as the Chief Executive Officer of Al-Ikhsan Sports, a home-grown Bumiputera sports retailer
in January 2017 and over the 5 years has taken Al-Ikhsan Sports to new heights with over 135 stores
across 5 different retail concepts - the flagship concept called Al-Ikhsan Sports, Al-Ikhsan Sports Warehouse, Football Republic, Sneaker Street and a new one, called Al-Ikhsan Sports Factory.

He was also instrumental in building the E-commerce platform for Al-Ikhsan sports with a vision of making Al-ikhsan.com the #1 sports market-place in Malaysia by end of this year. Today, Al-Ikhsan Sports has more than 30% market-share within Multi-Brand sports retail.