Company founder scores double win at MCY Awards

It runs in the family: Sreelaththa (left) won two awards at the MCY Awards. Her sister Prof Dr Srimala is famed for an invention that uses air purifiers to convert pollutants into harmless molecules.

The sister of Prof Dr Srimala Sreekantan, the Malaysian female scientist famed for an invention that uses air purifiers to convert pollutants into harmless molecules, won an award in the Commercial Deal category at the 2017 Malaysia Commercialisation Year (MCY) Awards and won Best Company Pitch For Angel On The Plane Program at the Global Entrepreneurship Community Summit.

Sreelaththa Sreekantan, who is managing director of Anano Sphere, a company that markets her famous sister’s invention of a liquid protection that can keep surfaces protected from volatile organisms, had started the company in 2012.