Faculty of Management & Entrepreneurship

Hailing from the Netherlands, Najmi Abdullah @ Thijs Hovenkamp is the Dean of FME and also the Head of Programme (BHTM). He lectures in a range of courses including Revenue Management, Leadership and Strategic Management. He brings a wide range of International experience with him. He has worked as a Managing Director of a resort in Portugal as well as an acting general Manager in Malaysia. He holds an MBA.

Norzaini Saupi
is currently working at FME, UCSF for almost 8 years and appointed as a Deputy Dean. She pursued her Degree and Master at the Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) and graduated with Bachelor of Business Administration majoring in marketing and was awarded the MBA Specialization in Marketing. Thereafter, she taught Marketing and Entrepreneurship courses in UCSF. Recently, she published two articles in the International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation (Scopus-Indexed). She is currently pursuing PhD research in the area of Umrah celebrity endorsement at UTHM.

Dr Amy Faizah Nain
is a lecturer in statistics and economics at Faculty of Management and Entrepreneurship, University College Sabah Foundation (UCSF). Currently, she was posted as Head of Programme for Bachelor of Business Administration. Amy-Faizah has completed her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Human Resource Economics at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Accountancy, University of Malaysia Sabah in November 2019. Her areas of interest in research include female labour force participation, economic growth, fertility, econometric and statistics. She is also involved in developing modules on entrepreneurship especially for the short courses.

Dr Delores Pammie Joeh
is a lecturer with 12 years of teaching experience under her belt. Over the years she has been teaching mainly management and entrepreneurial subjects. Her education background consist of a Diploma in Business Administration (UiTM), Bachelor of Business Administration majoring in Management Information System (UNiTAR), Master in Business Administration specializing in Entrepreneurship (UMS). She is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Business Administration at UiTM. Besides teaching, she also has a liking to cooking and baking and has found it to be very therapeutic.

Barbarawati Richard
completed her degree in accounting from University of Malaya in 2000. Continued her master in Business Administration (Accounting) at University Malaysia Sabah in 2011. She is expert in accounting especially cost accounting, management accounting, taxation and a trainer for UBS (an Accounting Software). Has been teaching since 2000 for diploma and degree programmes in various institutions i.e UiTM franchise programme, UNITAR franchise programme, OUM programme and In-House programme. Joined UCSF in November 2014 as lecturer. Appointed as the Deputy Dean cum Head of Department (Accounting) in 2016. Currently Head of Programme of Diploma in Accounting (DAC).

Harianah Basir
is a lecturer at Faculty of Management and Entrepreneurship, University College Sabah Foundation (UCSF) since 2018. Her lecture is more on finance and accounting fields such as corporate finance, financial management, accounting information system, auditing, financial accounting and integrated case study. She completed her Master of Accountancy in 2015 at Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) and Bachelor Degree majoring in Financial Management and Banking in 2009 at Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS).

Hazlina Binti Baba
Is a lecturer with experience in Tourism Management, Tourism Planning and Hospitality. She graduated her study in Master of Science (Tourism Planning) and Bachelor of Business (Tourism Management) and started her journey as an educator in 2019 in a private local university college. During her master’s research she focused on ‘Creative Tourism Experience’ in Kiulu Farmstay Tamparuli which helped the research area to enhance their new tourism products innovation specifically in Creative Tourism. She currently works at University College Sabah Foundation (UCSF) where she is a lecturer as well as the Head of Programme for the Diploma in Tourism Management (DTM).

Masnie Dipin
is a lecturer, expert in hospitality and tourism at Faculty of Management & Entrepreneurship, University College Sabah Foundation (UCSF). She has graduated with a Bachelor of Business Major in Hotel Management) from University Malaysia Sabah (UMS) with 7 years teaching experiences and been Certified ASEAN national Trainer (Food Production Division), certified by MOTEC (The ASEAN Mutual Recognition Arrangement on Tourism Professional and Trainer for Oracle Opera PMS (Front office software) & practical classes. She is also actively involved in knowledge sharing, and a leader for demonstration of hospitality courses and was appointed as a trainer for hospitality training for all Yayasan Sabah conservation areas.

Dr Frederica Mojilis
is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Management and Entrepreneurship, University College Sabah Foundation. Her primary area of expertise is accounting. Dr Frederica Mojilis graduated with a PhD (Accounting) from Curtin University, Western Australia in 2014 and most of her experience in research comes from her PhD thesis on the study of environmental disclosure which is one of the dimensions of sustainable development. She brings many years of industry experience, and besides academic teaching, she also has a few publications.

Clarice Julius Bedion
is a lecturer in the Faculty of Management and Entrepreneurship (FME) currently teaching Management and Information Technology Courses. She is proficient in giving conceptual knowledge as well as developing new lessons and activities to expand learning opportunities of the students in UCSF.
Qualifications: Master of Science in Knowledge Management, UiTM.
Bachelor of Science in Records Management (Information System), UiTM.

Elthya Bt. Seben
is a Faculty Officer at the Faculty of Management and Entrepreneurship (FME), University College Sabah Foundation (UCSF) since 2015. Her main areas in FME are more to the Administration and Management field. Other than that, she is an independent person and fast learner as well as she loves doing business (online and offline). She completed her Bachelor of Science With Honours (Major in Human Resource Development) in 2014 at “Bumi Kenyalang”, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS). During her previous study in UNIMAS, she has been awarded the honor of “Dean list”.

Esther Joan
is a lecturer with experiences in tourism and hospitality and has worked and organized several reputable events in the event industry. She started her journey as an Educator since 2012 in a private local university while doing her Masters in Business Administration (MBA). Currently, she is working in University College Sabah Foundation (UCSF). Her areas of interests are in research of rural tourism (homestay) and also marketing. Apart from imparting knowledge and good values onto her students, she enjoys planting cactus and succulents. She also finds baking and cooking truly is therapeutic.

Jessica Justine
is a lecturer with experiences from the hospitality, tourism & event industries. She is a Master Degree holder and has been with University College Sabah Foundation for more than 6 years. Besides being an educator, she has a passion for cooking and has run a full marathon!

Khairunisah binti Kamsin
is a lecturer at the Faculty of Management and Entrepreneurship, University College Sabah Foundation (UCSF). She holds a master’s and Bachelor’s degree majoring in Human Resource Economics and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. by Research at UMS. Her doctorate research focuses on the Effect of the Debt Threshold on Economic Growth In the ASEAN-5 countries as well as China, and Japan.

Mr. Lance R.G
has completed his Bachelor degree in Bachelor in Culinary Management (UiTM Shah Alam) and Diploma in Culinary Art (UiTM Bukit Mertajam). Before joining UCSF, he worked with the hospitality industry, specialize in pastry making at Marriott Putrajaya by IOI and Meridien Kota Kinabalu as commis. Then as a chef in a few restaurants specialize in asian and western cooking.

A UiTM graduate, Ms. Melanie has completed her Master degree in Master Business Administration and Bachelor degree specialized in accounting. She successfully completed her courses in management, finance, human resources and business that had given her solid base upon accounting and management. She also has done various researches during her master degree specialized in corporate management. In addition, she have 4 years of experiences in public and private sectors that allow her to handle various administrative tasks in line with the requirements of the organization which has given her an adequate experience and knowledge that can be shared with the students. Currently, she works at University College Sabah Foundation as a lecturer and possessed almost 8 years of experience as educator.

Murni Lakasi
is a commis at Ijau Cafe, UCSF. She started her career with working in a fast food restaurant for almost a year. Before joining UCSF, she worked with the hospitality industry, specialize in pastry making, for 6 years. To add, she completed her Diploma in Hospitality and Catering Management in 2012 at Politeknik Kota Kinabalu.

Nor Afifah Yusof
is a lecturer with over 7 years’ experience in the business management field and currently working with University College Sabah Foundations as a lecturer for 6 Years in Faculty of Management and Entrepreneurship. She has completed her Master’s degree and Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, majoring in marketing and entrepreneurship. Besides, representing, managing, and monitoring the DBM students, she has also been involved in planning the Yayasan Sabah Education Blueprint in 2019 and engaging in few development planning for education.

Nur Fikri Jainol
is a lecturer at the faculty of Management and Entrepreneurship at Universitu College Sabah Foundation. He specialises in Hospitality and Tourism. Fikri has completed both his Diploma & Bachelor Degree in Tourism Management (UiTM Sabah Campus) and is currently pursuing his Masters in the same field. (UiTM Sabah Campus). He worked with Hilton Kota Kinabalu for almost 3 years as an Executive Lounge Operative of the Front Office Department, specializing in customer service and the handling of VIP guests.
During his time at Hilton, Fikri was trained in Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Technical Service Agreement (TSA) as well as Food Hygiene

Passionate in teaching and sharing knowledge, with more than 10 years of teaching experiences. Nurul graduated from University Putra Malaysia with a Master of Computer Science, specializing in Software Engineering. She started teaching at private institutions from 2005, focusing on Information Technology, Management Information System and E-commerce. She is also active in conducting in-house training related to the Learning Information System./p>

Rohana Binti Arpa is a lecturer at the Faculty of Management and Entrepreneurship (FME), University College Sabah Foundation (UCSF) Kota Kinabalu. She completed her Bachelor Degree in Islamic Finance in 2013 at University Malaysia Sabah, Labuan International Campus and Master in Economics in 2016 at University Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu. After graduating, she became a part time tutor in Open University Malaysia (OUM) in her homeland (Sandakan) and started her full time lecturer at UCSF in 2019. Her main area of expertise is finance and currently teaching Islamic Finance Management, Financial Management, Islamic Finance and Banking System, and Introduction to Finance, for Diploma and Degree students at UCSF.

Right after graduating her first degree at Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) in 2001, majoring in Banking and Finance, Siti Rahma Binti Malusirang worked as a Research Assistant at Borneo Marine Research Institute, Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) for 10 years. During her attachment with BMRI UMS, she was actively doing research on the seaweed development project in Balambangan and Banggi Island, Kudat, funded by the Ministry of Rural and Regional Development.
In 2009, she pursued her Master Degree, by full research, entitled “To study roles of government agencies and human resource management practices of entrepreneurs in seaweed industry in Sabah”. Besides that, she joined another research funded by PEMANDU, the EPP3 New Key Economic Areas, Agricultural Seaweed Mini Estate, Business and Economic Cluster until March 2014.
While doing her Master, she was also a part time tutor at School of Business and Economics (currently known as Faculty of Business, Economics and Accountancy), UMS for 8 years, tutoring various management courses such as Corporate Communication, Principles of Management, Business Ethics, Human Resource Management and Microeconomics. She also presented her papers at both local and international seminars and conferences and published a paper in Journal of the Asian Academic of Applied Business as a co-authors.
She joined the Faculty of Management and Entrepreneurship (FME), UCSF in September 2016 as a part time lecturer for 2 years and decided to join UCSF as a full time lecturer in 2018. Her areas of interest are Islamic Human Resource Management, Human Resource Training and Development and Management. Besides teaching she is also invovled with an NGO and participated a training of trainers with Malaysian Against Pornography (MAP) Sabah in March 2020.

Graduated from Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) in May 2012 awarded the degree of Bachelor of Legal Studies (Hons), Ms Siti Halijah started her profession as an educator back in December 2012, is an expert in law subjects for business, hospitality and tourism students. Apart from that, she also experienced in teaching MPU subjects namely Pengajian Malaysia as well as Perlembagaan dan Masyarakat Malaysia. Joined UCSF in 2017 and currently teaches law subjects for diploma level specialising in business law, corporate law, hospitality and tourism law, as well as business ethics.

Susie Labadin
is a lecturer in conservation tourism, transport operation, tourism geography, and events & design experience at Faculty of Management and Entrepreneurship, University College Sabah Foundation (UCSF). Susie had completed her Bachelor in Recreation, Park, & Tourism Administration in 1996 in Western Illinois University, USA.

Thomas Joluis
started his career in the hospitality and tourism industry before joining the education line in 2013. He has more than 7 years’ experience in delivering lectures, coaching and mentoring skills on hospitality and tourism management. Currently, he is working at University College Sabah Foundation. Thomas graduated first class in Bachelor of Science (Hons) Tourism Management from UiTM and holds a Master of Human Capital Management from UMS.