He 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.

He is now head of intellectual property valuation of Adastra IP (M) Sdn Bhd. 
Dato’ Dr Anuar has both engineering and business backgrounds. His qualifications are as follows: 
Bachelor of Chemical Engineering, University of Birmingham, England. 
MBA, University of Bradford, England 
MSC, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA. 
PHD, Strategic Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia. 
He is a Professor in Business Strategy at International Business School, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He is an accomplished author with two books, and his articles have been printed in international journals.