Andrew Darwis

Founder and Chief Technical Officer KASKUS Networks

Andrew Darwis was born in Jakarta on 20 July 1979. He is the 2nd of 3 siblings. His love for IT world has made him acquired Master of Computer Science from Seattle University, after he completed his studies in Multimedia & Web Design at Art Institute of Seattle.

Besides being the founder of KASKUS, Andrew Darwis is also responsible in monitoring and maintaining the quality of information technology in KASKUS website. Andrew Darwis is trying to continually creating and adopting new innovations which could be developed in KASKUS website.

His patience and consistency had brought KASKUS to become the largest website community in Indonesia today. Before developing KASKUS in 1999, Andrew Darwis had once worked in Lyrics.com, USA.

Several awards which KASKUS had won are:

  1. “The Greatest Brand of the Decade” (2000-2010), awarded by Mark Plus Inc.
  2. The Best Innovation in Marketing (2009), awarded by Marketing Magazine.
  3. The Best Market Driving Company(2009), awarded by Marketing Magazine.

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