Jayasilen Sivapragasam is a Marketing Manager at MM Century Sdn. Bhd., where he leads the company’s ESG strategy, digital transformation, and circular economy positioning. With over sixteen years of cross-industry experience spanning industrial waste management, IT asset disposition, consumer intelligence, and enterprise digital transformation, he operates at the intersection of sustainability, technology, and commercial strategy.
Since 2021, Jayasilen has driven MM Century’s evolution from a conventional industrial waste collector into a sustainability-driven service provider. Under his strategic direction, the company secured the Gold Award for Waste Management at The Star ESG Positive Impact Awards 2023 and the Silver Award in the same category at the 2024 awards.
He played a pivotal role in conceptualising and shaping Daxtium, MM Century’s data destruction and IT asset disposition arm. Daxtium specialises in secure decommissioning of end-of-life IT hardware — servers, storage media, and data centre equipment. Notably, Daxtium leverages blockchain technology in its certificate issuance and verification processes, providing clients with tamper-proof, independently auditable records of data destruction and the asset chain of custody. This positions Daxtium as a practical enabler of industrial symbiosis, ensuring recovered materials re-enter manufacturing supply chains with full traceability.
Jayasilen holds an MBA and a BSc in Biotechnology from Universiti Putra Malaysia and is a GRI-Certified Sustainability Professional. He is also a 6th Degree Black Belt and an International Umpire with the International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF).