HR and consulting in Yahoo! and airline companies and many years of training. Certified MBTI and LEA 360TM Leading MBTI Chinese language train-the-trainer in Greater China.
Lawson Chu, A.Plus Executive Consulting Director, is an all-rounded and experienced professional in strategic management, human resources and learning consultancy. He was the head of human resources functions in different business in Asia. To cope with the rapid expansion of different business, Lawson has solid experience in building organization and formulating strategies for people development.
Previously, Lawson was the Vice President – Human Resources of CommVerge Solutions as well as the Head of HR of Yahoo! Asia. He has established the HR function and built the strategic management and operation team of worldwide telecommunication and Internet media business in Asia including Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Korea, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei & India. He formulated various solid strategies in particular on learning and organization development. He had successfully led various merge and acquisition deals by planning and executing strategies on people and organization integration. In contributing to the success of the worldwide Internet brand, Lawson has used an untraditional approach to achieve the company vision and mission. His management consultancy and coaching service rendered to the regional executive management team was very well received in enhancing effectiveness and the results contributed directly to a very positive business performance.
In his past experience, Lawson acquired solid people management experience in the government of Hong Kong and Dragonair. He was one of the pioneers in establishing the Employees Retraining Scheme when he worked in the Labour Department and he contributed to the success in building people and organization strategies for the fast growing airline all over Asia. Having witnessed the change of business from traditional organizations to a highly dynamic environment in the e-generation, Lawson is able to think out of the box and uses his distinct ideas - both practical and academic - to render effective management consulting services to meet the needs of any organizations.
Lawson was graduated from the University of Hong Kong with a Bachelor Degree of Social Sciences and has obtained a Master Degree in Training. He is also an academic lecturer / course facilitator for different management courses for Bachelor and Master degree students in the Open University of Hong Kong, University of Surrey, University of Southern Queensland and University of Portsmouth. He is also an accredited facilitator of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) certified by the Australian Psychological Press.
Start-up and re-engineering consulting in fashion and retail industries.
Paul Fong, A.Plus Group Director, is a seasoned professional in start up and re-engineering consulting in various businesses in China and Asia, in particular in retail and fashion industries. Paul has very solid expertise in customer service, business development, marketing, sales and operational management as well as people development with more than 14 years business experience. He was the head of different business enterprises taking care of business strategy and expansion.
Paul currently is the founder and the Director of the A.Plus Group. Previously,
Paul was the first batch of talents in being selected to join the Management
Trainee Program with COMITEX HOLDINGS LTD, the Giordano Group after his
university graduation. He has equipped solid experience in full spectrum of
business management including retail service, accounting and finance, sales and
distribution, business development, marketing, production, merchandising, retail
and franchise operation as well as EDP etc. He has been assigned to several key
management positions within the Giordano Group including Project Manager and
Distribution Manager before he further gained the international business exposure
as the General Manager – Malaysia with the Giordano Group. His strong
start-up and business reengineering experience were gained further when he was
further assigned as the Director of Operations – Mid China based in Shanghai
with TIGER ENTERPRISES LTD. He then rapidly developed the business for the
Group in China with proven track record and success. He has managed a large
group of sales and marketing employees previously and was successful in helping
to grow the employees’ talent and potential.
Paul was a Master Degree graduate in Information Systems in the City University of Hong Kong and obtained his Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing in Hong Kong Baptist University. Paul also obtained the Postgraduate Diploma in Hotel & Tourism Management in the School of Hotel & Tourism Management, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Christina Teo
20 years of multinational business, management and sales & marketing in Europe
and Asia with Acer, IBM, DEC, 3Com, Yahoo!, O2.
Christina is a very experienced consultant with solid senior executive management experience. Christina brings with her 20 years of management and marketing experience in the IT, Internet and mobile industry. She has extensive experience in developing regional strategies and tracking market developments and event management, with a deep understanding of the markets and business models of consumer, commodity IT products and large enterprises solutions.
Prior consulting, Christina manages the business for Evoke Asia out of Singapore. Evoke Asia represents the PDA phone segment of BenQ in Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines and Indonesia. Evoke Asia also sources phones for an Israeli company, Emblaze with operations in Europe selling to European mobile operators.
Christina was responsible for the sales and development of the Asia markets as the Vice President, Asia for O2 mobile services, devices and applications. Additionally Christina holds the portfolio of managing the roadmap of data-centric devices and applications for O2 across Asia Pacific as well as after sales service for the devices. Christina has been with O2 since the birth of the brand resulting from the demerger of the British Telecoms wireless business.
Christina joins O2 (previously named as Genie Internet) from Yahoo! Singapore where she was the General Manager responsible for the operations, business development, sales and marketing for both Singapore and the South East region. Working in Hong Kong previously with 3Com, she was the Personal Connectivity Product Marketing and Consumer Marketing Director for Asia Pacific. In this role, she was responsible for the development and implementation of the marketing strategies for both analogue and broadband Internet access products.
Prior to joining 3Com, Christina has had extensive marketing and management roles for Digital Equipment, IBM, Acer and IDC Asia spanning Asia, Latin America, Middle East and Europe. At Digital Equipment, Christina was the Strategic Marketing Director for Asia Pacific based in Hong Kong and was part of the core team that integrated both the Digital and Compaq operations when Compaq acquired Digital.
Christina was appointed Marketing Manager for IBM Direct ASEAN/South Asia where she pioneered IBM Direct, the new direct marketing initiative of IBM. Prior to her tenure at IBM, Christina worked seven years for Acer. These included stints for PC Sales and Marketing for Asia Pacific, Latin America and Middle East as well as Acer’s Unix sales headquarters based in Taipei. Christina moved to Paris as European Marketing Director for two years and spent a further two years as General Manager of Acer Italy. She was instrumental in turning around the Acer Italy operations into a profitable one within several months.
Christina began her career with IDC Asia in 1987 setting up their office in Singapore and was heavily involved in research in Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan IT markets, upon graduation from the University of Singapore, with a major in Economics and Sociology.
Maggie Yeung
Overseas expansion and marketing strategy. Nearly 20 years in airline industry.
Maggie Yeung, A.Plus Training Consultant, is a dynamic, assertive and interactive facilitator with very solid experience in management, strategy, sales & marketing, operation management as well as communication. With about 20 years experience in different nature of career assignment, Maggie has a wide international exposure all over Greater China, Asia as well as North America & Europe.
Maggie is our Contract Training Consultant focusing on management, strategy and people development since 2002. She started her career in the Government of Hong Kong in 1985 as the Executive Officer and Liason Officer. She has equipped excellent communication skills, both written and spoken, by in-charging of different intensive communication projects and she has acquired solid skills in communicating with people from all walks of the life.
After 4 years in the Hong Kong Government, Maggie changed her career by joining the commercial field and became the first Management Trainee of the talented program of airline in 1989. She has grown together with Dragonair from a startup company to a profitable and reputable airline in the Region. With more than 15 years in Dragonair, Maggie has stepped up her own career to the executive management team as the Assistant General Manager, responsible for Revenue Management, worldwide Sales & Distribution by reporting direct to the Chief Operating Officer. Maggie has spent much time in working in sales and marketing strategies for overseas markets including the PRC, Asia, Europe and the America. On the other side, during her career with Dragonair, she also equipped a lot of operation management experience when she was the In-flight Catering Manager and the Area Manager in Amsterdam, the Neverthelands for the cargo service when Dragonair first launched their cargo operation. She also acquired solid strategic country and people management experience when she was the Country Head of Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia and Taiwan. Her people management experience included a big team of about 100 employees in different assignments.
Maggie is an excellent presenter and facilitator as she has also taught part time in the Open University of Hong Kong for 4 years in Business Communication Program for Bachelor Degree’s Undergraduate students. Her public speaking, program delivery and facilitation experience are very well received by many clients and participants. Maggie obtained her Bachelor of Social Science Degree majoring in Economics & Management in the University of Hong Kong in 1985. She has also studied the Master of Public Relations in the University of Stirling, UK. Maggie is fluent in English, Cantonese and Mandarin.
Anthony Wu
Financial and audit expert, with Deloitte & Touche
Anthny Wu, A.Plus Training Consultant, was an energetic and lively facilitator. He graduated from the Hong Kong University, majors in the social sciences, had obtained University of London LLB afterwards. He is the member of Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public & Accountants and Fellow members of Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. Anthony has more than fifteen years experiences in the financial audit domain, and once worked multi-national, excelled in the rigorous work to give dual attention to the cultural fusion.
Anthony once worked in Deloitte & Touche Hong Kong accountant department for many years, and was responsible for the audit, the negotiable securities broker, the IPO project also acted as the Asia-Pacific coordinator for several US clients, including Merrill Lynch, Ann Taylor. His duties include running a stub-period audit, meetings with all parties (the sponsor, the client, the legal counsels), working with all parties on answering the queries from the HK Stock Exchange, meeting with the officials of HK Stock Exchange, etc. He was also involved in the Global Investment Performance Standard review project of asset managers and acted as the Asia-Pacific coordinator for several US clients, including Merrill Lynch, Ann Taylor. Soon he was handpicked by the firm to be the participant of Strategic Career Development Programs to study the American accountant standard, the audit standard and the SEC rule carries on the comprehensive.
After equipping a richer experience, Anthony became the central customer minister, once served the customer includes: Merrill Lynch (HK), Morgan Stanley (New York), Charles Schwab (HK), Bear Stearns (HK), E*TRADE (HK).
Besides engaged in the financial audit, Anthony also manages a huge American negotiable securities broker project and the Bank of European Hong Kong branch rebuilding project. He was familiar with China mainland new implements standard, like US recognizes accountant principle and Hong Kong financial report criterion. He was chosen by the company to New York to join in the global management development plan, and was responsible for Morgan Stanley as the company executive new laborer individual always to expose dosage alarm (TEWAS) project afterwards.
Afterwards, Anthony held the post of business management consultant in Shenyang Huishan Diary Holdings, responsible to improve the internal management, and giving advises for the new control system, including writing the production report, training the staff of the COSO frame, the self- appraisal system and so on.
Cindy Yung
HR, more than 10 years experience.
Cindy Yung, Learning Consultant of A.Plus, has more than 13 years solid experience in employee relation, human resources and people development, as well as strategic business communication experience. She demonstrated her high energy level and participant friendly approach in facilitation with strong motivation and enthusiasm to facilitate learning.
With a very solid experience gained in the Labour Department of the Hong Kong Government since 1990s, Cindy has able to manage different employee relations issues including law enforcement, communication and negotiation, learning and development for different employees in Hong Kong. Her wide exposure to different employment and management issues, plus her experience in handling different types of employees, enabled Cindy to be a very good facilitator in helping people to understand and learn about different management issues positively.
Cindy equipped strategic business management experience when she was the Business Director for Forever Chances Group, a premium and gifts trading business group. She was responsible for all the business development, vendor and customer negotiation, market development as well as operation management.
Cindy initially graduated with her Bachelor of Arts in the University of Hong Kong. She further obtained her Master of Arts in Arbitration & Dispute Resolution as well as the Postgraduate Certificate in Hong Kong Law in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Simpson Kwong
Supply chain management and procurement process.
Kwong Hip Choi (Simpson) graduates from the Lingnan University, the Bachelor of Business Administration, have obtained the Hong Kong technical University strategy purchase and the supply management Neo-Confucianism master's degree afterwards. After he graduates he goes to work in Koshin Corporation (HK) Ltd, setting up a new office in HK & administration procedure, following up office renovation projects, assisting M.D.in daily operation, handling book-keeping, following., arranging delivery schedule, searching for some potential vendors, sample arrangement, meeting with some MNC customers, negotiating purchase contracts independently and frequently taking bus Trip in China.
After that in Tat Shing Printing Ltd. As the Purchasing Officer, his mainly job is handling quotation, independently following up P/O, arranging production schedule, handling vendor’s inquiries & periodically preparing raw material/sub-contractors costing analysis report and exploring some potential supplies vendors, coordinating & auditing with sub-contractors, preparing inventory report and taking ad hoc projects.
Then Simpson holds the post of Matrox (world 2nd big video card manufacturer) the Asian limited company Asian and Pacific area headquarters to purchase special commissioner, seeks the source of goods in the far east area, closely coordinates the headquarters purchase department, regularly pays a return visit to the merchant, evaluates the post-sale service, the appraisal latent customer, the verification merchant production instrument, each week visiting initial equipment manufacturer, accumulated the good customer resources and the customer for it serves the managerial experience.
Afterwards Simpson takes the post of Behringer Hong Kong Ltd Head of Purchasing to reengineering Purchasing and Sourcing Dept. in HK / Germany and China, supervise11 subordinates Effectively developed, raises had the long-term competitive ability to supply goods business. Its main customer resources proliferates China, the Chinese Hong Kong, the Taiwan area, Southeast Asia, IC Germany, US, Thailand, places such as Italy. Simpson implements the new supplier to choose supplies goods the system, leads the Asian work team to implement the KPI system, the control management is located four cities five factories 128 kind of new products also to complete. In SARS period because the American aspect suspends to the Asian area source of goods provides.
At present he holds the post of IFI (Hong Kong) the limited company to purchase the inspector general, primary cognizance purchase enterprise main product (telecommunication, AV product and telephone accessory) production raw material. He leads its Asian work team to seek in Asia newly supplies goods business. In his work period, he initiates to implement the new source of goods strategy, reduces the supply chain expense, reduced the production cost successfully to complete the enterprise production task. His managerial experience involves the purchase, the import and export. The stock, stores in a storehouse, the production, the supply and so on each domain, the reality serves the experience to be extremely rich, in the negotiations and the purchase flow control, the cost management, the material and stores in a storehouse the management aspect especially to grow perceptibly.
Henry Yun
Corporate strategy and government relations.
Henry is a very professional consultant especially in business establishment and development, strategic management. With his own acumen and knowledge, Henry has helped many different industrial clients set up their operation and business in China.
Henry has provided consultancy on project in the past years such as being the business and marketing consultant for the Beijing Homexcel Trading Co., Ltd (exclusive agent of Stanley Furniture in China), the project director for TechMark Simulation Program in the China office of Asian Institute at Babson College (USA) and the key consultant for the Concept Travel Co. Ltd and the Celestial Media (China) on business planning and development. Henry has been the senior investment manager in the Capital China Group (CCG) identified the investment opportunity in Focus Media. With his unusual ingenuity and professional job, the business he involved in was very successful in development and operation.
Previously, Henry was the business development manager in the News Corporation Beijing Representative Office. When the Xingkong Entertainment Channel started up, Henry has researched and analyzed the TV channels and TV programming market in China; advised on channel positioning, TV programming and production; worked with team on business modeling, financial forecast and budgeting , assisted in screening and assessing potential partners and vendors; structured and presented Channel marketing plan for discussing and refining. He indeed was the key person of the success of Xingkong Entertainment Channel which formally launched on April, 2004. And holding his fluent English and Chinese in both writing and speaking, Henry studied Pay TV markets of Taiwan, America and the United Kingdom in order to apply their experience and business models to China pay TV business and worked with team on business modeling for China market. He also coordinated with other teams from TV Guide, Fox cable network, British Sky TV and NDS in digging and identifying business opportunities in Asia and assisted in government relation efforts by presenting NewsCorp’s experiences, and resources ,also exchanging ideas on business cooperation.
Henry graduated from the Northwest Polytechnic University majored in Machinery Manufacturing and obtained his Master of Business Administration in the School of Economics & Management of Tsinghua University. He was the Founder and Chairman of the MBA Association of Tsinghua University and the Vice Chairman of Graduates Union of School of Economics & Management.
In his early career, Henry has searched and explored export business opportunities as business manager in the China National Machinery & Equipment Import & Export Corp and retained good relations with the Customs, Banks, and shipping firms and so on. Later he has been the manager in Bright China Management Institute (BCMI) focusing on marketing and human resource management where he structured HR policies and researched and analyzed the executive management education market in China.
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