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Jeffrey Low, Managing PartnerAs a managing partner at International Biz Net located in Brunei and Singapore, Jeffrey brings more than 20 years of vast experience in playing a key role in relationship management & collaboration with automotive Brand principals. He advises, trains and coaches automotive Dealerships in areas of business development & quality service assurance.
He earlier held a senior management position in the Volkswagen Group and retail executive in the Mercedes Benz Dealership. At Volkswagen, he was responsible for setting up National Sales Company in Singapore & managing distribution for its Dealer network. He started his consulting company, IBN in Singapore and later on expanded into Brunei. IBN had secured several automotive brand distributorships for its clients. He is also mentoring new startup businesses and entrepreneurs at the Darussalam Enterprise. (www.bruneimentors.com) Not limited to only the automotive industry, he offers strategic advice to investment companies too. He was the Country Manager for Gulf Asia Investments (Qatar) LLC where he was stationed intermittently between Qatar and Singapore. His tenure at Gulf Asia Investments saw him further hone his talent for paving new business inroads into Qatar governments tender in infrastructural development. He had also held position as Business Development Consultant at TSL Holdings responsible consulting its group businesses and identifies key partners and opportunities in this region for expansion. The provision of strategic business consultancy facilitated TSL holdings foray into China, Thailand and the Philippines markets. |
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Abdulla Alsulaiti, Oil & Gas AdvisorBorn in Qatar and a qualified chemical engineer graduated in UK. He is a veteran in the oil and gas industries and equipped with 3 decades of extensive experience in managing plant operation, oil and gas projects business development. A great advocate of self motivation and team work with eagerness to better than the best is his driving force.
He has effectively demonstrated his effective skills in managing project safety and on time in a challenging environment. His in borne flexible and versatile nature enables him to deliver his job despite under high pressure. His thrive in deadline driven environments and excellent skills have successfully delivered numerous high profile projects between Indonesia, Germany and France. He has made several real estate investment around the world. |
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Malike Bouaoud, CISO, Cyber Security ExpertMalike is a recognized cyber security professional with more than 20 years of professional international experience who held key strategic positions in diverse organizations and territories across Europe and the Middle-East mainly.
KEY ACHIVEMENTSKey projects and programs that he achieved are still making strides in their domains such as the national PKI of Luxembourg in 2006-2007 (LuxTrust.lu) or more recently the autonomous drone delivery project that he developed while setting up the innovation lab at the Ministry of Transport and Communications in Qatar. This project highlighted a key innovation when it comes to developing a secure drone platform for real-time regulations of the airspace, or how cyber security can enable an entire domain and solve challenges. Other key achievement has been while leading the information security risk management at Syngenta in Switzerland from 2012 to 2014, Malike has developed the entire Cyber Security program from scratch for all the industrial sites of the organization (more than 80 around the world) and managed the information security and data privacy program across the 93 countries of the organization.
He also demonstrated key strategic skills in his approach to designing the National Cyber Security Strategy of Qatar from 2014 as advisor to the Minister of ICT. Malike has also authored and co-authored some national policies such as the National Information Assurance Policies and Framework of Qatar (NIAF) as well as regulations (Qatar Central Bank Banking Supervision Rules: technology risks rule, QCB Exchange Houses Security Standards) and laws such as the Qatar Information Privacy and Protection law, CIIP regulation, National Cryptography policy, e-commerce and digital signature law and the Cyber Crime law (between 2009 to 2016). |
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Bob Lim, Automotive SpecialistMost part of Bob’s career is in the automotive sector, where he has spent time in Singapore, China and Thailand, representing a wide range of car brands in these markets covering the full spectrum of activities in automotive distribution and retail. In recent years, he has also been active in heavy machinery and agricultural tools and equipment, as he puts it “these machines share the fundamental principle with the automobile which is an engine powering the drive train to fulfill a desired task”. The distribution channels and strategies are also similar and that is where his expertise comes in. Bob also actively writes blogs that delves intimately into the inner workings of the industry and predicts the future of the business. Bob supports us in our automotive consulting work and of late the emphasis has been electrification of cars and the impact on the support services and customer relationships.
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Selçuk Kaan Kuvan, Financial ConsultantBorn in Turkey and graduated from University of Uludag, acquired a Master degree in Economics and Industrial Relations. He began to his humble career in the banking sector (Qatar National Bank) for 2 decades and promoted to the management level overseeing retail and corporate finance division. Having an outgoing character and outspoken skills, he has developed very good relationship with many well established companies in Turkey. He specialises in consulting Small Medium Enterprises on cross border trade and digital marketing strategies.
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C J. Ng, Corporate TrainerC J brings value as a leading consultant, specialising in sales, leadership and experiential learning, helping international companies achieve quantum improvements in business results in China and beyond. He has worked with companies to help sales people to achieve outstanding results, leveraging his skills to onboard newly promoted managers, and to transition sales people to high-performing sales team leaders. Prior to being a consultant, c.j. served as Corporate Training Director for Ringier AG, Switzerland's largest media group, in the Greater China region, where he was responsible for leadership development for sales managers, and helped the group to increase overall sales targets by more than 150% within the 1st year. He was also the Asia Sales & Marketing Director for Fortune 500 logistics company in Shanghai.
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Jason Lim, Technology Consultant
Home grown Singaporean, study in Raffles Institution, Raffles Junior College and graduate with 2nd upper class honour from National University of Singapore. Jason had worked in Hitachi for 6 years before becoming venturing out to become an entrepreneur. He had established setups such as Semi-Solution Inc and Epita Pte Ltd in earlier years. The latest setups in China include import/ export office in shanghai, machining shop in Suzhou, repair centre in Wuxi and food factory in Chengdu. He is currently engineered and developed a unique cloud tagging system that could track and trace moving assets and deters counterfeits.
S L Lee, Strategic Advisor
Mr S L Lee is an entrepreneur who has developed numerous businesses in his three decades of professional and business life. Having served in the oil & gas industry since the late 70s to early 80s, SL (as he is fondly addressed) has developed a knack for developing new markets and forging new paths in many emerging markets. SL is also an investor in a successful restaurant chain in South East Asia. As a partner to many businesses, SL continues to utilize his business acumen to guide the managing partners of food & beverage and manufacturing companies in which he has a stake. With business spanning Singapore, Malaysia and China, SL Lee’s unique market experiences coupled with a practical no nonsense approach to business and financial management gives IBN Advisory the significant knowledge base on which to tap on.
Woo Nam Kwong, Building & Construction Consultant
Mr. Woo is a reputable professional civil engineer with 35 years of experience in the Building and Construction (B&C) industries. His work responsibilities and experience covers full project management and physical hands-on supervision of site activities and construction works for both Civil and Building Works. Aside he has good and strong working experience exposure to Construction Design and Structural Engineering Calculation Works, including with Architects, PEs and Statutory Agencies and Authorities. He had held positions ranging from Site Supervisor, Site Agent to Construction Manager and Project Manager/ Director.
