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Lawrence Chin
LAWRENCE CHIN is the Senior Executive Vice President of FSBM. He leads the Education and the Communication and Multimedia Divisions. He has been with FSBM since its inception in 1984 and is a pioneer staff. Prior to joining FSBM, Lawrence started his career in the IT industry with Business Computers Sdn Bhd as a systems Engineer for more than one year. He later moved to Public Bank Berhad as an Analyst/Programmer and was there for nearly one year before joining FSBM.
As a pioneer member of FSBM, Lawrence helped mould the company from initial staff strength of just 4, with limited support infrastructure and a market totally new to Fujitsu, to where it is today. He joined FSBM as a Systems Engineer and built up the Company’s systems support infrastructure before taking on the position of Systems Support Manager 3 years later. He was prompted to Assistant General Manager a year and a half later.
In his current position, Lawrence Chin is responsible for the sales and marketing activities of FSBM. He helps identify new market opportunities and positions the Company’s resources to tap these markets. With his all round skills in systems, technology and sales, he ensures that FSBM always delivers what it sells.
Lawrence graduated with Bachelor’s Degree (Distinction) in Applied Science majoring in Computer Science from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia in 1981.
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Phua Cheng Khan
PHUA CHENG KHAN is Senior Executive Vice President of FSBM. He joined FSBM in 1986. Prior to that, he spent 3 years in Japan on a computer technical training scholarship sponsored by the Japanese Government.
He joined FSBM as a Systems Engineer specialising in IBM-compatible mainframe technical support. He was then instrumental in setting up FSBM’s extensive customer education programme as well as building the foundation of FSBM’s customer support capabilities, which now spans support for telecommunication equipment, data network and infosecurity infrastructure, application systems, large turnkey applications development, large-scale systems integration, enterprise systems and IT consultancy services.
With his extensive IT experience, PCK led a team to secure the first MSC E-Government Flagship Application – the Project Monitoring System - in 1998. This nationwide project won the Asia-Pacific MSC IT&T Award (APMITTA) for the “Best of E-Government Applications” in 2001.
Between 2000 and 2004, PCK headed one of the 4 core business groups of FSBM, i.e. the Smart Community Business Group. This Group was involved in the development of intelligent city, township, campus, municipal and building solutions and the provision of related system engineering services. The Group secured a major engagement to build for the Government of Malaysia, the City Command Centre for Cyberjaya, in order to turn Cyberjaya into an intelligent city, the first of its kind in the world.
Since 2004, PCK is heading the Systems & Solutions Business Group. Under his guidance, the Group has aggressively expanded its systems integration offerings by establishing alliances with reputable organisations like Sun, IBM, Dell, HP, Cisco, Huawei, Datang Telecom, Samsung, Oracle, Agfa, Genesys and others in order to complement FSBM’s proven large-scale SI skills and enabling FSBM to supply, deploy and continually support the diverse solutions needed by its customers.
This strategy has quickly proven fruitful as FSBM made significant inroads into the telecommunication and healthcare informatics marketplaces. Taking cue from the Government’s drive to hasten the uptake of broadband services in the country, the Group won an award from Telekom Malaysia to roll out its fixed wireline broadband services through DSL (digital subscriber line) technology on a nationwide scale.
The Group’s venture into the healthcare industry also resulted in a landmark win to provide University Malaya Medical Centre, the largest teaching hospital in Malaysia, with a comprehensive hospital information system encompassing clinical, clinical support and non-clinical systems that are designed to support all of the hospital’s activities at the operational, tactical and strategic levels.
In recognition of FSBM’s role in the local IT industry, PCK was invited to represent the private sector in Universiti Sains Malaysia’s Computer Industrial Forum Advisory Panel to assist the university reform its computer courses to accommodate new developments and skill requirements for IT personnel in the 90s.
In 1998, Universiti Tenaga Nasional appointed PCK to serve as a member of the Board of Advisors of the College of Engineering for two years between Sept 1998 and Aug 2000.
PCK graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree (Honours) in Science majoring in Computer Science from Universiti Sains Malaysia in 1983.
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Michael Ta
MICHAEL TA is the Chief Executive officer for FSBM’s telecommunication and multimedia group.
Michael is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountant Australia. He graduated from Curtin University of Technology, Perth in 1985 with a Bachelors of Business degree and started his career as an auditor with an accounting firm in Malaysia. He later joined Coopers & Lybrand in 1987 and extended his audit, system and management consultancy experience with Coopers for more than 5 years in their Auckland, Perth, Melbourne and Sydney offices. Michael returned to Malaysia and joined Resorts World Bhd and later Star Cruises as their Group Chief Financial Officer.He spent 8 years with the Genting group and thereafter joined a local VOIP company as their Group Chief Executive Officer. He assumed that position for 2 years.
Michael has extensive experience in international businesses, corporate finance, systems and telecommunication. Michael has also served as consultant to various companies and was Chief Operating Officer for Melium Group, restructuring their systems and operations.
Michael is currently spearheading the telecommunication and multimedia division, developing new value added mobile software. He is also heading the Group’s latest development, UNOS Voice.
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Ow Eng Haw
OW ENG HAW is the Group Financial Controller of FSBM from 16th August, 2004.
He is a Chartered Accountant and is a member of the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Malaysian Institute of Accountants.
He began his career through articleship with Coopers & Lybrand and served a further post qualifying to round out his service in the professional field of 10 years. Subsequently, he joined the Financial Industry through a joint-venture company between Malaysia Aica Berhad and Tokai Bank of Japan as a General Manager. After a tenure of 9 years, Ow returned to the consultancy field as a partner in a local accounting partnership known as HALS & Associates.
He also subsequently served as the Group Financial Controller of Isuta Holdings Berhad, a company listed on the Second Board of KLSE an was instrumental in leading the restructuring and exit for the troubled group through a Reverse Take-over. He has also served as a Country Manager for Electroscon Sdn Bhd in Vietnam for a period of 18 months in the delivery of telecommunication projects. He followed this with a 2-year contract with ELKEN as its Head of Overseas Operations and led in the setting-up of operations in India and in the management of operations in Indonesia and Thailand.
Currently in his present position as Group Financial Controller of FSBM, he provides the financial and administrative support in the senior management team.
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