Mr Ching joined the Group in 2002 as Head of the Product Planning and Management Group of Unified Communications and was later appointed as the Director of our Product and Technologies Group. The main function of this Group within Unified Communications is to initiate and manage the development of innovative telecommunications products and solutions.

With more than 14 years of experience in the development, sales and marketing of telecommunications products and services, Mr Ching has a sound base of industry know-how and keen insight into the evolving needs of telecommunications operators.

Prior to joining Unified Communications, Mr Ching was the Director of Telecom System Development in Spotcast Communications. From 1996 to 2000, he served as Technical Manager of Octel Communication Pacific Limited. In 1995, Mr Ching was the Unit Head of an in-house development team in Hong Kong Telecom.

Mr Ching graduated with First Class Honours in Information Technology from the City University of Hong Kong. He qualified as a Chartered Engineer and gained membership of the Institute of Electrical Engineers in 1996.

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Ms Chin Wei Li joined the Group in January 2001 as Group Financial Controller.

Prior to joining the Group, she was a Senior Manager in the audit assurance services group of PricewaterhouseCoopers Malaysia. She has gained extensive experience in auditing public listed companies in various industries including property, finance and banking, timber and publishing while working with the international accounting firm.

Ms Chin is a Certified Public Accountant of the Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants and a Chartered Accountant of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants.

 

Mr Ho Ting Sai is currently our Director of Professional Services (PS) and a Director of Attrix Technology Singapore. His main areas of responsibility are technical management of the Group project and service delivery function as well as post sales support.

 

Mr Ho joined Unified Singapore on 1 March 1999 as Vice President (Operations) and subsequently assumed the role of Sales Director of the Group and later the Director of PS. He has more than 10 years of experience in the information technology and communications industry with core competencies in telecommunications products and services.

 

Prior to joining the Group, Mr Ho was an R&D engineer in Agilis Communications Pte Ltd from 1994 to 1995 and a Product Manager in Dialogic from 1995 to 1998. Mr Ho graduated from the Nanyang Technology University with a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 1994.

Mr Ann Wan Kuan, CEO of GlobeOSS Sdn Bhd, has been in the information technology and telecommunications industry for more than 14 years specifically in the area of Operation Support Systems (OSS).

 

Prior to the setting up GlobeOSS with the Group, Mr Ann was the CEO and founder of Acian Technologies Sdn Bhd, a company he founded to focus on OSS outsourcing and mobile blogging services.

 

Mr Ann started his career as System Engineer with Alcatel in 1993 and later joined Hewlett-Packard in 1994 before progressing to the position of South East Asia Manager for OSS. During his tenure at Hewlett-Packard, Mr Ann had undertaken various strategic roles from System Engineer, Solution Architect, Technical Consultant, Account Sales Management, Consulting Manager to General Management. He left Hewlett-Packard and join Agilent Technologies as Asia Pacific OSS Manager in year 2000 and was progressed to the position of Malaysian General Manager & Director of the Asia Pacific Service Organization. During the same tenure he also took on the role of Managing Director for Agilent Technologies Sales Malaysia. He left Agilent in 2004 to found Acian Technologies Sdn Bhd.

 

Mr Ann Wan Kuan graduated with a first class Bachelors Degree in Electronic Engineering from University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in 1993.

 

Mr Lee Yang Dong is the CEO of Ahead Mobile Sdn Bhd. He became a substantial shareholder of Ahead Mobile Sdn Bhd in 2006 after his acquisition of shares in Ahead Mobile Sdn Bhd from Ahead Mobile Inc. (Korea), the company that jointly established Ahead Mobile Sdn Bhd with Unified Communications Sdn Bhd.

 

Mr Lee has over 20 years of experience in the information technology and telecommunications business. Mr. Lee is also the CEO and founder of AMI since its establishment in February 2000, and has been managing the company's business of providing Location-Based Services (LBS), developing the business with LG Telecom and Hyundai Autos. Prior to founding AMI, he was the CEO of LG Internet Inc., a member company of the LG Group in Korea, a position he held between 1997 to 2000. Mr Lee joined Samsung Group as a Manager in Samsung SDS and has since held several positions in Samsung from 1989 until 1997 with last position as General Manager of Samsung's Global Network Division. After graduating from Yale University, he worked as programmer in Merrin Financial Inc. in the US, before joining Samsung in 1989. He has held several directorships in several IT companies, and has also served as professor in the Chosun University of Korea.

 

Mr Lee graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering in Seoul National University in 1983, and subsequently obtained a Masters Degree in Computer Science from Yale University in 1985.