New Members Update

NEW MEMBERS UPDATE

Welcome to all new Vistage Malaysia members from mid-April 2010 to date!

VCE GROUP:
Carl Rajendram, Chief Executive Officer of ISM Insurance Services Malaysia Bhd
Charles Chan, Executive Director of MSM Metal Industries Sdn Bhd
Cheah Kok Hoong, Chief Executive Officer of Sunway E Systems (Asia) Sdn Bhd
Cheng Ping Liong, Executive Director of Grand-flo Spritvest Sdn Bhd
Eunice Tan, Managing Director of Treffert Coatings (SEA) Sdn Bhd
Kenny Tan, Managing Director of NewBillion Industries (M) Sdn Bhd
Kua Koon Khoon, Director of Hup Kee Hardware Sdn Bhd
Kuan Kok Onn, Group Managing Director of Tuck Sun & Co (M) Sdn Bhd
Mohamad Suhaimi Mohd Tahir, Chief Executive Officer of MSC Technology Centre Sdn Bhd
Mohd Hisham Ab Halim, Managing Director of Tenaga Switchgear Sdn Bhd
Nelson Yong, Deputy Managing Director of Able Enterprise (M) Sdn Bhd (promotion)
Raja Badri Shah Raja Ali, Chief Executive Officer of I.S. Technologies & Telecommunication Sdn Bhd
Ridzuan Kamaruddin, General Manager of Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd
Seow Soon Hoo, Senior General Manager of Yee Lee Trading Co. Sdn Bhd
Simon Lyddon Pugh, CEO of Pyramid Labels Industries Sdn Bhd
Sudhir Gandhi, Regional Director of Mega Life Sciences Sdn Bhd
Sunny Phang, Managing Director of Protect Print Sdn Bhd
Teoh Chong Lim, Chief Operating Officer of Chemetal (M) Sdn Bhd
Yeoh Kah Chai, General Manager of Emerging Pharma Sdn Bhd

VEE GROUP:
Adrian Lim Lei Hui, Sales Director, Hargrave Corporation Sdn Bhd
Asyfar Abdul Rahman, Executive Director, Autokeen Sdn Bhd
Chiew Teng Hin, GM of Jebplus Sdn Bhd (promotion)
Chin Chee Keong, Managing Director, Lima Bintang Logistics (KL) Sdn Bhd
Gary Chong, Chief Executive Officer of PLAY Interactive Software Sdn Bhd
Gary Eng Fook Mein, General Manager, Syncnergy Sdn Bhd
Goh Kah Boon, Asst. GM of Malayan Electro-Chemical Industry Sdn Bhd (promotion)
Hussein Razali, Managing Director, Sarawira Enterprise Sdn Bhd
Johnson Lai Hoong Kuan, General Manager, Crystal Veins Sdn Bhd
Lai Yeo Lian, Innovation, Dev & Tech Mgr of Xepa-Soul Pattinson (M) Sdn Bhd (promotion)
Lim Le Kern, Director of Innoglass Sdn Bhd
Mark Lee Boon Liang, Executive Director, Dcolour Connection Sdn Bhd (transfer)
Nicholas See Choo Keong, General Manager/Director, Hercules Sdn Bhd

KEY GROUP:
Francis Ng, Warehouse Manager of Megapower Manufacturing Sdn Bhd
Francis Tan Liau, Senior Shipbroker of KL Maritime (M) Sdn Bhd
Jeffry bin Ahmad, Finance Manager of Petrofac Malaysia Limited
Joseph Lim, General Manager of KL Maritime (M) Sdn Bhd
Karen Maree Woodman, Int Business Manager of Pyramid Labels Industries Sdn Bhd
Mohd Rosdi Bin Che Hasan, Sales Manager of One Gasmaster Sdn Bhd
Ravindran Naidu, Asst General Manager of Pyramid Labels Industries Sdn Bhd
Wong Khee Woon, Senior R&D Manager of Kumpulan Jebco (M) Sdn Bhd

Members’ Achievements

Congratulations to the following members on their achievements:-

CSR CLIMATE CONTROL (M) SDN BHD (Mr. Soh Chin Teck, Managing Director, VCE-19) on winning the 2010 Frost & Sullivan Malaysia Green Excellence Awards – Corporate Leadership in Building Insulation.

Membership Tenure Award – 10 years

This Award recognizes members who have been in Vistage for 10 years. Vistage Malaysia thanks members for their commitment and support.

Esmond Lee, Managing Director, A E Stamp Sdn Bhd – VEE-4
Foo Sen Chin, Managing Director, ECS ICT Berhad – VTA-1
Ida Rahayu, Managing Director, Eurofine (M) Sdn Bhd – VCE-9
Liew Sew Yee, Chairman & Chief Executive Director, Thong Fook Corporation Sdn Bhd – VTA-1
Lim Yong Keat, Director, General Technology Sdn Bhd – VTA-1
Matthew Goh, Finance & Admin Senior Manager, Sunway Technology Sdn Bhd – KEY-6
Melissa Chen, Founder & Executive Director, Esthetics International Group Bhd – VTA-1
Ooi Gim Chor, Director, Henry Butcher Malaysia (S. Prai) Sdn Bhd – VCE-610
Raymond Chew, Group MD/CEO, POS AD Sdn Bhd – VCE-9
Rosedy Issa, Managing Director, Gamat Emas Sdn Bhd – VCE-9
Puan Sri Datin Seri Dr. Susan Cheah, Executive Director, Sunway Management Sdn Bhd – VTA-1
Tan Cheik Eik, CEO, Elsoft Research Berhad - VCE-610
Terence Lau, Managing Director, U-Lik (M) Sdn Bhd – VEE-2
V Jeyaratnam, Director/Advisor, MIT Insurance Brokers Sdn Bhd – VTA-1

Chair Tenure Award – 10 years

This Award recognizes Chairs who have been chairing in the Vistage community for 10 years.

Choong Weng Kong, Regional VEE Chair and Chair of VEE-4 and KEY-4. To know more about Choong, read them in http://www.vistage.com.my/experience/advantage/vistage-chairs/choong-weng-kong/

New Groups Start

Group VCE-23 started on 18 May 2010, chaired by Dr. Wilson Tay. To know more about Dr. Wilson Tay, read them in http://www.vistage.com.my/experience/advantage/vistage-chairs/dr-wilson-tay/

Group VEE-15 started on 12 August 2010, chaired by Simon Soh. To know more about Simon Soh, read them in http://www.vistage.com.my/experience/advantage/vistage-chairs/simon-soh/

	VEE-15 members with Group Chair, Simon Soh (4th from right) and Sherine Cheng, ED- Vistage M‘sia (extreme right)

New Chair

Lee Lai Keong has completed Chair training and recently accredited as a Vistage Chair. He is building a new VEE Group which is scheduled to kick off on 24 November 2010. To know more about Lai Keong, read them in http://www.vistage.com.my/experience/advantage/vistage-chairs/lee-lai-keong/

Q2 2010 Vistage-MIER CEO Confidence Index

CEO confidence in 2Q2010 remains upbeat with five of the Index’s six component indices settling higher. The only component index that settled lower was expected profit growth, which slipped 4 points.
There remain potential downside risks to the recovery of the Malaysian economy. There are concerns that sovereign liquidity and solvency in the Eurozone periphery may turn into a potentially contagious sovereign debt crisis and derail the still fragile global economic recovery. Because of Malaysia’s strong dependence on exports, the impact of that happening on the domestic economy would be from the perspective of trade linkages.
Read on for more details of the report in:
http://www.vistage.com.my/downloads/2010-Q2-VISTAGE-MIER-CEO-Confidence-Index.pdf

Please feel free to forward the report to your business associates who will find it meaningful and should they wish to participate in the Index survey, do refer them to Vistage Malaysia. The Edge published the results on Monday, 31 May 2010.

Vistage Academy – CEO Tea Talk

VISTAGE CEO TEA TALK - 8 July 2010
Economic Outlook Of Malaysia and Its Impact On Businesses - Mr. Tan Teng Boo
Quill Automobiles, QUILL 9, Jalan Semangat, Petaling jaya

	(L-R) Richard Wong, (Chairman, Vistage Malaysia), Dato’ Jennifer Low (Founder & MD, Quill Group, event sponsor), Tan Teng Boo (guest speaker) and Heah Kok Soon (senior Vistage Chair & moderator)

The 18th Vistage CEO Tea Talk was sponsored by Quill Automobile (sole distributor of Rolls Royce and authorized dealer of BMW in Malaysia) and held in their posh showroom in Petaling Jaya. The event attracted an overwhelming response of more than 180 people. All attendees were given “Thank you” gifts by the sponsors.

Speaker Mr. Tan Teng Boo, Managing Director of Capital Dynamics Sdn Bhd said the next one to two years was crucial as it would determine Malaysia’s future in the long run. Good reforms through the New Economic Model and sound economic policies must be implemented to ride through the challenging times.

On the economic outlook for the next six months, Tan said the situation was not that bleak globally and locally. He did not expect the world economy to experience a double dip. While China would see a soft landing in its economy and growth in the US might not be too robust, the state of Malaysia’s economy should be healthy.

	Guests were sitted in an area know as the “Fastlane” where Quill Automobiles offers first rate after-sales service for its customers.			Cocktail and networking time! Participants get to view some of the latest BMW models and arrange to test drive some of their favorite models.

Vistage Value Added Services

FUTURE MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP -15 & 16 June 2010
The 30 Most Important Trends and Future Markets For Your Business – Dr Pero Micic
Sime Darby Convention Centre

Dr. Pero Micic conducted a 2 days workshop on the above topic recently. Participants from as far as China and Vietnam also participated at the workshop.

Dr. Pero walked through with participants on the future factors - clusters of important trends, issues and technologies of the future. Some of the major future factors cluster included “Challenge of Increasing Pollution of the Environment”, “Scarcity of Natural Resources”, “Global Growth Factors”, “Net Economy”, “Knowledge Systems and New Learning”, “Human-Machine Interaction”, “Process and Method Innovations”, “Change of Market Structures”, “New Market Horizons” and “Changing Work / Life Environments”.

	Participants from China paying full attention at the workshop.			Dr. Pero with a participant from Vietnam.

Participants were provided with templates and guided by Dr. Pero on using the "five future glasses" to analyze the impacts, recognize threats and opportunities that would affect their businesses and personal lives.

Overall, the future factors used for the workshop was rated 8.8 out of 10 and the process used in guiding participants to “future manage” their business was rated 8.6.

Here’s what some of the participants said:

• Eye opening to how trends, issues and technologies have evolved. Based on that understanding, benchmark against my Company’s current situation and visualize what kind of landscape my Company should pursue for the future. Question of differentiation!!
• How I could myself prepare a personal front for the future. Challenge my assumptions and re-look at my future opportunities.
• Converging technology and knowledge to help entrepreneur development. Interesting future on medical fields for personal benefits.
• Can immediately use the Future Radar Model to do my next project planning.
  

Vistage Chairman as panel speaker at 2nd Malaysia SME™ Congress

PARTICIPATION IN 2nd MALAYSIA SME™ CONGRESS

Chairman & Chief Listener of Vistage Malaysia, Richard Wong, was invited as a panelist speaker at the 2nd MALAYSIA SME™ Congress 2010 on July 7. The Congress was endorsed by Malaysia International Trade and Industry. Overall, there were more than 600 participants who attended the event.

Richard’s session was on the topic “Differentiation in Management Philosophy” jointly with few other corporate leaders. The session was very engaging with participants asking a lot of questions.

	Richard Wong (left) alongside other speakers who shared their experiences

TEC Australia Chair Conference

8 Malaysian Chairs participated in TEC Australia Chair Conference on 30 and 31 July 2010. They were Chairman & Chief Listener Richard Wong, Regional VCE Chair Lim Kah Hooi, Regional VEE Chair Choong Weng Kong, Ooi Toon Kit, Kwong Lok Wah, Hong Khay Chai, Simon Soh and Laurence Lim. Chairs attended the annual Conference to “sharpen their saw” with fresh thinking from the key note speakers as well as learning best practices from the Aussie Chairs during the Chairs’ breakout sessions. Malaysian Chairs also contributed by sharing their chairing experiences in Malaysia.

	Malaysia Chairs with Chris Gorman, CEO, TEC Australia (4th from left) and a Director, TEC Australia (6th from left) at the conference			(L-R) Richard Wong, John Beech (facilitator of breakout session) and Kwong Lok Wah (Chair)

Vistage Corporate Social Responsibilities

Vistage Malaysia & Lifewave USA Helping Autistic Children

LifeWave USA was founded on the principle of breakthrough personal-improvement technology that helps people all over the world to feel great and live well.

The LifeWave Technology was born out of 3 years of intense research by David Schmidt, Founder and CEO, into the concept of being able to naturally increase energy and stamina through elevation of fat burning utilizing wireless communication to the human body. The LifeWave Technology is now available to the public and David has committed the past 7 years into making this opportunity a reality.

	Founder & CEO David Schmidt of Lifewave with Richard Wong

David Schmidt and Richard Wong met at Sunway Lagoon hotel in April and David liked our intention to sponsor RM10,000 worth of patches to help autistic children. Lifewave will be a partner and make it a clinic study.

Charity Project To Raise Funds

In April, Vistage Malaysia contributed funds while at the same time, staff participated in a food and fun fair event at Sekolah La Salle, Brickfields, to raise funds for the Ti-Ratana Welfare Society, a community service society set up to serve and provide shelter, education, care and needs of underprivileged children, young people and senior citizens, regardless of race or creed.

Currently, Ti-Ratana offers, amongst others, the following social and community programmes / services - Children’s Homes/Orphanage, Old Folks’ Home, Shelter Home for Women, Home for the Handicapped, Halfway House, Free Medical/Healthcare Service For The Needy and the Ti-Ratana Community Centre in Bangsar.

	Vistage staff (L-R) Lee Peng, Karena and Mansor manning a booth selling drinks and jelly			Staff promoting “Love mineral water and Yummie jellies” with lion dance in the background

Be a fan of Vistage Malaysia Facebook

You can now be a fan of Vistage Malaysia’s facebook, where we provide updates on events and news. Just add us at the following e-mail address: vistagemyweb@gmail.com.

Vistage Chairs Wanted

DO YOU KNOW ANYONE who is looking for mental challenges as well as being kept up-to-date with the latest management and leadership thinking so as to help other CEOs/business owners grow their businesses?

The person should be an individual who is a former CEO or entrepreneur with wide business experience and the confidence to act as a mentor, coach and counselor for chief executives, managing directors and business owners at the highest level. Vistage Malaysia is always looking for such individuals to be trained and act as Vistage chairs.

A Vistage Chair has two major responsibilities: Firstly, to act as a leader of leaders who also facilitates his/her group meetings; and secondly, to meet each of his/her Vistage members every month for a one-on-one business review. Together, the chair and the member identify key issues and opportunities and focus on the most important priorities for actions and growth of the member’s business.

In line with expansion, we have Vistage Chair vacancies available in the Klang Valley, Penang, Johore Bahru, Malacca and Kota Kinabalu. Those interested can contact Sherine Cheng at (03) 2284 2199 or e-mail sherine@vistage.com.my.

Vistage Awareness Event

Vistage Malaysia conducts monthly Awareness Events for CEOs and Business Owners interested to know about Vistage and to join the organization. For schedule of the events, please go to: http://www.vistage.com.my/experience/advantage/vistage-awareness-event/