Up Close and Personal with SiTF Councilor - Mr Ng Tian Beng

This is the first of the mini-interview series where we interview our SiTF Councilors.
These exclusive interviews will also be featured on our eNews in the forthcoming weeks.

This year, in line with our 'Connect and Engage' theme, we hope YOU - our valued readers, know more about the people in SiTF - our SiTF Councilors, and the Secretariat.

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Up Close and Personal with SiTF Councilors

In this special edition, SiTF (Peishan) interviews our newly elected councilor 2007/08 -
Mr Ng Tian Beng, Dell Global B.V. (Singapore branch).

Hi Tian Beng, please tell us more yourself (your work or your personal life)

Tian Beng: I am currently Dell’s General Manager for ASEAN, Emerging countries (Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh) and Taiwan, with responsibility for all businesses (small, medium to large) and government customers in this region. As I need to travel frequently within this diverse group of markets, I put in extra effort to strike a balance between my family and work.

I am married to my lovely wife (Karyn), and have three young kids (Brennan 6, Kaelyn 5 and Kristen 3).

Tian Beng with family.

Enjoying sports and activities as family bonding
Tian Beng: During my free time, I enjoy watching sports such as EPL football, golf, F1 and tennis. I also work out regularly in the gym, run, swim and the enjoy the occasional golf session (for having always been on the "heavy" side when I was young).

As part of our family bonding, I also make efforts to get my family involved and spend more time together in outdoors activities.

Besides sports and exercising, part of our family bonding routine also involves reading, watching movies, going to playgrounds and cycling. We also make a point to take several family vacations a year to countries in the region.

I believe you and your family have a wonderful time together every week :)

Do share with us more your interests and involvement with SiTF.

Tian Beng: I have been a member of SiTF for the past several years and have actively attended its activities such as the regular networking sessions, SITEX, golf events and the recent SiTF’s 25^th Anniversary dinner. I have found these events to be beneficial and well-organized, and have helped me expanded my circle of business network tremendously while making more friends in the process. These reasons have attracted me to contribute further as a councilor.

With our recent AGM over, we saw a new Board of Council for 2007/08.
Moving forward, how do you see yourself as the role of the councilor and
working with the SiTF councilors and Secretariat? As a (new) councilor of SITF, do share with us your vision/aspirations for SiTF in the coming year.

Tian Beng: I am very excited to join the SiTF team of councilors and look forward to working closely with them. In my new role as councilor, I hope to leverage on my experience and knowledge of the industry to bring additional insights to the organization. SiTF has played a significant role in the Singapore Infocomm industry, and my aspiration for the coming year will be for SiTF to achieve its objectives in business development, networking, alliances, market intelligence and trade missions thus further strengthening its position locally and regionally.

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Thank you Tian Beng, for taking the time for this interview.
We wish you have a fruitful year ahead with SiTF!
Once again, Congratulations on your election.
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See SiTF Board of Councilor>>

Ng Tian Beng, General Manager,
ASEAN & Taiwan Dell Global B.V. (Singapore branch)

Tian Beng is the Dell ASEAN & Taiwan General Manager with responsibility for the ASEAN group of countries, Taiwan and developing countries such as Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. In this role, he has overall responsibility for all commercial accounts (from small medium business to large corporate), global accounts and government.

He started his career at Dell in 1998 as a business analyst and rose through the ranks to his present position. He was previously the General Manager for Dell in Singapore and Brunei, where he had responsibility for sales and marketing in both these countries. He has also held the position of the Director of Enterprise for Dell South Asia, with responsibility for the sales and marketing of Dell servers, storage and switches for the ASEAN group of countries, Taiwan and India. His other notable achievement at Dell includes being the Director of Global Customer Program Asia Pacific Japan, where he was responsible for Dell's global customers in Asia Pacific & Japan.

Prior to Dell, Tian Beng was with Sony Electronics Devices where he was responsible for the sales of Sony computer peripherals to both OEMs and distribution channels in Asia Pacific and the Middle East.

Tian Beng is a native of Singapore and has an Undergraduate Degree in Marketing from Santa Clara University, USA. Tian Beng also has an MBA in Marketing from University of Western Australia.

Story by: Chai Pei Shan