LIAU Beng Chye, CMgr, CCMI, Chairman

Mr. Liau holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering with First Class Honours from the National University of Singapore. Mr. Liau is the Chairman and CEO of ArmorShield Holdings Pte Ltd, which he founded in 1985. He spent the first two years of his career in oil exploration as a geophysicist, specializing in data acquisition, processing, analysis, and interpretation. Subsequently, Mr. Liau started several companies and took them to fruition before engaging them in M&A. He also has extensive experience starting companies and taking them for public listing. Over the last 30 years, Mr. Liau has accumulated a wealth of experience in sales, marketing, project management, project financing, corporate finance, M&A activities, IPO, and management at the strategic level in the mining, manufacturing, construction, real estate, IT, Oil and Gas, medical and pharmaceutical, M&E and lighting industries.

Mr. Liau was involved with numerous professional bodies and state-owned enterprises. He was the Honorary Chairman of the Chartered Management Institute, Singapore; the Advisor of the Singapore Innovation & Productivity Institute (SiPi); a Member of the Selection Panel, International Management Action Award (IMAA); Member of the Practicing Management Consultant Certification Board (PMC-CB); Chief Advisor for International Business, Qinghai Province General Aviation Group Co., Ltd (a company owned by China Government in Qinghai Province); Advisor of Project Financing, Quanzhou Financial Holding Group (a company owned by China Government in Fujian Province).

Mr. Liau was a council member and Deputy Chairman of the Institute of Business (IOB@SCCCI) and Enterprise Development Centre (EDC@SCCCI) of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce & Industry (2007-2009). Mr. Liau was the Chairman of Chartered Management Institute Singapore between 1996-2006. As the Chairman of the Institute, Mr. Liau successfully initiated a Memorandum of Understanding with the then PSB in 1999, [later known as Spring Singapore (The Standards, Productivity, and Innovation Board), a statutory board under the Ministry of Trade and Industry dedicated to the promotion of Singapore’s economic growth and productivity] to undertake collaborative work on a new International Management Action Award. This strategic alliance aims to identify and recognize individuals with outstanding management action capabilities and leadership qualities. He served as co-chairman of the steering committee, a member of the Award Council, and the Selection Committee of the International Management Action Award for many years. He was a council member and the Chairman of the Building Product and Construction Material Industry Group of the Singapore Manufacturers’ Federation. He was also a Council Member, Chairman of the Membership Growth Committee, and Chairman of the Joint Activities Committee of the Institution of Engineers, Singapore.