Techno-Venture Forum – What They Do Not Teach You In University

Founder & CEO of DSC Holdings Pte Ltd, Mr. Seah Liang Chiang will share his past experiences of how he first started his business, his failures and why he is doing well today. He will be sharing useful pointers with students who wish to start their own business as well.

Date: Thursday, 27 Aug 2009
Time: 6:00 – 7:30pm
Venue: National University of Singapore, Engineering Auditorium [map]

Register by 26th Aug here.

Mr. Seah Liang Chiang is the founder and CEO of the DSC Group of companies. He leads the management and has been in the IT industry for over 20 years. He has the requisite in-depth experience and knowledge in the various aspects of the IT industry. He graduated from the National University of Singapore with an Economics degree in 1987. Upon graduation he joined the IT industry as a Marketing Executive in Computer Industries Pte Ltd.

His competitive sales and marketing record has resulted in him being headhunted within six months to another company, TrioTech Pte Ltd, assigned to the computer division. Within the same year, he joined an US-based MNC company dealing with automated identification and data capture (AIDC) products, Dynamar Computer Products Pte Ltd, as a sales engineer and was promoted to sales manager within six months of service.

He then decided to leave the commercial fold and setup a company with a few colleagues in the industry, called Datacorp Pte Ltd. He was the Sales Director of the company until 1992. In 1993, he decided to start out on his own and established Digital Scanning Corporation Pte Ltd.

In addition to his commercial and business success, Mr Seah has also been invited to participate in several industry forums and business committees organized by the Singapore Government. He was President of the Young Entrepreneurs’ Organization (2000-2009), committee member of the Institute of Policy Studies (2002), committee member of the Council for Corporate Disclosures & Governance under the Ministry of Finance (2003), committee member of the Temasek Polytechnic Business Advisory Board (2003-2006), committee member of the Accounting & Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) Standing Law Review Focus Group (2005- 2006), committee member of the Pro-Enterprise Panel under Ministry of Trade and Industries (2003-present) and executive committee member of the Action Committee for Entrepreneurship (ACE) under Ministry of Trade and Industries (2005-present).

He was nominated and was a finalist for the inaugural Phoenix award by the Singapore Economic Development Board (“EDB”) and received the Spirit of Enterprise Award (SOE) in 2007. His leadership in the AIDC industry also attracted the attention of the EDB and subsequently DSC Group also received investments and grants for R&D of approximately S$ 900,000.

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