Managing Partner at Evolution Consulting International Limited (ECIL) (2025-12 – Present)
Providing fractional executive leadership and board level advisory to technology and professional services firms across APAC, with focus on service margin improvement and business transformation.
- Advising clients on governance frameworks, delivery assurance policies, and AI enhanced management models.
- Coaching C-suite leaders on team culture, stakeholder alignment, and navigating high stakes program recovery.
- Completed a voluntary assessment on behalf of a private funding on investment feasibility of an Artificial Intelligence Data Center.
Consulting Director, Asia Pacific at Teradata (2024-04 – 2025-10)
- Directed APJ project portfolio of 400 active engagements; dotted line leadership of 100 project managers, accountable for USD 60M+ in annualised service revenue.
- Redesigned and rolled out global service methodology and tooling across APJ; independently developed and deployed a Delivery Assurance Policy AI Agent.
- Intervened directly in a disputed hybrid cloud migration, securing several hundred thousand dollars in project extensions and over USD 1M in renewed license subscriptions.
- Ran a Trusted Advisor change programme across APJ, generating USD 4M in incremental service bookings in the first year.
Head of Consulting Services, Greater China at Teradata (2020-08 – 2024-03)
Full P&L ownership of USD 20M consulting services business; led a team of 200+ sales professionals, project managers, data architects, and AI scientists.
- Completed business turnaround within four months, resolving compliance and operational issues; exceeded targets for 8 consecutive quarters.
- Redefined service Go-to-Market strategy, driving profitable growth and lifting employee satisfaction by 20 percentage points.
- Rectified Major SOE bank high risk engagement (exposure: USD 10M+) through daily governance stand-ups and weekly executive reporting; full recovery achieved in 18 months, zero attrition.
- Executed orderly wind down of mainland China operations; negotiated early contract terminations without penalties, collected USD 3M on schedule.
Professional Services Director, Greater China at Infor (2010-07 – 2020-02)
Full P&L accountability for USD 6M services business; led 40 sales and consultants across Greater China.
- Grew services revenue from USD 2M to USD 6M, exceeding annual targets for 8 consecutive years.
- Integrated multiple previously independent ERP practice lines post-acquisition into a single unified team; standardised methodology and operating procedures, lifting consultant utilisation by 15% and improving operating margins.
- Executed corporate directed territory rationalisation, transitioning specified customer segments to channel partners without impacting overall revenue trajectory.
- Generated aggregate revenues exceeding USD 10M from a single public reference account.
- Led cross-functional teams to win and deliver multiple multi-million dollar SaaS and ERP cloud migration engagements.
- Headed APAC Client Partner programme for Infor Nexus (2019-2020), engaging strategic global enterprises in supply chain advisory; completed a proof-of-concept programme for Toyota Global in Japan.
Consulting Director, China at Oracle Systems (formerly BEA Systems) (2002-05 – 2010-05)
- BEA Systems (May 2002 – 2008): Promoted to Department Manager; led full services organisation restructure in response to SOX regulatory requirements, redesigning business workflows and compliance processes.
- Transformed the division from loss making to consistent over achievement: surpassed targets for 11 consecutive quarters, delivering 200% revenue growth in three years.
- Rebuilt team morale and culture post restructure; achieved the highest employee satisfaction score nationwide (approx. 90%).
- Selected for the BEA worldwide Leadership Development Programme in 2006 and 2007.
- Oracle Systems (2008 – 2010, post BEA acquisition): Joined Oracle Consulting Services following the BEA acquisition; built a new Technology Consulting practice from the ground up with a team of 15 architects and project managers.
- Delivered the first Enterprise Architecture engagement for China Unionpay and the first private cloud PaaS deployment for China Mobile Guangdong.
- Inducted into the APAC Excellence Club for performance and contribution to the newly formed Oracle practice.
General Manager of South China & Head of Professional Services at Modern Devices (China) Limited (1992-10 – 2001-11)
Appointed General Manager for South China, leading both sales and delivery teams to drive regional performance.
- Established the company's first Professional Services department from scratch; generated multi-million dollar revenue in year one.
- Won and delivered the first USD 10M project for the company - a first in its history.
- Shifted the business model from product reseller to turnkey solutions provider, driving total revenue to USD 30M within three years.
- Established a joint venture with Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) and led the market introduction of the US eCommerce platform Global Commerce.
