Mingles Tsoi

With both accounting degrees from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Southern Queensland (Australia), I worked as financial manager for 9 years since 1988. I started my own executive search firm since 1997 and began the career as consultant.

My specialist is in business development, strategic planning and execution. I always look for challenges in deals making, having them done in various creative ways.

I have developed series of training modules about entrepreneurship, such as: skills of business plan writing, how to start a business with HK$100,000 and venture capital funding perspective. Currently I am working for the CUHK Center for Entrepreneurship as the Project Director for organizing business plan competition, research, training and angel investment forum. I am also the advisor and business consultant for aNobii, which is a global book marketing service provider.

Employer:	Stepcase Limited
Position:	Business Development
Time period:	October 2007 - Present
Description:	Start-up consulting, administration and business development for this new web venture in Hong Kong with global reach and potential.

Employer:	IVE Shatin
Position:	Part-time Lecturer
Time period:	January 2007 - Present
Description:	I delivered lecture to a class of Certificate course "Principles of Management", an evening class of 150 hours per semester in 2nd semester of 2007. There will be more lectures in 2007-08.

Employer:	CUHK Center for Entrepreneurship
Position:	Project Director
Time period:	January 2007 - Present
Description:	I was appointed as the Project Director for a new project namely "The Hong Kong Social Enterprise Challenge". This is an annual business plan competition to be held on 26 May 2007 for undergraduate and graduate students from all the tertiary institutions in Hong Kong. The program aims to strengthen government, university and community collaboration and launch programs that have constructive and worthwhile outcomes for society while enhancing and channeling students’ entrepreneurial acumen in demonstrating social responsibility. Student teams will present to panels of judges their plans to set up social enterprises. More details will be available in the official web site: http://www.sechallenge.hk

Employer:	aNobii
Position:	Consultant
Time period:	September 2006 - Present
Description:	As a community platform for book lovers, aNobii aims at developing sophisticated tools for members to improve the lifestyle of reading. It was recognized as a book catalog, or a book list showing one's bookshelf virtually. Nevertheless, aNobii only focus on books.

Employer:	Zigen Pharmaceutical Limited
Position:	Finance & Admin
Time period:	February 2005 - Present
Description:	Zigen Pharmaceutical Limited is a technology intermediary that facilitates the bi-directional transfer and marketing of life-science technologies, products and services between the Greater China region and other countries. Zigen’s scope of business encompasses western and TCM medicines, biologics, diagnostics, animal drugs, functional foods and specialty foods. Zigen offers incubation, management, marketing and investment- sourcing services to its clients in order to help them launch their business, projects or products to the intended markets in Greater China or abroad. Web site: www.zigen.hk

Employer:	PAC International Consultants
Position:	Principal Consultant
Time period:	May 2000 - Present
Description:	Generated new business deals for business enterprises through dedicated consulting approach. Recent projects include formulating investor relations strategy for listed company on new financial arrangement for a project in China.

Employer:	Wisdom Technologies (International) Ltd.
Position:	Consultant (for a client)
Time period:	April 2004 - February 2006
Description:	This is a newly established fabless company, with offices in Seoul, Shanghai and Hong Kong. We have a team of Korean engineers for IC design, sales and marketing business.

Employer:	Wafer-Tech Investment Limited
Position:	Consultant (for a client)
Time period:	February 2004 - March 2005
Description:	The company is setting up a 8 inch semiconductor fabrication plant in China. I am one of the managers and authorised persons for this project.

Employer:	Upepo C. Maji Ltd.
Position:	Consultant (for a client)
Time period:	February 2003 - December 2003
Description:	This is a challenging job to develop new market for T-shirt image printing, where consumers can buy their personalised image Tee from KodakExpress outlets in Hong Kong. The project was ended in December 2003 due to closure of headquarter in Japan.

Employer:	IVE Haking Wong
Position:	Part-time Lecturer
Time period:	September 2002 - May 2005
Description:	I deliver lecture to a class of higher diploma course called "Banking and Financial Manager in China". It is an evening class of 150 hours per academic year. I love teaching very much.

Employer:	SmARTlens Inc.
Position:	Consultant (for a client)
Time period:	January 2002 - November 2003
Description:	SmARTlens is an intellectual properties oriented, privately held, US corporation. It has created an optical device for motion picture cameras called the Hylén Optisystem#, in honor of its inventor, Steve Hylén. The Optisystem# includes a housing and multiple lens elements that fit between a camera and its taking lens. Through patented optics, this device creates an Intermediate Focal Plane# in which the user is able to produce a variety of creative effects by inserting various modules into the housing. The first application using this space is the Select Regional Focus Control# (SRFC) module, which will be adopted in new Panavision camera system by 2004.

Employer:	Professional Alliance Consultants Ltd.
Position:	Director
Time period:	December 1997 - December 2001
Description:	PAC is my first business venture with some CUHK alumni since 1997. It is an executive search firm mainly for senior management. Starting from zero, I acquired skills of recruiting by self-learning and practicing. Thanks to the reputation of my partner, Mr. Heung Shu Fai, the company survived under the depression economy. Later I diversified my network to more financial oriented business, such as fund raising and venture capital financing. Sooner I met good partners from pharmaceutics sector and found another consultant firm namely PAC BioSciences Consultants Ltd.

Employer:	Warrantex Garments Trading Ltd.
Position:	Financial Manager
Time period:	May 1993 - October 1997
Description:	Warrantex is a normal garment manufacturing and trading company in Hong Kong, with substantial turnover per annum. I was employed primarily to restructure the accounting system. My achievements are: (1) computerisation of accounting, merchandising and shipping departments; (2) improvement of banking facilities; (3) formalisation of internal control procedures.

Employer:	China Satellite Launch Agent (HK) Ltd.
Position:	Financial Manager
Time period:	March 1992 - May 1993
Description:	CSLA was established as a joint venture by government officials from China and businessmen from Hong Kong. The main business was to develop satellite launch services. Unfortunately this was not feasible due to political conflict with another state owned enterprise. The company was closed in 1994. I was the founding employee to help setting up the company in Hong Kong.

Employer:	Home de Comfort
Position:	Financial Manager
Time period:	July 1988 - February 1992
Description:	It was a property agency firm in 1980s, and the parent company was specialised in real estate development in Hong Kong, Macau and Shanghai.

Hobbies:	I have extensive reading interests, eg. arts and design, technology, culture, history, music, corporate finance, business, literature, fiction. I am also an active blogger for local community and humanity issues.
Clubs:	United College Alumni Association Federation of the Alumni Associations of CUHK Monte Jade Science and Technology Association of Hong Kong Limited
Awards:	2008.12.10: "Angel Investment in Hong Kong", "World SME Expo 2008" by HKTDC, (1 hr; ?? p) 2008.7.8: "Young Entrepreneurial Success", United College Alumni Association (1 hr; 50p) 2007.12.14: "Mutual Opportunities for SMEs and Social Enterprises?", World SME Expo 2007 (2 hrs; 50p) 2007.12.01: "Entrepreneurship in Practice", OneMBA (1 hr; 20 p) 2007.11.15: "Web 2.0 Business Model", PolyU MBA guest lecture (3 hrs; 60 p) 2007.10.31: "Managing Social Enterprise (Session 3-4)", HKCSS Certificate of Social Enterprise (6 hrs; 40 p) 2007.10.24: "Managing Social Enterprise (Session 1-2)", HKCSS Certificate of Social Enterprise (6 hrs; 40 p) 2007.10.08: "How to Become a Young Entrepreneur", IVE-Tsing Yi guest lecture (2 hrs; 50 p) 2007.07.15: "Web 2.0 Business Model", PolyU MBA guest lecture (3 hrs; 60 p) 2006.12.14: "How to write a good business plan?", Caritas Education (1 hr; 30 p) 2006.12.01: "$100,000 business opportunities", "World SME Expo 2006" by HKTDC, (1 hr; 100 p) 2006.10.21: "Raising Capital", PolyU MBA guest lecture (3 hrs; 60 p) 2006.05.17: "$100,000 business opportunities", Youth Business of Hong Kong (2 hrs; 80 p)