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Michael D. Bailey, Managing Director of Bailey & Wong Pte Ltd

Michael D. Bailey, Managing Director
Location:  Singapore

Michael is an accomplished business development professional.  Over the past 15 years, he has performed three equity deals, and has recruited and setup many high performance business partners for his employers and clients.  He has been successful with financial services, manufacturing and technology clients.

He has strong research capabilities and has conducted a customized direct investment research project on behalf of the State of North Carolina.  Michael is an expert in Asian based marketing, business turnaround, channel management, M&A and JV negotiations as well as new business startups.

Before starting B&W in 2003, Michael served as the Asia Pacific Vice President of Chloride UPS Systems, where he helped the company successfully negotiate the acquisition of Siemens Telecom Power Supply, a Sino-German joint-venture in Shanghai.

From 1998-2002 Michael served as Asia Pacific Regional Manager at the Airpax Protector Group of Royal Philips Electronics (the Group became independent and was renamed Airpax Corporation, LLC during Michael's tenure). While there, Michael built and led a team of representatives, distributors and direct employees more than quadrupling Airpax's electronic component sales over the 1998 to 2000 period.  In October of 2005, Airpax received an export award from the United States Department of Commerce for the work spearheaded by Michael.

From 1996-1997 Michael was employed as the International Business Analyst of a Fortune 500 tier-one automotive supplier, Arvin Industries (now ArvinMeritor). At Arvin, Michael assisted with M&A activities and new operation setup in China and Thailand.

Michael earned a BA in International Affairs from the George Washington University and was the fist foreign student to earn an MA in Chinese Literature at Nanjing University, where he wrote and orally defended a 20,000 plus character (40 page) thesis in Chinese.

Michael and B&W are corporate members of the American Chamber of Commerce in Singapore. Michael is also an active member in the Rotary Club of Singapore - West.


Jason Chiang, Senior Consultant
Location:  Taiwan

Michael recruited Jason as a distributor for Airpax Corporation in the late '90's.  With Jason's passion for electronics and technology and his infectious "can do" attitude, he quickly became on of Airpax's best agents in Asia.

From 2000-2002 Jason and Michael grew the Taiwanese sales of Airpax Corporation from under US$100,000 to more than US$ one-million in annual revenue, exceeding the total wins for all other regions in Asia, combined.

Jason has an intimate understanding of the Asia Pacific electronics manufacturing markets and he holds a diploma in Electrical Engineering Lung Hua University in Taiwan.



 


Jackson Pan, Senior Consultant
Location:  China

Jackson became acquainted with Michael while the two studied together in Nanjing University during the early '90's.   While at "Nanda" Jackson earned a master's degree in Chinese Literature and later received a license to practice law in the PRC. 

Jackson has been engaged in business development in China for more than ten years, working with the Bureau of Industry and Commerce in the PRC and, since 2004, with B&W.

He specializes in partner search and helps frequently with technical translations and marketing communications projects targeted for the China market.

He holds a BA in Chinese Literature from Hunan Normal University, an MA in Chinese Literature from Nanjing University and is currently pursuing a doctoral law degree from Wuhan University.

 


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