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Barney Lau

About

Personal Profile: Barney Lau is a passionate leader, coaching mentor, people and organization builder with over 20 years of experience in Fortune 50 companies in various business management capacities for the Asia Pacific region and Singapore, and over 14 years in the non-profit sector. Under Barney’s leadership as Managing Director, Microsoft Singapore (MSSG) more than doubled its business within 3 years, while expenses grew less than 40%. MSSG was a multiple award winning subsidiary within Microsoft worldwide. MSSG won its largest ever contract with the $60M multi-year Singapore Government Standard Operating Environment project. MSSG enjoyed sustained business growth successes in the SMB segment, enterprise segment, telco/service provider segment, public sector, and retail segment. It also raised its largest ever charitable donation of S$1M to the Singapore President’s Charity, and won HR awards for excellent people management practices. Barney’s work experience with multinationals include Cisco Systems, Lucent Technologies and Hewlett-Packard in various businesses and functional management roles in a Singapore and/or Asia-Pacific capacity. Barney presently serves as an Independent Director (ID) and Chairman of the Executive Resource & Compensation Committee of IFS Capital Limited, an SGX mainboard-listed financial institution. He was an ID and Chairman of the IT Committee of Jurong Health Services1 which manages the Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, Jurong Community Hospital and Jurong Medical Centre. He was an ID of Integrated Healthcare Information Systems Pte. Ltd. which manages Singapore’s public healthcare system’s IT. He was a member of the Singapore Ministry of Health’s Healthcare IT Steering Committee overseeing Singapore’s long term strategic healthcare IT roadmap and investments. He has also served as elected Council/Board Members in professional and industry bodies such as the Singapore Computer Society and the Singapore IT Federation,2 and as an invited member of Temasek Polytechnic’s School of IT advisory panel.
One Sentence Introduction: Life and Leadership Coach and Mentor, and Former Fortune 50 Executive in Singapore/APAC.
Primary Focus: Career Growth & Transition, Corporate Leaders & Teams, Life / Fulfillment, Relationship / Family
Coaching Specialities: Career, Conflict Resolution, Executive, Leadership, Life - Balance/Integration, Teams
Professional & Life Experience: Executive, Facilitator, Manager/Team Lead, Married, Non-Profit, Parent, Programmer/Engineer, Speaker, Trainer
ICF Membership Number: 009529906I
Credential: Member/Trained, ACC
Degrees & Certifications: Bachelors in Computer Science; Masters in Christian Studies
Email Address: barney [at] thirdwell.co
Company Profile: Third Well Consulting