Speaker Profile
Oliver Ho comes with a wealth of 35 years of corporate experience in many different fields. His Vast managerial and consultancy exposure at senior managerial level from a Diversity of industries such as Information Technology, Banking, and Educational Institutions to corporate training has enabled him to possess Creative insights to develop business models for different industries
He started his career in the Information Technology and rapidly rose in his Career in the mid-1980s to become the general manager of Prime Computers Malaysia with a turnover of RM60 million a year. The other companies he had worked in included distributor of Wang Computers, USA and an IBM based software bureau which was a joint venture between Cooper & Lybrand's and a mining company in Ipoh i.e. Osborne and Chapel this was in the mid 70s. Ho then he decided to embark on a new challenge and took up the position of Retail Banking Manager with Standard Chartered Bank. After 5 years in retail banking at Standard Chartered, he became the Vice President of a blue chipped private merchant bank - the esteemed family owned Rothschild Bank Spore on private cum investment banking to both HNWIs and corporate in his late 30s only! He later returned to Malaysia and was appointed as Special Advisor to the Idris Hydraulic Group of Companies- a public listed company with 12 subsidiaries that range from housing development, finance company, and insurance industry to manufacturing of electronic white goods. He oversaw their strategic planning and marketing expansion. He also served as the Senior Advisor to Mirabuad & Cie in the late 1990s on investment and private banking for Malaysia and Singapore too.
