Michael Bland Email & Phone Number

Hong Kong

Hong Kong, Kwun Tong, Hk

Leading the Partnership Program at QIMA to find synergies with strategic partners selling within the same business ecosystem that generates additional value for our client base.

Hong Kong, Kwun Tong, Hk

QIMA is a leading global quality control and social compliance company offering product inspections, factory audits, laboratory testing, and software solutions with a competitive edge in flexibility and data analytics through our cutting edge online platform for businesses importing from Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America. As Senior Sales Director I led a best-in-class team of international account managers and sales people around the globe delighting our clients with personal service far above the industry standards. Our team covered 35 sales offices which partner with over 14,000 brands, retailers and importers to secure and manage their global supply chain, performing more than 400,000 inspections, audits and lab tests each year.

Englewood, Colorado, Us

Toastmasters is a global non-profit organization with 270,000+ members in 13,000 clubs & 116 countries and teaches public speaking, communication, and leadership skills. I have volunteered my time as follows:*2014-2015 - Founding President, Sponsor, and Mentor: Intertek Shanghai TMC - Organizer and Coach: CaoHeJing Smart CC Program for 4 clubs*2013-2014 - D85 District Final Contests + 2nd Place Evaluation + 2nd Place Humorous Speech + 2nd Place International Speech + District Finalist Table Topics + 3rd Place Division F Mandarin Speech*2012 - 2013 D85 EMBA graduate - Best Presentation Award - Most Insightful Leader Award* 2012 - 2013: District 85 Division D Governor- Awarded Division Governor of the Year- Led 3 Area Governors in development of 10 clubs* 2012 - 2013: SGS Shanghai TMC President- Achieved President's Distinguished Club (highest award level) fi* 2011 - 2012: SGS Shanghai TMC Vice President Education- Achieved Select Distinguished Club Status * 2012 Spring District 85 Table Topics Speech Contest- Division D 1st Place Winner and District Semi-finalist* 2012 Spring District 85 International Speech Contest- Division D 2nd Place Winner

London, Gb

Leading a team of professionals to best serve the needs of strategic accounts for Intertek, an industry leading supply chain quality control service provider of inspections, testing, audits, certification, and consulting.

Geneva, Geneva, Ch

Responsible for maintaining close relationships with key strategic US accounts and US Sales Team and liaising between US and China/HK teams. Key position for development and growth of new US business in China operations for SGS Consumer Testing Services across all strategic business units. Assist in managment of proper resource allocation across multiple accounts and multiple laboratories in China.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Responsible for specific Project Management of Tier 1 global accounts of strategic importance, as well as overall Customer Program Management for all customer engagements at Audience. Developed and managing customer program management processes to increase business process efficiencies and manage bottleneck areas of work.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Sales and Business Development for an audio processing fabless semiconductor company in Silicon Valley. Responsible for management and development of business in the entire Asia Pacific region and facilitating engagements with all mobile carriers and handset manufacturers in Japan, Korea, China, and Taiwan. Spearheaded the Asian team efforts which resulted in the company's first design win into a production phone in Japan and further wins into the Korean and Greater China markets and multi-million dollar revenue.

Fremont, California, Us

Manage and support distribution channel for all Asia Pac countries including Japan, Korea, China, Singapore, Australia, NZ, and more. Full product knowledge for Socket's (www.socketcom.com) product line including connectivity products (bluetooth, WiFi, ethernet, serial, modems) and data collection products (Barcode scanning and RFID).

Burlington, Massachusetts, Us

Developed an Educational Services Department for Tokyo subsidiary, entailing project management translation and course development for both internal and external training. Also provided consulting on projects for Web enabling applications and database connections. Efforts doubled Education Services revenue in just 2 years. Designed and maintained a client/server network and imaging system for network nodes. Created and conducted programming and DBA courses in both Japanese and English. Extensive technical translation and interpretration for critical business transations.

Vital resource in curriculum design, comprehensive training and group seminars organization for local teachers, junior high school and adult students. Supplied Japanese/English translation and interpretation. Authored & translated articles in Japanese for publication in local newsletter.

Quality control and claims departments and product distribution. Handled Japanese customer relations. Researched new products/packaging, improving Japanese package design. Worked with system database design. Conducted scientific research on products. Customer contact/service and claims processes

Ba, East Asian Languages

Mba, International Business

Mandarin Chinese Language & Business Chinese

Advanced Business Japanese Language