Samuel Niou Email & Phone Number

1374 North Parham Road, Suite 200, Richmond Va 23229

With primary focus on re-sale residential homes and brand new custom built homes community in Greater Richmond region as well as in other parts of Virginia. In addition, I help home owners and investors to search for their second home or vacation home or investment property in Smith Mountain Lake region.

Richmond, Va

My primary objectives were to share with Virginia based company members of my abundant hands-on international business experience and knowledge in the emerging countries in the Asia Pacific region in:(1) Asian talent recruitment and development(2) networking and relationship building with higher education institutions, business enterprises and government authorities(3) understanding and managing cultural sensitivity and to achieve cultural competency under cultural diversity (4) corporate management and business development(5) joint venture operations management

Midlothian, Virginia

The primary consulting focus are given to:(1) Helping American companies and businesses to develop international business and marketing strategies in the Asian emerging markets such as China and South East Asia region(2) Helping Asian companies and businesses to establish their market entry strategies in the North American markets. (3) Helping American companies and businesses to develop and establish crucial management strategies for their Asian markets operations, including to identify differences in cultural values, behavioral norms and mentality, as well as corporate compliance, and also to redefine cultural sensitivity and to eventually achieve cultural competency.(4) Helping US higher education institutions to develop international marketing and branding strategies, and to further strengthen their recruitment and education expansion program initiatives in the Asia Pacific region, particularly in China, Taiwan, Singapore and other South East Asia region. Special Project for Virginia Tech (July 2015 to Dec 2015) - Asia Pacific Partnership Development Consulting Role The main mission of my consulting role is to assist Pamplin College of Business and Virginia Tech University to establish a solid academic expansion program through the joint partnership and collaboration with other reputable Asian higher education institutions in the strategic Asian emerging countries such as China and Singapore. My primary consulting functions cover market feasibility study, strategic planning, Asian relationship building, establishment of relevant Asian connection, development of joint partnership and collaboration with selective and reputable Asian higher education institutions. If situation requires, I would also provide necessary assistance to act as an effective bridge to ensure consistent and clear communication with Asian partners, and to provide relevant recommendation in the partnership management.

Petersburg, Virginia

I have a strong passion to help VSU students, especially the rising seniors, to fully understand the meaning of international trade and international business/market development, and the important aspects of the globalization in today's economy. I give focus on the Asia Pacific emerging markets such as China and South East Asia region. My wish is to generate interests among the graduating seniors and other business major students, and encourage them to widen their scope in terms of world view, and to take on a new challenge by stepping out of their comfort zone to seriously consider to prepare themselves for pursuing a career in the international business arena down the road after graduation. I personally feel that universities in Central Virginia needs to play a more active role to encourage and develop more young well-educated talents to enter international business arena helping the Commonwealth State of Virginia to further promote, strengthen and expand global trade and business establishments for Virginia based companies, and to use their collective efforts for helping to create a much stronger international cultural and business atmosphere in Richmond and other parts of Central Virginia in order to successfully attract more foreign investments to boost local economy through new jobs creation.

Richmond, Va

The primary purpose of this round-table support group is to organize a group of very experienced and well-educated professionals from various industrial backgrounds, who have strong international exposure or have been working on overseas project assignments, or have some thoughts of exploring international career opportunities. The group meets on regular basis for networking, information and resource sharing, as well as receiving encouragement and offering constructive advice and opinions to group members.

Singapore; China; Usa

Providing business advice on strategic direction for new business model development, talent acquisition and development, transition process planning and implementation from the existing business model to the new business model. Recommending workable human resource strategy for new leadership development, morale elevation program, maximizing and adding values to the "old guards" through productivity improvement.

Singapore

Developed and designed China cultural and business immersion programs with emphasis on learning of the 21st century mainland Chinese corporate culture and business practices, exchanged business perspectives with Chinese entrepreneurs, and worked on practical problem-solving group projects with the designated Chinese companies. Developed and designed useful platform for exploring business and career opportunities and business networking establishment for small to medium-sized companies, young entrepreneurs, professionals, and retrenched banking and financial professionals. The two successfully launched projects (1) "Qian Li Mah" (It means "A stallion can travel thousand miles") Hangzhou Business & Cultural Immersion Program" (2) "China Way Immersion Program to Shanghai"

Beijing City, China; Tianjin City, China

Successfully established a new set up taken from an innovative concept GIS (Global Ingredient System) into its planning, development and final implementation stage with a full series of functional operations. The process involved decision makings for its vision and missions, operation planning and interdepartmental support channels, local recruitment and internal training, product and research development, strategies for branding and marketing and distribution channels. Successfully accomplished strategic alliance negotiation with three niche product producers (Germany, Spain and Brazil) based on compatible synergies: product innovation, niche market segmentation, growing companies and globalization.

Manila & Laguna, Philippines

Successfully established a first joint venture business entity with Ayala Group Purefoods Corporation in the Philippines in 2000 and overcame a major buyout crisis in 2001 to complete the merger with mega-conglomerate San Miguel Corporation. Major notable achievements: (1) applied business acumen and crisis management skills to complete a smooth transition into eventual completion of merger (2) safely secured the joint venture operations through several local political uprisings and military coups during the 5-year time span in the Philippines (3) built a foundation of trust between two major joint venture stakeholders with a series of strategic bridging skills (4) broken down major cultural and political barriers to obtain crucial corporation and operational support from the joint venture partner (5) built an efficient organization culture with emphasis on teamwork, sharing resources and fair reward system (6) turned the company around from the negative territory into positive territory.

Tianjin City, China

Played the role as one key takeover team member in 1999 to complete the takeover and made a smooth transition from the Continental Grain Company (USA) of its Tianjin China operation. Completed major transformation of the sales and technical support and marketing department of the new company by reinserting team’s confidence to the organization and work efficiency, as well as building new brand image and product and service quality assurance mechanism, formulating effective sales and marketing strategies with new customer base and logistics support.

Tainan, Taiwan

Set up OEM contract manufacturing base in Southern Taiwan and completed the final phase of the new product development through intense research and development process. Completed the initial set up of international trading network with niche product suppliers from Europe and North America for exclusive distribution in Taiwan.

Singapore; Tianjin City, China

Successfully established strategic sales, logistics and distribution bases in various crucial locations in Henan (central), Anhui (north), Shandong (north), and Hunan (south). Established close connections with local and provincial level bureaucrats for providing critical support to relevant business operations. Developed aggressive and experienced sales and marketing teams in strategic locations by tapping competitors' territorial sales leaders and their followers. Established cost-effective distribution and logistics network to enhance market penetration intensity in strategic locations. Developed and strengthened international and intercompany trading networks and contract manufacturing partnerships with qualified GMP suppliers in India for re-export to South East Asia region under company labels.

Singapore

Developed import & export trading partnerships with importers and traders in Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia under L/C and T/T payment terms. Established contract manufacturing bases in India and Singapore with qualified GMP suppliers in compliance with BP/USP guidelines and OEM arrangement. Developed stringent quality guidelines using SGS sampling techniques for export quality assurance.

Master Of Arts (Ma), Education And Human Development, 3.76

Bachelor’S Degree, Management Science & Information Technology