A Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Directors., Mr. Balinger is a seasoned telecom professional with 30 years experience in the telecommunications industry. Mr. Balinger commenced his career with British Telecom where he spent 13 years as a Digital Design engineer. Thereafter he joined Cable & Wireless as a project engineer for Mercury Communications. Transferring to commercial, he headed Mercury’s City of London support services. In 1989 he was subsequently transferred to New York to head Cable and Wireless NA’s Banking and Finance division. Thereafter C&W loaned Mr. Balinger to OPTUS communications of Australia where he headed the International Products division. In 1993 he joined Executive TeleCard Ltd., a North American Public company listed on NASDAQ, as Director of Asia Pacific. In 1995 he joined the Board of Directors of the company. Mr. Balinger went on to serve as Chief Executive and President before finally retiring as Vice Chairman of the Company in 1999. 

Mr. Rocha has been in the telecommunications industry for 24 years. Mr. Rocha started his career with Cable and Wireless. In the early years he transitioned several disciplines engineering, customer services and sales giving him a broad perspective in the company’s business. He served as a senior manager in the Private Networks division. This was a high profile department responsible for the development of global corporate networks. In this capacity he traveled extensively meeting with overseas corporations as well as other operating companies in the Cable and Wireless group. In 1995 Mr. Rocha joined Executive TeleCard Ltd. Working closely with Mr. Balinger - Mr. Rocha assumed the role of Vice President Asia Pacific Region. Also, in 1995 Rocha and Balinger founded ECS.

Mr. Olmsted is a Canadian citizen with an extensive 28 year history in the computer industry. He has held various positions in technical and management positions with Univac (now Unisys), Hewlett Packard and Tandem Computers. Mr. Olmsted spent 12 years of his career in Central America, South America and thereafter in the Pacific Rim in the capacity of Managing Director of North Asia. He comprehensively expanded Tandem's Asian business and raised revenues from US$1.5m to US$20m before leaving Tandem in 1993 to launch TAS. In 1998 Mr. Olmsted left Hong Kong to rejoin his family in Canada. Currently he is Vice President Business Development for SpeechLink Inc. a publicly traded North American company on NASDAQ.

Peter J. Francis - Director ECS

Bachelor of Science graduate in mathematics and physics with post graduate studies in law and accountancy. Peter has spent over 25 years in the merchant banking and corporate finance industry where he has been involved in numerous takeovers, mergers and acquisitions, start ups and public company floatation's within Australasia and Asia. 

Edmund Hui - Director WorldRemind HK

Bachelor of Computing Science from the National University of Singapore and an MBA from California State University, Edmund is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of WorldRemind.com based in Singapore. Previously he has worked with IBM and with Legacee Corporate Services Inc., as an IT consultant. In establishing WorldRemind.Com Edmund has worked closely with the National Science and Technology Board (NSTB) in California and the Singapore American Business Association (SABA).

          Joseph Sin – Chief Operating Officer ECS

Mr. Sin started his career in 1980 working in Hong Kong Telecom. He remained with the company for 14 years holding a range of management roles in sales and customer services related activities. Prior to departing Hong Kong Telecom, Mr. Sin worked in Sales Account Management dealing with the SME markets of Hong Kong. In 1995 Mr. Sin joined TAS as head of operations reporting directly to Mr. Olmsted, the then CEO of TAS. In 1999 he joined the Board of Directors acquiring a 20% ownership in the company prior to its acquisition by ECS. Subsequent to the ECS acquisition Mr. Sin was appointed Chief Operating Officer of ECS. In this capacity, he is General Manager for all ECS subsidiary companies. Mr. Sin is also a Director of TAS Ltd.

Bachelor Social Science graduate of Hong Kong University,  Ms. Chin, commenced her professional career in 1993 focusing in the field of I.T. Marketing, and initially worked for Infrasys - an Epson company, responsible for product marketing and market communications. After 3 years she joined JOS Technology Group, a subsidiary of Jardine Pacific, as Corporate Planning Executive, specialized in PR and customer services enhancement. Ms. Chin was awarded a scholarship for professional excellence from Hang Seng Bank and the University of Birmingham (UK) where she subsequently studied during 1997-1998 and attained an MBA in International Business with Honors. Upon her return to Hong Kong, she joined the management team of ECS as Director of Business Development and is also a Director of ShopSmart.Com Limited.

Mr. Lo started his career with Cable & Wireless in 1981. He spent ten years on type approval of third party equipment interconnectivity with Hong Kong Telecom’s various digital exchanges. During this time Mr. Lo became highly involved in new equipment evaluation and development for both vendors and in-house use. In 1992 he changed roles and was appointed head of LAN & application development for the Hong Kong Telecom 200+ sales team. Three years later he started his own system integration business. Mr Lo is an expert engineer with extensive experience in building LAN & WAN which include IP based voice and data communications over the networks. In addition he has developed a profound knowledge in software application developments using C/C++, Visual Basic, HTML.

Ms. Chan started her career in the field of Accounting in late 1980. From her professional experience, she worked in various business fields including trading, manufacturing and servicing industry. Additional to her work experience, she has taken various value-added studies in order to meet the on-going market demands of professional Accountants. She completed her professional training of Accounting from HK Polytechnic in 1993 and subsequently attained an Honors Degree in Business Administration from Bolton Institute (UK) in 1998. Over her 20 years of business, Ms. Chan has built up a solid background in accounting, costing, financial analysis and management assignment. Ms. Chan joined ECS through the Telecom One acquisition and is a member of ECS senior management team.