act360 - solutions that work

Company

ACT360 Solutions Ltd. is a leading provider of e-learning infrastructure and knowledge management solutions. Our customers include global education institutions and corporations with operations in China and India. Combining the interactivity of the Internet with the cost-effectiveness of hosted applications, ACT360's software and services enable its customers to increase revenue and productivity, reduce costs, and effectively manage their knowledge assets.

PEOPLE

 

DICKSON HALL - Chairman

Mr. Hall is a Director and Chairman of ACT360 Solutions. Mr. Hall is currently the President of Dickson Hall & Associates, a consulting firm specializing in strategic business development in China.

Over the past 20 years, Mr. Hall has been involved in business and commerce in the Asia Pacific region. He was the director of the Pacific Rim Group in Hong Kong, a consulting firm specializing in strategic business development in Hong Kong and China, as well as providing accounting and company secretarial services, from April 1997 to April 1998, the managing director of Dickson Hall Asia Ltd., a consulting firm specializing in business development in China from November 1993 to March 1997 and the director of the British Columbia Trade & Investment Office in Hong Kong from 1986 to 1993 where he directed Hong Kong and China trade and investment promotion activities on behalf of the British Columbia Government. Mr. Hall also represented the Vancouver Stock Exchange in Asia from 1993 to 1998.

From 1993 to 1997, Mr. Hall was the managing director of International Education and Student Services Ltd., a Hong Kong based company developing education projects in Hong Kong and China, including representing the Canadian Association of Independent Schools. Mr. Hall received his Bachelor of Arts in 1976 and his Master of Arts in 1980 from the University of British Columbia. Mr. Hall also has diplomas from the Beijing Language Institute (1977), Beijing University (1978) and the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing (1979). Mr. Hall is fluent in English and Mandarin.


VINCENT WONG - President and Director

Mr. Wong manages the overall operations of ACT360 including product development, sales, and marketing. Mr. Wong graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelors of Arts in Economics and holds an MSc from the London School of Economics

Mr. Wong started with the company as a Project Manager in 1994 and managed CD-ROM development and the company's first on-line initiatives. Between 1997 and 2000, he served as president of Gemflex Networks, a manufacturer of fiber optic networking equipment. He has served as chairman of the VF-45 Action Group, an industry consortium formed with 3M to promote the VF-45 fiber optic standard. He is also a former director and chairman of the Better Business Bureau of Mainland B.C.


ALEX PUI - Director

Mr. Pui is the founder of ACT360. Mr. Pui received his Bachelors of Business Administration at the Chinese University in Hong Kong in 1976 and was appointed to the UK Institute of Chartered Management Accountants in 1983. Mr. Pui has been a high tech entrepreneur for over 25 years, starting in the audio electronics industry.

In 1985, Mr. Pui founded Uni Precision Industrial in China to manufacture high tech electronics products. Under his direction, Uni Precision was the first China-based manufacturer to obtain ISO 9001 certification in 1992 and subsequently achieved over USD80 million in annual sales. In 1994, Mr. Pui immigrated to Canada and founded ACT Labs Ltd. In 1997, ACT360 was spun off from ACT Labs Ltd. as an e-learning software developer.

In 2001, Mr. Pui became Chairman and Managing Director of Allied Telesis (China) Ltd, which is a subsidiary of a Japanese company whose principal business is computer networking equipment. Since his appointment, Mr. Pui has overseen the rapid growth of that company’s operations in China. He is responsible for 900 employees located at manufacturing facilities in Suzhou and Dongguan respectively, an engineering centre in Shenzhen, and sales offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan, Chengdu, and Guangzhou.


RONALD G. ERDMAN - Director

Mr. Erdman is a Director and the Secretary of ACT360 Solutions.

Mr. Erdman brings extensive experience acquired from a career spent in corporate finance and senior corporate management. He is a partner in Lanyard Financial Corporation since 2003. From 1997 to 2003, Ron was President and Chief Executive Officer of Allied Hotel Properties Inc., a publicly listed hotel ownership and management company. Prior to this, Ron was Chief Financial Officer and Director of Nam Tai Electronics Inc., a New York Stock Exchange listed manufacturing company with its operations in China. Ron served as Chief Executive Officer of HSBC Capital Canada Inc. from 1990 to 1995 and was employed by Pemberton Securities Inc. from 1980 to 1989, most recently as Vice-President and Director. He served nine years on two Vancouver hospital foundation boards and was a Founding Council Member of Simon Fraser University's Segal Graduate School of Business. Ron obtained a Bachelor of Science (Chemical Eng.) from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario in 1973 and a Master of Business Administration from the Cranfield School of Management, England in 1979.


KE YIN - Director

Mr. Yin is a Director of ACT360 Solutions. Since October 2002, Mr. Yin has been Deputy Chief Executive Officer, CITIC Capital Markets Holdings Limited (Hong Kong). Mr. Yin was Director and President, United Securities (Shenzhen, China) from December 2000 to January 2002. From September 1992 to August 1999, Mr. Yin was Executive Director and Vice President, J & A Securities (Shenzhen, China).


WANG-CHAN WONG - Director

Dr. Wong is the founder and president of KBQuest Group Inc., a global programming service provider with offices in the U.S., Hong Kong and Shanghai, China. The development center in Shanghai is a joint venture with Shanghai Fudan University. Dr. Wong is responsible for the entire operation, including planning, investment funding, staffing, training, marketing and investor relationships.

KBQuest serves major customers in Japan, the U.S., Hong Kong and China. Significant projects include security clearance and settlement, telecommunications, knowledge management, biomedical systems, mobile phone applications, e-learning and logistics. In 2001, KBQuest was acquired by Asia Commercial Holdings Ltd., a public company listed in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. In 2005, KBQuest's Shanghai development centre grew to over 800 IT professionals and was certified with both CMM and CMMI level 3 by the Software Engineering Institute.


RADAMES BERNATH - Vice President of Development

Mr. Bernath graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1998 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science. Mr. Bernath is a Microsoft Certified Professional for Windows 2000 Workstation and Server. Mr. Bernath is responsible for the development of ACT360’s core applications in SQL server, VBSCript, DHTML, Javascript, and XML.