Chester Chi

Current

• Owner at Cosmos Cars Shonan
• Founder & CEO at Truly Asian Partners, Co. Ltd.

Past

• Management consultant at Brastel
• Client Services Manager, Japan at SunGard Asia-Pacific
• Corporate Adviser at WebMoney Corporation

• Consultant at Interpia Co. Ltd.
• VP - Commercial Division at SWIFT Japan, Ltd.
• IT Systems Manager at Procter and Gamble
• Marketing Manager at APTi

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Education

• Ateneo de Manila University

Recommended

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Connections

169 connections

Industry

International Trade and Development

Chester Chi’s Summary

I am a permanent resident of Japan who was born and raised a Filipino-Chinese.

This once-in-a-generation crisis has unearthed once-in-a-generation opportunities. I will be pleased to hear from linkedin connections about what we can do or build together.

- Chester Chi

Chester Chi’s Specialties:

Entrepreneurial (Ad)Ventures - food and beverage, automobiles
Treasury Management Systems
Cash Management Systems
Broadband entertainment/amusement
Electronic money
Internet B2C marketing
Business Process Outsourcing


Languages read, written and spoken at native-level:
Hokien Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, English, Filipino, Japanese

Chester Chi’s Experience

• Owner

  Cosmos Cars Shonan

  (International Trade and Development industry)

  June 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

  Exporting automobiles and machinery from Japan to the African continent, the Caribbean islands, and the Philippines.

• Founder & CEO

  Truly Asian Partners, Co. Ltd.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; International Trade and Development industry)

  June 2006 — Present (3 years 2 months)

  Truly Asian Partners, Co. Ltd. provides consulting services to:
  1) Japanese companies looking to establish business ventures in Asia
  2) Affluent Japanese individuals who plan to spend their retirement abroad
  3) Companies who want to sell to or source from Japan

• Management consultant

  Brastel

  (Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

  June 2006 — January 2009 (2 years 8 months)

  Established an office to support customers in the United States and Hongkong.

• Client Services Manager, Japan

  SunGard Asia-Pacific

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 2007 — January 2008 (11 months)

  Directly managed:
  
  - US $5M budget
  - 8 FTE customer services team
  - Extended service level agreements with major accounts

• Corporate Adviser

  WebMoney Corporation

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  June 2005 — June 2007 (2 years 1 month)

  http://www.webmoney.jp
  
  Prior to advising WebMoney, I was its chief strategist in charge of research on and negotiations with potential JV partners outside of Japan.
  
  With the industry exposure and connections that this role gave me, I'd still welcome any discussions about opportunities in Asia related to web-based micropayments and e-money in general.

• Consultant

  Interpia Co. Ltd.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Recreational Facilities and Services industry)

  November 2005 — March 2007 (1 year 5 months)

  Project-based involvement to set up an Asia-Pacific entertainment business franchise in cooperation with Samsung Asia and other Japanese partners.
  
  Any opportunities to meet up and discuss joint marketing and sourcing opportunities, pls. do 'link in'.

• VP - Commercial Division

  SWIFT Japan, Ltd.

  (Telecommunications industry)

  March 2001 — June 2005 (4 years 4 months)

  http:://www.swift.com
  
  Initially hired as an education specialist, I had relationship management responsibilities for non-Japanese (gaishikei) financial institutions in Tokyo, new SWIFT users in Japan, and SWIFT-accredited system vendors by the time I left.
  
  I spoke publicly on ISO15022 financial messaging standards and SWIFTNet (our secure IP VPN-based messaging platform) in Japanese, English and Chinese at the bankers association in Japan and other countries around Asia.
  
  After the successful conclusion of SWIFT's technical migration project to a secure IP environment as of January 2005, I worked on the adoption of new XML-based business solutions for Japan's financial services industry and new customers such as brokers (forex, money market, and financial derivatives) and multinational corporations based in Japan.

• IT Systems Manager

  Procter and Gamble

  (Public Company; PG; Consumer Goods industry)

  June 1999 — March 2001 (1 year 10 months)

  After implementing a laboratory information system that quadrupled the efficiency of the P&G R&D lab in Kobe, followed by an on-demand Japanese translation software for the ingredient database of P&G's regulatory compliance department, I was made manager for the corporate functions IT section in Asia. These happened within a year of my hiring by P&G.
  
  From then on, I became the primary IT contact of P&G directors for R&D and market research, with two P&G IT managers reporting directly to me until I was recruited by SWIFT.

• Marketing Manager

  APTi

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 1993 — June 1999 (6 years 3 months)

  Established in Fujisawa city, Kanagawa prefecture in 1992, APTi was a joint venture between IBM Japan and Toshiba TEC. A few years after my departure, it was acquired by ADTX Systems (http://www.adtx.com), another IBM affiliate.
  
  Hired as a fresh graduate when APTi-Philippines was being set up in 1993, I started as a software developer moving on to team supervisor, product manager and marketing manager by the time I left in 1999. As marketing manager, I turned a client list of 3 Japan-based companies into 35 companies of varied nationalities. My stint in APTi provided me with training and working assignments in Japan, California and Taiwan and allowed me to develop relationships which I continue to maintain in both my professional and private lives. It also gave me my 5th language, Nihongo.

Chester Chi’s Education

• Ateneo de Manila University

  BS , Physics-Computer Engineering , June 1988 — March 1993

  Being a man for others - that's what it's all about. Thank you, Ateneo.

Additional Information

Chester Chi’s Interests:

technology management, offshore outsourcing, professional networking events, speaking engagements, viral marketing, CRM, joint ventures in Asia travel, driving, karaoke, Indian curry, low-cholesterol diets, watching movies, investing, making lifelong friends

Chester Chi’s Contact Settings

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