As founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of e-Cop, Eddie Chau charts all aspects of the group company's strategic direction, including global expansion, technology and product development, innovation, technical support and sales. Chau's leadership extends to the development of key business and strategic alliances, and to guiding the company in its vision to be the leading and admired trendsetter in the critical info-security services and solutions domain.
Before founding e-Cop in 2000, Chau held senior positions in the IT sector, most recently as General Manager of IBM - Tivoli Systems (ASEAN/South Asia), and Regional Vice President, Sales and Marketing (Asia) for interBiz, Computer Associates Inc. With over 18 years of experience in business and IT, he is often called upon by the industry to speak on information security issues. Chau has also appeared on CNBC Asia and Channel News Asia, and in CIO Asia, Intelligent Enterprise, MIS Asia, Network Computing Asia and SC Magazine, to name a few.
Married with two children, Chau holds an MBA from the Newport University through distance learning and an MSc in Communication Engineering from Imperial College, London.
Previous and Committed Speaking engagements of Eddie Chau include:
Keynote Speaker at Corporate Executive Program in Singapore in June 2005 organised by FIRST, the global Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams
Speaker at Financial Technology Summit in Dubai organised by The World Development Forum in May 2005
Speaker at VISA International Asia Pacific Technology Services & Advisors Meeting on “Managing Security for FSI” in Beijing, October 2004
Speaker at IDC Asia Pacific SecurityVision Conferences in Singapore, Taipei, Seoul and Bangkok from February to March 2004 on “Combating Cyber Crime and Attacks: A Cooperative Framework For Enterprise and Governments”
Keynote Speaker at the 7799 Goes Global Event on “Implementing Effective Information Security” in Singapore, April 2004
e-ASEAN Task Force initiative on “Corporate Governance of Info-security” in Singapore, November 2002
Speaker at CWC Associates “Potential growth in the IT services industry in Saudi Arabia” in Kuala Lumpur, October 2002
Speaker at British Standards Institute's “7799 Goes Global” Conference; in London September 2002
Speaker at International Summit on Information Security Management Standards and Best Practices on BS7799 in Singapore, August 2002
Speaker at “Cyber Security” co-organised by Washington’s Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and Singapore’s Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies in Singapore, March 2002