Mr Bill Chin

Bill Chin is a passionate and experienced business development and strategy management professional having successfully served senior roles leading global business development managing sales, and marketing across major continents in Asia, Greater China, Europe, India, Middle East, and USA.

He has built a career based on innovation-led digital technologies spanning over 28 years. Through his career experience, he has established a successful value-adding track record from consulting to client services; from entrepreneur to enterprise development; from national brand building to international sales, marketing, and business development; from research and analysis to global rollout of socioeconomic strategic initiatives.

Moving forward towards the digital economy, Bill focuses and provides specialised advisory services, learning and growth to facilitate and manage effective digital economy development strategies, from analysis to execution for communities across Businesses, Citizens, and Governments (BCG) driving towards new economic generators and new sources of growth. Facilitating and Developing International Trade and Investment with outcome-based FOCUS is key for Ideas to support businesses to achieve sustainable growth through partners globally.

A Communications Engineering and Computer Science graduate from Australia, with over 28 years’ experience and passion on international business development and strategy management. A professional having successfully served senior roles leading global business development managing sales, and marketing.

For over a decade, he has been instrumental in the successful rollout of the government-backed private corporation managing the Malaysian Government’s Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) enterprise development programs. Bill was responsible for lead generation and international business development campaigns to encourage incoming of foreign and domestic direct investments (FDI and DDI) and exports of innovation and growth of digital technology companies through collaborative partnerships with both local and foreign enterprises.

Through his decade long engagement with the MSC Malaysia, Bill has pioneered industry development programs including the Technopreneur Development Flagship (TDF) which uses the entrepreneurial life cycle as a framework for developing the support program to spawn and nurture growth of SMEs focused on innovation. Within which, he was notably involved in the 3 major areas of development Lead Generation and Start-up, Funding, and Market Access. Bill was also one of the pioneering Mentors for the Malaysian Venture Corp, the national venture capital fund management program for Malaysia since 2003.

His experience has led him towards his current focus on building sustainable value towards the digital economy across all communities targeting businesses, citizens, and governments. Being a Mentor in innovation-led entrepreneurism, Bill provides hands-on guidance for budding and promising new business ideas, a program supported and promoted by both the University and the Federal as well as State Governments. Key initiatives he is actively involved in and contributes to include :

+ "ThIncLab" research-commercialisation of the Entrepreneurship, Commercialisation and Innovation Centre (ECIC), University of Adelaide - ThincLab is the place where unconventional thinkers can give their ideas an unfair advantage. It’s home to the creative thinkers, the rule-breakers, the challengers. The ones who see the world differently, and for whom ideas are everything and the future is unlimited <https://www.adelaide.edu.au/thinclab/>;

+ "Veture Dorm" commercialisation developement program, New Venture Institure, Flinders University <https://www.nviflinders.com.au/what-we-provide/venturedorm/>;  

+ "Mega" the national entrepreneur development program.

Bill has also been an active member of the Executive Committee of the Australia Malaysia Business Council, South Australia Chapter. The main objective of the initiative is to promote greater trade and investment between South Australia and Malaysia across key sectors, targeting socioeconomic outcomes.