{"id":2502,"date":"2013-10-17T08:23:33","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T00:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=2502"},"modified":"2013-10-17T08:32:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T00:32:45","slug":"lenovo-appoints-michael-ngan-as-new-country-general-manager-for-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2013\/10\/17\/lenovo-appoints-michael-ngan-as-new-country-general-manager-for-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenovo appoints Michael Ngan as new Country General Manager for Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Mike-Ngan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2503\" alt=\"Mike Ngan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Mike-Ngan-210x300.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Mike-Ngan-210x300.jpg 210w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Mike-Ngan-716x1024.jpg 716w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Mike-Ngan.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a>Lenovo has announced the appointment of Michael Ngan as Country General Manager (CGM) for the Philippines effective October 16, 2013, following Maria Victoria \u201cVicky\u201d Agorrilla\u2019s early retirement.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ngan, a member of the Lenovo East Asia Region Leadership Team reporting directly to Koh Kong Meng, President and General Manager, Lenovo East Asia Region, will be based in Manila and will be responsible for driving sales and growth of Lenovo in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>Ngan, who formerly served as the Lenovo ASEAN SMB Leader, was responsible for optimizing Lenovo\u2019s unique product and brand offerings for small &amp; medium businesses across ASEAN. Under his leadership,\u00a0 the ASEAN SMB business saw its market share grow from 6.4% in 2011 to a record high of 10.8% in the second quarter of calendar year 2013. Focused on expanding Lenovo\u2019s leadership in the SMB commercial space, Ngan led hypergrowth countries like Indonesia and Thailand to # 1 &amp; # 2 positions for most SMB PC\u2019s sold in Q1CY2013 (source IDC) and tripled the ASEAN VAR (Value Added Reseller)\u00a0 channel base in 2.5 years.<\/p>\n<p>Before joining Lenovo, Ngan held numerous management positions, including serving as CPL Philippines, Inc.\u2019s Country Sales Manager and\u00a0 as an IBM Business Manager for MIP Philippines, Inc. (A Metro Systems Group of Thailand company)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Philippines is one of the countries that recently saw double-digit growth, contributing to Lenovo\u2019s position as the #1 PC maker globally. The appointment of Michael, Lenovo\u2019s former Small and Medium Business (SMB) Leader for ASEAN, reinforces Lenovo\u2019s business strategy to further strengthen the company\u2019s market leadership in the PC space in the Philippines, expand its current market share in the PC Plus market and grow our smartphone and tablet business, in our efforts to become the global leader in the PC Plus world. Michael has an excellent track record in growing our business in the Philippines prior, and in leading our SMB business across ASEAN, I am confident he will take our operations in the Philippines to new heights,\u201d said Koh Kong Meng,\u00a0 President and General Manager, Lenovo East Asia Region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lenovo has announced the appointment of Michael Ngan as Country General Manager (CGM) for the Philippines effective October 16, 2013, following Maria Victoria \u201cVicky\u201d Agorrilla\u2019s early retirement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[607,855,856,606],"class_list":["post-2502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-lenovo-philippines","tag-michael-ngan","tag-people-moves","tag-vicky-agorrilla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}