Tan Soon Kiat, (Reg No. R1103040) Managing Consultant founded eXecSearch in 2009, has more than 26 years of experience in the Information Technology industry. He started his career in 1980 as a civil engineer, having returned from New Zealand under the Colombo Plan Scholarship. After working for several years as an engineer and a system manager in a government ministry, he joined IBM and was with the company for 11 years in various regional positions.