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Singapore Contact Info Ken Clark International Directions Consultant
Vice President – Far East – All KCI Industries Francis Yong serves as Vice President – Far East for Ken Clark International (KCI) from the firm’s Singapore office in Singapore and its Shanghai office in China. He joined KCI in 2007. Yong is responsible for business development with clients of KCI in Asia including Singapore, South East Asia, China, India, and Australia and other countries in South East Asia. His Industry focus includes Life Sciences (pharmaceutical, medical, biological, diagnostic, consumer health, and scientific products as well as manufacturing, research and laboratory services); Medical and Health Care Services; Consumer; Industrial, Chemicals and Materials; and Advanced Technology. In serving his clients, Yong often “teams” with KCI’s offices in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America and Middle East/Africa. He also “teams” with KCI’s global and regional specialty practices when appropriate. As often as possible, KCI’s geographic and industry “expertise” is presented to clients. Yong is accountable for the success of all search projects in Singapore, China, India, Australia and other counties in South East Asia. He leads search project planning discussions - local, regional or global scope; in-near-outside the box recruiting targets; and candidate qualifications including skills, knowledge, activities and accomplishments. He supervises Researchers and Recruiters in search project execution that includes: people and company research; contacting and motivating of possible candidates; and screening of potential candidates. Yong himself conducts performance-based evaluations and management and leadership evaluations of finalist candidates. Finally, he also coordinates employment offer negotiations and final recruiting of the chosen candidate. Prior to joining KCI, Yong held Human Resources executive-level positions with various multi-national corporations including: Asia Pacific Breweries; BASF; Dupont; GlaxoWellcome and Rhodia. His responsibilities covered the Asia Pacific region stretching from Greater China, Japan, Korea, ASEAN, South Asia and Australia/New Zealand. Past KCI clients in Singapore include: Aceto; Applied Biosystems; Becton Dickinson; Bristol-Myers Squibb; CarboMedics; Carestream; Celanese; CMI; Covance; Danisco; Draeger; Eastman Kodak; Far East; GE; Givaudan; Hexion; Inchcape; Johnson & Johnson; Kennametal; Kraft; Lionbridge Technology; MDS; Omincare; Pfizer; Ranbaxy; Roche; Rohm and Haas; SI Group; Sanofi-Aventis; St. Jude; Straumann; Swedish Match; Syngenta; The Smile Train; Tyco; and Varian. Past KCI clients in China include: Abbott; Agilent; Applied Biosystems; CSL; Bayer; Boehringer Ingelheim; Covance; Datascope; Dentsply; EnerSys; FMC; Fresenius; Fosbel; GE; General Chemical Industrial Products; Hercules; IMS; Intuitive Surgical; Johnson & Johnson; Kennametal; Kinetic Concepts; Life Technologies; Lonza; MDS; Medrad; Metro; Minerals Technologies; Molnlycke Health Care; MYOB; Newport; NOVA Chemicals; Novartis; NutraMax Products; Olin; Pfizer, PolyOne; Roche; Rohm and Haas; SGS; Siemen’s; Symrise; Sunrise Medical; St. Jude Medical; Syngenta; Teleflex; The Smile Train; Thermo Fisher Scientific; Tianjin Pharmaceutical; Tyco Electronics; Walter; and Zeolyst. Yong has a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Sociology from the University of Singapore. He also has postgraduate Diplomas in Personnel Management and in Business Administration.
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