International Representatives

N. Balakrishnan, Chairman
MSc (Columbia University, NYC – USA )

N.Balakrishnan

Our chairman, N. Balakrishnan is based in Hong Kong and also acts as our representative for East Asia. For more details about his career please refer to “Home Team” page

Philippe de Lapérouse, Representative for North America
BA degree from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut (USA).
MBA degree from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia

Philippe de Lapérouse

Philippe de Lapérouse is a corporate finance and global business development executive with consistent track record creating value for organizations by enhancing the performance of their global operations and expanding their geographic footprints. He has twenty years of experience working on international projects in investment banking/private equity investing and has held senior level executive positions with Fortune 100 companies such as Ralston Purina Company and Bunge North America.

As a Principal of Vanikoro Advisory, Philippe de Lapérouse advises companies in a wide range of industries on their global expansion activities.

He has lived and worked throughout North and South America, Europe, the Mid-East and Africa and currently resides with his wife and three children in St. Louis, Missouri (USA), where he serves on several non-profit and civic boards.

Abilash Sarma, Representative at Bejing, China
MBBS, Yale-Hunan Medical School ( Peoples Republic of China).
MBA, Strathclyde Graduate Business School (U.K).

Abilash Sarma has a MBBS degree from Yale-Hunan Medical School ( Peoples Republic of China). He also a MBA from Strathclyde Graduate Business School (U.K).

Sarma is Partner of Fortress Investment & Management Co., Ltd.

He was earlier Director Of Fudan Starts – Info Creation Corporation, Beijing Office.

He was the Chief Representative of Shanghai Trio Property Development Co. Ltd.

Sarma was the Deputy General Manager of Funai Electronic Appliances and Repair Hunan Service Center.

Sarma enjoys reading, music and cross-cultural communication. 

Sarma is our representative at Bejing, China

Ho Chin Beng, South-East Asia Representative
MBA, Harvard Business School, Boston, USA

Ho Chin Beng

Ho Chin Beng has been active in various IT-related businesses in both Singapore and Malaysia for two decades. He also represents Exceledit in the South-East Asian countries.

Ho Chin Beng graduated with an MBA from Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA and has a BA from Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, USA.

Ho Chin Beng is currently the Group Advisor to Protégé MSC Sdn Bhd Group of Companies in Malaysia. He is the Director of Picbho Capital Sdn Bhd Group of Companies. He has also worked as a corporate banker in South-East Asia.

In the past, he has worked as a journalist in both the print and television media in Singapore. He lives in Singapore with his wife and two daughters and travels extensively in the region.

Xiaohui Fan, Associate Professor
Department of English, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xian, China

Xiaohui Fan

Xiaohui Fan is an Associate Professor at the Department of English, Xi’an Jiaotong University. Her research and teaching have centered on biomedical writing, translation and editing.

She has translated and edited a few medical dictionaries and textbooks including the world renowned Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary and Cecil Textbook of Medicine.

She was enrolled in the Biomedical Writing & Editing Program co-sponsored by the China Medical Board and former Beijing Medical University (1998 to 2000) and did her medical editing internship at the Department of Journalism, Texas A&M University in 1999.

Since then, Xiaohui Fan has been a Copyeditor for two medical journals in China and has helped medical researchers have their papers published in SCI-indexed journals.

Xiaouhi is our Consultant based in China.