MICHAEL
BOYDEN
Managing
Director |
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MICHAEL
BOYDEN
Managing Director
TASC Taiwan Asia Strategy Consulting
Associate
- Taiwan
Economist Corporate Network
Economist Conferences
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Michael
Boyden, a British national, has lived and worked in Taiwan
since 1989. During that time he has worked in business
development for a major local industrial group; as country
manager for a MNC in the food & beverage industry;
as an associate consultant with KPMG Peat Marwick; as
an independent consultant in the hospitality industry;
and as Taiwan country manager for a Hong Kong-based management
consulting firm. His previous career experience included
operations and business development for large service
industry companies in the Middle East, south-east Asia,
Hong Kong and mainland China.
His
association with Economist Conferences (ECF) and Economist
Corporate Network (ECN) began in 1995 with overseeing
the operation and development of the executive peer group
forum. In early 1997 he set up TASC Taiwan Asia Strategy
Consulting (TASC) as the corporate platform and exclusive
licensee for ECN and ECF-related business, centred on
the Taiwan Business Leaders' Forum (TBLF) executive peer
group and subsequently developed to include also the organisation
of roundtables and similar conference-type events. He
is a regular presenter on Taiwan at ECF and ECN meetings
and events across the Asia Pacific region.
TBLF,
organised and chaired by Michael Boyden, now has over
60 member companies, almost all multinationals, from diverse
sectors of industry. There is an annual program of at
least 10 scheduled meetings, with additional ad hoc events
and a series of sector-specific lunch meetings titled
" Meeting of Minds".
TASC
also handles consulting assignments for foreign companies
and government organisations, chiefly in the areas of
market intelligence and assessment, market entry strategies
and local economic and industrial analysis. The firm also
assists foreign companies in partner search and establishing
their presence and operations in Taiwan.
Michael
Boyden is also the Managing Associate in Taiwan for the
Tokyo-based management training company IWNC Group, founded
in Japan by an Englishman, Anthony Willoughby, well over
a decade ago and which now provides teambuilding and visions/values/goals
alignment courses for multinational and local companies
in Japan, mainland China, the Hong Kong SAR and Singapore
as well as Taiwan.
Michael
is married to Katy (Ho Ching-hui) who is Taiwanese and
they live in the Tien Mou district of Taipei city with
their young daughter Victoria. Both are involved in community
affairs and Michael is a past general committee member
and Deputy Chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce
in Taipei (BCCT).
Edited July 2006
