Andrew Chow

Andrew Chow is an Entrepreneur, Professional Speaker,Author and the past president of Asia Professional Speak-ers Singapore. He is the founder of Table for Six.[1] Heis also lecturer at CMA Academy teaching Social MediaMarketing and Digital Marketing[2] He is considered bySingapore Business Review to be among the top ten influ-ential professional speakers in Singapore.[3] Andrew hasthe moniker “ideasandrew”[4][5]

1 Early life

AndrewChow completed his business Administration de-gree from Thames Valley University which is now knownas University of West London. In 1987, He started serv-ing in the Singapore Armed Forces , he began his careeras a researcher in Ministry of Defence (Singapore). Hiswork involved operational research and planning.[6]

2 Career

Andrew started his professional career as an assistantmanager to a photo-finishing retail chain under KodakSingapore. In the early 1990s he lead a leading a print-ing house which was one of the first to produce large-format digital prints. He also served in many Finan-cial and Investment-Bank MNCs in their presentationmaterial for roadshows. He also helped many corpo-rate clients in Meetings, incentives, conferencing, exhibi-tions industry in their exhibition and tradeshow market-ing. His companies are members of Singapore Associa-tion of Convention, Exhibition Organisers and Suppliers(SACEOS).[7][8]

Chow has also worked on social media campaigns for avariety of Asian and international companies includinginsurance firms AVIVA and AXA Insurance, global bankHSBC and academic publisher John Wiley & Sons.[9][10]

He is the author of two books on Marketing and Publicity- SocialMedia 247 and Public Relations 247.[11][12][13][14]He is also a contributing author for the book 88 EssentialSecrets: For Achieving Greater Success at Work.[15]

He has been a frequent guest in Singapore Radio 938live,Malaysia NTV7 and Radio BFM 89.9 on many talkshowtopics including his view on the leadership of the lateFounding Prime Minister of Singapore, Mr Lee KuanYew[16]

He has been a keynote speaker at various events and con-ferences including Startup Asia 2013.[17][18]

3 Charity and Philantrophy• Andrew has organised and participated in numerouscharity, corporate responsibility and philanthropyschemes in addition to his commercial work.

• In Nov 2011, Yahoo News reported that Chow wasamong a group of 14 Asian business leaders whowould raise money for victims of devastating floodsin Thailand, Cambodia and the Philippines.[19]

• In Jan 2012, Andrew sang in the Meet The En-trepreneur (MTE) Charity Concert graced by for-mer Presidential Candidate Dr Tan Cheng Bock[20]

• In May 2012, Andrew created a blog [21] andlaunched a campaign to raise funds for the familyof a cab driver who was killed in a car crash. TheStrait Times reported that a total of $170,000 wasraised.[22]

• In Feb 2013 through Operation Smile as part of anannual fund raising event (Raise Your Game 2013)organised by the Association of Professional Speak-ers – Singapore (APSS) [23]

• In Aug 2013, He Co-sponsored Miss SingaporeGlobal 2013 pageant through the partnership withVanessaism Inc by raising funds for Mother andChild project.[24]

• In July 2015, he served as a volunteer for the Trans-formation byGrace Project and played a support rolein a docu-drama “Run! Don't Run?" organised bythe Inner Beauty Crusade to raise funds for GraceHaven, care of the Salvation Army.[25][26]

4 Awards

5 References[1] “Beauties dating 'beasts’". asiaone.

[2] “MAD Gurus”. CMA Academy.

[3] “10 influential professional speakers in Singapore rightnow”. sbr.

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2 6 EXTERNAL LINKS

[4] “Who Is Ideas Andrew?". business inquirer.

[5] “Exchange Asia”. bangkokpost.

[6] “Social media is all about having the conversation”. stjobs.

[7] “IdeaMart’s Milestones and Accolades”. mynewsdesk.

[8] “Creating and Managing Your Brand”. dwellinginstitute.

[9] “If you can’t sell offline, you can’t sell online.”. adasiaon-line.

[10] “Ten of the Top Social Media Books for Your Enjoy-ment”. smallbiztrends.

[11] “Everything you need to know to leverage social media forbusiness success”. abebooks.

[12] “Social Media 247 - Everything You Need To Know ToLeverage Social Media For Business Success”. select-books.

[13] “Book Review: Public Relations 247 by Andrew Chow”.workingwithgrace.

[14] “Public Relations 247”. crowdtivate.

[15] “Greater Success at Work”. books.

[16] “Raise Your Game - The Leadership of Lee Kuan Yew”.bfm.

[17] “Event Speakers”. socialhrcamp.

[18] “Speakers”. nbe.

[19] “Top Speakers Gather for Charity”. Yahoo News.

[20] “Be the First Giver”. Asia One& Singapore Sunday Times.

[21] “Love Cheng Family”. Wordpress.

[22] “Tan Cheng Bock may run again in 2016”. Asia One.

[23] “Raise Your Game 2013”. APSS.

[24] “The pageant where being social is the name of the game”.Tech & Social.

[25] “Launch of “Run. Don’t Run?" docu-drama”. KindnesMovement.

[26] “Transformation by Grace”.

[27] “2008 honouree”. Daily Motion.

[28] “2010 Winners Winners”. GRC.

[29] “APSS Award Winners”. APSS.

6 External links• Official Website

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7 Text and image sources, contributors, and licenses

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