HORIZON Issue 28 February/March/April 15 Page 8
BAMBOO LEADERS RECOGNISED At the Kuala Lumpur Senior Leadership Conference Award Night late last year, BlueScope Coated Products announced the winners of the inaugural Best Bamboo Leader Award. The Awards, which recognise outstanding performance and Bamboo Leadership capabilities, were presented by Sanjay Dayal, Chief Executive BlueScope Coated Products. and developed the annual ‘Linkage and Leverage’ top 70 manager program. Sam has continued to lead the transformation of Thailand’s commercial function to a more proactive commercial business partner function that drives business growth objectives.
Five Bamboo Leaders awards were made from the field of eleven nominees, who have already been recognised as Bamboo Leaders in their country:
Hoang Bui
Hoang Bui, Vice President Commercial, Indonesia. Puspanathan Kolandavaloo (Nathan)
Puspanathan Kolandavaloo (Nathan), Manufacturing Manager, Lysaght Malaysia Nathan has built a motivated and trusting team which works together to achieve its goals and objectives. The team is optimistic and open to the changes needed to become stronger and a market leader. They made a significant contribution to Lysaght FY2014 EBIT initiatives, and achieved savings in overtime and repair and maintenance costs.
As Vice President Commercial, Vietnam, Hoang led his team to a new level of finance capability, able to support strong, flexible and scalable operating models that help the business find advantage and growth in volatile and uncertain markets. He also initiated the feasibility study for the ‘Zacs® store’ project, opening a new model of doing business that offers the potential of sustainable, profitable growth in the retail segment in Vietnam. Now in his new role in Indonesia, Huang is helping the Indonesian commercial team transform in a similar way to support business targets.
Tran Kien
Kien Tran, Vice President Retail, Vietnam Kien knows that being able to stay close to customers and place their interests first gives the opportunity to understand needs and behaviours. Kien’s achievements include increasing sales volumes by 10% in challenging market conditions; reaching margin targets in line with the Bamboo roadmap; strengthening awareness of the Zacs® brand; and establishing the Zacs® store channel, with 20 customers signed up in FY2014.
Other nominees for the Bamboo Leaders awards were: Henry Chin
Henry Chin, Regional Pricing Manager Henry exemplifies the Bamboo Leadership capabilities of being market-driven and taking ownership of projects. He has been recognised for his work in aligning the monthly pricing process and template among the four ASEAN businesses and leading strategy work across Lysaght sites. Henry also developed the Product Innovation Centre (PIC) business plan.
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Sam Mcmahon
Sam Mcmahon, Vice President Commercial and Finance, Thailand. Sam has led the development of Thailand’s Bamboo 2018 strategy; leveraging his BANZ experience to work with the regional team and establish a market based HRC formula mechanism with NSSMC. He led negotiations for SuperDyma® supply contracts from Japan.
Indonesia: Abdullah Lubis, VP Manufacturing, Indonesia Malaysia: Clement Chong, Malaysia Credit Manager; Jason Ang Chin Yee, Lysaght Singapore Operations Manager; Vishnukanth Ladchumigandan, Malaysia Project Dolphin Construction Lead Vietnam: Phung Quoc Dien, Lysaght President Thailand: Teerachai Chansakul, President Lysaght
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