Charles Tseng

Charles Tseng is Chairman, Asia Pacific for Korn Ferry, the global organisational consultancy. He focuses on Board, CEO and leadership issues for organisations and businesses in China and the broader Asia Pacific region.

Prior to joining Korn Ferry, Mr. Tseng was with another global search firm, where he was senior partner for East Asia and a member of its board of directors practice group.

Before that, Mr. Tseng was with Cold Storage, a leading food and retail company in Southeast Asia, where he was appointed group general manager.

He began his career with Ford Motor Company as a manufacturing engineer in Australia and subsequently held other manufacturing and marketing roles in Asia.

Mr. Tseng has an M.B.A. from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A. and a first class honors’ degree in engineering from the University of Melbourne in Australia.

He has served on various boards, including as Chairman of the Wharton Asia Executive Board (two terms); Melbourne University Asia Advisory Board; and AEON Co. (M) Bhd, Malaysia’s largest retailer.

After nearly 20 years’ service with Korn Ferry, Mr Tseng will be retiring from the Firm after which he will be involved in other entrepreneurial ventures in the e-commerce space.

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