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Mr. Ng is well known in the in the payments' industry in Asia, with over 28 years of experience in building, operating and turning around payment businesses. He joined American Express in 1978 as Country Manager, Malaysia & Brunei. He later became Vice President for Malaysia and Brunei before being promoted to Division Vice President, Business Development of American Express' Asia Pacific Australia Division, based in Hong Kong. He was instrumental in building American Express into the leading card company in Malaysia prior to his departure. He left in 1986 to join MBf Group of Malaysia and turned around MBf's card business to become the largest MasterCard issuer in Southeast Asia and the largest issuer in Malaysia by 1993 and the first issuer of Maestro debit cards in Asia. Between 1990 and 1995 he expanded MBf's card business into China and several other Asian countries and was appointed as the President, Card and Payment Services. He left to form InterPay International Group, where he introduced the first MasterCard charge card with a chip-based, prepaid/loyalty card in Asia, through its joint venture card company in Malaysia, iSynergy. | 