Giok Ping Chua

Giok Ping Chua is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Magellan Solutions Outsourcing, Inc. Ping is also principal owner of Worldwide Electronics Mfg. Corp., President of Electone Electronics Mfg. Corp. and Chairman of Handwell Electronics Corp., leading Philippine producers, marketers and distributors of high-fidelity stereophonic systems, resistors and other electronic components.

Founded in 1968, Worldwide Electronics has evolved from an importer and wholesaler of radio assembly components and accessories to become the second-largest Philippine manufacturer of power transformers. Founded in 1975, Electone is a leading Philippine producer, marketer and distributor of high-fidelity stereophonic speakers and related components, including microphones, tweeters, woofers, sub-woofers, baffle systems and karaoke systems. Electone’s principal customers include many of the major stereo audio wholesalers and retail outlets in Metro Manila. Founded in 1991, Handwell is the Philippines’ sole manufacturer of ISO 9002-certified axial leaded carbon film resistors. In its first year of operations, Handwell expanded its resistor-production capacity to 120 million pieces per month, capturing the interest of a major Taiwanese investment group. Today, Handwell remains committed to delivering only the highest-reliability products. Handwell’s principal customers have included many of the most respected electronic-components distributors based in Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and the United States, including: American Power Conversion (APC) Phil., a wholly-owned subsidiary of American Power Conversion Corp. a Fortune 1000, Forbes 500, Forbes Platinum 400 and Nasdaq-listed company; Anglia Components, the United Kingdom’s largest privately owned electronic component distributor; Kita Corporation, the Philippines’ preferred distributor of AIWA systems; Maxon Systems (Phil.), Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Maxon Telecoms, Ltd. of Korea; National/Panasonic (MEPCO), a wholly-owned subsidiary of National/Panasonic of Japan; Saisho Onkyo Inc. and Techtuit Co., Ltd.

A native of the Philippines, Ping is fluent in English, Pilipino (Tagalog), Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese and a number of regional Chinese dialects, including Hokkien, and is knowledgeable in a number of other Asian languages, including Nihongo (Japanese).