Thierry Tea

Thierry Tea
張勇漢

Thierry Tea interview at Sofitel Cambodia June 2015
Born (1981-04-22) 22 April 1981
Paris, France
Citizenship France
Cambodia
Occupation CEO of PhilJets Group, Managing Partner of Agama Investments and Managing Director of Starline Global Industries, Board Director of Saint Blanquat & Associates
Religion Buddhism
Spouse(s) Lynda Him
Children Julia Tea 張莉雅
Awards People of the Year 2011, Special Awardee

Thierry Tea is a French-Cambodian businessman,[1] entrepreneur,[2] investor of Chinese Teochew, origin, born 張勇漢 in Paris, France on April 22, 1981.

He is the founder[3][4] and Managing Director of PhilJets Aero Services Inc since 2013,[5] a company in the Philippines. He also holds the position of Chairman of PhilJets Aero Charter Corp[6] (formerly Zenith Air Inc), Managing Partner of Agama Investments Co Ltd in Cambodia, Managing Director of Starline Global Industries Pte Ltd [7] and Managing Director of Starline Aero Investment Pte Ltd in Singapore.[8] Tea has co-founded WeCube Inc, a collaborative ecosystem for start ups, and has been nominated by Business France to be the Ambassadeur of the label La French Tech in the Philippines.[9]

At age 27, Tea was President and CEO[10] of Airbus Helicopters Philippines [11](Formerly Eurocopter Philippines)[12] for 5 years, from 2007 to 2012.[13] He was the youngest CEO[10] of a subsidiary in Airbus Helicopters.

At 29, Tea became the head of Airbus Group (formerly EADS) in the Philippines, becoming one of the youngest executives in the group.

Tea was nominated People of the Year in 2011, receiving a special award by People Asia magazine.[14][15]

Tea is married to Lynda Him, and he is the father of a daughter named Julia Tea 張莉雅.

Early life and education

Tea grew up in Paris. Born in Clichy La Garenne 92, his parents, Ngorn Hor Tea and Narin Tea, moved from their small apartment on Rue du Ranelagh in Porte d'Auteuil to 13th arrondissement of Paris to settle on the Rue Nationale. His parents are Cambodian Chinese (Teochew, like Li Ka Shing in Hong Kong or Dhanin Chearavanont of Charoen Pokphand in Thailand). Like a lot of Cambodian immigrants,[16] they lost a large part of their family members during the Khmer Rouge regime. His father Tea Ngorn Hor was from a Phnom Penh family in the flour business. His mother Naren Lam was from a family which owned the largest bicycle company of Cambodia, "Mien Wok", that initially started from Ta Khmao. Both the Tea and Lam Families decided early in 1972 to send their children to study in France as they feared the conflict in Cambodia would grow worse. As a result, his father arrived in Paris in 1973, with his mother. While Ngorn Hor Tea went to Paris to join his sister Marie-Christine Tea,[17] who was studying at Medical School in Montpellier, Narin Lam arrived in Paris to join her sister Judith Lam who was studying engineering in France.

Tea went to school in Ecole Jeanne d'Arc B before joining Lycée Claude Monet High School. He passed his Baccalauréat ES with the mention Assez Bien. He also passed the exams for the Negocia Business School, later renamed Novancia. During business school, he attended Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA on an exchange program.[18]

In his last year at Negocia, he was in the first batch of students to enroll in an exchange program with Nanyang Polytechnic in Singapore.[18] He then began an internship in 2002 in Hong Kong where he worked for Yek Tak Group in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, while residing in the New Territories at Yuen Long.

The following year, in 2003, Tea took a master's degree with INSEEC Paris Business School.[19]

He then had his second internship in Asia, this time for Messe Düsseldorf in Shanghai, China.

Career

Aerospace and aviation

Tea then returned to Paris, where he started his career with Airbus Helicopters as a back office project executive within the Oil & Gas (Petroleum Industry) Department. Shortly thereafter, he moved back to Asia to work within a subsidiary of the company.[1]

He obtained a Volunteer for International Experience (VIE) internship with Airbus Helicopters Southeast Asia in Singapore, and went on to become sales manager.[1]

He was then moved to Manila in 2004. He sold 35 helicopters, and became the President & CEO of Eurocopter Philippines,[20][21] a subsidiary of Airbus Group,[22][23] where he worked for five years[24] before taking the role of head of Airbus Group in the Philippines, covering sales campaigns of ATR, Airbus, Airbus Helicopters and Airbus Military of the Defense and Space division.

At the age of 28 in 2009, Tea was nominated by the Prime Minister of France as a Foreign Trade Adviser for France (Conseiller du Commerce Exterieur pour la France).[25][26][27]

Tea was also a Board Director for the French Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines from 2008 to 2010.

In his last year within the Airbus Group, Tea was part of the team that won the Airbus Campaign with Philippine Airlines when the airline purchased 70 Airbus planes[28][29][30]

At 31, after 10 years with the Airbus Group, he left to establish the PhilJets Group[31] with Atty Millicent Asuncion, Matea Delen and Willyn Villarica.[32]

Through PhilJets, Tea purchased Zenith Air Inc, an air charter company that operates in the Philippines.[33] It was renamed PhilJets Aero Charter Corp [34] in December 2014.

Tea is a member of the Philippines-France Business Council,[35] and the Makati Business Club.[36]

PhilJets Group

Thierry Tea is the founder[37] and managing director[38] of the PhilJets Group.[39] PhilJets Group[40] includes PhilJets Aero Services Inc[41] and PhilJets Aero Charter Corp.[42][43][44]

PhilJets[45] is an Aviation Solution start up[46] company that promotes both Tourism[47] and Aviation[48] in the Philippines.[49] It is a member of the Asian Business Aviation Association.[50]

PhilJets Aero Services Inc[51] is a MRO company,[52] and has an AMO[53] (Aircraft Maintenance Organization)[54] license delivered by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines[55] since July 2015.[56]

PhilJets[57] and Tea provide advisory services to Airbus Group in the Philippines [58] for business development. The company advises AJ Walter in the Philippines [59]

PhilJets[60] Aero Charter Corp[61] developed tours[62] by helicopters [63][64] and private flights[65] services[66] throughout the Philippines, including air taxi services.[67] Its services include aerial and scenic flights,[68] mining, VIP and corporate[69] flight services.[70] The company that provides aircraft management,[71][72][73] operates 2 H 130[74] (ex EC130T2), 1 AS350B2, 1 R44 helicopters.[75][76] The operator is active in natural disaster reliefs[77] or emergency evactuations.[78][79] It develops its helitours.[80] PhilJets will be the first operator to receive[81] and operate[82] the Bell Helicopter 505 [83] Jet Ranger X[84] in the Philippines.[85][86]

PhilJets[87] and GrabTaxi have partnered[88] to launch GrabHeli,[89][90] a feature in the GrabTaxi[91] application[92] for user to ride a helicopter[93] in Manila, on November 24, 2015 at the PhilJets facilities.[94][95] The GrabHeli[96] is in competition with Uber's Uberchopper.[97][98] Thierry is advocating innovation in aviation, and believes in e-commerce.[99]

PhilJets is member of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry, of the Makati Business Club, of the French Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines.[100]

FinTech

Tea co founded in 2016, WeCube Inc, a collaborative ecosystem for start up in the digital industry. He also became the Ambassador of La French Tech Philippines. French Tech is a label created by the French Government to support the French Start Ups in France and worldwide.[101]

Cambodia

Since 2013, Tea started to visit Cambodia frequently. In 2014, he incorporated his first company in Cambodia, Agama Investments Co Ltd,[102] a boutique investment company[10] engaged in private equity, venture capital, management, consulting, financing, trading and real estate.[103]

Tea is an Adviser of the Anvaya (organization) Council.[104]

He also started mango plantations[10] with TK Orient in Kampong Speu Province.[103]

Tea is Co-Founder and Director of Asiaware Cambodia,[105] an association with the primary objective to provide support to children in Cambodia, with a focus in the Kampong Speu province.

Tea is a Chevalier of the Confrérie de la Chaîne des Rôtisseurs,[106] Baillage Cambodia[107] since May 2015.

Personal life

Tea is married to Lynda Him,[2] French Chinese Cambodian of Hainanese and Teochew descent.[4] She is a businesswoman engaged into rice trading. Him also holds a master's degree from Negocia (Novancia) Business School Paris, studied in Drexel University in the USA and Nanyang Polytechnic in Singapore. They met while working for Airbus Helicopters in Asia.

Tea speaks French, English, Chinese (Teochew/Chaozhou), Spanish, and Khmer.

Tea's daughter Julia Tea[108] is born on September 20, 2015, in Manila.[8]

Awards and recognition

Tea was awarded[109] by People Asia magazine the Special Awardee of the Year in 2011,[110] for his rescues contribution and mobilizations of ressources during Tropical Storm Ondoy in the Philippines. The ceremony was chaired by the Philippine President Benigno Aquino III.[111][112]

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