Malaysian Entrepreneurs: Who Is Dato' Michael Tio?

 

Dato' Michael Tio is Malaysia's very own 'Superman', a modern socially conscious and humble business magnate.  A new leader for the new transformation era. Dato' Michael Tio Boon Yiaw is no doubt, one of the few young and forward thinking visionary entrepreneurs who comes with a big heart.  A definite rarity in Malaysia today. 

A future billionaire?  That's a very likely prediction with the current rapid clip Dato' Michael Tio is expanding his various businesses today!  One of his current goals is to have a public listed billion ringgit logistics company by 2015! Dato' Michael Tio Boon Yiaw is the Managing Director & Group Chief Executive of PKT Logistics Group Sdn Bhd (PKT). 

Dato' Michael Tio's innovative management style is heavily steeped in using social media such as his Facebook in daily work.  Active in social media, his staff is encouraged to have open communication and very much in sync with today's young and modern generation.  If you google 'Dato' Michael Tio' you will notice his Facebook account appearing right at the top of the first page of Google Search! 

Popular among staff, friends and customers, businessman Dato' Michael Tio Boon Yiaw is famous with the monikers such as 'DMT' and 'Superman' in the social media realm (DMT is his initials whilst Superman is in reference to Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-Shing).

An ardent believer in motivation and fair play, he generously rewards his top performing staff at least once yearly by taking them to expensive and exotic holidays like a safari in Africa or a cruise on the Alaskan seas! Now, ask yourself, wouldn't you want to work for a boss like that?! 

He is no doubt an incredible highly energised man and an advocate for higher performance and know how in the industry, Dato' Michael Tio Boon Yiaw has even embarked on an impressive project on his own to build a logistics based university in Malaysia which has its own Lighthouse!  His passion is teaching, sharing and lecturing to students all year round, giving them his wisdom and secret of success to the young in Malaysia.

Recently nominated in the prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Dato' Michael Tio Boon Yiaw also believes in saving sharks by mulling that fake shark fins soup be used to satisfy tradition wants whilst maintaining the survival of the declining shark population.  Dato' Michael Tio is certainly a personality who embodies the 'Blue Ocean' strategy, and that is in his own words!  A real action hero indeed!

Dato' Michael Tio Boon Yiaw's entrepreneurial traits are displayed when he was an undergraduate student reading Accounting in the University of Hull and later as a post graduate student in International Finance in Reading University in Britain. He used to export luxury cars back to Malaysia to be sold as re-conditioned cars.