Adam Chang joined us in December 2006. He was with Brooks Automation, a U.S based Software Consulting company and ended his tenure there holding the position of Regional Sales Manager. With Brooks, Adam was exposed in the arena of handling the IT end user market which covers the manufacturing industry.

Before joining FSSB, he was attached to IBM Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. as the Software Sales Manager for Industrial and Distribution Sector.

In FSSB, Adam is Head of Channel Sales, call him if you need help in engaging your clients with IBM products.

Another ex-IBMer, Christopher Lee is quite an all rounder in the IT industry. He has exposure in all arenas; the end user, reseller, distributor and principal environments. Chirs was in IBM specializing in p-series hardware (unix) before he joins First Solution.

He is heading both the product and marketing teams carrying the title, Head, Product Management and Marketing.

We hope, with these new additions, First Solution will be able to scale new heights .

Mohamed Ma'aruf from Formis Network Services Sdn Bhd's (FNS) reported that FNS' Government Business Unit scored big time by winning an open tender to supply and lease PCs to Lembaga Hasil Dalam Negeri Malaysia (LHDN). The three-year lease to supply 10,000 workstations and 2,000 Samsung and Lexmark printers is worth about RM 48 million. FNS received the award from LHDN in early January. FNS won against competitors Mesiniaga, PERNEC, Solsis and Felda's Prodata among others.

LHDN, a customer of FNS since 2003 awarded FNS which partnered Hewlett Packard in this megadeal. For HP, this represents the biggest single customer deal for PC workstations worldwide. Previously, FNS supplied of Dell PC's for this customer. The winning team comprised Megat Mohd Najib, Akhnaz Zali, Roslan Jaffri, Juzer Zakri and Hasmi Amin. Well done, guys!

With effect from 1st January 2007, Nancy Yeoh relinguished her responsibility as the General Manager of Formis Software D ynamics Sdn Bhd (FSD) to take up her position in Formis Resources Berhad as Vice President, System Process.

In this new position, Nancy has the responsibility of looking into the system process of the entire Formis Group.

FSD and BASS Consulting are undergoing some internal restructuring. These two software companies are currently under the care of Damian Yeoh, Vice President, Software.