BT announced with immediate effect the appointment of Steve Ting as chairman and Lim Chin Hu as CEO of BT’s Southeast Asian (SEA) operations. Prior to joining BT, Ting was group founder and executive chairman of BT Frontline. Ting is a veteran in the technology industry with more than 20 years of experience. He has held several management positions in Hewlett Packard Singapore and Mentor Graphics Corporation. Lim previously served as president and chief executive officer of BT Frontline where he led the overall operations of the BT Frontline Group, and was instrumental in developing and directing the group’s growth and regional strategies. Lim has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. Prior to joining Frontline Technologies, he was managing director of Sun Microsystems Singapore and Corporate Director, Partners & Channels for Sun Asia Pacific. Under Ting’s and Lim’s leadership, BT is integrating about 700 people from BT Frontline wholly owned operations in Singapore, Malaysia and Dalian, China with a completion target of early 2009. Additionally in India and in China, the new leadership team has initiated a programme in India between BT India and Accel Frontline, and also with MDCL Frontline China and BT China to drive sales collaboration. In March 2008, BT acquired Frontline Technologies now operating as BT Frontline to help further grow BT’s IT services capabilities as the company drives to become the leading provider of networked IT solutions in the Asia Pacific region.