User:Charleslau

Charles Lau (born January 31, 1980) is a digital marketer in the corporate world, Entrepreneur in the Internet industry, and also a Geek for mobile devices, desktop computers and computer servers. Charles is best known for his twitter handle, CharlesLau. He is married to Gan Simin on 20 January 2009. He has one daughter by the name of Faith. He currently works for Epson Southeast Asia. He previously worked for D3 Express as a CTO.

Early life and education
Charles was born in Singapore in 1980.

Entrepreneurship
Charles was motivated by the idea of entrepreneurship during his full-time national service where he was exposed to entrepreneurship and business ideas. He made the decision to give up his IT degree study in 2008, and to learn something about sales and marketing by taking part in the sales course organised by Dennis Wee Realty and eventually working for the realty company as a marketing associate.

Love
On 12 June 2007, he met Gan Simin on Friendster when Simin mistakenly messaged him. Previously, both Charles and Simin coincidentally quitted their jobs at the same time on 31 May 2007: Charles resigned his directorship from his delivery business, and started spending time on the Internet for his new internet business startup; Simin resigned her graphic designer job, and started spending time on the Internet to send resumes to look for a new job.

Epson
To be worked out.

Appearances
On 29 October 2011, Charles participated in the MediaCorp Subaru Impreza WRX Challenge, and gave up at he 25th hour as he couldn't tolerate the thirstiness in him.