User:William K. Liu

William Liu was born in Taiwan in 1950 and has a B.S. in Chemistry from the National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan and a Master degree in International Management from the American Graduate School of International Management, Thunderbird Campus, Glendale, Arizona, USA.

He commenced his career as an Assistant Research Chemist in the Plastics Laboratory of the Industrial Technology Research Institute in Taipei, providing technical service for the local plastics industry. He then became a Sales Engineer with Taiwan Rainbow, providing technical service for plastic-processing equipment made by Venus Products of the U.S., before becoming Manager of the Chemical and Metal Department with Dow Chemical.

In 1982 he became Manager - Far East Operations with Slush Puppie Corporation of the U.S, but based in Taiwan and responsible for the whole East Asia region. And in 1985 he became Vice President - U.S. Operations with China General Plastics Corporation, the second largest plastics company in Taiwan, based in New York, where he was for three years.

In 1988 he returned to Taiwan to become President of Harvester International Trading, the largest local supplier of commercial refrigeration equipment. He later established a bi-weekly employment magazine, Job Express, which had wide circulation throughout Taiwan, before becoming Founder and President of Intelligent Manpower in 1991, one of the fastest growing executive search companies in Taiwan.