The right choice
General Manager of United Everco Marketing Sdn Bhd, Kingston Tiew King Siang was once a student of the American Degree Transfer Program (ADTP) at Sunway University College.
“It was known as the Western Michigan University (WMU) programme back then,” he said.
The 27-year-old, who graduated in 2008, is currently learning and following the footsteps of his father, who founded the family-owned business. ‘We are currently Malaysia’s largest range of exhaust manufacturer and distributor,’ he said. ‘I have worked my way up from rank and file. I have done anything from sales, designing, human resources, public relations, import & export as well as training.’
This was the way his father had helped mould him for the job which he is currently holding. “To be where I am today, I needed to understand how every department in the company works to be able to manage and enhance its efficiency,” he said.
“My plans are to increase the business of Everco and bring it to the next level of expansion, save up decent amount of money
and start my own family.”
Childhood dream
Tiew’s childhood dream has been aviation. “I hope to be able to fly my own planes and travel around the world,” he said. “I am working on it. It is not a very big dream. I believe it can be done. All I need is sufficient time and money to make my dream come true.”
Like most young people, when he came to the crossroad of his life, he did not know what degree programme to take. “I didn’t specifically choose WMU in the first place,” he said. After completing his high school, Tiew joined Multimedia University but decided he wanted to pursue an engineering degree programme instead.
“Since I was living in Sunway, it was a choice between Taylor’s, INTI and Sunway. I chose Sunway’s WMU because it provided me a lot of assurance, flexibility and credibility.”
Nostalgia
His fascination of Sunway is because of the strategic campus location, its facilities and the programmes offered. With a hint of nostalgia, he recollected his fond memories of his alma mater: “There were many amenities like a proper campus with a full scale
football field, library, huge auditoriums, proper lecture halls and even a monorail to Sunway Pyramid back in those days.”
The best part of his student days, Tiew admitted, was the food. “At every corner, there were always different kinds of food easily available,” he said. “Apart from that, student life was the same as work.” Young and energetic, Tiew is a keen follower of
Malaysian politics and his favourite non-governmental organisation is Transparency International. For books, he is currently reading Rustam A. Sani’s “Failed Nation” and “The Tao of Warren Buffet” by Mary Buffett and David Clark.
“The “Tao of Warren Buffet” is currently my favourite book by far, very simple to read and gets your mind thinking,” he said. “It explains words of wisdom by the renowned Warren Buffet, mostly about life’s principle but they way he related them to investments and business ideas is simply astounding.”
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