How I Did It:
A Conversation with
Entrepreneur Tien Wong

 
WNG Entrepreneur Roundtable

Wednesday, April 9, 2014
7:30 AM - 9:45 AM

Tien Wong
Entrepreneur
(full bio)

Mr. S. Tien Wong is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Tech 2000, Inc., a Herndon, Virginia-based provider of advanced technology training, mobile e-learning, and mobile content management software to Fortune 500, education, and government clients. He is also Chairman of Lore Systems, Inc., a Silver Spring, Maryland-based IT professional services company. Lore designs and supports network infrastructures, managed datacenter hosting, managed services, and cloud computing solutions for commercial, nonprofit, and government clients. Mr. Wong also serves as Chairman of Opus8, Inc., a private investment and strategic advisory firm specializing in middle market buyouts and venture capital investment. Opus8 seeks to acquire and invest in call center, CRM (customer relationship management), outsourced marketing, datacenter, and managed hosting technologies and services.

In 1991, Mr. Wong co-founded and served as CEO of CyberRep, Inc. until its acquisition in 2003 by Affiliated Computer Services. At that time, CyberRep was one of the world’s largest privately held CRM outsourcing companies, operating 6 customer interaction centers throughout the USA with over 2,300 employees and $80 million in revenue. Today, the CyberRep/ACS business unit is one of the largest call center operations in the world.

Mr. Wong received the 2001 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award for Greater Washington and the 2003 Ernst & Young Performance Excellence Award. He is a 2012 Washington Business Journal "Power 100" selection as one of the region's most influential leaders, a three-time SmartCEO Magazine selection as a "Smart100" CEO (2009, 2010 and 2011), honored for community service in 2009 as a member of Greater DC Cares' "Class of Change, " and selected by The Gazette of Politics and Business in 2010 as one of "25 CEOs You Need to Know." He is a member of YPO/WPO and is a frequent guest lecturer on entrepreneurship, leadership, venture capital, and private equity at the University of Maryland and Georgetown University.

Mr. Wong serves on the Boards of Directors of the Maryland Venture Fund Authority, the Potomac Officer's Club, Washington DC Archangels, FounderCorps, and Cadre. He serves on the Investment Advisory Board of the Commonwealth of Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology GAP Fund and on the Advisory Boards of some of the most promising tech companies in the mid-Atlantic including Parature, Transactis, CirrusWorks, SpydrSafe, and DataRPM. In the past, he has served as Treasurer and National Board Member of the American Teleservices Association; Chairman of the Executive Leadership Committee for the Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE); Trustee of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and on the Boards of the Technology Council of Maryland, Association for Corporate Growth - National Capital and Monte Jade Science and Technology Association. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College.

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