Inventive Know-how co-founder, chairman and CEO Sim Wong Hoo died on Wednesday on the age of 67.
“The very best factor to do now could be to make sure the continued easy working of the Firm, and likewise to execute and realise the imaginative and prescient and technique that Mr. Sim had for the Firm,” Track continued.
Sim had been the chairman and CEO of Inventive Know-how, generally known as Inventive Labs within the U.S., ever since he co-founded the corporate in 1981 with childhood buddy Ng Kai Wa.
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Secretlab co-founder and CEO Ian Ang informed CNA, “Singapore at present misplaced an business legend in Mr Sim. Millennials grew up with Inventive’s glorious sound playing cards, MP3 gamers, audio system, Chinese language e-dictionary, and extra.”
CEO of Razer Tan Min-Liang posted on Fb about his shock at listening to the information. He disclosed that he was good pals with Sim and would typically meet to debate audio know-how and design.
Together with an image of the 2 of them collectively, Tan posted, “Will miss him – the know-how world and Singapore has misplaced a legend.”
Toh Wee Khiang, director at Power Market Authority, posted on LinkedIn that Sim “put Singapore know-how on the world map with the Sound Blaster.”
“Mr. Sim has performed an instrumental position in growing the enterprise and has offered the Firm with sturdy management and imaginative and prescient,” the board of administrators mentioned of their assertion.