Kee-Hian Tan

Kee-Hian TAN is a Senior Global Expert in the Blue Ocean Strategy Network co-founded by the creators of Blue Ocean Strategy, Professors Kim and Mauborgne. He works with private and public organizations globally, and across a wide range of sectors on Blue Ocean Strategy. He is a keynote speaker on Blue Ocean Strategy at public and in-house conferences and management retreats, conducts awareness seminars and training workshops, and leads major initiatives to formulate and execute Blue Ocean Strategy.
Kee-Hian has thirty years of international business experience in global management consultancies and MNCs. He was a Senior Vice President and Member of the Global Executive Committee of Gemini Consulting (The MAC Group). Based in Boston and London, he created and led several business units and centre of excellence for Gemini Consulting. He was also a Vice President at A.T. Kearney in Europe.

His consulting experience includes strategy, operations and large-scale transformation engagements in US, Europe, and Asia, across industries, such as communications, technology, media, industrial products, consumer products, financial services, private equity, life sciences, healthcare, medical equipment, automotive, forest products, oil & gas, and public sector.

A selection of his clients include LG Electronics, IBM, Hoffman la Roche, AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, BUPA, Kings' College Hospital, PwC, General Motors, Carlyle Group, Candover Capital, Chase Manhattan, Nationwide Building Society, Kodak, Boots, South African Breweries, Appleton Papers, Metsa Serla, Du Pont, Monsanto, Ashland Oil and Chemicals, S.C. Johnson Wax, Whirlpool, Paramount Corporation, Maxis, Orange, Telenor, AT&T, Sabanci Holdings, Sanjiu Pharmaceutical (China), Government of Malaysia, Government of Singapore, Danish Marketing Forum, Confederation of Danish Industries, Finnish National Fund for Research & Development, and Confederation of Indian Industries.

Kee-Hian's corporate experience in MNCs includes being a Vice President and Member of International Leadership Team of MCI International, in charge of Strategy, M&A and Strategic Initiatives for Europe, Asia & Africa; and Project Manager, Offshore Engineer, and Underwater R&D with the Royal Dutch Shell Group in London & The Hague.

Kee-Hian holds an MBA with High Distinction from Harvard Business School, where he is a George F. Baker Scholar, and was a Shell Scholar and graduated with First Class Honours in Engineering from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine.

He works with the Professors Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne on client initiatives, and contributed the research for the QB House case described in their Book.

Based in London, Kee Hian is married with 2 children. He grew up in Malaysia and Singapore. He held a patent for an underwater oil and gas invention.