Citizenship France
Cambodia Name Thierry Tea Children Julia Tea 張莉雅 | Spouse(s) Lynda Him Religion Buddhism | |
Born 22 April 1981 (age 43) ( 1981-04-22 ) Paris, France Occupation CEO of PhilJets Group, Managing Partner of Agama Investments and Managing Director of Starline Global Industries, Board Director of Saint Blanquat & Associates Awards People of the Year 2011, Special Awardee | ||
Rappler talk thierry tea on the business of private helicopters jets
Thierry Tea is a French-Cambodian businessman, entrepreneur, investor of Chinese Teochew, origin, born 張勇漢 in Paris, France on April 22, 1981.
Contents
- Rappler talk thierry tea on the business of private helicopters jets
- In the loop interview with thierry tea on philjets
- Aerospace and aviation
- PhilJets Group
- FinTech
- Cambodia
- Personal life
- Awards and recognition
- References
He is the founder and Managing Director of PhilJets Aero Services Inc since 2013, a company in the Philippines. He also holds the position of Chairman of PhilJets Aero Charter Corp (formerly Zenith Air Inc), Managing Partner of Agama Investments Co Ltd in Cambodia, Managing Director of Starline Global Industries Pte Ltd and Managing Director of Starline Aero Investment Pte Ltd in Singapore. Tea has co-founded WeCube Inc, a collaborative ecosystem for start ups, and has been nominated by Business France to be the Ambassadeur of the label La French Tech in the Philippines.
At age 27, Tea was President and CEO of Airbus Helicopters Philippines (Formerly Eurocopter Philippines) for 5 years, from 2007 to 2012. He was the youngest CEO of a subsidiary in Airbus Helicopters.
At 29, Tea became the head of Airbus Group (formerly EADS) in the Philippines, becoming one of the youngest executives in the group.
Tea was nominated People of the Year in 2011, receiving a special award by People Asia magazine.
Tea is married to Lynda Him, and he is the father of a daughter named Julia Tea 張莉雅.
In the loop interview with thierry tea on philjets
Aerospace and aviation
Tea then returned to Paris, where he started his career with Airbus Helicopters as a back office project executive within the Oil & Gas (Petroleum Industry) Department. Shortly thereafter, he moved back to Asia to work within a subsidiary of the company.
He obtained a Volunteer for International Experience (VIE) internship with Airbus Helicopters Southeast Asia in Singapore, and went on to become sales manager.
He was then moved to Manila in 2004. He sold 35 helicopters, and became the President & CEO of Eurocopter Philippines, a subsidiary of Airbus Group, where he worked for five years before taking the role of head of Airbus Group in the Philippines, covering sales campaigns of ATR, Airbus, Airbus Helicopters and Airbus Military of the Defense and Space division.
At the age of 28 in 2009, Tea was nominated by the Prime Minister of France as a Foreign Trade Adviser for France (Conseiller du Commerce Exterieur pour la France).
Tea was also a Board Director for the French Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines from 2008 to 2010.
In his last year within the Airbus Group, Tea was part of the team that won the Airbus Campaign with Philippine Airlines when the airline purchased 70 Airbus planes
At 31, after 10 years with the Airbus Group, he left to establish the PhilJets Group with Atty Millicent Asuncion, Matea Delen and Willyn Villarica.
Through PhilJets, Tea purchased Zenith Air Inc, an air charter company that operates in the Philippines. It was renamed PhilJets Aero Charter Corp in December 2014.
Tea is a member of the Philippines-France Business Council, and the Makati Business Club.
PhilJets Group
Thierry Tea is the founder and managing director of the PhilJets Group. PhilJets Group includes PhilJets Aero Services Inc and PhilJets Aero Charter Corp.
PhilJets is an Aviation Solution start up company that promotes both Tourism and Aviation in the Philippines. It is a member of the Asian Business Aviation Association.
PhilJets Aero Services Inc is a MRO company, and has an AMO (Aircraft Maintenance Organization) license delivered by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines since July 2015.
PhilJets and Tea provide advisory services to Airbus Group in the Philippines for business development. The company advises AJ Walter in the Philippines
PhilJets Aero Charter Corp developed tours by helicopters and private flights services throughout the Philippines, including air taxi services. Its services include aerial and scenic flights, mining, VIP and corporate flight services. The company that provides aircraft management, operates 2 H 130 (ex EC130T2), 1 AS350B2, 1 R44 helicopters. The operator is active in natural disaster reliefs or emergency evactuations. It develops its helitours. PhilJets will be the first operator to receive and operate the Bell Helicopter 505 Jet Ranger X in the Philippines.
PhilJets and GrabTaxi have partnered to launch GrabHeli, a feature in the GrabTaxi application for user to ride a helicopter in Manila, on November 24, 2015 at the PhilJets facilities. The GrabHeli is in competition with Uber's Uberchopper. Thierry is advocating innovation in aviation, and believes in e-commerce.
PhilJets is member of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry, of the Makati Business Club, of the French Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines.
FinTech
Tea co founded in 2016, WeCube Inc, a collaborative ecosystem for start up in the digital industry. He also became the Ambassador of La French Tech Philippines. French Tech is a label created by the French Government to support the French Start Ups in France and worldwide.
Cambodia
Since 2013, Tea started to visit Cambodia frequently. In 2014, he incorporated his first company in Cambodia, Agama Investments Co Ltd, a boutique investment company engaged in private equity, venture capital, management, consulting, financing, trading and real estate.
Tea is an Adviser of the Anvaya (organization) Council.
He also started mango plantations with TK Orient in Kampong Speu Province.
Tea is Co-Founder and Director of Asiaware Cambodia, an association with the primary objective to provide support to children in Cambodia, with a focus in the Kampong Speu province.
Tea is a Chevalier of the Confrérie de la Chaîne des Rôtisseurs, Baillage Cambodia since May 2015.
Personal life
Tea is married to Lynda Him, French Chinese Cambodian of Hainanese and Teochew descent. She is a businesswoman engaged into rice trading. Him also holds a master's degree from Negocia (Novancia) Business School Paris, studied in Drexel University in the USA and Nanyang Polytechnic in Singapore. They met while working for Airbus Helicopters in Asia.
Tea speaks French, English, Chinese (Teochew/Chaozhou), Spanish, and Khmer.
Tea's daughter Julia Tea is born on September 20, 2015, in Manila.
Awards and recognition
Tea was awarded by People Asia magazine the Special Awardee of the Year in 2011, for his rescues contribution and mobilizations of ressources during Tropical Storm Ondoy in the Philippines. The ceremony was chaired by the Philippine President Benigno Aquino III.