More than a week ago I received the sad news that Henry Tan, an ex-business partner and friend of mine, suddenly passed away, in China. Henry and I go back more than 20 years already, and I first met him when he was an engineering assistant at the (then) Siemens factory in Batu Berendam in Malacca.
A brilliant technical person, Henry could reverse engineer many relaibility and failure analysis products and add new software features to develop his own brand. He set up his own manufacturing company IHS as well as several other companies dealing in software and trading. I admired Henry's knowhow in almost every test equipment he used, and when I started my fledgling business in 2003, I knew that the ideal person to tie up in Malaysia was Henry. He pushed the business hard and we had some major successes in Malaysian companies such as Infineon Malacca and Qimonda Senai.
However, in 2005, with a new Singapore partner, we decided to part ways amicably and remained occasionally in touch at Trade Shows and at customer locations. He went on to represent other FA products but scaled down his manufacturing, focussing on complete turnkey projects in new semicon setups in countries like China and even in the Middle East.
A workaholic, Henry will be best remembered by me as a staunch Christian and was able to separate friendship decisions from business decisions. He was the pillar of his family, and left behind his wife Charity and 3 daughters.
God be with you, Rest in Peace , Henry.
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