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James Chia

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Chief Executive Officer at NetGain Systems
📍 Singapore

James Chia is the Chief Executive Officer of NetGain Systems, leveraging over 24 years of sales and business leadership experience from tech giants like Cisco, Arista, and HPE. An alumnus of the National University of Singapore, he has a strong record of building high-performing sales teams. People who have worked with him describe him as motivated, sincere, and passionate.

A Singaporean by birth, James possesses deep international expertise from living and working in China, Vietnam, and across Southeast Asia. He is known for valuing strong, personal relationships with customers and partners, reflecting a keen understanding of diverse business cultures in the Asia-Pacific region.

James is a professionally-trained media spokesperson and a certified Miller Heiman Strategic Selling trainer.

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Current Role
Chief Executive Officer
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Singapore
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Priorities

Topics James cares about

AIOps & Observability
He champions AIOps as a core strategy to help clients achieve full-stack observability, enhance user experience, and drive operational excellence through digital transformation.
Channel Partner Growth
He actively promotes partner enablement and certification, viewing a strong channel ecosystem as essential for innovation and expanding market presence across Asia.
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Career

Work history

Chief Executive Officer
NetGain Systems
Director, Southeast Asia
Arista Networks
Director, Software and Services, Asia Pacific and Japan
Aruba Networks, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company
Sales Director, ASEAN
Citrix Systems
Director of Sales, Smart + Connected Communities, Cisco China
Cisco
In the press

Media appearances

NetGain Systems Unveils New Strategic Plan To Support Its Growth. Featured in PR Newswire Asia (en.prnasia.com)
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NetGain Systems continues to grow and evolve its Portfolio with the announcement of its Observability Suite of Solutions. Featured in Technode Global (technode.global)
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Education
2017 - 2018
Executive Masters of Business Administration
National University of Singapore
1989 - 1992
Bachelor's
National University of Singapore
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