MYANMAR IO 2014 FEATURED SPEAKERS
U ZAW NAING THEIN vice chairman Supreme Group of Companies

BIOGRAPHY

U Zaw Naing Thein (Henry) is the vice chairman of the Supreme Group of Companies, whose focuses include power transmission, power generation,and project engineering/trading. He is also the CEO of Supreme Trading Company Ltd, Primus Construction and Development Co. Ltd.,and Supreme Power Generation Co. Ltd. After graduatingfrom Yangon University, Henry helped found the Supreme Group of Companies. A strategic young entrepreneur, hehas gained progressive leadership experience by undertaking more than500 local and foreign projects.He hasmore thanfifteenyears of experience in business development, production management, and project development.

Some of the Supreme Group’skey business partners include Daewoo International (Korea), IEC (Israel’sstate-ownedelectric power corporation), Mekorot(Israel’s national water company), Sinohydro Corporation (China), and Toshiba Corporation(Japan). The company’s latest achievement includes apartnership with an American power company, APR, to build an 82-megawattgas-powered plant to supply Myanmarwith much-needed electricity.

Henryis actively involved in nationwide non-business and business organizations, as a central executive committee member of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce andIndustry (UMFCCI); aschairperson of the Investment Promotion Committee (UMFCCI); ascentral executive committee member of the Myanmar Industries Association (MIA); asexecutive committee member of the Waste/Environmental Protection and Renewable Energy Development Sub-Committee (MIDC); and as executive committee member of the Myanmar Young Entrepreneurs Association (MYEA).

Supreme Group of Companies

The Supreme Group of Companies is one of Myanmar’spioneering technical companies.

The groupcomprises Supreme Enterprise Limited, Supreme Bio-techLimited, Supreme Water Doctor Group, Supreme Trading Company Ltd., and Primus Construction and Development Company Ltd.Since 1991, it has been performing technical business operations such as project engineering andengineering supply (for energy andpower plants andsteel structures);trading;engineering, procurement,andconstruction;joint investment with international firms;Australia-based bio-compost fertilizer production; water and wastewater treatment processes; construction; and investment.

The Supreme Group of Companies hassuccessfully completed projectsfor Myanmar’s Ministry of Electricity Power, Ministry of Industry, Ministry ofConstruction, Ministry of Defence, and Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation. In the power-transmission and power-generation sectors, the Supreme Group is partnering with Hyosung Corporation in Korea; Toshiba Corporation in Japan; IDI, EGCO, and PEA in Thailand; and, as exclusive partner, with Sino Hydro Corporation in China.In the construction sector, the Supreme Group is partnering with Waangner Biro, an Austrian bridge company; and it is the exclusive partner for Protasco Berhad, a road and infrastructure construction company in Malaysia.