Lian Hoon Lim has joined AlixPartners' enterprise improvement group as a managing director. To be based in its Hong Kong office, he has worked with global and regional manufacturing companies and their supply chains in China and throughout Asia. He also has broad experience in global transportation and logistics.

Lim joins AlixPartners from Singapore-based global container-shipper and logistics company Neptune Orient Lines, where he had been senior vice-president of group strategy and planning since 2010. His responsibilities there included heading global strategy and planning for NOL's two major subsidiaries -- APL, the seventh-largest container-shipping line in the world, and APL Logistics. He was also heavily involved in developing and implementing major operations-streamlining initiatives for reducing costs at APL in a challenging market.

Earlier in his career, Lim was the head of the Hong Kong office of A.T. Kearney, where he focussed on global supply-chain and manufacturing operations in Asia. This included offshoring of manufacturing, low-cost-country procurement, outsourcing and acquisitions of operations across industries, including electronics, automotive, industrial goods, consumer goods and chemicals.

Prior to that, he spent eight years in industry managing manufacturing operations, and was involved in relocations of operations to Asia in the electronics and electrical-equipment industries.

Lim holds a Ph.D. in electrical and electronic engineering as well as a bachelor's degree in engineering from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London. He speaks Chinese, Malay and English.