Inside Asian Gaming

INSIDE ASIAN GAMING FEBRUARY 2018 34 INDUSTRY PROFILE Ben Blaschke: Can you start by telling us a bit about yourself and your background? Herman Ng: I grew up in Macau and then when I was 16 I went to the United States to study. After I graduated I came back to Macau in 1996. After I came back I took a job as an arcade operations manager in an arcade games center. By that time I had met a bunch of Japanese guys in the industry and they kept asking me to do some distribution of Japanese products. That was around the same time, after 1999, that the Macau government started to open up the gaming licenses and my Japanese business colleagues asked me to start distributing some Japanese gaming products to Macau. I didn’t have any knowledge of gaming at the time and I thought it was the same thing as arcade games so I started doing it all together. My company was called Japan Pioneer Entertainment. BB: So how did you end up working specifically in the gaming industry? HN: Well after one year I found out that the Japanese gaming parlor wasn’t making any Inside Asian Gaming discovers a bit more about Herman Ng , CEO and Executive Director of Macau-based slot machine services firm Asia Pioneer Entertainment (APE). Herman Ng: Macau Pioneer