U Htun Htun Naing

Mr. Htun Htun Naing is a Myanmar’s serial entrepreneur and investor. Currently, he works as a President of Myanmar Young Entrepreneur Association, Chairman & Group CEO of Blue Ocean Operating Management Co., Ltd which is the first and largest Contact Centre in Myanmar with over 1,000 workforces. Nowadays, Blue Ocean Operating Management (BOOM) Group has 12 subsidiary companies as part of his investment.

In addition to his educational background, he holds B.A (Myanmar) from University of Distance Education and MBA from Yangon Institute of Economics. Furthermore, he started his career as a part-time Telephone operator in Myanmar Post and Telecommunications in 1993. Starting from 1994 he worked as a sales and marketing profession in Multi-National companies such as DHL, ICI Paints, Tiger beer, Procter & Gamble, Bates advertising till to the year 2000.

Besides, he founded his first own business which was potato chips distribution company in 1999 with his friend. Unfortunately, his first business was failed to survive after 8 months later and he went into the broke. Therefore, he went back to work as an Event Manager at Bates Advertising for 10 months.

In the year of 2001, he founded one of the pioneers of ICT companies, called Bee Cyber Land with 8 business partners at the right timing with Myanmar’s ICT market trending. After 2 years later, in 2003, he founded next web-based platform service called e-Trade Myanmar, which is still operating and providing agriculture commodities information.

After traveling the over 8 years of entrepreneurship journey, he founded the Blue Ocean Operating Management Co., Ltd (BOOM) in 2009 which is the mother group of future Myanmar’s the first and largest call center in 2011. The first service of BOOM was the renting mobile SIM Cards at Yangon International Airport.

Moreover, he received The Most Admired ASEAN Enterprise for Young Entrepreneur Award 2014 at ASEAN Business and Investment Summit 2014 and ASEAN –China Yong Entrepreneur Award in 2015. Blue Ocean Operating Management was received ASEAN ICT Award in CSR for 2014, Myanmar President’s Award 2015 for the best performance in service sector in the nation and 2016 The Industry Champion award from Contact Center World, USA.

He regularly participates in public talks, TV shows and radio programs about marketing and entrepreneurship related programs. He passionately involves being developed the entrepreneurship ecosystem in his country, where the world is known as a Golden Land with untouched opportunities.