Shayne L. van Vlerken Born in New Zealand. After serving in the Royal New Zealand Army Mr. van Vlerken first travelled to Australia and then to Asia living in Singapore and then Taiwan before settling in Thailand. Mr. van Vlerken cut his teeth in business in Asia as a Director of Alphamax Corporation Chaired by Vice Admiral Watanapol Saneewong Na Ayudhaya. (Royal Title) Mr. van Vlerken bought Australian Cellulose technology to Thailand under Cellumax Co Ltd. Establishing a Cellulose Manufacturing Plant which was awarded ISO 14001. Mr. van Vlerken as a Director of Alphamax was also actively engaged within the Shipping industry as Vessel Owners, building a fleet of Reefers Vessels and another fleet of Oil Tankers under Rama Shipping Co., Ltd. and Alpha Petroleum Transport Co. Ltd. which was the first Thai shipping company to achieve ISM. Alpha Marine Co Ltd managed one of the World’s largest ULCC’s (Ultra Large Crude Carrier) “MV Wyoming” of 340,000 DWT which was stationed in Thailand as floating oil storage. When the Thai Navy needed an Aircraft Carrier Alphamax became the agent for BAZAN of Spain, Europe’s largest Military ship builder. Alphamax has a 40 year maintenance agreement for the Carrier with the Royal Thai Navy. Alphamax is also active as a property developer.  During the mid 90's Mr. van Vlerken resigned as an active Director of Alphamax, maintaining a position as “Adviser to The Board of Directors” so he could establish EthnicEarth Holdings Co., Ltd (EE) An Internet pioneering company offering technical expertise and Web Services. EE was a major local pioneer bringing World standards of Internet protocols and internet services, website development and website marketing services to Thailand.
After more than two decades in the technology industry Mr. van Vlerken has a solid understanding of the industry, the technologies and how to complete client projects on-time, within-budget and to the highest standards of excellence.  Ethnic Earth Highlights.
 2003 Quoin Technology. Mr. van Vlerken was requested by the Directors of the public ally listed company Quoin Technologies PLC to come to Australia to take over as CEO as Quoin had run into financial difficulty as the Dot.com bubble burst, due to some rather unfortunate investment decisions that forced Quoin to close. Quoin had been successfully sending outsourced contracts to Thailand and during the period of closure Mr. van Vlerken took up the position as temporary CEO taking over existing Quoin contracts including ANZ Bank, Westfield Shopping Group, Price Waterhouse Coopers (IBM Global) NZ Government LINZ project. These projects were completed and delivered to the clients. 2004 Neurom Pty Ltd. (Australia) Mhelp Pty Ltd. (Australia) During 2004 Mr. van Vlerken formed Neurom Technology, putting together an Australian team of developers to create software IP. After some initial R&D efforts a realization grew that whilst there were a great many groups making revolutionary new software there was not a single company concentrating on revolutionizing how we effectively acquire all the knowledge needed to fully use all the features of new software offerings. With this in mind all efforts went towards two years of academic and scientific research into “how humans acquire new knowledge and skills”. Thousands of published papers were analysed and a selection of these papers formed the foundation of the “Science of Mhelp”. Thus Mhelp was born as our IP vehicle. The founding principle of Mhelp is highly focused: we have set out to revolutionize how to present knowledge relevant to the 21st century worker to mist effectively acquire new skills.
Mhelp R&D Centre of Excellence (Thailand) (A wholly owned subsidiary of Mhelp PL) Established in 2005, the Mhelp R&D Centre in Thailand is a technology development and content production centre. Mhelp selected Thailand due to the Founder’s previous experience of Thailand and confidence that Thailand would offer the best value location, now and into the future for recruiting and training highly skilled technology and content development teams. Mhelp has state of the art technology development hardware and software as well as professional technical writing, animation, sound recording and video recording studios. Mhelp IT (Australia) (A wholly owned subsidiary of Mhelp PL) Our Head Office for Sales and Marketing Operations was seeded during 2005 but became fully operational in late 2008. During the seeding phase we formed close relationships with sectors of the Government and Corporate marketplaces to ensure that we became a “market driven” company. We also formed relationships within the technology sector to ensure we could deploy the very latest relevant technologies within Mhelp. In January 2009 Mhelp ICT occupied our new Corporate Headquarters located on the Ground Floor of 299 Sussex Street in the Centre of Sydney. Mhelp was sold in 2010 Bangkok Video Productions Co., Ltd. Our goal is to learn about the Thailand Film Industry over a course of years and then to use our Internet knowledge, experience and technical expertise to ensure the leadership of the Thai Film Industry within our region through the implementation of technologies that lower the costs and time for foreign companies to make films in Thailand. We will do this by being the online leader in providing the services that are required by foreign filmmakers but that at this time are not yet recognized as being essential services by the Thailand Film Industry. We are committed to showing the Thailand Film Industry how to market in the 21st Century as well as to make our own impacts using technology as our anchor. Our websites so far: (We have 8 website, the following are just a taste of what we are doing) www.bangkokvideoproductions.com (The most comprehensive film website in the world for a single location (Thailand) with more than 1500 pages of information and prices) www.thailandflmlocations.com (The only directory of film locations in Thailand and indeed the only directory of its type in the world) www.thailandfilmstudios.com (What is said for above is same for here but for film studios, sound stages, film sets, etc.) www.thailandtalentagency.com (We offer thousands of profiles of actors, extras, models, performers, artists, - Anyone who might appear in a film). Check our main website (you are in it) on the homepage for a list of all our website assets. Update. January 1st 2017: We are now redeveloping all our websites to new technologies and platforms that will take them to a global level. This will take most of 2017 to achieve. |  Shayne L. van Vlerken Founder; Bangkok Video Productions  A family man. Shayne with son Henry. |
