Ronald Ck Ong - Founder & Group CEO

About Ronald Ck Ong

Founder & Group CEO at SearchDigital

Ronald Ck Ong is a globally renowned, multi-award-winning digital entrepreneur and the founder of SearchDigital, a specialist digital consultancy and web technology company. He has been featured in Entrepreneur magazine and has advised Chartered Institutes on digital strategy.

Born in the UK to Malaysian immigrant parents, Ronald displayed remarkable talents from a young age. At just 12, he secured his first paycheque as a programmer for a national publication (Future Plc), and by 14, he had programmed and released his first computer game, developed in C++.

At 15, Ronald's cubist watercolour artwork inspired by Pablo Picasso was placed in an art exhibition. That same year, he started his first "enterprise" - writing, editing, and publishing a computer magazine called "CAS" (Commodore, Amstrad, Spectrum) with three friends, all while still in school. He was also awarded a certificate from Mensa, the high IQ society, at the age of 16.

After working in the aviation and gaming industries, Ronald founded SearchDigital in 2009. He continues to work directly with other CEOs, founders, entrepreneurs and thought leaders worldwide.

Technology

As an early adopter of the internet during the dial-up era, he was labeled a "Computer Genius" from a young age. He was fortunate to own several iconic machines, with his computing journey spanning pioneering platforms from Atari and Commodore before moving on to fully custom-built PCs.

His passion for digital art developed through using Degas Elite software published by Electronic Arts. This led him to teach himself Autodesk's 3D Studio software, and he created a 3D demo that helped him secure his first full-time job designing real-world environments for aircraft simulators to help train pilots to fly.

After gaining experience in the games industry as a designer for Virgin Group's games division in London, he later joined the original members of the Bullfrog Productions team. He then decided to embark on his own entrepreneurial venture.