Workshop Facilitators

The Workshop Program will be facilitated by experienced lecturers from NUS Entrepreneurship Centre. In addition, experienced technology entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, venture consultants and angel investors will be invited to share their relevant practical insights on each of the workshop topics.

Dr. Wong Poh Kam, PhD, SM, SB (MIT) Associate Professor, NUS Business School Director, NUS Entrepreneurship Centre

Dr. Wong is currently Associate Professor, Business School and Director, Entrepreneurship Centre, National University of Singapore. He obtained two BSc.'s., an MSc. and a Ph.D. from MIT.

Prior to joining NUS in 1988, he was a co-founder of two IT companies and the founding managing director of a consulting firm in Malaysia. He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley and a visiting scholar at the Asia-Pacific Research Centre, Stanford University. He has consulted widely for international agencies such as the World Bank, ADB and APEC, various government agencies in Singapore such as EDB, IDA and NSTB, as well as many high tech firms in Asia.

He has published in numerous international journals on technology entrepreneurship and innovation strategy, and is the lead researcher for Singapore in the annual Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) study and the Stanford Project on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SPRIE). He teaches technology management and technology entrepreneurship to NUS MBA and graduate engineering/science students as well as to senior executives in the NUS Executive MBA program. He initiated and directed the MSc (Management of Technology) Program in NUS, and directed/taught numerous senior executive programs in Asia such as the NUS-U.C. Berkeley Executive Program on Managing E-Commerce.

Dr. Wong initiated StartUp@Singapore, an annual national business plan competition in Singapore, and is the founding chairman of Business Angel Network (Southeast Asia) and a member of the board of directors of the International Angel Investor Institute (IAII) (Palo-Alto, USA). He currently serves on the board of directors/advisory board of several high tech start-ups in Singapore, Malaysia and Silicon Valley, and chairs the NUS Venture Support Fund Steering Committee. He is also a founding director of Monte Jade Singapore Chapter, a panel member of The Enterprise Challenge (TEC), and an international advisory board member of Korean Enterprise Development (KED).

Mr Douglas Abrams Managing Director, Parallax Capital Management Adjunct Associate Professor, NUS Entrepreneurship Centre

Douglas Abrams is a Managing Director at Parallax Capital Management in Singapore, where he co-manages the private equity business. Prior to joining Parallax, Mr. Abrams managed information technology at J.P.Morgan for 13 years. From 1997 to 1999, he was Global Markets Head of Internet Marketing, and from 1991 to 1997, he was VP and Manager of Investment Banking Technology . He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore's Entrepreneurship Centre, where he lectures on New Venture Creation and Technopreneurship. Mr. Abrams graduated from the Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania with a BAs in Communications and received an MBA from The Wharton School.

Mr. Neo Kok Beng General Manager, InfoWave Pte Ltd

Neo Kok Beng is currently General Manager of InfoWave Pte Ltd, a joint-venture company of Singapore Technologies Electronics, Trek 2000 and Melodeon. InfoWave focus on building new & innovative products the areas of mobile computing and wireless communications. He has successfully come up with a series of ruggedised telematics products for transportation and government markets in Asia, Europe and USA.

He is also Chairman and Chief Incubator at Incubators@Work!, a $20 million Hi-Tech Intrapreneurship Venture Fund of Singapore Technologies. Incubators@Work! has successfully launched 7 companies and 5 have received external funding from venture capitalists, private investors and government.

Kok Beng also serves as Council Member of the Institution of Engineers, Singapore. He chair the Electronics Engineering Technical Committee and also co-chair the Technopreneurship & Professional Development Committee. IES has collaborated with NUS Entrepreneurship Center to organize technology entrepreneurship courses and hi-tech programmes for its members.

As a Council Member of North-East Community Development Council, Kok Beng sits in the Entrepreneurship & Creativity Standing Committee which aims to promote and inculcate entrepreneurial spirits & community/social entrepreneurship amongst the residents. He is also on the panel of the Innovation and Creativity Fund, which is jointly set up by North-East CDC, Shell LiveWire and the Institute of Technical Education.

Kok Beng graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) with Upper Honours from National University of Singapore, and a Master of Business Administration from Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University. He has set up companies and operations in Singapore, Shanghai and Silicon Valley.

Dr. Aw Chye Huat (PhD) Associate Director, UOB Venture Management

Dr. Aw Chye Huat is currently an Associate Director with UOB Venture Management. His experience ranges from R&D, marketing, to venture capital, having started his career as an IC design engineer. He was the Executive Director of CeHage Ventures, a company that helps grow technology ventures by providing value-add services in the area of strategy and fundraising. Before that, he was a Strategic Investment Manager at Intel Capital responsible for Intel Capital's investments in the ASEAN countries. Prior to venture capital, he was the marketing manager at Hewlett-Packard responsible for the worldwide product marketing of infrared data communication components.

Dr. Aw is a member of the NUS Venture Support Fund Steering Committee and a member of the advisory panel for the Centre for Innovation and Enterprise at the Republic Polytechnics.

Dr. Aw graduated from Stanford University, USA, with a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, and a Master of Science degree in Engineering Management. He also holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (First Class Honours) degree from the National University of Singapore.

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