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Dr. Wong Poh Kam
Associate Professor, NUS Business School &
Director, NUS Entrepreneurship Centre
Dr. Wong Poh Kam is currently Associate Professor, Business School and Director, Entrepreneurship Centre, National University of Singapore. He obtained two BSc.'s., an MSc. and a PhD. 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 Stanford University and the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology. He has consulted widely for international agencies such as the World Bank and ADB, various government agencies in Singapore such as EDB, IDA and A*STAR, 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 many international comparative research projects, including 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). An active angel investor, he currently serves on the board of directors of several high tech start-ups in Singapore, Silicon Valley and Malaysia and was chairman of the NUS Venture Support Fund Investment Committee 2003-04. He is also a founding director of Monte Jade Singapore Chapter, a panel member of The Enterprise Challenge (TEC), and a member of the IDA iN2015 IISTD Subcommittee. For his contribution to education in Singapore, he was awarded the Public Administration Medal(Bronze) by the Singapore government in 2005.
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