Forum Facilitators

The forum is headed by Associate Professor Wong Poh Kam, who is the director the NUS Entrepreneurship Centre. He is supported by Mr. Patrick Chan, Technopreneurship Program Manager.

Forum Director

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 also 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).

Forum Manager

Patrick Chan, Technopreneurship Program Manager, is responsible for the outreach program at NUS Entrepreneurship Centre. He started his career in Singapore Airlines as an SIA Scholar where he became an IT project leader. He next joined KPMG Consulting Singapore in the banking and finance consultancy doing management consultancy and ERP project implementation and later became a business development manager and the wireless practice leader in the web/wireless enterprise solutions consulting group, responsible for architecting solutions, forging alliances and driving technology businesses. Patrick is an associate member of Certified IT Project Manager by Singapore Computer Society and a Competent Toastmaster by Toastmasters International. He is also a member of International WHO's WHO Organization in Information Technology.