邓耀兴博士曾著有《企业转亏为盈：护理生病公司康复》（Corporate Turnaround: Nursing a sick company back to health），由Prentice Hall在2002年出版发行英文原版。该书也被翻译成印尼文。其 英文版曾一度成为当时最畅销的书籍之一。在2006年，他又完成了另一本书， 名为《企业健康：转机和转型的101条原则》（Corporate Wellness: 101 Principles in Turnaround and Transformation）。这两本书先后被译成中文。仅在2007-2008两年内，他又先后出版了四本书：《网络转亏为盈：利用网上市场营销促使公司转亏为盈》(Internet Turnaround: The Use of Internet Marketing to Turnaround Companies)、《培训手册：企业转机和转型法》(Training Manual: Corporate Turnaround and Transformation Methodology)、《利用链接提高你的网页在搜索引擎上的排名》(Link Baiting to Improve Your Page Ranking on Search Engines)和《企业转亏为盈：纵观全球》(Corporate Turnaround: Global Perspective)。
至今为止，邓博士共著 25本。
邓博士曾多次就企业转机和转型课题被国家媒体采访。他被包括如亚洲新闻电视台、FM93.8新闻广播电台、《老板》杂 志、《经济通报》、《今日》报、《世界经理人文摘》、《联合早报》、StarBiz、Singapore Edge、《海峡时报》等电视、电 台和刊物报章公认为亚洲的转机总裁。
邓博士拥有29年在亚太区企业转机、策略规划和运作管理的相关工作经验。其中，担任首席执行官的职位长达19年。
邓博士在2000年——2004年曾担任新加坡市场协会（MIS）主席。该协会是一个代表着在新加坡大约5千名个人和企业成员的国家 团体。邓博士在南澳大学荣获经营管理学博士学位，在新加坡国立大学分别荣获工商管理硕士和机械工程学士学位。他目前是两所大学的校友主席.
Carlos Oliveros is the Manager of the Academy of Responsible Management. Carlos holds two BSc degrees in Political Science and Government and International Relations from the Rosario University in Colombia and a Masters in International Development and Management from Lund University, Sweden. He is a scholar of Colfuturo and the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA).
He has conducted research in development projects for the CEPI (Centro de Estudios Politicos e Internacionales) and the Forbes Magazine Research group in Colombia; and for the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and OWW Consulting in Malaysia. He also supports OWW Consulting in consultancy projects on sustainability and the Academy of Responsible Management research and training in Corporate Governance, Sustainability Reporting and SRI issues in Asia and the Middle East.
Projects he has worked in include Maybank and Media Prima sustainability reports, stakeholder engagement for TESCO and environmental management for ASEIC SME Eco Innovation Centre in Korea.
Carlos speaks Spanish (native), English (fluent) and French (intermediate). He is a history and astronomy diletante.
Choy Kar Wai, Abel, BSc (Hons), MSc UK , MSHRI, is currently director of Precepts Systems International Pte Ltd and corporate Trainer of NUS Extension and SIM.
Abel has more than fifteen years of teaching and management consultancy experience. He is active in corporate training and has since trained hundreds of Executives in business strategy management and IT courses. He is the Director of a management training and consultancy firm that specialises in providing effective strategy development and performance management solutions to companies.
Abel has previously held academic and corporate positions as a Lecturer, Chief Information Officer and General Manager, responsible for strategic management and deployment of information technology. Combining his broad practical experience in IT systems and business management, he has been contributing effective business performance solutions to MNCs, local SME and public-listed companies.
Associate Professor Abhik Roychoudhury
Abhik Roychoudhury is an Associate Professor of Computer Science with School of Computing, National University of Singapore. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His research interests are in software analysis and validation with specific focus on embedded software. Abhik has published widely in premier conferences and journals in software engineering and embedded systems, with over 75 peer-reviewed publications. His research has led to scalable and usable analysis tools for embedded software which enhance software quality as well as programmer productivity. Two meaningful examples of such endeavour are the Chronos static analysis tool for ensuring time-predictable software execution, and the JSlice dynamic analysis tool for software debugging. Such tools have a substantial user-base spread across many different countries and have usage in teaching / development apart from research. Abhik's research has been recognized by various awards including ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award (from ESEC-FSE 2009) and IBM Faculty Award (2008).
Adeline Hsieh (MBA, CPA) has more than 15 years of consulting, commercial and financial experience in pre-investment due diligence, consulting, financial management, and auditing. Her career began with an international accounting firm and proceeded to a public listed property developer and has been involved in the last several years with pre-investment due diligence for local investors in a due diligence consulting and financial management capacity for infra structure projects, real estate development and business start ups.
She holds a CPA professional qualifications as well as an MBA, majoring in Finance, from the National University of Singapore. In her projects consulting work, she has work with companies in China, Australia, and Singapore. Her present company has infrastructure development and investment consulting work in Sri Lanka, India, Middle East, America, Europe, Korea, Malaysia, Thailand and Cambodia.
Mr. Adisorn graduated with a B.A. in Political Sciences from Ramkhamhaeng University, Thailand, and currently pursuing his M.A. in Thai Language Teaching at the same university. He teaches Thai at NUS. He has extensive experiences in teaching Thai as a foreign language to foreigners and developing teaching materials. Besides teaching and research interest, his community and public services involve being an assessor for Multiple Language Proficiency Test for Singapore Tourism Board.
Adrian has been a Headhunter since 2004 and currently heads the Professional Services Practice in Boyden Global Executive Search, one of the largest and oldest Executive Search Firms in the world. He graduated from the Business School at the National University of Singapore with a high Honours and joined Shell Eastern Petroleum under their Management Development Programme. He was fast-tracked and exposed to numerous functions of the business and in 2000, he left to start his own Consulting business.
In his current role as an Executive Search Professional, he has placed CFOs, MDs, VPs and other Senior Leaders with his MNC clients. With each successful placement, he plays an integral role as a “Career Coach” to these Business Leaders, many of whom have benefited greatly from his expertise. With a deep understanding and appreciation of the job-market and talent landscape, he is a much sought-after Headhunter and Career Counselor.
Mr. Albert Kong (Accounting, Finance, Strategy)
Mr. Albert Kong is the CEO of a franchising consulting company. The company has been established for 17 years. He is also the Executive council member of Singapore's Franchising and Licensing Association, Executive Council Member of the Institute of Management Consultants. Albert has spoken and trained in Franchising in more than 30 countries. He holds the China Chain store & Franchise Association award contributing to the growth of franchising in China for the last 10 years. He is also the co-author of the book "Developing and Managing a Franchise".
Three other trainers will include Christopher Tay, a specialist in the field of computerized inventory control and management system and Operations, Clarence Nah, a specialist in workflow and Corporate Services Management and Christine Cheung, specialising in finance, operations, marketing and systems implementation.
Alfred is Managing Director of Imperial Consulting in Singapore. He has been in management consulting for over 20 years, with Arthur D. Little, Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), Arthur Andersen and KPMG, in the last two firms as a Partner and a Director respectively. Prior to management consulting, he was in investment banking for five years, with Morgan Guaranty (JP Morgan) and DBS Bank.
Alfred’s work in management consulting has focused on strategy, financial, privatization and organizational advisory services. He has led projects in strategic and business planning, market research, project feasibility analysis, design and implementation of performance management systems (balanced scorecard, EVA), financial modeling and analysis, business valuation, cost and pricing analysis, financial restructuring, industry reform and regulation, corporatization and privatization, and organizational restructuring. In investment banking, he was involved in a range of capital market and corporate finance advisory work.
Alfred has an MBA (Finance Major) from Columbia Business School in New York where he graduated top of his graduating class. He also has a BE (Hons) in electrical engineering from the University of Melbourne, earned under a Colombo Plan Scholarship. Alfred has also completed Morgan Guaranty’s nine-month Commercial Bank Management Program in New York.
Apart from running Imperial Consulting in Singapore, Alfred also conducts training for the company’s clients in his two areas of expertise: strategy and finance. Finance courses he trains in include “Finance for Non-financial Managers”, “Financial Analysis” and “Valuation of Companies”. Strategy courses he conducts include “Strategic Planning – An Issues-based Approach” and “Moving from an Operational Manager to a Strategic Thinker”. Alfred also conducts the Accounting, Finance and Strategy modules of AMA’s 5-Day MBA Workshop.
Alka Prakesh is a Senior Associate Trainer with Psyscan Consulting. She is responsible for the delivery of many of Psyscan’s workshops on soft skills and behavioural psychology such as stress management, work-life balancing skills, listening, communications and speaking skills.
Currently a concurrent academic associate/lecturer with the Singapore Republic Polytechnic in Psychology, Alka is an avid work-life balance practitioner herself, balancing a busy teaching and training worklife with her family of 3 children. Prior to Republic Polytechnic, Alka was with VAS International as a trainer in seminars, and a lecturer at the University of Delhi, India.
A well-sought after speaker, Alka obtained her Science Bachelor’s degree, MSc. and Ph.D in Life Sciences from the University of Delhi, and a Professional Diploma in Applied Psychology from NUS Extension. She has published two books on life sciences and one on stress management.
Alka speaks fluent English.
Alvin is a Director of A.S. Louken Group Pte Ltd, a leading retail and F&B consultancy in Singapore. He heads the franchise division in the A.S. Louken, and has helped numerous A.S. Louken clients to franchise their business both within Singapore and overseas.
Alvin’s work in A.S. Louken centers around assisting clients by strategizing their expansion plans, protecting their intellectual property, developing their franchise systems, marketing their franchise offerings, and constructing their financial projections. He also counsels clients on managing their franchisees, and advises on overcoming various legal and regulatory issues related to franchising in the region.
His franchise project clients include Breadtalk, Polar Puffs & Cakes, Donut Factory, Kenko Foot Reflexology, Food Republic, Air Division, 1A Crispy Puffs, La Bloomingchic, Manchester United F&B, The Soup Spoon, Ministry Of Food, Original Hock Lam Beef Kway Teow, Olio Café And Restaurant and Sonata Rainbow Dancewear.
He is also currently working on franchise and business expansion projects for Columbia (Indonesia), FX1 Academy, Marmalade Pantry, Mind Language Centre, Mothers En Vogue, Muthu’s Curry, Prints, Love & Co, Cherie Hearts, Heatwave, and Orange Tee.
Alvin also advises clients on planning and developing IT (Information Technology) infrastructure, as well as strengthening their brand, so as to complement with their franchise and business expansion needs.
Alvin regularly speaks on franchise and business expansion topics, with various key Singaporean business organizations, such as Franchising and Licensing Association (Singapore), Singapore Business Federation, as well as various government related bodies.
Mr. Alvin Ho, (M.Sc, Industrial Engineering; Certified Six Sigma Black Belt), was responsible for leading Six Sigma teams while at Agilent Technologies. He achieved combined savings of USD1.5 million for Six Sigma Projects in year 2005. He is now with International Enterprise Singapore and is responsible for crafting and implementing nation-wide policies to grow the Automotive Component Manufacturing Industry of Singapore. Alvin develops in-depth research studies and market trend analysis and works closely with senior management of small and medium-sized enterprises to put together strategic business plans and business and technology roadmaps for globalisation.
Anand is an Instructor with the Department of Information Systems at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore, and is pursuing his PhD studies with the Department. His research and teaching interests are in exploring the strategic use of information and technology to transform and innovate organisations and collectives, andthe design of information architectures and models to realise these transformations.
Mr. Andrew Ng is a Fellow at the NUS Entrepreneurship Centre and the Chief Executive Officer of Greater China Consult, a leading consultancy group that specialises in strategic business development consultancy in the China market as well as assisting China-based companies in their global business development ventures. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Minot State University, USA and an Adjunct Senior.
Andrew has over 20 years of international marketing and business development experience working with various FORTUNE 500 multi-national corporations in the high technology and fast moving consumer goods industries. He was the Area Vice President (Asia Pacific) of Schwan Stabilo before he started his own consulting practice. Prior to working with Schwan Stabilo from 1991 to 1998, he had spent 10 years in the high technology industry as Managing Director, Asia Pacific for Control Data Corporation (CDC) and Seagate Technology.
Being a veteran in the China market, Andrew has spent the last 20 years in various business development appointments. He was solely responsible for setting up the distribution network in 28 cities and building up the businesses profitably for Control Data, Seagate and Schwan Stabilo in China. He has vast experience in spearheading high-tech start-ups, joint venture negotiations and management of various china ventures. He consults actively for multi-national companies; government linked companies, small and medium sized enterprises, as well as leading public listed Chinese companies in International Business Development, International Marketing, Market Entry Strategies, Key Accounts and Distribution Management.
Andrew’s fortes are strategic business development, international marketing, nurturing technopreneurial start-ups and E-Business, and speaks at a variety of International and regional conferences and specialises in conducting customised in house training programs for various multi-national corporations all over Asia.
He holds a Master in Business Administration degree from National University of Singapore and is also a Fellow of The Chartered Institute of Marketing. He was also a recipient of the "Spirit of Enterprise" award in 2003.
Andrew T. Serafini, Ph.D., is a partner in the Intellectual Property Group of Fenwick & West LLP, a law firm specializing in technology and life sciences. His practice focuses on strategic and comprehensive intellectual property counseling and management to biotechnology, biopharmaceutical and other life sciences clients, to help them obtain, protect and enforce their intellectual property rights, especially in the areas of immunology, molecular biology, molecular genetics, genomics, proteomics and protein chemistry, pharmaceuticals, medical therapeutics, nanotechnology, cleantech, and medical diagnostics. Dr. Serafini’s practice involves preparing and prosecuting U.S. and international patents; performing due diligence and freedom to operate analyses associated with mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and other private and public financings; drafting opinions on patentability, non-infringement and patent validity; product development counseling; contesting interferences, oppositions and arbitrations; and supporting technology litigation.
Dr. Serafini works closely with the venture capital community to help build life sciences start-up companies into industry market leaders. He also partners with public and private universities and research institutions to help safeguard, leverage and bring to market their technology assets and innovations as well as facilitate the technology transfer of these assets and innovations to foster further developments to benefit the public.
Andy Papademetriou has over 25 years of experience leading business functions including Research and Development, Manufacturing Operations and Business Management.
His career includes Motorola as Director of Product Development and Business Director, Information Resources of Chicago as Senior VP of Program Management and Quality, and Watermark of Arcata California as VP of Product Development, where he has introduced a multitude of innovative consumer and commercial products. Several have received product of the year awards.
Andy has practiced developed and taught innovation and creativity methods and has managed the implementation of many start-to-finish change initiatives involving large multidisciplinary teams at several companies.
Andy holds Engineering and Business degrees from the Polytechnic University of New York and the University of Chicago. He has completed doctoral level work in the field of Business Management & Decision Sciences.
Antonia has 12 years of experience in the banking and investment profession, which gave her exposure in interacting with mid to very high-level corporate executives in top MNCs. With her extensive corporate experience, Antonia is proficient in business and etiquette and cross-cultural communications. She understands first-hand the challenges within the competitive corporate landscape, and the need for companies and individuals to differentiate themselves from competitors through successful branding and image enhancement.
Antonia is personally trained by Ms. Christina Ong, Ms. Lynne Marks, as well as Ms. Carla Mathis, who are 3 of the only 10 renowned Certified Image Masters in the world. She is certified in Image Essentials, Professional Development & Personal Branding and has taken Master Classes with Ms. Carla Mathis. Antonia is also a Certified Style CoachTM (Dip. Honours; Style Coaching InstituteTM of UK).
Augustine Tan holds a Masters Degree and BSc (Hons) from Columbia International University, USA. He is a certified practitioner of TJTA (Taylor Johnson Temperament Analysis) and a US certified Behavioural Consultant. He is also trained in administering the Structure of Intellect (SOI) Learning Abilities and Career Report Assessment Programme.
Augustine had worked for 22 years in an international organisation and was responsible for strategic planning, financial management, staff recruitment, supervision and development. He has conducted workshops for senior management staff and staff of various levels of different organisations. His specialities include topics related to leadership development, personal management, inter-personal relationship, effective communication, emotional intelligence, and team building.
Augustine Tan is a Resident Consultant from Life Skills Centre, a company that provides training programmes, HR-consulting and development services.
Bala Krishnan C. is the currently the business head of JLT Interactive an Insurance & Risk Management software company for the JLT Group. He has been in the Risk Management and Insurance consulting space for over 18 years and has been responsible for the development and delivery of several successful software products that have been deployed worldwide.
Bala is a leading expert on Product Management and governance and is an expert in the area of the Risk transfer Process from Client end to the Insurer and the Underlying Risk IT requirements. His field of expertise includes development of Enterprise Risk Management, global Insurance and Re-Insurance systems where he has played the roles of a strategic, functional and technology consultant. He has worked with several global multinationals and insurance companies in the areas like operational risk management, employee benefits, professional indemnity, Cargo and financial indemnity programs.
Bala has a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from the prestigious Indian institute of Science. He holds a tertiary qualification in financial management and has also completed the ERM Diploma program from ARIMI.
Bala takes a keen interest in bridging the gap between the business and technology functions in large organisations and leverages on his expertise in functional and technology skills to make this possible. Besides Product Development and Management his current areas of interest include Data Analytics in the Enterprise Risk Management space.
Ben Leong is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science at School of Computing, National University of Singapore. He joined the School in 2001 as Senior Tutor, and was appointed Assistant Professor in July 2006. Ben received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Science and Engineering (Minor in Economics) and a Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, both in 1997. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science in June 2006 under the supervision of Professor Barbara Liskov (2009 ACM Turing Award winner). The long-term research projects that he is working on include: Geographic Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks, Unplanned Dual-Radio Wireless Mesh Network (SpyderMesh), Hydra: A Peer-to-peer Architecture for Networked Games, Tit-for-Tat: Achieving High-Bandwidth Peer-to-Peer Data Transfers with the Right Incentives, and OpenNAT: Enabling Universal Connectivity in an Increasingly Mobile and Heterogeneous Internet. An innovator in teaching, he was won the University’s Annul Teaching Excellence Award for 2008/9.
Dr. Bob Foo
Dr. Bob Foo, (Ph.D., FCIM), has been a Corporate Consultant and Trainer since 1990. His areas of expertise and specialisation are in strategic selling, negotiation, marketing and strategic management. Since 1990, he has worked with various companies and organisations to help formulate and develop effective sales and marketing strategies. He has designed and conducted training for British Airways, Kerry Ingredients, Hermes-Epitek, Computer Associates, Galderma, Lesaffre, Lee Hwa Jewelry, Pico Art, Trans Island Bus Services, Singapore Technologies Group, Sheraton Towers Hotel, Associated Springs, Firmenich, Hunter Douglas, SMC Pneumatics, MK Electric, Malaya British Assurance, Malayawata Steel, Pernas Trading, Fisher Scientific SEA, Asian Overland Tours, and many others. Prior to venturing out on his own, Bob had worked for over ten years in senior management positions with multi-national corporations dealing in diverse products and services in commerce and industry. In his corporate career, he had travelled to the U.S., Europe and the Asia Pacific region and participated in the many facets of strategic selling, marketing and management at a senior level.
Bob has a Ph.D. from University of Nottingham, a M.Sc. in International Marketing from University of Strathclyde as well as several other professional qualifications. He is also a Chartered Marketer and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK.
With over 20 years of experience as a practicing project manager, Bob has helped many multinationals and large organizations with leading and managing projects. These organizations include HP, NCR, Microsoft, Motorola, Sun Microsystems, Intel, Cisco Systems, , Roche, US Marine Corp, US Air Force, and others.
Bob’s project management background includes experience in project definition, start-up, planning, execution, monitoring and controlling, and close-out on a variety of multi-million dollar developments. His experience covers all aspects of development and project management, including feasibility studies, sales forecasting and marketing, estimating and budgeting, configuration management, change control, and quality assurance. He has directed the manpower planning and staffing of international projects with major multinational organizations and large regional-based enterprises throughout the Asian region.
He has extensive experience in organizing and leading multi-discipline and multi-project teams to achieve project success. He works as a consultant on various development and project management issues, and is involved in presenting adult education courses on various project and strategic management topics.
Initially trained in Architecture at Kent State University, Bob holds a BSc from the University of the State of New York, an MBA from the National University of Singapore, and a Master’s Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®) with the Project Management Institute (PMI) of the USA.
Boyd Fuller from the School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore specialises in the negotiation of difficult public policy conflicts where stakeholders appear to have irreconcilable differences. He has taught graduate students and senior executives in negotiation at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard Law School, the University of Michigan. Professor Fuller co-wrote and developed the first pedagogical workbook (Teaching Multi-Party Negotiation: A Workbook) for teaching an advanced seminar on multi-party negotiation together with faculty at Harvard Law School and MIT.
Ms. Brenda Lee (B.A. (Hons), Dip. Ed., M.A.) has been training for the past 11 years, specialising in business communication programmes. Her clients include organisations from the public and the private sectors. Among her accomplishments are six training manuals and a book entitled FAQs about the English Language for the Institute of Public Administration and Management (IPAM).
An associate trainer with Psyscan, Catherine Tan (MSc in Education) has conducted both public and in-company seminars and workshops in interpersonal skills, teambuilding, customer service and stress management skills. Catherine studied Children Development & Education, since 2005, she has been in training management, front-line sales and service staff of both public and private sectors in Singapore and ASEAN.
A widely sought after trainer, she has successfully applied service qualities principles in all her communication courses in the areas of face-to-face communication, telephone techniques and business writing. Effectively bilingual in English and Spoken Mandarin, she is a versatile trainer who can relate well to all participants and has excellent delivery and presentation skills that meet the motivational needs of each participant.
Catherine is an enthusiastic learner who is passionate in acquiring new knowledge and skills. With proven good presentation and communication skills and equipped with excellent analytical, organizing and problem solving skills, she dedicates to maintaining high quality and standards during course delivery. She has trained various institutions and schools on topics related to behavioural applications such as stress management and anger management talks as well as content-intensive courses in language and speaking skills.
Associate Professor
Catherine Tay Swee Kian
Assoc Prof. Catherine Tay lectures law at NUS Business School in the Department of Business Policy and medical ethics at the Faculty of Dentistry. She is a Barrister-at-Law, of Lincoln's Inn, U.K. and an Advocate and Solicitor in Singapore. She is an author of several law books including 'Contract Law' ; 'Directors' Duties and Liabilities' and 'Medical Negligence'. She has published several legal articles in prestigious international and local law journals. Catherine is also a member of the Institutional Review Board of SingHealth Polyclinics and a member of the National Healthcare Group Domain Specific Review Board tasked to review the scientific and ethical aspects of research protocols.
Catherine holds a Master of Laws degree and a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) degree from Queen Mary College, University of London.
Cathy’s experience and her enthusiasm for helping people become more effective have led to an approach to facilitation that produces results. She is passionate about facilitating conversations to cover needed content while managing group processes in ways that result in full participation and individual growth. Her focus is on helping create the impetus for positive behavior and attitude changes back in the workplace. Cathy uses a range of experiential approaches while inviting participants to shift towards a focus on excellence.
Cathy’s 25 years of international corporate experience has deepened her understanding of and ability to connect with first-line managers to C-suite executives from all functional roles. She is experienced in Talent Development from assessment centers through the design and delivery of strategic development programs for distinct levels within organizations. Cathy also has a special interest and expertise in helping individuals develop their ability to perform well on a global platform as well as creating greater understanding among multi-cultural teams.
As a facilitator, she has designed and delivered programs on a variety of topics, including change management, leadership development, strategy implementation, high-performing teams, handling difficult conversations, performance management, organizational politics, leading remote teams, influencing without authority, presentation effectiveness, stepping up to management, problem-solving and decision making, assertiveness, coaching and employee engagement.
Prior to entering the field of facilitation, design and coaching, Cathy was Head of Marketing for Global Sources (NASDAQ: GSOL), a leading business-to-business (B2B) media company and a primary facilitator of two-way trade with Greater China. She successfully coached teams while gaining experience in eCommerce, project management, IT and magazine publishing. One of her notable achievements was in facilitating greater understanding between the business-side and IT teams, and significantly improving their ability to work together. Before that Cathy developed extensive cross- functional training programs designed to engage employees, and spent three years in management consulting in the energy industry, focused on organization development.
Cathy moved to Singapore 12-1/2 years ago. She has assisted a number of organizations throughout Asia, including Adidas, Areva, Citibank, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Energy Market Company, Exxon- Mobil, GlaxoSmithKline, Infineum, Perodua, Royal Bank of Scotland, RBS-Coutts, Research In Motion (RIM), Roche, Singapore Airlines, Singapore Institute of Management, Telekom Malaysia, United Bank of Scotland, United Engineering Malaysia, Unilever, Visa and Vitrex. She has worked with people with a wide range of experience, education levels, functional expertise, backgrounds and cultures from Hong Kong, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Thailand, India, Vietnam, Burma, Taiwan, Singapore, Australia, Pakistan and Japan.
Cathy received a Bachelor of Arts degree (Dean’s List, Phi Beta Kappa) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the Keenan-Flagler Business School of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a Certified Professional Coach with training from New Ventures West, a Certified Transitions Coach with training from Fischer Group International, and is a member of the International Coach Federation. She has MBTI Step I and II and Firo-B accreditations, Thiagi Game Facilitation certification, BlessingWhite certification and she uses DISC™ personality profiling tools extensively.Hui-Liang has more than twenty-eight years of experience in sales, marketing, business development and general management of technology products, solutions & services. He has worked with various multi-national corporations, each leaders in their respective industries, and also started two businesses. He has a depth of experience in building service practices, enabling organizations to provide value-based connections with their clients. Along with strategic thinking and planning, he has successfully built teams and led organizations in tapping market opportunities and built foundations for sustained growth.
When Hui-Liang was Director at Cisco Systems, he had responsibility for the services business in South Asia and for the telecommunications sector (Asia Pacific). His region emerged as the top performer for Asia Pacific, having achieved 130% of target, 75% year-on-year growth, with increased market penetration and renewal rates.
He was Managing Director (South Asia) for BMC Software, and had consistently achieved revenue and P&L objectives. For several years, he initiated and brought together senior executives around the region for annual Executive Exchange. This well-embraced Forum, addressed changing trends and promoted dynamic peer-to-peer interactions.
At Electronic Data Systems, he trail-blazed new markets and put on record, closure of a US$40 million deal - then, the largest in Asia Pacific. A joint-venture entity was also formed, to deliver on the contracted services, where he further contributed as a Board Member. More than 300 employees were transitioned to the newly-formed organization.
Hui-Liang holds a Master of Science (International Marketing) from the University of Strathclyde (UK).
Mr. Chia Yeow Hong has been IT Trainer since 1997 with Civil Service College, later known as IPAM (Institute of Public Administration and Management). Being a key trainer in the area of IT, and have been task to customise and create courses to cater for CSC training needs which includes Microsoft Packages and Web Design.
Mr. Chia was a Freelance trainer with NTUC Learning Center as of 2002, involved in training courses which include Microsoft packages, and web design courses. He then joined NTUC LearningHub Pte Ltd in 2006 as a full time trainer, being task with training and courseware development. Training includes, Microsoft Packages, Web design, RFID.
Dr. Chin Kwee Nyet (Ph.D., Modern Chinese Literature, University of Hong Kong) joined NUS as a Senior Lecturer in 2001, and was later appointed as the Convenor for the Chinese Language Programme at Centre for Language Studies (CLS). Through a collaboration with CLS, Kwee Nyet is appointed the Programme Director (Academic) of NUS Extension Intensive Mandarin Programme to ensure quality delivery of the contents by the instructors.
Kwee Nyet has been teaching Chinese language and literature courses since 1997 at NUS and the Open University (UniSIM) as a part-time lecturer. Before taking up the teaching appointment in NUS, she was a TV anchorwoman for a Mandarin news station for 18 years. Kwee Nyet had also initiated training programmes for TV presenters and reporters at MediaCorp Media. Currently, she is teaching the following courses: "Chinese for Business and Social Sciences" and "Chinese for Science and Technology" for the Chinese Language Programme.
Ms. Cho Jin Hee is a native Korean language teacher who delivers Korean Language classes with communicative style. She had been teaching Korean language to international students mainly from Japan, China, and North America for three years at Korean Education Culture Center in Seoul, Korea. She had also conducted corporate training to Chinese managers from LG group in Korea for two months in 2004.
Jin Hee obtained her Master degree in Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language from Sangmyung University in 2005 and her Bachelor degree in Korean Language and Literature from Yonsei University in 1999.
CHRISTINA DEWI is a native speaker of the Indonesian language. A scholarship recipient of Petra Christian University, Indonesia, Christina was the valedictorian of her class. She graduated with first class honors from the Faculty of Letters majoring in linguistics and literature. Christina is also a former lecturer at Petra Christian University, as well as various private institutions in Indonesia. Christina attended professional training in the principles and practice of TEFL at K-ELT in 1998 and was an EFL instructor for private companies and government agencies in Indonesia. Christina taught Indonesian level 1 and level 4 at the Centre for Language Studies, National University of Singapore from 2003-2008. In recognition of her achievements, Christina was also was also featured in Jawa Pos (one of the major Indonesian newspapers)
Christina is actively involved in the Indonesian language programs at the National University of Singapore Extension and Centre for Management Development. She conducts corporate trainings for the Indonesian language at private companies, government ministries, government statutory boards, government linked companies and prominent financial institutions in Singapore. Christina has been the facilitator for the Indonesian training at Credit Suisse AG, ANZ, United Overseas Bank, Singapore Technology Telemedia, ST-Electronics, Temasek Holdings, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore International Foundation, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Defence, Economic Development Board of Singapore, Golden Agri Resources Ltd, Cartier, and many more.
With over 15 years of teaching experience, she teaches Indonesian language and culture for executives from various industries, including bankers, lawyers, engineers, diplomats, military officers, law enforcement officers, senior civil servants, company directors, CEOs as well as researchers, academic professionals and medical practitioners. Christina is involved in material development, cultural projects and examinations of all her teaching modules. She is also the chief examiner of several Indonesian language examinations. She has assisted various institutions in organizing custom-designed Indonesian courses and linguistic proficiency assessments such as the preparatory language courses for educational military exchange programs and for diplomatic purposes.
Christopher Goh holds a Bachelor of Business Degree from La Trobe University, Australia. He is also well trained in Security Management, Bomb Incident Management, Key Point & Strategic Site Security, Investigation Techniques and Management, Office Security Management, Access Control and Intrusion Detection Technologies, Security Procedure Development and Enforcement.
He specialises in Risk Assessments, Security Audits and Reviews, Security Solutions Design, and Security Project Implementations. As a pioneer in STET Homeland Security, he is also responsible for new business development both locally and overseas, focusing in Middle East Market. Prior to joining STET, Christopher was an Associate Security Consultant and a Solutions Executive in the Security Consultancy Department of the Commercial & Industrial Security Corporation (CISCO).
Christopher is also an ex-police officer who had served in the Police Coast Guard. During the stint of his Coast Guard tour, his duties included enforcing law and order in Singapore Territorial Waters, and protection of the off shore key installations.
Christopher Koh is a lead consultant in strategy and management in the region, serving government organizations, financial institutions and global corporations. He is managing partner of Asia Management Consulting PL, a consulting firm specializing in business strategy, project management and strategic leadership.
He is also an associate partner of Artemis International Corporation (Asia Pacific), an investment planning and control solutions company headquartered in California, USA. Christopher had also served as senior/associate faculty at the Citibank Asia Pacific Banking Institute and the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and is currently associate trainer for strategy, project management and leadership at the Singapore Civil Service College.
Christopher facilitates strategy formulation and implementation (frequently based on the Balanced Scorecard) workshops for top and senior management of large multinational corporations in banking, technology parks development and management, hospitality, retail and government agencies. These strategic management workshops are often followed by a series of workshops in project management and strategic leadership for middle and lower managers responsible for the implementation of the corporate strategy.
Christopher is a certified Kepner-Tregoe instructor for Project Management, and consults in the development and establishment of organization-specific project management infrastructure (Project Management Office) for private and public sector organizations, which included a national library and a European bank. He has developed and/or delivered a number of strategic project management programs for global organizations that include the world’s leading financial institution and leading mobile communication company.
To support project practitioners and managers in their leadership role, Christopher developed and delivered a number of leadership programs in Change Management, People Management, Influence and Partnering Skills, Consultative Skills, and Cross-Cultural Business Practices. He has served a number of organizations as consultant or workshop leader. These include Citibank N. A., ABN-AMRO, JP Morgan Chase, OCBC Bank, State Banks of Thailand and Indonesia (Bank Mandiri & Bank Internasional Indonesia), NOKIA (APAC & China), Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Cathay Pacific, Exxon-Mobil, Seagram Asia Pacific, American Management Association, Gemplus, AON Reinsurance Brokers, Sumitomo, IFL Swedish Institute of Management, Civil Service College (Singapore), National Library Board (Singapore), Raffles Holdings, and the Ministry of Defence (Singapore).
He has lived and worked in the USA and Belgium for several years, with work experience in many locations in Asia Pacific – Singapore, Japan, Korea, mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam and Australia. Christopher obtained all of his graduate degrees, the Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering and in Electrical Engineering, and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His interests include reading, travelling, mountain trekking and the great outdoors.
Mr. Chow Yen-Lu is the founder and Managing Director of WholeTree Technologies, a voice technology solutions company. He is also the Executive Director of BAF Spectrum, a business angel fund with government’s support focused on early stage investments in technology and digital media, Director of Business Angel Network SEA, and Director of Expara, an entrepreneurship consulting and training practice. A successful entrepreneur, Yen-Lu had also founded AsiaWorks, a technology start-up and was involved in a turnaround situation with WholeTree.com, a Nasdaq-listed digital globalisation company.
As an active angel investor and company builder, he sits on the board of several start-ups in the region. He was a venture partner of Venture TDF, a Singapore-based venture capital firm with a global footprint, and venture advisor to S.AI.L Port Asia Pacific, regional incubation centre for speech and language technologies. He was an adjunct professor at NUS Entrepreneurship Center, and consults for governmental organisations including Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Economic Development Board and Media Development Authority. He is also a resident Mentor to NUS Enterprise Incubators.
A technologist and an internationally recognised leader in interactive language technologies, Yen-Lu holds 6 international patents. He was appointed as Distinguished Technologist at Apple where he was responsible for developing PlainTalk, Apple’s voice user interface system and the first speaker-independent speech product to be shipped on a mainstream personal computer platform; the Chinese Dictation Kit, Apple’s ground-breaking Chinese dictation product that won the Best-of-Best Product Award in Comdex Asia. He invented the unified Chinese language computing architecture, and led the development of multi-modal user interfaces for Asian language computing that received the prestigious Singapore’s NSTB Technology Innovation of the Year award.
Yen-Lu received his MS and BS degrees in electrical engineering from MIT, and successfully completed Apple’s MBA and Mentoring programmes for senior managers.
Mrs. Chutima Chutatape graduated from the University of Queensland, Australia under the Colombo Plan Scholarship. She was also awarded the Graduate Scholarship to study at Mahidol University in Bangkok. Chutima lectured at Anatomy Department, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand before she started teaching Thai language to businesspeople, military personnel and expatriates in Singapore.
Cindy Hales is a graduate of The London College of Fashion & Clothing Technology. For more than 25 years, she’s been a design consultant/lecturer in the fashion industry.
She is the VP & resident costume designer of Players Theatre- a non profit children’s theatre company supported by National Arts Council.
Cindy Hales Collections have been exhibited both locally at various local designers’ exhibitions & internationally at The Osaka Designers’ Exhibition; a trade mission exhibition supported by The Trade Development Board Singapore.
She was costume designer for these productions; Luna-Id’s The lover and The Dumb Waiter, The Physicists which played at The Durrenmatt Festival; it won Production of the Year at the 2005 Life! Theatre Awards, Escape Theatre’s Shirley Valentine and numerous others sold out productions with Players Theatre www.theplayerstheatre.org.
Cindy was fashion columnist with The Straits times, and was a lecturer with Lasalle College of The Arts, Lasalle International, and the previous NUS Extra Mural Studies Department.
Dr. Constance Chay-Nemeth received her Ph.D. in Public Affairs and Issues Management from Purdue University, U.S.A. in 1998. She has more than 14 years of experience in the fields of education and communication both in the United States and Singapore. She teaches, trains, consults and researches in crisis management, public and corporate communications, public relations writing, campaigns and case studies, and health communication, among others. Besides training and consulting, Constance is also an adjunct instructor in business communication at a local university. She also held previous teaching positions at the Nanyang Technological University and Slippery Rock University (USA).
Constance has worked with a variety of organisations including Baxter International; Ogilvy Public Relations Singapore; the Public Relations Academy of the Ministry of Information, Communication and the Arts; NUS; Jackson, Jackson and Wagner (USA), and Sage Marcom Communications (USA). She has peer-reviewed for the Journal of Public Relations Research, Journal of Communication Management, and the International Communication Association and contributed to peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Public Relations Research, the Journal of Health Communication, and the Journal of Knowledge Management. In 2003, she wrote a book chapter on “Public Relations in Singapore,” published in the Global Public Relations Handbook: Theory, Research and Practice.
Constance Kirker is an Assistant Professor of Integrative Arts at Penn State University, Brandywine, Pennsylvania PA, USA . She has been teaching Asian Art History at the University for more than 23 years and continues to teach Asian Art History on-line for Penn State while on leave living here in Singapore. Professor Kirker has trained as a guide in the Singapore National Museum while living here in the 1980s, in working with the guide in Singapore at the Asian Civilizations Museum and writes for the museum publication, Passages.
Damian Boon holds a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and has more than 20 years of experience in the field of sales and marketing management, training and customer service quality. He trains and mentors business owners and sales teams to strengthen sales and build championship teams by using the proprietary methodologies of SalesPartnersTM Worldwide. He has conducted numerous workshops, seminars and in-house training programs for clients in various industries including financial services, retail and direct selling. Through these programs, he has helped them improve business performance in sales and profitability, enhance their emotional strength and develop a winning mindset in sales and business.
Damian is Managing Director of San Damiano Enterprise Pte Ltd represents SalesPartnersTM Worldwide, a leading Business Education group founded by Blair Singer, best-selling author and a Rich Dad’s Advisor of Robert Kiyosaki (of “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” fame), specializing in sales, team building and leadership.
Dr. Danny Poo graduated with a BSc (Hons), MSc and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), England. He is currently a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Information Systems, National University of Singapore. He has taught courses in Systems Analysis and Design, Enterprise Systems Development, Object-Oriented Software Engineering, and Information Technology Project Management. He is a Steering Committee Member of the Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference. A well-known speaker in seminars, he has conducted numerous in-house training and consultancy for organizations both locally and regionally. He is actively involved in healthcare research with colleagues at the National University Hospital, developing health informatics systems and studying into diabetes situation and control in Singapore. Dr. Poo is a prolific writer; he is the author of 5 books: “Object-Oriented Programming and Java”, 2nd edition, Springer-Verlag, 2007; “Developing Systems Using J2EE”, Prentice- Hall, 2004, “Learn To Program Java”, 4th edition, Cengage Learning, 2009; “Learn To Program Java User Interface”, Thomson Learning, 2006; and “Learn To Program Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0”, 3rd edition, Cengage Learning, 2009.
Mr. David Goldwich has a BA degree in political science with a focus on political communication, organisational theory and psychology. He also has an MBA with a specialization in Business Mgt and Organisation and a JD degree. In the United States, David practiced law for more than 10 years and is also trined as a mediator.
As a trainer, Davids’s specialisation is in communications and presentation, negotiations, creativity and innovation.
Dickson Tang is a business consultant and corporate trainer with 10 years of experience ranging from marketing, business consulting, organizational strategies to training & development. He also lectures at various universities and institutions in Singapore. He holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) and an Advanced Certificate in Training and Assessment (ACTA).
Associate Professor Dr. Dominic Lau is the Head of Applied Research Centre at UCSI Blue Ocean Strategy Regional Centre (BOSRC). He has a PhD and a Masters Degrees in Engineering Business Management . He is active in research and publication in the areas of strategic management, entrepreneurship, and quality assurance.
He has written five books including a book on 15 successful cases of the application of Blue Ocean Strategy in the Malaysian context. He is a much sought after speaker and participates actively in various national and international conferences. He is also active in research publications and has written numerous papers in academic journals. Prior to joining UCSI BOSRC, he was the Director of International Leadership Development Program, Business & Advanced Technology Centre (BATC) at University Technology Malaysia.
Mr. Douglas Abrams is an Adjunct Associate Professor with NUS Entrepreneurship Centre. He is also the Managing Director at Parallax Capital Management in Singapore, where he co-manages the private equity business. Prior to joining Parallax, Douglas managed information technology at JPMorgan for 13 years where 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. Douglas graduated from Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Communications and received an MBA from the Wharton School.
Edmund Tai is the Consulting and Operations Director of Psyscan Consulting. He is responsible for the implementation of behavioral training programmes, development of all new businesses, client management and all training programs. He is an active trainer with many MNCs clients in the area of applying Behavioural Sciences and Psychology in various aspects of improving organizational behaviour.
Edmund is also the client director of Intuit.Sense Consulting, an affiliate firm of Psyscan Consulting, whose key business is in the advisory and solutions provision in Talent Management. Prior to this, Edmund was the Lead Consultant for Whitehead Mann where he spearheaded the Life Sciences and Industrial Practices in the Asia Pacific region. While there, he established good business relationships acting in an advisory capacity for key Multinational and local companies within these sectors. Before Whitehead Mann, he was a Principal with Edward W Kelley & Partners where he was in a similar role.
He started his career with the Singapore Government’s investment promotion agency, Economic Development Board (EDB) where his chief role was to advise companies to locate their investments and talent in Singapore. Edmund has worked in many countries within the Asia Pacific region, including Japan, Singapore, Greater China and Hong Kong. A holder of the Singapore Government Scholarship Award 1993 through the Singapore EDB- Glaxo Wellcome Scholarship, Edmund has a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology and dual Masters of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering, and Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management from Stanford University. He speaks English, Mandarin and Japanese.
Ms. Elisabetta Franzoso is a charismatic Corporate Trainer, Speaker, Health and Wellness Coach, and Personal and Executive Coach. She has a multi-dimensional background in Somatic Psychology, Image Consultancy and Emotional Management, as well as Creative Movement and Fitness. She also extensively trained in the U.S. with successful motivational coaches such as Anthony Robbins. She founded InsideOutYou Coaching and Training in 2001, with a deep passion for motivating workshops participants to enhance their physical, intellectual, emotional and relational well-being, supporting them in becoming more effective, successful and balanced in their interpersonal and professional lives. Elisabetta is regarded as an enthusiastic, energetic trainer, speaker and coach, with a warm capacity for developing trust and rapport in individuals in the working environment, as well as in life. Elisabetta's message to the corporate world and her clients is: "Building 'WellBeing' from the inside enhances personal effectiveness outside, resulting in high standards of performance at work and in life".
Elisabetta holds a Bachelor Degree in Education from University of Milan, Italy, as well as a Master Degree in Psychological Counselling from University of South Australia.
Ms. Elizabeth V. Cardoza holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) NUS degree and a Master of Education (Adult Education) postgraduate degree from the Pennsylvania State University, USA. As a member of both the California Bar and the Singapore Bar, her Intellectual Property (IP) career spans over two decades: first as Examining Attorney, Registry of Trademarks & Patents, Singapore and then as California Attorney-at-Law, and in-house IP Counsel to a leading U.S. software corporation in the Silicon Valley. Between 2002 and 2006, she headed the Legal Policy & International Affairs Division of Singapore’s national IP office, the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) focused on domestic and international IP issues, IP negotiations in bilateral and multilateral agreements, and consequential legislative amendments.
A firm advocate of proactive networking, she has been active in industry and professional groups such as the California Bar Association, TiE (The Indus Entrepreneur), and the International Trademark Association (INTA) (as past chair of the Public Education subcommittee of the Brand Names Education Foundation, and regional member on the Alternative Dispute Resolution committee). In March 2005, she co-chaired the highly-successful Asia Pacific Forum on “Emerging Issues in Brand Protection”, an inaugural collaboration in Singapore between INTA and IPOS.
She speaks regularly at key industry roundtables, chairing the Panel Discussions on “Piracy” at the 2006 Annual Congress of the Society for Economic Research on Copyright Issues, and on “Trade Marks” at the 2009 Global Forum on Intellectual Property organized by the IP Academy Singapore. She also presented at the Fordham Annual Conference on International Intellectual Law & Policy in New York (2005-2007). She contributed to the Digital Review of Asia Pacific 2007-2008, as co-author of a paper on “Key Policy Issues in IP and Technology in Asia Pacific”. Since 2007, she has been appointed as Panel member of the FTA (Free Trade Agreement) Advisors of IE Singapore, as IP specialist for industry consultation. Currently also Adjunct Faculty at the Communications and New Media program NUS, her focus revolves around her own entrepreneurial venture, CARDOZA IP, in providing consulting and training expertise on IP and related commercial dealings within Asia Pacific.
Eric Feng is an executive speech coach to some of the top business leaders and professionals in Asia.
Well known for his fresh insights and results-driven programs, Eric has successfully coached over 3000 managers and C-level executives in the area of public speaking and organizational storytelling. Apart from teaching them how to deliver memorable business and technical presentations, Eric also guides corporate leaders and senior management to effectively convey their messages through business narrative (better known as storytelling).
Some of his recent personal clients include the Executive Director of Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), Regional Manager of Pfizer and General Manager of Sabic Asia. Eric has also been invited to speak in countries like United States, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia (KL) and Hong Kong.
Eric’s expertise in public speaking has been translated into a book titled “The FAQ Book on Public Speaking”, which sold over 8000 copies and became a national bestseller. He was also interviewed on national TV and radio for his speaking expertise.
As a celebrated Toastmaster in Singapore, Eric has won numerous national level speech competitions. In 2005, he won the championship title for the Division Level Humorous Contest in Philadelphia, United States. He was also a two-time winner of the International Speech Contest at the Division Level in 2007 and 2008. As acknowledgement for his speaking achievements, The Straits Times featured him as one of the top 25 alternate achievers of 2006.
Eric’s success and achievements in the speaking industry have also been featured on regional media like Channel News Asia, Prime Time Morning, Business Times, Lianhe Zaobao, News Radio 93.8 and many more.
In spite of his successes, Eric feels that there is more he can do for the world. His personal mission is to bring light and laughter to as many people as he can. Be it through his smiles, his stories or his programs, he wants to leave this world a better place.
Dr. Er Jwee Ping, Programme Director of Asian Risk Management Institute, is also an adjunct faculty with the NUS Business School and Singapore Management University. He has many years of experiences in teaching and consulting. He holds a Bachelor of Accountancy (1st Class Honours) from the National University of Singapore, an MA (Applied Economics) and PhD (Risk Management and Insurance) from Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Er has many years of risk management consulting experience alongside with his academic career. He has project managed numerous risk operational reviews, process and system design improvement projects. Organisations that he has worked with include the US EPA, the United Nations, the Singapore National Co-operatives Federation and the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Dr. Er has invaluable exposure in dealing with a wide spectrum of working environments and cultures in this region. Throughout his multi-industry consulting experience, Dr. Er has designed and conducted numerous programmes, seminars and workshops.
Mr. Eu Lee Koon is the Founder and Executive Director of Capital Plus Pte Ltd. Since 2000, Capital Plus has been providing investment-related services such as Funding, Due Diligence and Valuation as well as advisory services for Mergers and Acquisitions. Some of his clients are Singapore’s governmental agencies like Media Development Authority, Economic Development Board, Maritime and Port Authority and Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). Others are private sector listed companies such as Arianecorp Ltd, Inno Pacific Holdings Ltd and Eastern Holdings Ltd and many other unlisted companies.
From 1993 to 2000, prior to starting Capital Plus, he was a VC professional with various VC firms such as Walden International and the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (Special Investments). He was involved in the evaluation, funding and valuation of business ventures at various stage of their developmental cycle.
Lee Koon holds a BE (hons) degree and an MBA from NUS.
Eunice has more than 10 years of teaching experience in entrepreneurship at a local institution of higher learning, teaching the modules of Innovation and Enterprise, Starting A Business, Enterprise and Creation Development, Innovation and Product Development, Business Planning, and Finance for Entrepreneurial Venture.
She also currently serves as a mentor and consultant to youths seeking for funding from the local institution (Enterprise Scheme) and the Government (Entrepreneurial Talent Development Fund). She has conducted short courses/seminars on entrepreneurship for schools and the public at large. She is also co-author of an entrepreneurship book entitled “Winning Strokes” featuring some of our best home-grown entrepreneurs.
Mr. Felix Cheong (M.A., Philosophy in Creative Writing) was the recipient of the National Arts Council's Young Artist of the Year for Literature Award in 2000. His three books of poetry are Temptation and Other Poems (1998), I Watch the Stars Go Out (1999) and Broken by the Rain (2003). His work has been published in newspapers, poetry websites, foreign journals and 6 anthologies of Singaporean poetry. In 2001, he was the only foreign writer to be invited to both the Brisbane Writers' Festival and the Queensland Poetry Festival. He also read at the 2002 Queensland Poetry Festival.
As an editor, Felix helped put together Reshma Aquil's first collection of poetry Sleeping Wind (2001). He was also the guest-editor for a special feature on Singaporean poets on Slope poetry website and Papertiger (a CDROM anthology published in Australia). A mentor under the NAC's Mentor Access Programme, Felix has conducted a number of creative writing workshops in schools in Brisbane and Singapore. A literary activist, he has been actively involved in promoting Singaporean literature abroad. He was also instrumental in organising and leading a Singapore contingent on 3 successful reading tours - The Philippines (January 2001), Australia (July 2001) and the US (April 2002).
Professor Feng Pao Hsii is currently an Adjunct Professor with Faculty of Medicine, NUS and a consultant physician and rheumatologist. He studied medicine in the University of Hong Kong and Malaya (Singapore branch) and did postgraduate work in the USA, UK and Israel. Having practised medicine in institutions for the past 40 years, he recently retired from the Ministry of Health to pursue other interests including public education and medical informatics. In addition to his own private practice in rheumatology and internal medicine, he is a visiting consultant physician to two restructured hospitals. He is also active in charity work as Chairman of the National Arthritis Foundation.
Prof. Feng is a member of a number of prestigious medical societies both locally and overseas. He is a Fellow of six overseas Colleges of Medicine and has spoken at numerous medical meetings internationally, regionally and locally. He has authored over 120 research papers in peer-reviewed journals, and contributed and edited a number of medical books, medical journals and newsletters.
For services rendered to the area of Medicine, he received the Public Administration Medal (gold) from the Government of Singapore in 1997.
Associate Professor Frederic Levy
Frederic currently holds the position of Scientific Evaluator at Debiopharm SA where he is responsible for evaluating oncology in-licensing opportunities. Frederic is also the Vice- President of the Swiss Society for Biochemistry, a Board member of “Platform Biology”, Swiss Academy of Sciences and Associate Professor at the University of Lausanne.
Previously he was the Group Leader, at the Ludwig Insititute for Cancer Research, focusing on oncology therapeutics and the development of cancer vaccines where he managed a technicians). Additionally, Frederic was involved in scientific consulting where he helped with the search and management of research funds as well as oral and written presentations of scientific results.
Madam Fu Wei graduated with a BA in Language Education from Shanghai Teachers' University and a MA in Applied Linguistics from NUS. She is a member of Singapore Association of Applied Linguistics.
Gary Tan was a pioneer in the Direct Honours Programme of the National University of Singapore and received his BSc (1st class Honours) from NUS. He received his MSc and PhD from the University of Manchester, UK. He has been lecturing with the School of Computing , National University of Singapore since 1990, and was the recipient of Teaching Awards of the Faculty of Science in both 1992 and 1998, the Teaching Excellence Awards from the School in 1999 and 2002, and more recently, the NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award for 03/04, 04/05 and 06/07. His research interests include parallel and distributed computing, scheduling and load balancing, declarative multiprocessors, parallel and distributed (interactive) simulation and High Level Architecture. He is Assistant Dean of External Relations with NUS SoC, a position he has held since 2007. He has served as Chair of the NUS PROSE committee, a cross-faculty agency tasked with promoting the use of good English in the University. He was also a Resident Fellow of Kent Ridge Hall (1993-2003), and is now Master of Sheares Hall. He has had project collaborations with KTH (Royal Institute of Technology),Sweden, and FOI (Swedish Defence Research Agency).
Dr Geoffrey Williams MA(cantab), MA(oxon), MA(econ), PhD, FRSA, FMIM, is a Founder and Director of the Academy of Responsible Management Sdn Bhd. He is also Chief Executive Officer of OWW Consulting in Malaysia and Singapore and a Director of Opinion Tiger Sdn Bhd. He has designed and directed numerous research projects for the UK Government (DTI), European Commission (DG-Research), and European Standards Agency, among others. He was economic advisor to Her Majesty's Opposition in the United Kingdom and has also worked with private companies and charities including PA Consulting Group, leading UK law firm Allen & Overy, and the Wellcome Trust UK. He is a Deputy-Chair of the EU Malaysia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (EUMCCI) CSR Committee.
Geoffrey's most recent work has focussed on Corporate Social Responsibility in a global context and in particular, on the factors that determine the success of CSR initiatives in different socio-political contexts. He has worked with leading international companies and organisations including PETRONAS, UEM Group, PLUS Expressways Berhad, UMW Holdings Berhad, MRCB, Resorts World Berhad, du - the Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company, Telekom Malaysia Berhad, the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Arab Thought Foundation, the International Labour Organisation, the European Commission and many others.
Geoffrey has held academic positions at London Business School, Pembroke College University of Oxford and the Universities of London, Nottingham, Liverpool and elsewhere. He is an Associate Member of the Centre for Business, Organisations and Society, School of Management, University of Bath, United Kingdom and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) in 2004 and Fellow of the Malaysian Institute of Management in 2010.
His work has been published in leading academic journals including Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organisation, Research Policy, Journal of Economic Psychology, Business Ethics: A European Review, Review of Income and Wealth, European Competition Law Review, Review of Financial Economics, Journal of Behavioral Finance, Journal of Macroeconomics, Information Economics and Policy, Applied Economics, Applied Financial Economics, International Review of Business and Economics. His edited volume Corporate Social Responsibility - Perspectives from Asia will be published by Palgrave MacMillan at the end of 2010.
His research output has had direct impact in the business world and has been covered in the media including the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, CNBC, Channel News Asia (Singapore), NTV7 (Malaysia), ASTRO Awani (Malaysia), the Edge (Malaysia), the New Straits Times, The Straits Times, The Business Times, the Malay Mail, Responsible Investor, Malaysian Business, Management (Malaysia Institute of Management Magazine), Personal Money, the Accountant (MICPA) and the Sun newspaper in the UK.
Further information can be found at his listing at the Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN) where he is ranked in the top 3% of Social Science authors in the World.
Germaine Ong holds a Master's degree in Human Resource Management from NUS and is a Certified Life/Executive Coach. Ong has passionately advocated for adult continuous learning for the past 18 years. Her main areas of expertise are Business Communication, Intercultural Communication and Organisational Development. Her clients include participants from the Civil Service College, Singapore Institute of Management, National University of Singapore Extension, NGOs, VWOs and an MNC in Bangkok.
Mdm. Hajah Salma Haji Abdul Latiff
Hajah Salma is the Managing Director of Crescent Global Educators Pte. Ltd. The company was formed with the object of advancing knowledge in Islamic Banking and Finance and in that context to provide training courses and an online training program. She has since trained in Singapore.
Salma lectured at the University of Brunei Darussalam from 2000 to 2009. She introduced Islamic banking and finance to the Faculty of Business, Economics and Public Policy.
Salma conducted Islamic finance courses such as Principles of Islamic Business Ethics, Introduction to Islamic Banking and Finance, Theory and Practice of Islamic Banking and Finance, Islamic Accounting and Regulating and Supervising Islamic Financial Institutions, at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels. She also held non-academic positions such as Head of Business and Management and Deputy Dean of the Faculty
While at the University, Salma concurrently served as Director of the Centre for Islamic Banking, Finance and Management (CIBFM). She was primarily responsible for setting up this new institution in 2006. She introduced the first regional Master in Islamic Banking and Finance program at the Centre. The program has since obtained international recognition with the presence of overseas students from countries such as Japan and India. As Director of CIBFM, she worked closely with various Ministries in Brunei, in particular, Ministry of Finance. She also received support from the banking communities, both conventional and Islamic banks, and with overseas Islamic educational institutions such as Islamic Training and Research Institution (IRTI) of Islamic Development Bank, Jeddah.
Hajah Salma’s strength in banking arose from her 11 years experience with Standard Chartered Bank, for the last 3 years as Head of Operations for Corporate Banking Division, Brunei Darussalam, prior to joining the University. The Bank also sponsored her postgraduate Course in Retail of Banking Products with Management Institute of Singapore and a Masters in Business Administration degree from Henley Management College, UK.
Salma graduated from University of Kent in Canterbury with B.A. in Accounting (Honours) in 1980. She worked as an Auditor with the then Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Co. (Accounting & Auditing firm), Singapore for 5 years following her graduation.
Mr. Harris specialises in teaching grammar, listening, conversation / speaking and pronunciation. He has been able to motivate students to improve their fluency and accuracy, as well as expand their vocabulary. It is his goal for students to be deeply interested in the topics they are discussing that they forget they are speaking and thinking in English. This is a more natural approach to learning that can lead to great improvement.
Hazel Low received her Masters of Engineering (MEng) from University of Leeds with specialization in Microwave Engineering in 1999, under the sponsorship of Commonwealth Scholarship. She worked as a Research Scientist in a local company in the same year. She pioneered research efforts in pulse power technology for 4 years and set up High Voltage Laboratory, which qualified both work and health hazards safe. In her last role, Hazel managed R&D projects in a government organisation. Her profile includes pulse power technology, electromagnetic compatibility, antenna design and cognitive sciences.
She has also established many international technological partners to collaborate with Singapore and has played a crucial role in formulating the Long Term Technology Plan. Hazel also has a Bachelor degree in Psychology from James Cook University and has been volunteering her time counselling terminally ill patients. She had worked in Institute of Mental Hospital during her internship where she learned how to handle patients with severe mental disabilities. She enjoys counselling and abnormal psychology. Her interest includes running, oil painting and reading especially in Theology. She has good communications skills in English and Mandarin.
Ms May May Ho is a lecturer in Accounting at SIM University (UniSIM) and a trainer at NUS Extension and a tutor for the ACA program in Singapore for the Auditing and Accounting modules organized by ICPAS. She is also a director of Mayz Pte Ltd, providing business and accounting training and consulting to make SME businesses more profitable.
She is a Chartered Accountant (ACA) of the Institute of Chartered Accountants England and Wales and a CPA Member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore. She has a Msc in International Business from Lancaster University and Hons Bsc in Economics and Accounting from Bristol University. Prior to founding Mayz Pte Ltd, she worked extensively with small and medium sized companies whilst training at Ernst and Young, London. She was also in regulatory and financial reporting at Merrill Lynch International in London, United Kingdom, and the Royal Bank of Scotland, Singapore. Previously she was also a Partner at International Enterprise, Singapore.
Meng Wai is a certified Behavioural and Values Analyst specialising in the use of the unique DiSC and Values profiling system and its application in personal, team and work related effectiveness programmes. He also specialises in business strategic planning and management. He is a certified trainer for The Percy Institute – International Protocol in areas of Protocol, Presentation and Etiquette.
Organisations that have benefited from his trainings include the various Secondary and Primary schools, local and overseas business corporations and non-profit organisations. He was also a member of The Boys’ Brigade’s Training teams and has been involved in organising and conducting training courses for Boys’ Brigade Officers in several ASEAN countries.
Meng Wai has over fifteen years of experience in regional marketing management and business development in Indo-China, Myanmar, Baltic States, Central Asia and the Russian Federation. He has helped business organisations to establish and manage branch offices in Vietnam, Myanmar, and Thailand. He was also based in Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar and Indonesia for several years. He has also hand held local enterprises through the strategic business planning process as well as establishing strategic plan and measurements.
He has collaborated with a Vietnamese set-up based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam since Jan 2008 to offer consulting and training solutions to foreign companies based in Vietnam and local small and medium enterprises.
Meng Wai graduated with Bachelor of Business from Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia and Master of Business Administration from University of Leicester, UK. He also has a Postgraduate Diploma in E-Commerce and Marketing from The Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK and an Advanced Certificate in Training & Assessment (ACTA) awarded by the Singapore Workforce Development Agency.
Hong Hai was Professor and Dean and currently Professorial Fellow at Nanyang Business School, NTU. He was previously President and CEO of the pharmaceutical group Haw Par Corporation and served in the Singapore Parliament where he chaired the Government Parliamentary Committee for Health.
He received his graduate training originally in engineering and economics and later studied Chinese medicine part-time at the Singapore Institute of Chinese Medical Studies, qualifying as a registered TCM practitioner in 2003 and subsequently completing a doctoral degree in medicine from Beijing University of Chinese Medicine. He was a member of the Singapore TCM Practitioners Board (2002-2008) on which he served as chairman of the academic committee. His currently serves as Convener (Chair) of the international ISO/TC 249 Singapore Working Committee on TCM. His clinical practice is with the Public Free Clinic (Clementi) and the Renhai Clinic.
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Prof Hum Sin Hoon obtained his B. Commerce and B. Engineering (Hons) as a Colombo Plan Scholar from the University of Newcastle, Australia. He received his PhD in Production/Operations Management from the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
Prof Hum had earlier served as the Dean of the NUS Business School. After several years, Prof Hum is back into the deanery and is currently serving as the Vice-Dean for Undergraduate Studies. In between, he has also served as the Executive Dean of the NUS-Fudan University Joint Graduate School that was being setup in Suzhou, China.
Prior to joining the University, Prof Hum worked as a Systems Engineer in the Ministry of Defence and participated in several studies aimed at optimizing the use of various types of training resources and systems. He has also conducted executive teaching and/or served as a consultant to both public and private organizations including the Jurong Town Corporation, the Port of Singapore Authority, the Singapore Trade Development Board, the Land Transport Authority, the Maritime Port Authority, the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore, Apple Computer Singapore, SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza Shanghai, Sri Bayu Resort Malaysia, Amari Hotels and Resorts Thailand, Sun International Group, Mauritius, CWT Distribution Ltd, UPS Worldwide Logistics Asia Pte Ltd, Royal Brunei Airlines and Singapore Airlines.
Prof Hum’s current research interests are in the areas of operations strategy, Japanese manufacturing system, modelling analysis of logistics systems, production planning and control of bottleneck facilities and the strategic management of hotel and airline operations. His research papers have been published in various journals including Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, Naval Research Logistics, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Singapore Management Review and the Asia-Pacific Journal of Management.
Jacob Sim’s career spans the world of public relations, direct marketing, healthcare, executive search, telecommunications and human capital development. He has trained professionals from various industries in Singapore, Hong Kong, China, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Japan as well as those from the US, Australia, South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, South Africa and the Middle East.
He was formerly the Regional HR Director of an American MNC with responsibilities over the APAC region. He rose from a Regional Organization Development (OD) Manager role, where he was driver for OD initiatives across 12 countries. This encompassed such interventions as Change Management, Employee Communications, Engagement Surveys, 360-Degree Feedback and Career Development.
Before this, he was the Regional Training / Business Development Manager with one of the world’s largest executive search firm. He also took on additional roles as Specialist Recruiter and Product Developer. A proven Search / Career Consultant, he coached business owners and trained their teams across 5 Asian countries in such areas as marketing, sales, consultant recruitment, performance training and client consulting.
Prior to this, Jacob was Business Manager for one of Asia’s pioneer Direct Marketing (DM) firms where he sold and marketed solutions, and managed key accounts. This included multi-channel, multi-lingual and multi-city DM projects across Asia. He was also a pioneer member of the committee that successfully established the regional DMAsia Conference in the international scene.
Preceding this was a Training & Communications Manager role with a Jardine MNC in environmental health services. Here he implemented development initiatives for 1,500 staff, grew its corporate communications efforts and spearheaded its quality programs. He was also HRD Consultant to Directors and Country Managers in Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia to support expansion plans.
Jacob started his career with then the world’s largest public relations firm where he undertook marketing / corporate communications and training projects across diverse market sectors with clients as American Express, Citibank, Coca Cola, GATX, the Singapore Bus Service and the Public Utilities Board.
Jacob holds an NUS BA degree (top 10%); a Post-Graduate Dip. in T&D Management (Commendation Award, T&D Association, UK-SIM); and a Certificate in Direct Marketing (Top in Class, DM Association of Singapore).
Jim Severson is the owner and principal of Pinnacle Reach LLC. He is an expert in the identification, protection, and commercialization of early-stage discoveries. He has worked effectively at the interface between scientific discovery and business. He has extensive experience in academic technology transfer where he led programs in both public and private universities. He also has held boundary-spanning positions in companies dealing with the recognition, assessment, and commercialization of early-stage discoveries. He is an experienced and skilled professional who understands the needs and perspectives of both academic institutions and corporate partners.
Jim held positions in new technology assessment and pharmaceutical market development at Amersham Corporation.
Previously Jim was the Vice Provost for Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer at the University of Washington. Jim led a turn around of the technology commercialization operations at the UW and under his leadership all significant performance metrics showed marked improvement.
In addition, Jim was the President of the Cornell Research Foundation where he was responsible for technology transfer from both Cornell’s Ithaca campus and the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City, and he held technology transfer positions at the University of Minnesota.
He is currently a member of the board of directors of Golden Pine Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage life sciences companies.
Jim is a Past President of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM), an international organization of academic technology transfer professionals. Jim also served as member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Governmental Relations (COGR), a Washington-based association of over 170 research universities and research institutes that focuses on the policies and issues of federally sponsored research programs at universities, and he chaired its ontracts and Intellectual Property Committee.
James K. S. Teh teaches design and technology courses at UniSIM and LaSalle College of the Arts. He has previously worked in the Technology Growth Center, NBC Universal in Los Angeles, USA and in the C&C Innovation Research Lab, NEC in Nara, Japan. He has been invited to the Youth Culture Technology Forum in KAIST, Korea, to share his works. He has published his work in top academic journals and conferences such as the Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal, Social and Neuroscience Journal, Computer-Human Interaction (CHI), Interaction Design and Children, and International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) conferences. His works has also been selected as SIGGRAPH Emerging Technology demonstrations. Besides that, his research work has been reported by various media, including Discovery Channel, NHK Japan, National Geographic, Straits Times and My Paper.
James is also a PhD candidate at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, National University of Singapore. He obtained his Bachelor of Computer Engineering (Hons) degree at the same university in 2005. The current focus of his research thesis is in the area of novel interface design and human computer interaction (HCI).
Adjunct Associate Professor James Leong
James is the founder and master trainer of VisionsOne Consulting Pte Ltd. He brings to his clients and participants more than 20 years of financial, management and international training experience. Prior to becoming a professional training consultant, he managed the finance, administration and human resources functions in Asia Pacific for a US MNC as regional financial controller. James received his professional training with a Big Four international accounting firm. As a chartered accountant, James achieved distinction for achieving the top 5% of results in his professional accounting examinations in Australia. His extensive professional qualifications, training and experience enable him to provide quality advice for his consulting clients and an enriching learning environment for his training participants.
James’ teaching experience includes being an adjunct faculty member with National University of Singapore. He has facilitated in the Certified Financial PlannerCM professional certification programme and also the CA programme for the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia. His academic teaching experience allows him to provide a structured learning experience for his participants.
In his customised training programmes, James consults for clients including US Fortune 100 companies such as, Becton Dickinson, Chevron Texaco, GE Life, Honeywell, Lion Capital, Merck, Philips Electronics, Prudential, SingTel, NCS, Singapore Human Resources Institute (SHRI), Institute of Technical Education (ITE), Securities Investors Association of Singapore (SIAS), Wildlife Reserves of S’pore, UOB, OCBC, DBS Bank, Mizuho Corporate Bank and Sumitomo-Mitsui Banking Corp. He has conducted numerous talks for organisations including Shell LiveWIRE, Central Provident Fund Board, Toastmasters International, schools and Singapore Institute of Management (SIM). James also develops and conducts public programmes for government ministries and statutory boards through Civil Service College. He facilitates workshops for international participants including senior management from Australia, Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, New Zealand, Australia, Bahrain, Dubai, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Europe, UK and USA. His extensive experience in serving a distinguished and diverse clientele from both the private and public sectors enable him to clearly understand organisational issues and participants’ learning needs in an international and multi-cultural context.
A versatile training consultant, James creates seminars in financial analysis, money management and other programmes including corporate core values, teambuilding, communication and presentation skills. His forte is in making complicated concepts simple and intuitive for learners. He can present even a normally dry and mundane subject and make it interesting. As a result, participants consistently rate his seminars fun, dynamic, learner-centred and highly effective.
James is the first invited speaker in Asia to present on InterCall’s Asia Pacific webinar series with his topic on “Upsizing your financial intelligence in a financial crisis”. James’ views on financial analysis and financial planning have been sought on Media NewsRadio 93.8FM. He co-authored a book entitled “A Step Forward”, a career-planning guide published by ITE and ITE Alumni Association. He was also curriculum editor for the Certified Financial PlannerCM programme. He is a columnist on business finance for The Business Issues Magazine. He is embarking on the writing of his new book, “Personal Effectiveness for Success”, to be published by Marshall Cavendish Publishing Group, a member of Times Publishing.
James represented Singapore and emerged as Humorous Speech Contest Champion of Toastmasters International (Pan South East Asia District) in Year 2000, after competing against 10 other national champions from five countries. James is also the only Singaporean and Distinguished Toastmaster ever to emcee at an international convention presided by Mrs Anson Chan, former Chief Secretary of Hong Kong SAR. His track record in international platform speaking and unique experience enable him to share with participants successful strategies that are refreshing and proven by results.
Mr. Januar Sugeng has spent more than 18 years in managerial positions of various aspects of IT, from training needs analysis to systems evaluation, including administration and staff development. He has a proven record of successful design and impementation of IT systems for large multi-national corporations as he is aware of the expectations and requirements of personnel at all levels of responsibility.
Januar specialises in delivering curriculum in Linux, Microsoft Windows NT, Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server among the many products that he could train. He holds various industrial certifications, such as LPIC 1, Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE) and Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) which are supported by many years of training experience and IT field work. He has become a total solution provider, proficient in network and hardware configuration and support. Januar holds a degree in electronics technology from the U.S.
Dr. Jay Sian Eira
Dr. Sian has a doctorate in Social Anthropology from Oxford University. Since coming to Singapore 15 years ago, she has pursued her other great passion for art and design, which she lectures and writes about in a variety of capacities. She has run highly popular art and design appreciation courses for students and the public. She currently lectures part-time in art, design, anthropology and archaeology at Lasalle, Inspiration Design, the Centre for American Education and STPI.
Jean Yves Le Corre is the Founder and Executive Director of InterauditAsia Co. Ltd, a consultancy specialised in training and coaching services for internal auditing, performance management and strategic planning in cross-cultural environments (China and Asia). InterauditAsia experience is based on extensive research with academics and practical experience gained through hands-on projects conducted with local consulting partners.
Jean-Yves is a former trainer at Ifaci (Institute of Internal Audit and Control) in Paris, a Certified Internal Auditor and a Sloan Fellow from London Business School; He holds a Master in Auditing from ESCP Europe as well as a Master in Engineering. He has more than 10 years of professional experience in internal audit in large multinationals in Europe, including Lafarge and Heineken Group where he led internal audit teams. Jean Yves settled down in China in 2005 and got extensive experience working practically in a multi-cultural environment.
Jean-Yves developed extensive experience in coaching and training local teams in Asia and especially in China where he conducted +55 seminars over the past 2 years. Jean Yves is based in China where he provides advisory and assistance to multinationals and Chinese companies on internal control, risk management and cross-cultural management.
Jeffrey Tan has been a trainer, lecturer and consultant in personal development, management and information technology for more than 15 years. He regularly teaches at Kaplan Higher Education and MDIS as well as NUS Extension at both the Bachelor’s and Master’s levels. In addition, he has many years of experience in the corporate world, having worked in IBM Singapore and Accenture, among others.
Jeffrey successfully employs a variety of methods to ensure that participants find the workshop interesting and insightful. Each participant will be shown how to apply ideas and methods taught in the workshop to his or her work environment. Some of the subjects he is passionate about are personal effectiveness skills, presentation skills, knowledge management, project management, thinking skills, organizational learning, electronic commerce, IT security, administrative management and human resource development.
Jeffrey graduated with a Master of Business (IT) from RMIT University and a Bachelor of Arts (Economics) from the National University of Singapore. In addition, he has attended numerous other professional certification and training courses.
Ms. JE Karen Lam
JE Karen Lam brings wide-ranging experience in dealing with leaders from multinational companies and government agencies. With 3 years as an executive search consultant, and almost 9 years in the Singapore Civil Service, Karen has interacted with senior management leaders at the local and Asia Pacific levels, as well as with senior government officials and political leaders. Her special interests lie in career coaching and leadership development, into which she integrates both her hands-on knowledge of diverse industries and psychotherapy theories like Transactional Analysis.
Karen graduated with an Honours degree in English Language and Literature from Oxford University, and a Masters degree in Political Science from Columbia University. Karen also holds an Advanced Certificate for Training and Assessment (ACTA) from the Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA), a Transactional Analysis 101 certification, and is a certified DiSC Behavioural Consultant. Karen is also accredited to use the Facet5 personality profile. Karen spent the first 9 years of her career with the Singapore Administrative Service, where she held leadership roles in various Ministries like the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of Defence. Her last posting was at the Ministry of Manpower where she was actively involved in the formulation of foreign manpower policies for the nation. Karen subsequently worked with Korn/Ferry International, a global senior executive search firm, where she consulted with multinational companies on their regional leadership needs. In that role, she gained a unique insight into private sector leadership and leadership development requirements, including the use of profiling tools as part of ascertaining leadership portfolios and development needs.
Ms. JM Grace Lam
JM Grace Lam is known for her creative approach to training and her dynamic presentation style. She inspires and brings the best out of the people she works with. As a training facilitator, Grace is widely sought after and trusted by those in the public and private sector in Singapore and in the region. Some of her clients include the World Bank, the Mekong Private Sector Development Facility (MPDF), the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, RAMBOLL, the Singapore Civil Service, TDK (Asia), Sony (Asia), Sennheiser (Asia), the Institute of Mental Health (Singapore), and Singapore Airport Terminal Services (SATS), and the National Council of Social Service (NCSS). Grace is also a consultant to the Vietnamese government.
Grace graduated from the National University of Singapore (NUS) with Honours in Political Science. Upon her graduation, she worked in the Singapore Civil Service as a political analyst before joining the private sector as a consultant to a boutique venture capital firm. Grace is accredited to train using the DiSC Dimensions of Behaviour as a certified DiSC Behavioural Consultant. She is also certified as a trainer with 6 Seconds Emotional Intelligence and is accredited to use the MBTI personality Profile and Facet5. Grace holds an Advanced Certificate for Training and Assessment (ACTA) from the Singapore Institute of Management and a Transactional Analysis 101 certification. She has a Masters degree in Organisational Leadership from Monash University and was invited to become a member of the Golden Key International Honour Society for her academic achievement.
Joe Hani has an abundance of experience and technical know-how particularly in the fields of securing commercial buildings, and the financial and energy industries. He holds a Higher Diploma in Information Systems and various professional certifications such as the Fire Safety Manager (Singapore Civil Defence Academy), Maritime Policing (Singapore Police Coast Guards) and the Occupational, Safety and Health (Productivity and Standards). He is currently pursuing his certification in Physical Security Protection (PSP) from ASIS International and a Bachelor Degree in Business Information System from Victoria University.
Based on his regional communication ability and security technical knowledge, he was hired by ExxonMobil Inc. for the management position of Technical Advisor- Risk Management and spent most of his career with ExxonMobil in war-torn Aceh Indonesia (pre-Tsunami), where he coordinated and executed the Crisis Management and Emergency Evacuations Plans during the massive exodus and expatriate extractions. He was also the adviser to the security designs of Access Control, CCTV Systems, Intrusion Systems and Integrated Security Systems for ExxonMobil Aceh Production aviation, maritime and land transportation operations which spans the entire Aceh Province of Indonesia.
Being a former Police Officer with the Singapore Police Force and equipped with his industrial experiences, he has a career spanning more than a decade in the Security Industry, both commercially and in the civil service. He is trained as a Weapons Specialist, Driving Specialist, Martial Artist and a sniper during his career with the Singapore Police Force.
Mr. John A Spears had more than 30 years of experience in the leadership business. His military career consisted of assignments alternating between studying and teaching leadership and hands-on leadership in organisations with staff numbering from 30 to as many as 3,000 people. He has translated his military experiences into successful application in senior positions in the business world.
John has conducted leadership workshops for executive teams for over 50 companies internationally (Europe, Asia, North America). While serving as Director of the U.S. Army's Center for Leadership, he was selected as one of six officers to plan, coordinate, and implement the U.S. Army's Character Development Program for the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College.
John taught “Marketing and Managing The Volunteer Army” at Yale University, “Fundamentals of Leadership” at the United States Military Academy, West Point and "Leadership and Ethics for the Leaders of the 21st Century" at the Marshall Center, NATO. He has also taught several leadership-related topics at the U.S. Army's Combined Arms Staff Officer course and the Command and General Staff course.
John has also co-authored "Striking A Balance In Leader Development: A Case For Conceptual Competence', Harvard National Security Program Discussion Paper Series. He designed and directed the writing of the U.S. Army's current edition of Leadership Doctrine (Field Manual 22-100), established and implemented a leader development programme for several corporations of over 1000 people, delivered the keynote presentation and facilitated the annual training session for the Association of Productivity Specialists, and assisted in developing the performance appraisal form for the U.S. Army.
John holds a BS from United States Military Academy, a MBA from Yale School of Management and is a National Security Fellow of Harvard University.
Dr. John Miksic is an Associate Professor of Southeast Asian Studies Programme in NUS. His teaching interests include Art and History of Pre-modern S.E. Asia, Classical civilizations of S.E. Asia and Archaeology of S.E. Asia. Some of his publications include The Legacy of Majapahit, National Heritage Board (Singapore) 1995, The Java Sea Wreck Archaeological Report, Annapolis: Pacific Sea Resources, 1997 and Sculpture in Sumatra: classical in The Dictionary of Art, London: Macmillan, 1997. Besides his teaching services in NUS, John also offers consultation services at National Parks Board (Singapore). He acts as an advisor for the Fort Canning History Centre Project, conducts archaeological excavations and supervises constructions of designs for displays for Fort Canning Hill. John is a member of Asian Civilizations Museum Board and Knowledge Net Advisory Board in cooperation with Singapore National Archives.
John has worked in the human resources development field in Australia since 1980 and in Asia since 1996. He has designed and conducted management development programs for executives in commonwealth and state governments in Australia, and the Civil Service Training College in Singapore. As a lecturer at Nanyang Polytechnic, John has counselled adult students and youth in the Singapore context.
John has provided significant coaching and counselling to adults at work within human resource management for over 25 years. He has helped hundreds of employees through change, transition and with issues arising in their personal and professional lives arising in the course of his work in human resource management.
John has presented programs for the Civil Service College Singapore involving analysis and feedback of the LIFO™ Personal Change instrument for senior PMET staff. Participants were drawn from across the Singapore Public Service.
As a consultant, John has worked for IBM, ABN Amro, Michelin, Seagate Technologies and many other multi-nationals and government agencies delivering coaching and counselling services for their employees. John has advised companies on managing change especially regarding employee impact and the need for coaching and counselling services and helped companies plan their communications and deliver messages that manage the risks of such programs. Concurrently he has delivered coaching and counselling services as an external provider advising management on utilisation of such services for employee benefit.
John is known for his:
- Wide grasp of human resource management, leadership and management development.
- Presentations for international conferences on leadership, coaching, career development, team work and performance management.
- Publications in University peer review journal on self-directed learning, numerous articles in national newspapers, HR journals and websites across Asia.
John has strong Asia regional connections and is recognised as a senior consultant for performance, executive and personal development for individuals, teams and their organisations by the regional Human Resources and Executive Coaching communities.
John holds a double-degree in psychology and applied mathematics from Melbourne University in Australia, a Post-Graduate Diploma in Risk Management from Monash University and an MSc. Asia Pacific Human Resource Management from the National University of Singapore.
John is currently completing his PhD in Authentic Leadership Psychology with Monash University Australia.
John is an Internationally Certified Job and Career Transition Coach, Certified Solution-focused Executive Coach and Certified Trainer.
Mr. John Seen (M.A. in Education, Training and Development, University of Hull) has a wide teaching experience. Some of his educational and training qualifications include Cambridge Certificate in Teaching of English Language to Adults, TESOL, Phonetics and Training in Neuro-Linguistics and Nero-Semantics. He has also specialised training in Rehabilitation for the Blind and Visual-Impaired Persons. His experience includes corporate training, business presentations and speech assessments. His contributions to community and social work won him an Individual Youth Award from the People's Association Youth Movement, including leading the Mountbatten Youth Group to winning a Youth Group Award. More recently, he was bestowed the Ambassador for Peace from the Universal Peace Federation and the Interreligious and International Federation for World Peace. At the British High Commissioner's Residence, he was presented an award as a Serving Brother of St. John for his role in promoting life-saving skills and involving youths in St. John's programmes and activities.
Mr. Johnson Ong is a senior consultant and manager at the Office of Quality Management, NUS. He provides consultancy and training in innovation, service excellence, balanced scorecard, business process re-engineering and ISO 9001 QMS. He is also the administrator of Innovation and Quality Teams at NUS. Johnson has more than 20 years of industry experience in quality management and human resource management and development. He is a frequent speaker at the Singapore Productivity Association and a passionate writer. Many of his works were published in Productivity Digest, QC Focus, Today's Manager, Human Capital and Human Capital Plus.
Johnson holds a MBA from the University of Leicester and a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Economics and Management Studies from the University of London.
Joseph Kong obtained his Bachelor of Science in Economics with Honours from The University of Hull, UK. He is a broadly-experienced finance professional having worked in the Banking, Finance and Consultancy sector for over 30 years. His past employment includes The Republic National of Dallas, Amsterdam-Rotterdam Bank N.V, Shearson Loeb Rhoades Pte Ltd, and Societe Generale de Banque He subsequently rosed to be a General Manager in Hong Kong for Ong Holdings (H.K.) Ltd. He has also involved in International Project Finance (Infrastructure) for Aidec Management Company Pte Ltd.
Professional Experience
Joshua has a Masters degree in Business Administration from University of South Queensland (Australia), has 28 years of rich working experience, ranging from Petrochemical, refinery start-up & maintenance, project, sales support, after sales services, to productivity improvement focus team.
Joshua works with employees from all levels of the company from affiliates’ office to factory shop floor to improve business process flow as well as production process improvement. Joshua also utilizes Six Sigma and Lean Management tools to drive culture change and work effectively as a change agent.
Training ExperienceJoshua has strong passion in Lean and Six Sigma; he has 10 years of training experience an effective bilingual trainer, deliver training and consultancy in Chinese and English in the areas of productivity and process improvement. He conducts Lean and Six Sigma training for the local offices and factories as well as in Asia Pacific region. He trains all levels – from managerial to operations levels, leads many process improvement projects and also mentoring Six Sigma projects and certified them.
Joshua is a certified Black Belt, Lean Expert and Lean Master. He constantly seeks innovative ways to help organizations in process improvement and reducing waste to boost productivity and delivery. Beside Lean Six Sigma training methodology, he also conducts training on management skill like change management, communication skill and coaching skills.
Joshua currently providing a long term business partner with Honeywell Int; USA multinational company function as an external Senior Consultant working with their in-house trainers delivers Lean Expert training in China and India. He also provide mentoring services to Lean Expert candidates till they get certify as Lean Expert within 9 months period.
Julie Tai is concurrently the Director of Psyscan Consulting and the Company Secretary of Intuit.Sense Consulting, an affiliate company of Psyscan’s. She is responsible for all training programme administration, and behavioral and psychology programs planning. Prior to this, Julie was with a leading Government-linked agency in Singapore, responsible for Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) projects and is an expert in project management. During her project management days, she was also double-heading as an investment manager responsible for investment-related portfolios. With her extensive background, Julie advises Psyscan’s clientele on human-resource and engineering-quality safety improvement issues.
A holder of the prestigious DSTA (Mindef) Scholarship, Julie graduated with a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Sweden’s Royal Institute of Technology, one year ahead of the regular cohort.
She is fluent in English, Mandarin and Swedish.
Besides being a professional coach in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Lee Junior is also the Founder and Managing Director of The Silver Lining Project, arguably the world’s first-ever Silver Enterprise Incubation Program, dedicated to promoting entrepreneurship and dignified employment among the elderly; growing sustainable ventures that provide innovative products and services for the aged; and empowering the seniors to actively contribute to the economy and their own welfare, thus changing the way the society regards them.
In his previous life, Lee was the Co-founder and Director of ACE Nexus Pte Ltd, a private technology incubator-cum-boutique M&A house, where he identified, “incubated” and married companies that require VC funding with private investors, financial institutions and corporate investors through M&A, equity or debt financing. Concurrently, he was instrumental in starting one of Singapore’s pioneer designer toy companies, ToyBridge Pte Ltd, and was actively involved in both the creative and business aspects of the company. As recognition of his significant contribution in pioneering the creative arts industry in Singapore, Lee was often invited by different government agencies to share his insights and experiences with the policy-makers.
Before starting his incubator with the support of the authorities, Lee had worked as the Vice President of the biz incubator of a government-linked company, Ascendas Pte Ltd, which provides one-stop solution to help techno-tenants launch and grow their ventures. Prior to joining Ascendas, Lee had worked as a key member of Suntec City’s Innovative Technology Initiative Team (iT2), instrumental in conceptualising and executing Suntec’s cutting-edge technology initiatives and IT Convergence Exercise, including the implementation of the Wireless Broadband Network and several iDA-driven calls-for-collaboration (CFCs) on Mobile Payment and Location-based Technological trials.
Other innovative projects that Lee had also played significant roles in include helping to jumpstart the government-initiated HOTSpots (Hub of Technopreneurs) Program, patenting of Suntec’s Facilities Service Provider (FSP) revolutionary biz model, and forging of cross-border collaborations for Ascendas Pte Ltd.
A graduate from National University of Singapore, (NUS) Biz School, Lee is a commissioned officer of the Singapore Armed Forces and an Ironman Triathlete. Besides being employed as an Adjunct Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Temasek Polytechnic, he is currently serving as an Advisor on the Steering Committee of Start-Up@Singapore, National Biz Plan Competition; is a Board Director of NUS Biz School Alumni Assoc. (NUSBSA); and a Committee Member for Singapore’s Action Community for Entrepreneurs (ACE).
Karen Leong is a networking expert who helps people connect confidently. Highly regarded for her transformational and results-oriented programs, Karen works with executives to develop effective professional relationships, achieving personal and career results.
Karen is the master trainer for the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD)’s Improving Human Performance Certification program. With her train-the-trainer expertise, she has led over 500 trainers in the areas of Adult Learning Principles and Facilitation Skills.
A Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Karen has a decade-long corporate career spanning audit, consulting and corporate education. She specialised in business consulting and initial public offering projects with KPMG and KPMG Consulting in Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai. In 2007, she co-founded The Leadership Company which presents business leaders, globally renowned facilitators to help executives achieve peak performance.
Karen contributes networking and career development articles to The Straits Times. She has been featured as an innovative entrepreneur on Mediacorp TV and was interviewed on Mediacorp radio 938FM to share her insights on the art of networking.
Dr Chan has had over 25 years of senior management experience covering agricultural, industrial and commercial products cum services.
Specifically, Dr Chan had spent six years to assist one of the largest conglomerate in Indonesia to turn around from crisis, with a debt of US$ 14 billion in 1998, to becoming a high performance company by 2004. For the initial two years, Dr Chan was cooperating with McKinsey which acted as the main consultant and the remaining four years Dr Chan was promoted to the position as Director of Internal Management Consulting Division. Three Vice-Presidents and eighty Management Consultants under his leadership managed to turn around the conglomerate for their banking and insurance, pulp and paper, agriculture and real estate businesses with an annual revenue of US$ 6 billion.
Dr Chan was also in charge of the Cambodia Asia Bank when he was the Chief Operating Officer of the Integrated Resort in Cambodia responsible for setting up the Bank, Casino, Resort Hotels, Theme Parks and Training School. The investment was around US$ 1.3 billion. Prior to switching to the commercial-service business world, he was the regional General Manager as a pioneer in the business development of Southeast Asia and China markets for Japanese and Canadian high-tech equipment. These turn key solutions range from a low of US$ 1 million to a high of US$ 20 million per business deal. Hence, favourable financing of these projects was one of the most importat criteria for wining the contract. Dr Chan successfully helped many companies to acquire their loans from the international bank syndicate.
Dr Chan was a Director in IPS Associates Asia Pte Ltd where he developed 3 Client Business Managers in business consultancy using total integrated project management solutions for market penetration into key accounts like Microsoft, HP & Compaq, Shell, Morgan Stanley, Singapore Stock Exchange, DBS, OCBC, UOB, Prudential, Sing Tel, IDA during the initial 3 months and initiated strategic client business partnerships with Indonesia’s profit and non-profit organizations to enhance the core competencies of their managers in the execution of strategies using a common language for work, i.e. integrated project management.
Dr Chan believes in the “Teaching Organisation” concept as a Corporate Trainer. As such he had been actively teaching for the past 20 years on a part-time basis and switch to an International Management Consultant some 10 years ago. He is a visiting Professor to Southeast Asian universities for their EMBA degree and senior executive programmes in subjects like Strategic Planning & Management, Leadership & Organisational Development, International Business Management, Entrepreneurship & Intrapreneurship, Integrated Project Management & Enterprise Balanced Scorecard, Coherent Strategy for World-Class Banking Services, and Transition Management for Effective Change.
Kee is a Blue Ocean Strategy Consultant in the UCSI BOSRC and has been actively involved in many of the BOS works in Singapore. He holds a Master of Professional Accounting, University of Southern Queensland and a Bachelor of Business Administration, NUS. He has also previously completed the Sony Global Senior Leadership Program at the UCLA, USA.
Kee is a senior executive with a strong understanding of the business practices in the Asia Pacific region. His extensive working experience with Japanese and US multinationals has refined his skills to enable effective management, and balance business interests with the need for best practices in corporate governance and compliance. His broad business sense derived from a variety of industries equips him with the ability to dispense practical advice. Characterized as an excellent team player with strong inter-personal skills, Kee is capable of engaging at all levels and driving resources towards achieving results for the organization.
Keith Tan brings with him more than 20 years of teaching, training and consulting experience having worked his way up into senior academic and consulting positions in a diverse range of expertise within the creative industry. His expertise and experience covers the disciplinary areas of creative thinking, creative problem solving, creative visualisation, design thinking and innovation. His teaching, training and consulting experience is backed by his professional and academic background in the disciplines of Architecture and Design that enable him to think visually, grasp complex ideas and concepts quickly and problem-solve creatively. Keith holds a Master’s research degree in Design majoring in creativity and the design process from The University of New South Wales (Australia) and a Bachelor’s degree in Architectural Studies from the National University of Singapore. In addition he holds professional qualifications in areas such as teaching, training, course design, development and assessment, and a Teacher in Higher Education accreditation by Staff Education Development Association (SEDA), UK. Keith lectured at Temasek Design School for 15 years from 1991 before he joined Raffles Education Corporation as Director and Dean of Design. In 2008, Keith founded Creative Nexus Centre for Design Studies (www.creativenexus.com.sg). He undertakes curriculum development assignments, gives guest lectures at institutes of higher learning and conducts corporate training and professional development programmes.
Dr. Fernando is a full time industry practitioner, part-time trainer and consultant. His areas of expertise include – strategy, leadership, organization design and human resource management. His clients have included IHS Energy, SAP China, Sumitomo, Textron, Media Corp, Pfizer, Caltex, Glower Hair Care, SCI, etc. He is the author of 3 books on Strategic HRM and is currently writing his 4th book on Competitive Strategy.
Dr. Fernado brings with him more than 15 years of industrial experience, having worked in Local, Japanese and American multinational companies. He is currently the Vice President for Strategy, HR and IT (Asia Pacific & Global Electronics) for a US$2 billion business unit of a US$16 Billion multi-industry USA multinational.
Dr. Fernado has a DBA from Gibaran Business School (Australia), MBus (Accounting) from Victoria University of Technology (Australia), Masters of Management from University of Southern Queensland (Australia), MBA from University of Leicester (UK) and Graduate Diploma in Management Consulting from Sheffield Hallam University (UK). He has trained at the under graduate and post-graduate level for a number of Australian, UK and American Universities and Professional bodies.]
A qualified and experienced teacher, Ms. Julie Khoo has conducted workshops on The Power of Body Language in Networking and Interviews at the NUS Business School. She has also taught career planning, including resume-writing and interview skills, at Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University. She taught at Singapore Polytechnic for 8 years, specialising in Effective Interpersonal Communication Skills (EIC). Her main task was to help equip her final-year students with the necessary soft skills for work.
Julie has also done training in a cross-cultural context for both students and working professionals. At NUS, she taught language and communication skills to PRC scholars for five years. She has trained foreign working professionals such as PRC engineers from Sembcorp and Vietnamese technical teachers from the Vietnam-Singapore Technical Training Centre. She also imparted language and communication skills to adult trainees from South Korea, India, Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar and Malaysia at Far Eastern Bible College for three years.
Julie enjoys being able to connect with her trainees and draw out the best in them. Participants of her workshops and classes have consistently described her sessions as highly interactive, interesting, engaging and practical in their feedback.
Kim Bee is an experienced and inspirational trainer specializing in the areas of Conflict Management and Negotiation Skills using Applied Psychology with Psyscan Consulting International Pte Ltd. A qualified pharmacist by training, Kim Bee started her career with a series of Pharmaceutical and healthcare companies, such as SmithKline Beecham,, Ohmeda and BD Medical for the past two decades. She has been in a series of management roles, and is a strong advocate of applying organizational behaviour and talent management in her career and was responsible for driving organizational efforts in improving operational efficiencies in the Asia Pacific region.
An avid practitioner of behavioural psychology, Kim Bee graduated with a Bachelor in Pharmacy from University of London, and has a Professional Diploma in Applied Psychology from NUS Extension and an Executive Master of Science in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from City University of New York.
Kim Bee speaks English and Bahasa Malayu.
Kim has over 25 years of international experience in the pharma and biotech industry in Scientific Affairs, Regulatory, Marketing, Business and Corporate Development, during which she negotiated and closed more than 80 licensing deals and numerous other deals. She worked at Les Laboratories Servier, Asia and Paris; Serono (MerckSerono) in the Asia-Pacific, European and International Operations and Debiopharm S.A., a drug development company in Lausanne, Switzerland as Vice-President, Business Development, Licensing and Legal Affairs and a member of the Management Board. After founding Creative Business Solutions in 2007, a biopharmaceutical consultancy for Business and Corporate Development, she continued to hold the position of Vice- President, Corporate Development at Debiopharm. She is a Board Member of Aurigene Technologies Inc and the Swiss Pharma Licensing Group. Kim Bill holds a Pharmacy degree from the National University of Singapore, an MBA from the University of Hull, UK and General and Marketing Management with Stanford University, USA and Bocconi University, Italy.
Ms. Kim Ji Min worked as a trainer at Amore Pacific Corporation which is the biggest cosmetic company in Korea since December 2004 where she was involved in planning, conducting courses and training. She also volunteered during the 2002 Korea-Japan FIFA World Cup tournament as an interpreter. Currently, she assists NUS Extension in its Korean Language Program (KLP) as a Coordinator. She leads the classes with "Communicative style".
Ji Min graduated from Kyung Hee University with a B.A. in Business Administration. She received training in teaching Korean as a foreign language at Kyung Hee University in 2006.
Ms. Kim Kwang Ok is a native Korean who started teaching Korean as a foreign language with then NUS Extramural Studies from 1991 to 1993 and she rejoined NUS Extension in August 2007 with new communicative teaching methodologies. Living more than 20 years in Singapore has made Kwang Ok understand her Singaporean students well. She is approachable and patient to all her students.
Kwang Ok graduated from Seong Shin Women's University in Seoul in 1986, majoring in English literature and Japanese Language.
Koh Toh Guan is an accounting and finance professional who has more than 20 years experience in industry, professional firms and banks. The positions he occupied included financial controller, chief financial officer, director of financial and bank consulting, vice president and director in banks. Being a certified teacher and qualified accountant, Toh Guan’s higher degree is in finance.
Krist has extensive and diverse experiences in security work and knowledge of work processes both in the public and private security industries. In the past 9 years in law enforcement and security fields, he has accumulated a unique mix of experience, skills and knowledge in law enforcement, surveillance, protection of key installation, security system integration fields in both corporate and government entities.
Krist was an auxiliary police officer who held the rank of Staff Sergeant (Acting INSP) in the AETOS Auxiliary Police Force and concurrently Business Development Manager, AETOS Security Management. He was also the Chief Trainer of the Security Operations Section of AETOS Auxiliary Police Force Training Academy, as well as a founding member of the security risk assessment and audit section of AETOS Auxiliary Police Force.
Krist is an active Operationally-Ready National Serviceman with the Singapore Police Force who held a previous appointment of Troop Team Leader, Police Key Installation Unit. He had served as a Police Officer with the Tanglin Police Division of the Singapore Police Force.
Kris Childress has practical global experience helping businesses to create and increase sales in both familiar and new markets. The way he often puts it is that he find companies with "better mousetraps" and helps them convince consumers that they have "mice" and need a "mousetrap".
He has worked in marketing cutting edge hardware, software and services (understanding the common and distinct sales issues of all three marketing domains). He is a mentor with the National University of Singapore’s Enterprise Incubator.
Associate Professor Lau Geok Theng
The research interests of Associate Professor Lau Geok Theng are in the areas of business-to-business marketing, relationship marketing, purchasing and supply chain management and Asia-Pacific Marketing. He had conducted market studies and advised business firms in Singapore on effective marketing strategies. Some of these companies include Kintetsu World Express (S) Pte Ltd, Tong Gardens Food Products (S) Pte Ltd, Singapore Telecommunications Limited, Delifrance Singapore and Asia-Pacific Breweries. He has also conducted seminars for L’Oreal Singapore, MINDEF and Jurong Town Corporation.
Geok Theng has co-authored five books on marketing, starting a small business, the Growth Triangle and improving productivity through human resource development and franchising. His articles have appeared in various regional and international journals as well as conference proceedings. He is a governing council member of the Singapore Institute of Purchasing and Materials Management.
Geok Theng obtained his BBA (Hons) from NUS and his PhD. in Business Administration from Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario in Canada.
Mr. Lau Tat Chuan (Management)
Tat Chuan has extensive management experience in the corporate sector. He started his career in contract manufacturing, working with line supervisors and line leaders to start up and manage the process for liquid crystal display products. Desiring to move into the service industry, Tat Chuan then went into change management consulting with an international firm of management consultants. Some years later, he was offered an HR management position in a regional conglomerate that had businesses in paints, electronics, hospitality and real-estate.
Tat Chuan then took a break to do his MBA at the MIT Sloan School of Management. After his MBA, he went into banking as a corporate banker with a global financial services company. His last position with the bank was managing a team of analysts to assess the bank’s credit risk exposure to customers in the real-estate, manufacturing, commodity-trading, retail and conglomerate industries.
Apart from his MBA, Tat Chuan also holds a Bachelor of Electrical & Computer Systems Engineering from Monash University; a Master of Arts in HRD from the George Washington University; and a Postgraduate Certificate in Dispute Resolution from the University of Massachusetts. He is also certified to consult with the Harrison Innerview and FIRO-B instruments.
Mr. Laurence Chan has been involved in the private equity and venture capital industry in Singapore since 1990. He has extensive experience in private equity and venture capital investments, fund management, corporate finance and IPOs, financial management, and working with technology start-ups.
Laurence started his career as an engineer in the Ministry of the Environment. Following that, he moved on to various managerial positions in corporate finance, commercial banking, and investment banking in several international banks. Laurence also started two technology venture capital firms and was active in private equity investments in Asia. He was the General Manager of a distribution company in Hong Kong which was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under his marketing and operational expertise.
Laurence is a Charted Financial Analyst Charterholder (USA) and holds a Diploma in Marketing from Chartered Institute of Marketing (U.K.). He obtained his MBA from
Ms. Lee Yumiko has lectured at Department of Japanese Studies, NUS from 1983 - 1991. She has also taught Japanese Language in various institutions in Singapore such as Singapore Poly and Singapore American School as well as at in-service training in multi-national corporations and statutory boards. Currently, she teaches at Center for Language Studies, NUS. Yumiko is also MD of J. Highways Pte Ltd, which organises Japan Immersion Programmes for learners of Japanese Language to experience Japan’s culture and communicate with local Japanese there. She is also a trained professional simulational interpreter in Japanese/English.
Yumiko holds a B.A. from Seinan Gakuin University and MA. from San Diego Sate University.
Leong Kwok Keong is currently a lecturer in Ngee Ann Polytechnic. He joined Ngee Ann in 1993 and had taught in numerous finance-related modules including Financial Accounting, Accounting software like MYOB and Accpac, Introduction to Banking and Financial Institutions in Singapore and Corporate Finance and basic Computing Concepts. Currently, he is involved in teaching modules on “Decision Support with Spreadsheets” which covers the use of Microsoft Excel to solve business problems.
Before joining Ngee Ann Poly, Kwok Keong was involved in implementing Banking and Credit Card systems in banks. The banking software was Midas and the credit card software was CardPac.
Lai Fong is a Blue Ocean Strategy Consultant and also the co-founder of the UCSI BOSRC Singapore Office. She has actively participated in the BOS works in Singapore and Malaysia. She graduated from the University of New South Wales in Computer Science and has worked in several MNCs like IBM, Sealand and RCI International in various senior positions.
Lai Fong has many years of experience in business process consulting and organizational development and IT systems. She has a passion for skillful thinking and likes engaging on big-picture corporate directions, value innovations and also the capacity to dwell in to operational solutions. Her other interests are in the area of professional development helping professionals in excellent interpersonal and motivational skills and she is a qualified master coach and trainer.
Mr. Leonardo Talpo is an experienced Personal Coach, Psychological Relationship Counselor and Trainer. He has over 25 years of work experience in the international and multi-cultural corporate environment. His strength is empowering people to be effective from the inside out in their businesses, personal lives and relationships. Leonardo brings to his clients his openness, honesty, creativity and sense of humor combined with the wisdom gained through his own life challenges, his studies and practical experiences in the area of human development.
Leonardo holds a Master in Social Science majoring in Counseling and a Certification in NLP Master Practitioner.
Upon graduation, Madam Li Haiyu is in the teaching profession. In her 24 years of teaching career, she has won many national teaching excellence awards, and was also one of the few teachers appointed as qualified supervisors of the National Literary Committee.
Haiyu descends from a lineage of native Koreans, and started learning and speaking Korean language from a very young age. As a professional linguist with an in-depth knowledge of both Chinese and Korean Languages, she brings the best to the teaching of the Korean language to local adults. She is able to teach the rigours of the Korean language with the combination of immaculate Chinese language, leaving no ambiguity in the student’s mind.
Mr. Lian Eng Huat is an accomplished IT/IS auditor for more than 10 years. He has audited major banking applications including front-office and back-office as well as infrastructure such as networks, firewalls and remote access systems. He has experience in global audits and has managed IT audit teams to undertake regional branch office audits.
Eng Huat holds two Masters degrees, one in Communications Software Management from University of Essex (U.K.) and another in Finance from RMIT (Australia). In addition, he is also a Certified Information Systems Security professional, and a Certified Ethical Hacker.
Mr. Lim How is a psychologist-researcher by training (M.S., Yale University), and a corporate trainer-consultant by profession. In the past 10 years, he has conducted more than 1000 seminars and workshops, and provided consulting services to major corporations in several parts of the world including Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. Broadly, his professional passions include teaching/training, consulting, research, and writing.
How has also written the following books, Seeds of Winning (1999), Stronger Heart, Wiser Mind. (2001), Reality Management: Four big ideas (working project). His professional specialty can be broadly categorised into the following areas, Human Relations and Customer Relations, Communication, Influence and Persuasion, Thinking, and Leadership and Coaching.
Mr. Lim Liat started BVOTECH to provide training and consulting on helping people and businesses to be more successful through Unified Corporate Performance Management Framework, Innovation Management, Learning & Knowledge Management, Sinology, Creative and Visual Thinking(BVITS) with problem solving skills. The unified performance framework is an integration of the proven business and management thinking of the thought leaders. It covers the determination of mission, vision, values, design and execution of strategies, leadership and motivation of staff, creation of innovative and high performance corporate culture. His clients include governmental ministries, statutory boards, government-linked corporations, multi-national corporations and start-ups. He has sat on the advisory boards of institutes of higher learning. He has more than 30 years of IT and Management experience.
A pioneer of Singapore Computer Systems in 1980, Liat contributed to the its listing on Singapore Exchange, achieving a revenue of S$500 million operating in over 9 countries. He left as Deputy CEO in 2003 to start BVOTECH.
Liat was a Public Service Commission Merit and Commonwealth Scholar. He obtained his B. Industrial and System Engineering (1st Class Honour with Gold Medal) from University of Singapore in 1974 and M. Industrial Engineering from University of Alberta, Canada, 1976. He is a joint author of 5 U.S. Registered Patents in End User Query and Data Modeling.
Mr. Lim Thou Liang has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry, which includes 10 years of training experience in system courses, specialising in the complete range of Microsoft BackOffice products. As one of the pioneer MCTs and MCSE in Asia, Thou Liang has been an early starter in Microsoft technology. He is one of the leading IT Trainer/Consultant and has trained numerous IT professionals, both locally and around the S.E. Asia region. He also had experience in Novell NetWare, Microsoft LAN Manager, LanTastic, Path Work and Banyan Vines. Lim Thou Liang's other areas of expertise include NT, Windows 2000, SQL, Visual Basic, various versions of C language, Security and many more.
Thou Liang holds a computer engineering degree from University of Newcastle, Australia.
Dr Lim Thou Tin is a business graduate with the National University of Singapore. He holds dual masters in information systems and knowledge management with further postgraduate qualifications in systems analysis, intelligent systems, marketing, management consulting and training. He received his doctorate in business administration from Southern Cross University. He is also a fellow of the American Academy of Financial Management and a certified business intelligence professional in business analytics.
Dr Lim’s work experience includes working for large local companies to MNCs in senior corporate, IT and project management position, with a background in IT, banking and finance. He currently runs his own consulting practice involving in both financial and IT consulting with local and multinational firms in Singapore. He has served and continued serving in positions as corporate advisor, chief information officer and chief operating officer in local startup companies.
Madam Lou Yan (MA in Economics, Fudan University) started her teaching career at Fudan University in 1988. Her expertise is in teaching Chinese Language and Business Conversation. Since 1991, Madam Lou Yan has been teaching subjects such as "Speak Mandarin", "Short Essays/Stories" and "Business Conversation" at NUS. One of her research interests involves the analysis on the relationship between language and economic development.
Madam Lou Yan has a number of publications to her credit. For instance, she has published "Before implementation of the leasing system" and "The reconstruction of Lukou town" in Some Thoughts of Administrators in 1989. Another publication is "Leasing: A new prospect for the economics reform", published in 1988.
Luciano Pezzotta is the Lead Blue Ocean Strategy Consultant in the UCSI BOSRC. He has led many successful BOS initiatives in many companies spreading across multi-industry and around the region. Luciano is the co-founder and Managing Partner of UCSI BOSRC Thailand Office. He is also the owner of Blue Ocean Garden Hideaway Spa & Beach Resort, which is located in Thailand.
Luciano started his career as an analyst at Merrill Lynch, an international private bank in London. In 1999, he joined the Strategic Service team of Andersen Consulting in Milan, Italy. He then continued his consulting career at Venture Consulting, a European strategy consulting boutique recently acquired by Tefen. He has worked internationally for large corporations in the banking, pharmaceuticals and media sectors both in Italy, UK, USA and Germany. In 2007, Luciano left Venture Consulting to establish his own resort business using Blue Ocean Strategy in the former “hippie” island of Koh Phangan, Thailand.
Mr. Marc Ronez, Managing Director, Asian Risk Management Institute, is a recognised expert in crisis management, corporate change, enterprise risk management systems and decision-making processes. Through a variety of senior positions in Asia for major worldwide corporations, he has accumulated over 15 years of considerable experience as a practitioner, coach and trainer through his research, training and consulting work in the risk management, insurance and financial services industries.
Marc is the Managing Director of the Asian Risk Management Institute (ARIMI), a prominent research and professional development institute in Risk and Crisis Management in Asia and a strategic partner of NUS Extension. Throughout his career he has helped many companies and organisations to optimise the manner they manage their risks and to prepare or respond to various types of crisis and business interruptions. His clients include those from insurance and financial services, government/public organisations, telecom and IT infrastructure, media and communication, as well as oil and gas
An accomplished coach and trainer with comprehensive blend of hands-on professional and academic experience, Marc gains satisfaction from organising and delivering corporate training programmes and solutions, sharing knowledge and training international management audiences. An innovative expert, he has designed and authored comprehensive methodologies and programmes on risk decision-making and crisis management. He is a very sought after speaker at international risk management conferences and a regular contributor to the trade press.
Marc has an MBA from the University of Chicago GSB, an MSc in Insurance and a LLM from the University of La Sorbonne. He is also a Fellow in Applied Risk Management (FARM) from the CARM Institute. Marc is the Chairman of the Asian Risk Management Society (ARMS).
Marcel Mongeon is an independent Intellectual Property Coach assisting companies and institutions with strategies to manage their intangible assets. He is an experienced international speaker and seminar leader in many areas including business strategy, intellectual property management and negotiations. His current practice throughout North America provides him experience with many types of licensing arrangements and deals in many fields including biotechnology.
Marcel’s work experience includes having been in charge of the technology transfer office at McMaster University overseeing all sponsored research, patenting and commercialization activities from 1997 to 2006. He is a lawyer qualified in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Québec as well as New York State in the USA and is a Canadian Registered Patent and Trade-mark Agent. Marcel holds business, law and science degrees from McGill, McMaster and Swinburne Universities and is a Fellow of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada.
Marcus Chan is presently the Managing Consultant of UCSI BOSRC, where he works extensively with clients from Financial Services, Pharmaceutical and Public sectors to adopt and apply Blue Ocean Strategy.
Prior to this, he was the Supply Chain consultant in Accenture (Fortune 500), where he has worked closely with his clients, particularly from Utilities, Energy & Chemical industries, at various countries in Asia & Europe regions, to becoming high performance business.
Not only he has the mastery in Blue Ocean Strategy and Strategic Procurement & Fulfillment disciplines, Marcus also possesses sound project management skill and strong delivery capability. He has proven record in managing large-scale projects in a complete project management life cycle.
Marcus’s professional work focuses on a wide range of consulting initiatives including end-to-end Blue Ocean Strategy development, organization transformation, workforce change enablement & transformation, shared service design & implementation, and system & technology integration.
Marcus was employed by NASA as a research analyst during his college year in USA and was an honorary recipient of “Top Senior” award from Purdue University. Presently, Marcus resides in Singapore with his wife. Being an avid cyclist and runner, he is currently training for several coming racing events in Malaysia, Singapore and
With over 10 years of experience as a practicing project manager, Marcus successfully lead many project to completion from product R&D, IT Infrastructure setup to Complex Large Scale System development and installation in the area of aviation and aerospace engineering.
Marcus’s project management background includes experience in project definition, start-up, planning, execution, monitoring and controlling, and close-out on a variety of multi-million dollar developments. His experience covers all aspects of development and project management, from feasibility studies, sales forecasting and marketing, estimating and budgeting, configuration management, risk management, change control, and quality assurance.
He has extensive experience in organizing and leading multi-discipline and multi-project teams to achieve project success. He works as a consultant on various pioneer system development and has extensive adult education course experience in various aviation and aerospace industry.
Marcus’s multi-disciplinary educational background initiated with a BEng. in Mechanical Engineering from School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and a MSc in Computer Control & Automation from School of Electrical Electronics Engineering) and He is also certified Project Management Professional (PMP®) with the Project Management Institute (PMI) of the USA.
Madam. May Than Nwe, (B.Sc (Hons), M.Sc., Dip. Ed., MBA) is a native Myanmar born in Yangon. Effectively bilingual in English and Myanmar, she has extensive lecturing, conducting and translating experience in the Myanmar language. She has been an Associate Trainer with NUS Extension for over a decade. In addition, Than Nwe has been teaching and supervising students from the Ministry of Defense and Home Affairs. One of her publications includes "Conversational Myanmar" in 1997.
Mrs. Meenu Sarin is a microelectronics professional with over 18 years’ experience in the microelectronics industry across various facets of operations & across geographies like Europe, India, Singapore, Greater China and Australia and with special focus in the semi custom ASIC environment. She has registered her company, VLSI Consultancy, in Singapore from where she works as a free-lance consultant. She has conducted in-house training courses and public workshops in various countries including Singapore, Malaysia, Hongkong and India besides delivering talks in universities. She is also a Board Member of the Semiconductor Association, Singapore.
From 1997-2002, Meenu was a Technical Marketing Manager in STMicroelectronics (STM)/Singapore with focus on Telecom segment. In this role, she was responsible for Business Development and Program Management for STM’s semicustom ASIC projects in Asia Pacific. Meenu also worked as a Program Manager in charge of managing various semi custom projects with customers in the Asia-Pacific Region. Before her move to STM Singapore, Meenu worked at Dream Catcher Technologies Pte Ltd. Tel.: (65)62981892 Fax: (65)62968392 http://dreamcatcher.asia Email: enquiry@dreamcatcher.asia Page 4 STM India from 1991 to 1997. As a Design Manager for Library Design Group, she was responsible for managing a 30 member team involved in design and development of semi custom digital libraries in various technologies across different platforms as per the market requirements and to support designers in STM’s world wide locations. Prior to this, Meenu had been a Design Engineer for digital library design and development at STM Italy for several years after she received her engineering degree (Computer Engineering) from Delhi Institute of Technology, India in 1988.
A corporate veteran from the Media and Financial industries, Melissa has worked at the strategic level to lead and support Organizational Development and Human Resource strategies. As the Vice President of a Service Academy, Melissa has also played a key role in nurturing the service-excellence culture of a bank which eventually won accolades for its Service Excellence. Throughout her corporate career, she has partnered with various third party organizations, such as Singapore and Australian government agencies, to develop and offer training programs that cater to the local media and banking industries.
Now an Associate Consultant with Development Dimensions International (DDI), Melissa facilitates leadership and employee development workshops in Singapore and the Asia Pacific region. Melissa is also an Assessor for certain DDI assessment projects.
Melissa also works independently, undertaking facilitation and content development projects for other clients and service providers in leadership, teambuilding and service training. She also offers executive and success coaching. In addition, she had served as an associate academic staff specializing in Business Communications with several local Universities and Polytechnic Institutions.
As a corporate leader who has headed training entities in the media and financial industries, Melissa is familiar with the expectations and challenges facing today’s leaders. Having worked in regional and global organizations, she also has a first-hand feel of the complex and dynamic global landscape. She is therefore able to deploy her corporate experience, service orientation and engaging disposition to successfully facilitate workshops for a wide range of leadership competencies (such as performance management, coaching and developing others, delegation, leading change, building teams etc). As a result, her executive workshops have been consistently applauded for its high level of participant engagement and relevance.
In addition, Melissa is very well-versed in Service Excellence, Communication (for example, presentation skills, proposal writing etc) and Personal Development training (such as Emotional Intelligence, stress management and career planning).
Melissa has worked with global players and local enterprises from a wide spectrum of industries: Banking and Finance, Media, Information technology, Engineering, Mining, Manufacturing, Hospitality, Retail and Government. Some examples include Singapore Civil Service College, Acendas, Asia Pacific Breweries, Herbalife, SG Private Bank, HSBC, MTVN, Hitachi Data Systems, Gemalto, Polar Puffs and Cakes.
A certified facilitator of DDI’s executive training programs, Melissa is graduate of the University of Sheffield (UK) with a Master of Education with Distinction. She also holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from National University of Singapore.
Mr. Michael Fong has consulted, trained and facilitated for multi-national corporations and small and medium-sized enterprises in Australia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore for over 15 years. Areas of hard skills training he has provided include process auditing and quality assurance, project management, and software engineering. Soft skills workshops that Michael has facilitated comprise areas such as actuation (self-discovery), bonding and team work communications, creative/proactive thinking, leadership managing change, personal profiling and team leading. Michael also conducts outdoor adventure learning programmes (high and low rope elements) and assists clients with organisational development. His workshops are instructional and/or action-based, depending on the nature of the subject.
Michael holds a B.Sc from RMIT University, a PG.Dip from University of Wollongong and an Associate's Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University. He is also a Certified Quality Analyst (CQI) and a Lead Auditor (IRCA).
Michael Heng Siam-Heng obtained his PhD from Free University of Amsterdam. He sits on the editorial board of three international journals on electronic business. He has held academic appointments in Australia, China, Malaysia, the Netherlands and Singapore. His most recent book is The Great Recession – history, ideology, hubris and nemesis. Other publications consist of three books, 30 peer reviewed journal papers, 12 book chapters and 33 conference papers.
Trained as an accountant, Mr Michael Lum is a Master Trainer with HardKnocksCollege.com, associate trainer in NUS Extension and an associate faculty in SIM University. He is a licensed trainer for American Board of NLP, Time Line Therapy Association, American Board of Hypnotherapy, American Management Association International and American Institute of Small Business. He is also a Louis Allen Program Leader, Advanced Toastmaster (Gold), Laughter Yoga Instructor, Stress Management Instructor with International Association of Counsellors and Therapists and a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with Project Management Institute (PMI).
In 2003, in recognition for his work amongst retrenched workers, he was awarded ABC True Hero. Mr Lum has authored 3 bestselling books – I Once Wore Diapers, Who Broke My Rice Bowl? and From Beggars to Millionaires.
Mr. Lum holds a Bachelor of Accountancy from NUS, a Master of Commerce from University of New South Wales and a Graduate Diploma (Training and Development) from Singapore Civil Service College. For the last 15 years, Mr Lum has conducted various management programs for thousands of executives in the region.
Ms. Mihoko Eto Hobberstad graduated from Keio University with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration and Journalism, and has acquired teaching licenses from Keio University. She has also studied in UK and Egypt while working as a journalist. Eto has her own firm which specialises in interpretation and translation services. She is also an editor and an award-winning writer (reporter and CM copy-writer) in Japan. Eto has also taught extensively in several institutions in Singapore and conducted Japanese Language training for the staff of numerous 5-star hotels here.
Mika was a Leading Stewardess with Singapore Airlines for 7 years. She was also a Senior Stewardess with SilkAir for about 2 years where she was the Crew-in-Charge on the aircraft where she provided coaching and mentoring leadership to the cabin crew. She was one of the pioneer property agents with Dennis Wee Realty for 3 years. She has very good marketing knowledge and has honed her negotiation skills with clients. Mika was employed by New Image International as a professional motivational speaker for several years during which time she was awarded the top Gold Sash Award for achieving beyond the expected target. talent extended beyond the corporate world. Mika was a TV actress in the popular Singapore drama series, “Triple Nine” where acted opposite James Lye and Lim Yu Beng. Her acting skills and creativity have made her training interesting and enjoyable and also helped to communicate certain concepts through her role-playing. Her experience in participating in the local TV game show “Pyramid Show” has helped her to engage the trainees more successfully in the class.
Mr. Mike McDannell had more than 25 years of experience in studying, practicing, and consulting on leadership. His military background consists of assignments alternating between hands-on leadership and the study and teaching of leadership. He has translated his military experiences into successful leadership application in senior positions in the business world.
Mike served as Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff at the U.S. Army Headquarters for Southwest Asia. He also directed the leader development for the U.S. Corps of Cadets at West Point, U.S.A. He was once an advisor to the government of Sri Lanka and the Republic of the Maldives and a consultant to the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Prisons on effective leadership and administration of the federal penal system. He also designed, implemented, and supervised leader development system using 360° feedback. Mike was also the Senior Editor of “Leadership In Organisations,” a text for leadership course for cadets at West Point and the co-author of “Army Field Manual 22-100”, “Leadership”, and “Army Concept for Leadership In the 21st Century”.
He taught 'Marketing and Managing The Volunteer Army' as a graduate course at Yale University and Fundamentals of Leadership, Work Design, Motivation, Personnel Management, Quantitative Decision Making, and Advanced Principles of Management at the United States Military Academy, West Point, U.S.A. as well as 'Leadership and Ethics for the Leaders of the 21st Century" at the Marshall Center, NATO, Germany.
Mike holds a BS from the United States Military Academy in 1972 and MBA from Yale School of Management in 1980.
Nancy Yeo, facilitator, consultants’ consultant, training thousands of consultants and professionals for over 26 years. She takes great passion in equipping professionals with strong interpersonal skills to enable them to succeed in their workplace. Nancy has international experiences from her training engagements in Asia Pacific, USA, UK, and Holland.
Nancy has always been rated over 4.5 (out of 5-point score) for her effectiveness in training delivery. Training with her is never a dull moment!
Neo Kok Beng is Founder of NeoCapital Group, an innovation-development catalyst and accelerator that incubates high-growth technology-based companies for the global markets. He was Vice-President at Singapore Technologies Electronics, specializing in new business development. He had set up new businesses divisions and spin-offs in mobile payment, information security and telematics.
Kok Beng teaches technology entrepreneurship in NUS (both NUS Entrepreneurship Centre and NUS Business School). He is also researching technology management and technological innovation strategies at the Division of Engineering & Technology Management, Faculty of Engineering. Kok Beng graduated with an MBA (NTU) on Hewlett-Packard Scholarship, and PostGrad Diploma (ICIS) on Singapore Computer Systems Scholarship, and B.Eng (Hons) from NUS. He attended the Program on Science, Technology & Innovation Policy at Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; and the China Management Programme at Tsinghua University.
Dr Ng Aik Kwang is an expert on the cultivation of creativity and happiness in the Asian society. He is the author of five popular books on this subject. They include Why Asians Are Less Creative Than Westerners (2001); Liberating the Creative Spirit in Asian Students (2004); Creative Problem-Solving for Asians: A Practical Guide to Develop Your Creativity as an Asian (2007); Asian & Western Paths to Happiness: How to be Creative and Live the Good Life (2008) as well as Creativity: Questions & Controversies (2009).
Dr Ng received the 2001 Early Career Research Award from the International Council of Psychologists for a provocative paper which is interestingly entitled Why Creators are Dogmatic People, “Nice” People are not Creative and Creative People are not “Nice”. After obtaining his PhD in Psychology at the University of Queensland in Australia, Dr Ng worked as an Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Education (1999 – 2005).
Besides lecturing at NIE, Dr Ng has conducted courses on creativity and happiness in many schools and learning organizations, including Singapore Management University, Nanyang Technological University and UniSIM. Dr Ng is also an entrepreneur who set up The Idea Resort. This is a training firm which provides practical workshops for teachers, students and employees in the public and private sector, in areas like creativity, happiness, multiple intelligences and critical thinking.
Chiau Ho is a Blue Ocean Strategy Consultant with the UCSI BOSRC and is actively involved in BOS works in Singapore. He is a graduate from the University of Manchester - Institute of Science and Technology.
Chiau Ho has 20 years of extensive experience in a fortune 500 MNC and held various senior positions in Research & Development, Information Technology, Business Development & Marketing and Regional Program Management. Chiau Ho also held two U.S. registered patents in his name. He currently serves as a board member in the Tung Ling Community Services and is also a social entrepreneur.
Mr. Ong Tun-Cheng is a certified Life Skills Coach. He conducts training programmes for managers and executives focusing on critical areas such as people-management, team building and emotional intelligence. Tun-Cheng has held several managerial positions within multi-national corporations as well as local companies. Tun-Cheng was involved in consulting, sales and marketing and business development projects, and has conducted management, sales and marketing training in information technology, e-commerce, e-services and high-tech automation for clients and staff in the Asia-Pacific region.
Tun-Cheng holds a Bachelor of Science from NUS.
Wann graduated with honors in Communication Studies from Nanyang Technological University. She has been teaching Korean language since 2003 after completing graduate diploma in Korean Language from Sogang University. In 2009, she completed her Master's degree course in Korean Language and Literature at Kyunghee University. Her class is interactive and she is able to explain the language through her own learning experience.
Paul is the Regional Director for the Asian risk consulting operations of Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc (JLT). JLT is amongst the largest global insurance and risk advisors and has a long and successful track record of working in Asia.
Based in Singapore for over 12 years, Paul has advised numerous Asian organizations on their strategic risk financing programmes, captive insurance, strategic risk management and business continuity planning. His project portfolio has involved work for organizations drawn from all major industries. He has also served as the Asia-Pacific Regional Client Manager to a number of very large multinationals, managing and coordinating their regional insurance and risk management programmes. Further, he has also managed the underwriting portfolio of a number of Singapore domiciled captive insurers. Over the years, Paul has been a frequent conference speaker on captives and other risk management topics.
Paul holds a Bachelor of Business Studies (Hons), Trinity College Dublin (Awarded 1st Class Honours for his dissertation on Captive Insurance) and is a member of the Institute of Risk Management (UK)
Mr. Paul Toh, BSc, BSC Part I, has been employed in a variety of roles ranging from development and customisation of accounting softwares to in-company training covering various software packages. He has been a local tutor for modules on 'Project Management' and 'Accounting Information Systems' for external university programmes.
PHAM Nhu Quynh is a native of Hanoi. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the National University of Hanoi, where she majored in linguistics. After graduation in 1992 she worked full-time with the Centre for Vietnamese and Intercultural Studies, National University of Hanoi as a Vietnamese language teacher from April 1993 to October 2001. The Centre received foreign students, in particular post-graduate and more recently undergraduates, into Vietnam to conduct field research, joint projects, and Vietnamese language studies. She thus has extensive experience in teaching the Vietnamese language to foreign students. She has co-authored, together with other Vietnamese language teachers of the Centre, a Vietnamese language course book for foreigners, titled Vietnamese Language in practice for Advanced Learners and A Concise Vietnamese Grammar.
After graduating with B.A. in English Studies from Chiang Mai University, Thailand in 1998, she pursued her M.A. in English Language and Literature at National University of Singapore. During her post-graduate study, she worked as a Thai part-time tutor for Southeast Asian Studies Program for one and a half years. In 2001, she joined NUS as a full-time instructor. Presently, she is a Thai Lecturer at the Centre for Language Studies.
She has directed the students joining the Thai Study Abroad Program to Thailand since 2000. Besides the intensive language study, the students gained exposure to Thai culture knowledge as well as visited various cultural and historical sites
Prior to joining STET Homeland Security Services (STET HLS) as a Security Consultant, Rauzi Bin Burherm was the Security Manager of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (HSBC), Singapore.
As the Security Manager in HSBC, Rauzi was instrumental in upgrading the in-house security department SIRD grading from a Grade D to Grade B and conducted the in-service training to all the security officers and relevant bank staff on all security related matters such as armed hold-up courses, identification of IED, bomb threat call and many others.
Prior to joining HSBC, Rauzi was with CISCO as a Senior Officer in charge of a Sector for Operational experience and was subsequently posted to CISCO Police Training as their trainer. Rauzi subsequently worked with the Singapore Police Force in 2001 as a Senior Project Officer to assist in the planning and development of the new Home Team Academy, and was awarded the Commissioner of Police Commendation award for the said project.
Rauzi was also involved in the Home Team Learning Committee that developed and delivered numerous Home Team training programmes such as the Home Team Effectiveness Learning Programme, the Learning Organisation and many others.
Ravindran has 15 years experience in project management, IT consultancy and business development. He was the Principal SAP consultant, Business Development Manager, Project Manager and Quality Assurance Manager for SAP implementation in Asia Pacific. Ravindran has extensive training experience, with his primary focus being in Management and Project Management. Organisations he has trained include Microsoft Asia Pacific, Schlumberger Asia Pacific, SingTel, Hewlett-Packard, Pfizer, Fujitsu, and Reuters. Ravindran is a Project Management Professional, a certification he received from the Project Management Institute.
Mr Lim is a graduate of the Singapore Teachers’ Training College. Registered with the MOE, he taught in government and private schools for more than 10 years.
He became the Director and Trainer of the Speedreading Centre in 1972 when it was established. He has conducted the Speedreading Course for thousands of individuals from the public as well as numerous companies and schools such as ESSO, HDB, MINDEF, DBS, HSBC, Citibank, HP, Singapore Power, ST Group, SIA, RI, RGS, ACS etc.
Mr Lim has had a life-long passion for teaching and promoting education. With his background as an educator, trainer and entrepreneur, he had taken about upon himself the challenging task of teaching the intricate skills and techniques of Speedreading to those who need or want to improve their reading comprehension efficiency inorder to cope with the demand of their job, career or study in today’s highly-sophisticated and fast-changing knowledge economy.
Master of Business Administration (University of Hull, UK), Bachelor of Accountancy (National University of Singapore, Association of Chartered & Certified Accountants (UK), Graduate Diploma in Marketing (Marketing Institute of Singapore), Advanced Certificate in Training & Assessment (Workforce Development Agency), Certified Associate of Emergentics Thinking – Thinking Style Profiling System, Cert. in Advanced & Clinical Transactional Analysis, Master Practitioner in Neuro-Linguistics Programming, Certified Business Coach
Richard is an award-winning lecturer who has more than 20 years of lecturing experience in Accounting & Finance. He lectured extensively in world-renowned MBA programmes in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta with the University of Leeds, Open University, Maastricht School of Management and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He was appointed as an External Examiner of University of Nottingham Trent.
Richard is currently an Adjunct Faculty Staff with the SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY. He is a former Director of Business Studies with a post-secondary statutory board. To date, he has trained more than 10,000 management executives in various public seminars, MBA and corporate in-house programmes.
Richard is a multi-disciplinary professional. He obtained his Masters in Business Administration (majoring in Creative Problem-Solving) from the University of Hull. He has double accounting qualifications. He graduated with the Bachelor of Accountancy from the National University of Singapore and went on to obtain the prestigious ACCA professional qualifications from the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants (United Kingdom). He has earned a Graduate Diploma in Marketing from the Marketing Institute of Singapore and a Certificate in Systems Analysis from the Japan-Singapore Institute of Software Technology.
Richard is an award-winning entrepreneur, having received the “E-GLOBAL” award and is a “Spirit of Enterprise” awards nominee. He is the inventor of the world’s 1st Board Game on Entrepreneurship entitled “Heros-To-Zeros” which won top placing at the Singapore MENSA SELECT AWARDS 2007.
Richard has more than 25 years of corporate experience. His corporate appointment includes senior management positions with the Salim Group, one of the largest conglomerates in Asia, Asia-Pacific Brewery, a blue-chipped public listed company and a Japanese merchant bank. His diverse experiences span business development, joint-venture dealings, strategic business planning, sales & marketing, banking, finance, management & financial accounting. Richard has provided corporate advisory services in several multi-million dollars joint-ventures and strategic alliances. He has been consulted in business start-up, franchising, business valuation, business development and setting-up of internal control systems for SMEs.
Rick Clements has more than 16 years of experience in public relations and crisis management. Best known for directing crisis communications for Singapore Airlines as the Vice President of Public Affairs managing the SQ006 & SilkAir MI185 accidents. Rick now owns his PR and training consultancy, Rick Clements & Associates, to pursue a new career interest as a consultant and trainer. Rick brings a wealth of practical experience to his work as a consultant and trainer in the field of crisis communications.
In addition to providing legal services for his clients, Mr. Hulse is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of California, Hastings College of
Mr. Robert Schilling began his career in training and development in 1985. With his first job in the industry, he started to learn the basic elements of accelerated learning and experiential education. Soon, Rob learned more advanced techniques and skills that garnered his interest in the design, development and delivery of trainings.
In 1991, Rob moved to Hong Kong where he was part of a development team for a training service provider known as ARC International. This was the beginning of his journey in Asia. For the past 11 years, he has delivered training solutions over three continents and in 12 countries. Rob is a Master Trainer for American Management Association and is skilled at delivering training solutions of any gradient. He has experience at designing customised learning solutions, delivery at all levels and training trainers at any stage of development.
Rob is a recognised coach and has utilised his skills in this arena to coach individuals and teams. He is also competent at developing and coaching people who wish to be effective coaches. He has applied these abilities with individuals, teams, volunteers and paying clients.
Rob graduated from the University of New Hampshire (USA) with a B.A. in Psychology. He studied the path of human development, organisational behaviour/development and other related topics. His continuous learning process explores how people perceive, learn and grow throughout their lives.
Dr Liew is the Managing Director of Arts Management Associates, one of Singapore's foremost arts presenters. Recent presentations include the New York Philharmonic, Paris Opera Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, and Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre.
Dr Liew holds a Doctorate in Interdisciplinary Arts. He is the first Singaporean Artistic Director of the Singapore Festival of Arts (1985-88). And he chaired various initiatives including the Economic Development Board's Performing Arts Task Force and the Association of Concert and Event Managers.
Dr Liew has been conferred the title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French government for outstanding contributions to the arts.
Robin is an international entrepreneur who is involved in training, researching and consulting companies on the use of Social Media. Robin is currently working in a project on rebranding Baja California in a colloboration project with Emerson College and Harvard University, and giving trainings to the Tourism industry in Sri Lanka and several companies in Singapore.
Roger Tolbert is a partner in the Intellectual Property Group of Fenwick & West LLP, a law firm specializing in technology and life sciences matters. His practice focuses on technology licensing, intellectual property, mergers and acquisitions, and venture capital and strategic investments, predominantly in the life sciences, cleantech and related industries. His representative transactions include: domestic and international collaborations for developers of gene therapies, cell therapies, therapeutic proteins, pharmaceutical products, medical devices, agricultural biotech, solar power projects, semiconductors and software; mergers, acquisitions, spin-outs and asset divestitures in a wide range of industries; technology transfers from universities and other nonprofit research institutions; manufacturing and distribution agreements, technical assistance agreements, clinical trial agreements and rights clearances.
Mr. Tolbert has been recognized multiple times as a Super Lawyer by Washington Law & Politics magazine and as a Top Lawyer by Seattle magazine. He has been listed in Best Lawyers in America for over ten years. He served as Program Chair and Speaker at five Biotechnology Conferences
Mrs. Rosa Gelpke is a Peruvian Professor holding an Instructor's Degree in teaching Spanish. Her interest in teaching led her to continue her studies at San Marcos to become a Teacher of Arts. When she moved to Switzerland, Rosa attended Migros Schuela where she took a specialisation course in Teaching Adults and became an accredited examiner of the Diploma of Spanish. Rosa has been teaching Spanish at NUS for several years.
Ms. Sandra Sandu has 19 years corporate training experience spanning across Asia Pacific, training leading corporations, ministries and statutory boards. Her client list include Compaq, Du Pont, AMD, National Semiconductor, Texas Instruments, Micron, 3M, Levi Strauss, American Express, DHL, Hewlett Packard, Matsushita Technology, Sony International, Hitachi Electronic Devices, TEC Electronics, Citibank, BNP-Paribas, Standard Chartered, Singapore Telecom, Singapore Technologies, Keppel Corporation, Sembawang Corporation, Pan United Corporation, Malaysian Shipbuilding and Engineering, Petronas, Caltex, Singapore Refining Company, Economic Development Board, Housing Development Board, Trade Development Board, Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore, Central Provident Fund Board, Jurong Town Corporation and dozens more.
A Certified Management Consultant, CMC since 1993, Sandra uses the full consulting process to assess client needs before offering learning solutions. Her sessions have always been rated as practical, interactive and learner-led.
Ms. Sasiwimol is a Thai lecturer at the Centre for Language Studies of NUS where she has been teaching Thai as a foreign language to students of various proficiency levels since 1999. Her research interests are in the development of teaching materials, strategy use in foreign language learning, and foreign language teaching methodology.
Sasiwimol receives her MA degree in English Studies from NUS in 2000.
Seah Tzi-Yan has worked in the visual arts market since 1988, when she joined the then Art Base Gallery. In 1991, she and her partner began a small gallery supporting Singapore and Southeast Asian art at the Substation. A few years later she was involved in the incorporation of the Art Galleries Association (Singapore), and then in 2000 with ARTSIngapore, now an international Asian art fair, for which she is currently an advisor. She also lectures part-time on arts management at Nanyang Academy.
Ms. Seo Ji Yun is a native Korean. She had years of experience in teaching Korean and Japanese to foreigners in Japan and Singapore. Ji Yun has a Master’s degree in Educational Informatics and a Bachelor degree in Art and Letters (Japanese Education) at Tohoku University. Her research interests include diagnostic language testing and second language learning, and especially in the development of language learning materials using multimedia. Ji Yun used to work as a Korean/Japanese interpreter and translator in both Korea and Japan.
Dr. Seow Bee Leng, the principal trainer of Continuum Learning Pte Ltd, has more than 15 years of service training experience with corporations, academic institutions and non-profit organizations. Her training portfolio focuses on a wide range of service competencies including customer service mindset (self-efficacy), service values, service personality, EQ @ service, service climate, service clues and service micro-skills. Her warm personality has endeared her to many clients who engage her to give keynotes in their seminars, conferences and workshops. She has trained participants from Brunei, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Maldives, Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam and Singapore. In her previous appointment with Singapore Airlines (SIA), Bee Leng was responsible for developing a team of 200 trainers committed to SIA Cabin Crew Training Vision of developing service professionals of distinction within a learning culture. Bee Leng graduated with a Master of Business Administration (MBA) with Dean’s Honor List for Outstanding Achievements, Nanyang Business School - Nanyang Technological University. She obtained the Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) specializing in customer service research with University of Western Australia. Her publications include the Annual Conference of American Marketing Association (Chicago), Academy of Marketing Conference (Liverpool) and Journal of Product and Brand Management. She is the author of ‘To Serve With Love’, a book of quickwins and revealing questions for service employees who seek to serve with passion and professionalism.
Mr Seraj is the Convenor for the Arabic Language Programme at the Centre for Language Studies (CLS); he joined CLS in March 2009. He is a native speaker of Arabic and speaks English, French, and some German. Apart from teaching linguistics, he has been teaching English (ESL, EFL) and Arabic (AFL) in a variety of teaching settings for over seven years now. As an AFL lecturer, he last taught at the University of California San Diego.
Ms. Shubha Narayanan is the Managing Partner of HR Strategies, in Asia. She has over 17 years of consulting and industry experience. Till recently, she was Senior Consultant and Practice leader with Towers Perrin, Singapore, in the Change Management and Human Resource Management practice. She began her consulting career with KPMG Peat Marwick in India and continued with them in Dubai, in their Management Consultancy Division. While in Dubai, she also worked as the Head of Human Resources for a trading conglomerate representing Nissan.
Shubha specialises in HRM systems and Change Management. Typical project areas include Organisation Structure Design, Performance Management, Talent Management, Balanced Scorecard, Culture Change Strategy, Change Readiness Assessment, etc. She has worked with clients in the government and private sector. Her clients include local companies and multi-national corporations. In this region, she has completed projects in Singapore, Philippines, Taiwan, Bangkok, India and Brunei. A partial list of her clients in this region include Hewlett Packard Asia Pacific, IBM, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Defence, NETS, Ministry of Home Affairs, Singapore Police Force, Ministry of Manpower, Shell - Malaysia and Brunei, DBS Bank, Deutsche Bank, Chase Manhattan Bank and Axcelis Corporation. Apart from consulting, Shubha enjoys teaching and has taught courses for a University of Leicester distance learning programme. She has also given guest lectures at the NUS Business School and is a frequent speaker at local conferences.
Shubha holds a Bachelor's degree in Science (BSc), a Bachelor of Law and a MBA.
Associate Professor (Adjunct) Simon Poh
Assoc Prof (Adjunct) Simon Poh, (FCPA Singapore, MBA (NUS), B Acc (NUS)) is currently the Tax Director of a tax consultancy firm. Simon has about 22 years of experience in tax compliance and tax advisory work in the areas of corporate tax, individual income tax and goods and services tax. This includes 9 years of experience with the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore, 3 years with reputable regional multi-national corporations and 10 years with top international accounting firms. Prior to joining Asia Pacific Business Consultants Pte Ltd, he was heading Singapore tax practice in the world’s fifth largest international accounting firm.
His extensive experience includes international tax planning, transfer pricing, corporate restructuring, business acquisitions and mergers, expatriate tax planning, and advising clients on the tax implications of both inbound and outbound investments. Besides speaking at numerous external tax seminars and conducting tax workshops for professional bodies, Simon is also a regular contributor to newsletters, publications and professional journals on current taxation issues. He recently wrote a book, “Taxation in Singapore”. Simon is also active in academia. He is currently the Examiner for the Advanced Tax module of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore (ICPAS) Professional Examination and Associate Professor (Adjunct) at NUS teaching taxation courses.
Dr SNG Bee Bee is currently an Associate Lecturer in “Developing Effective Communicative Skills in Occupational English” with NUS Extension, Singapore. In the past, she has also taught Communication Skills in the Language and Communication Centre, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore for nine years. She graduated with an E.D.D. specializing in Education Management from the University of Leicester, UK and Master of Arts (English Studies) from the National University of Singapore. She has spent almost ten years teaching professionals and employees in the industries which include nurses, engineers, laboratory workers and office executives. Her research interests are educational change, English for Specific Purposes, English as a Foreign Language and more recently, e-learning.
Soo Yuen Jien is a Lecturer with the Department of Computer Science at the National University of University (NUS). He is a winner of multiple teaching awards, including the NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award for 2007/8, Faculty Teaching Excellence Award for 2006/7, 2007/8 and 2008/9, and Best Teaching Assistant Award before that. Dr Soo obtained his BSc (Honours), MSc and PhD from NUS in 1999, 2000 and 2006 respectively. Effectively bilingual in English and Chinese, he is an alumnus of Chong Hwa Independent High School in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where most classes are conducted in Mandarin. His research interests lie in the areas of Computer Architecture and Parallel Computing.
Mr. Stefen Chow, born in 1980, describes his approach as ‘photography from the front line’ – the front line here is far from the edge of the studio lights; it is up in the heights of Everest and the cold depths of the Himalayas and Karakorams. He finds joy and satisfaction in juggling the risks of mountaineering and capturing the moment.
One of the Singapore's outstanding mountaineers, Stefen has made significant ascents in Nepal, Tibet and Pakistan. Stefen's work has since been featured in publications and closed exhibitions. They have also been marketed overseas. Besides being a photographer, Stefen is also a motivational speaker for corporations and educational organisations. Having spoken at more than 50 talks, his favourite topic is passion, where he is able to relate classroom skills onto life and death decisions on the mountain.
Stephen Tan is a consultant who has trained executives at all levels in the areas of leadership, creativity, communications and service excellence and also undertaken coaching and mentoring of senior executives. Over the past decade, he has conducted training for executives locally and regionally covering the ASEAN region, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan. The organizations that he has consulted with and trained for cover a diverse range of industries including banking and finance, supply chain management, hospitality, health care, telecommunications, marketing & distribution, logistics, advertising and education.
Stephen’s management expertise, honed through years of senior corporate experience, has helped executives and business leaders improve their personal and organizational effectiveness through awareness and change management. His particular interest lies in the research of emotional intelligence and peak performance techniques as well as management of change to achieve individual and organizational success.
Stephen holds an MBA from the University of South Australia. Prior to practicing as a consultant, Stephen was a Vice-President of a major bank as well as Marketing Director and then General Manager of two financial brokerage companies. His understanding of leadership and leadership development was cultivated during his corporate career when he was responsible for the setting up of four prominent financial brokering firms, three locally and one in Tokyo, all of which he had led into market leadership positions.
Stephanie Burridge lectures at Singapore Management University, is a dance critic, author and the Series Editor for the Routledge Celebrating Dance in Asia and the Pacific series.
Steven Yeong has been recruiting for Fortune 500 clients, Silicon Valley IT start-ups and Government-Linked Companies for the past 14 years, here in Singapore. He has provided consulting in recruitment sourcing techniques and interview strategies for corporate recruiters and recruitment consultants from recruitment agencies.
Steven has worked with clients such as Citibank, Motorola, Bayer Healthcare and other multi-national companies especially in Singapore, ASEAN, China and India. Most recently, Steven was the Senior Recruiter (Asia Pacific) for American software giant, Sun Microsystems.
Currently, he is the Chief Talent Evangelist at a boutique consultancy, and he trains and develops the potential of recruiters in corporations and third party recruitment firms.
Subramaniam s/o Thirumeni, Advocate & Solicitor, is an experience law instructor.
Over the recent years, he has been teaching the LL.B external programme covering topics on jurisprudence & legal theory, company law, law of evidence and public law. In addition he also taught business law to business students.
He has been active giving public talks on legal matters at various venues and for various events including but not limited to talks at the Asia Business Forum, Community Centres, charity events organized by charities such as National Cancer Centre and National Kidney Foundation amongst others.
Mr. Syu Wei Bing (MA. in Sciences, Dept of Journalism and Mass Communications, Iowa State University) was an experienced media professional in Taiwan before he joined NUS as a language lecturer in 1996. Mr. Syu's teaching areas include news reading broadcasting materials and editorial works. In addition, some of his research interests include applications of oral and body language to teaching.
Cheng Yian was the R&D Technology Manager from Agilent Technologies, responsible for technology roadmap, platform development and R&D competence development of Agilent Measurement Systems Division.
Cheng Yian joined Hewlett-Packard Singapore in 1982 after graduating from the National University of Singapore with a first- class honors degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering. He took on various technical positions in the Test and Measurement business unit of Hewlett-Packard.
Cheng Yian started his management career in Hewlett-Packard (Later became Agilent Technologies) in 1990 as Services and Support Manager in Singapore. He later expanded his role to cover south Asia through his leadership in building support organizations in countries like Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Australia and India. In 1996, Cheng Yian became the Services & Solutions Division Regional General Manager in Asia. Cheng-Yian achieved significant business growth and profits throughout his various service and support management positions.
Cheng Yian joined Agilent Systems Division in July 1999 as Global Solution Delivery manager. He moved to Loveland Colorado, US to lead a R&D team to develop system platforms. He returned to Singapore in May 2001 and continued his R&D management career.
Cheng Yian enjoys managing multi-cultural and global teams. He finds it very rewarding to build a team from zero, grow the team capability, establish business processes and have the team deliver results. Before he left Agilent, Cheng Yian established a software R&D team in China, Beijing for his service division and a R&D team in Singapore to take over the charter of In-Circuit System development from US. He led his R&D teams successfully launched many new services and products including the award winning in-circuit test innovations in 2007.
Besides being an internal mentor for junior managers attending corporate Leadership program, Cheng Yian is also a qualified internal trainer for Rummler Brache Process Management class.
Associate Professor Tan Kay Chuan
Tan Kay Chuan is an Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and Acting Director of the Office of Quality Management in NUS. He teaches and does research in the areas of quality and service management, and human factors engineering. With over 10 years of experience, he regularly conducts short courses and consults on the use of quality tools.
Mr. Tan Lye Huat is a member of the Institute of Directors (IOD, UK), the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN, UK), the International Policy Governance® Association (IPGA, USA), the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD), and the Singapore Institute of Directors (SID). Mr. Tan is a founding member of the Policy Governance® Association of the UK (UKPGA) and contributes to the corporate governance initiatives of a number of other prominent bodies.
Lye Huat is active in representing the interests of shareowners, consulting with boards, conducting governance seminars and workshops, delivering certified governance programmes, speaking at numerous conferences, participating actively at forums, and contributing articles on governance both in the region and internationally.
Besides senior professional and management experience, Lye Huat sits on the boards of a number of public/listed companies as well as non-profit organisations in Singapore and the region. As an independent non-executive director, he contributes significantly in his roles as Chairman or Member of various committees of these boards.
Lye Huat obtained his qualifications as an accountant from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA, UK) and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA, UK) as well as that of a professional director from the Institute of Directors (IOD, UK. He is a Fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (FCMA) and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA), a member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore (ICPAS) as well as a Chartered Director (C Dir., UK).
Mr Tan started his career in banking with specializing in International trade Financing and had the opportunity to work in an overseas environment in the nineties.
TCM was his interest and he graduated from the Institute of Chinese Medical Studies and obtained the full cert in TCM in 1990.
He started part-time lecturing at the Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) from 1992 and the Institute of Banking and Finance (IBF) from 1998. Courses in both institutions were conducted in English and Chinese. There after he also lectured for the Open University courses at SIM.
He started working in the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) since 2000 and is now the head for the Department of Arts Management and Education and Vice Dean for the Office of Academic Affairs.
He is a registered TCM Practitioner with the Ministry of Health, Singapore and is also practicing in his clinic set up since 2006. He is currently a committee member of the Public Free Clinic Society.
Tan Sun Teck graduated from the old Nanyang University in Singapore with a BSc in 1980 and the University of Essex, UK with MSc and PhD in 1984 and 1989 respectively. He has been lecturing in the National University of Singapore since 1989, first with the Department of Information Systems and Computer Science, and then in the School of Computing (SoC) when the Department became a fully-fledged faculty called SoC. Dr Tan has been voted Outstanding Lecturer by cohorts of students over the years, and has been named best mentor in the School. Passionate about spreading the Computing message to the younger generation, Dr Tan has been involved in organising national computing competitions and training students of various levels for regional and international computing competitions such as the prestigious International Olympiad in Informatics and ACM ICPC. Dr Tan’s research interests include Chinese Computing and Computer Aided instruction.
An MBA graduate from the prestigious Cranfield University, his senior HR experience was involved in banking, property and retail development.
As one who continuously seeks self-improvement, he has successfully completed the WDA Advanced Certificate in Training and Assessment (ACTA) in 2008, and developed six highly-demanded compensation and benefits modules in the WDA/WSQ HR framework. He is also the trainer for these popular courses.
An effective and versatile Trainer, he has been involved in in-house programmes and is an external lecturer at various institutions of higher learning (locally and overseas) at Diploma, Degree & MBA levels. He was an adjunct tutor at a local university.
His motto is ‘IN PURSUIT OF LIFE-LONG LEARNING’.
Associate Professor Tan Tiow Seng
Tan Tiow Seng is an Associate Professor with NUS School of Computing. He obtained his PhD degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. Dr Tan specialises in algorithm designs, in particular, geometric algorithms. He leads a research group which focuses on geometric algorithms with applications to interactive graphics and games. In particular, their work on real-time shadowing is popular and has been adopted in the gaming community. Another noteworthy work of the group is in GPU flooding, where they have devised an efficient paradigm to solve interactive graphics problems. Dr Tan holds fives US/Singapore patents, and is also active in developing new courses and teaching methodologies. He is a two-time recipient of the NUS Teaching Excellence Award in recent years. Dr Tan is active in the development of the digital media industry, currently serving as a panel member on behalf of a government agency to evaluate funding proposals on digital media projects. Learn more about Dr Tan's projects, particularly in GPU, at: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~tants
Mr. Tay Jun Dong has been working as a Certified Management Consultant, specialising in SCM Logistics, International Trade and Shipping Management. His consultancy services range from organising and integrating SCM activities, operational improvements and process restructuring to global trade houses, oil companies, ship-owners, air freight terminals and container terminals, in Singapore, Shanghai and Indonesia. Presently he also teaches SCM as a part-time lecturer for Temasek Polytechnics and Singapore Polytechnics, and International Commerce under an Australian MBA programme.
Jun Dong holds a MBA from the University of Warick, MSc from University of Leicester, and MEd from Australia, B.Com (Hons) from Nanyang University and a post-graduate Diploma in Transport Economics from University of Westminister.
Since 1989, Dr. Tay lectures at NUS, currently holding the rank of Associate Professor. He also held a concurrent appointment at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands (TU/e) from 2002 to 2007. He was the Programme Manager of Embedded System Design at the Design Technology Institute (DTI). DTI is a Singapore registered corporation, jointly owned by NUS and Technische Universiteit Eindhoven.
Teng Tiow is a director of SMB United Ltd. SMB United Ltd is a profitable and successful medium-size public company listed on the main board of the Singapore Exchange. SMB United Ltd deals with electric switchgear design and intelligent power system monitoring and control. He is also a founding member of Outreach Edusys Pte Ltd, a company that develops state-of-the-art education technology solutions and computer aided embedded software development platform.
Since 1989, Teng Tiow has received cumulative research funding of about S$1.1mil from the NUS Research Grants, Motorola Electronics, Singapore Telecoms, Texas Instruments and A*STAR. He has authored more than 70 technical papers, and a book “High Performance Control”, Birkhauser, series of Systems and Control: Foundations and Applications, 1999.
Terence Teo graduated from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. He is presently the President of The Society of Chinese Artists in Singapore. Spontaneous brushstrokes, adventurous colours and sensitive ink techniques distinguish Teo’s paintings.
Teo’s newest series of artworks, Romance in Shangri-la, was painted during an extensive trip in Shangri-la, the north of Yunnan, China in 2007.
The unique artworks reflect his elated responses to the magical landscape of Shangri-la, capturing visual delights such as the stunning raw beauty of rainforest, the atmospheric mist, autumn’s falling leaves, the passing cold breeze, the colourful flora.Victor Kow has more than 30 years experience in human resource management, training & development, employee relations, information technology management and management consultancy in both the public and private sectors in the Asia Pacific region. He is a certified trainer in WSQ Human Resources courses. He has conducted management training courses in the Asia-Pacific region in both English and Chinese.
Victor has held various senior HR positions in a large multi-national corporation in Singapore and the Asia Pacific region, large Government linked companies besides being the Head of Training and Development in a Singapore Statutory Board.
Victor has a BBus from RMIT University, Australia and an MBA from University of Dubuque, Iowa, USA. He also obtained an MSc in HRM from Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA. He attended an HRM Executive Development Program with Cornell University and Train the Trainers Program with International Labour Organisation (ILO) among other major professional development qualification programs in his career as an active HR professional. He is a professional Member of Singapore HR Institute as well as a member of a number US Human Resource related professional Institutes.Dr. Wang Ai Kim (PhD in Chinese Language and Literature, Shanghai Fudan University; MA. in Chinese Language and Literature, Nanjing University. MBA, University of Singapore) had been teaching in NUS Chinese Language and Research Centre as a part-time lecturer in 1989-1998. At the same time, she was also conducting Mandarin classes for Civil Service College. Before the teaching position, she had been a Mandarin announcer in the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation, now known as Media Corp, for 7 years.
Ms. Ai Kim was appointed a full-time lecturer of Chinese Language Proficiency Centre, later known as Centre for Language Studies, in 1998. In 2003, she started to teach Intensive Mandarin Programme in NUS Extension (A Business Unit of NUS Enterprise). She has taught subjects such as "Speak Mandarin", "Chinese Characters" and "Integrated Skill" for Elementary Level, Intermediate Level and Advanced Level Classes. Her research interests include Chinese Literature centered on poetry, English Literature and editorial works.
Dr. Wing S. Wu, the multi-disciplinary psychology based coach, trainer and consultant, specializes in Holistic and Total Quality coaching, problem solving and decision making methodologies.
He has accumulated 25 years of top-tier Quality Assurance, Organizational Turn-around and Professional Holistic Change expertise in the wafer-fabs and electronic industries within Asia, which includes SGS-Thomson, Chartered Semiconductor and Hyundai Electronics. In addition to being certified in DISC, Facet5, CBCI, NLP, Satir, TQM, Lean-Six Sigma and Directive Communication techniques, he holds an MBA & Ph.D.
At the national Singapore level, Dr. Wu was involved as an Assessor for the Singapore Quality, Innovation & Quality Circles and People Developer Awards.
Incorporating total personal learning and experiences, Wing’s training programs in executive coaching, decision making and problem solving transcend traditional training techniques. With his background and vast corporate experience, he has helped many clients identify and create the right combination of choices relating to career advancement and decision making. Wing's holistic and experiential action-oriented workshops offer an entertaining and interactive environment that enable participants to rise above personal expectations, motivate them to challenge the status quo, and become forward looking executives.
Professor Wong Poh Kam is currently a Professor at the School of Business, as well as Director for NUS Entrepreneurship Centre. He has published numerous refereed journals on innovation policy, industrial and competitiveness policy and technology entrepreneurship, and has consulted widely for international agencies such as World Bank and Asian Development Bank, various government agencies in Singapore such as A*Star, EDB and IDA and many high tech firms in Singapore. An entrepreneur who co-founded three companies prior to joining academia, he is now an active angel investor and/or board member of high-tech start-ups in Silicon Valley, Singapore, China and Malaysia. He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley and a visiting researcher at Stanford University.
Wong Lim Soon is a professor with the School of Computing and the School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore. Before that, he was Deputy Executive Director for Research at A*STAR's Institute for Infocomm Research in Singapore. He is a winner of multiple awards, the most recent being the 2003 FEER Asian Innovation Gold Award for his work on treatment optimisation of childhood leukaemias. He serves on the editorial boards of Information Systems (Elsevier), Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (ICP), Bioinformatics (OUP), and Drug Discovery Today (Elsevier). He is a scientific advisor to Semantic Discovery Systems (UK), Molecular Connections (India), and CellSafe International (Malaysia). Lim Soon’s current research interest is in knowledge discovery technologies, particularly their application to biomedicine. He has also done significant research in database query language theory and finite model theory, as well as significant development work in broad-scale data integration systems. He received his BSc (Eng) in 1988 from Imperial College London and his PhD in 1994 from University of Pennsylvania.
Sam is the co-founder and Managing Partner of UCSI BOSRC Singapore Office. He graduated with a first class honors in Computer Systems from the University of Wales, United Kingdom. He has worked in a large statutory board for about 22 years holding various management positions covering applications development to large-scale systems implementations.
Sam is always keen in steering strategic planning processes and facilitation of strategy formulation. He has facilitated in the development of Strategic IT and Training Initiatives for a very large organization prior to starting out on his own. He has led in many mega IT projects as a project director installing large-scale IT systems and also in the construction of Intelligent Building Management Systems. He is passionate in imparting skills for the betterment of individuals so as to benefit the community at large both at the professional work and social front. He joyfully shares and promotes new discoveries to enrich ways of living and working.
Mrs. Wong Soo Leong has more than 25 years of experience in the audit area. She spent many years in one of the “Big Four” accounting firms as an auditing manager before moving to be the Group Auditing Director of a large public company in Singapore prior to her retirement. She is now a freelance accounting consultant and lecturer in Australia.
Soo Leong holds a Bachelor of Accountancy from NUS and is also a fellow of the ACCA.
Wong Yip Heng has extensive experience in Human Capital Management, having developed and implemented company-wide Training and Development programs, Human Resource systems and processes throughout his corporate journey in the retail, hotel. port management and manufacturing industries in Singapore and Malaysia.
Wong's areas of specialty are in leadership, team, organizational development and change management. He is now much into adult learning. He is a member of the Singapore Human Resource Institute and the Singapore Training And Development Association.
He studied Personnel Management at Teesside in England and holds a master's degree in education from the RMIT University in Australia.
Associate Professor Wong Weng Fai
Wong Weng Fai is an Associate Professor with NUS School of Computing. He obtained his DrEngSc in 1993 from the University of Tsukuba, Japan, and his MSc and BSc (First Class Honours) in 1991 and 1989 respectively from the National University of Singapore. He has taught in the National University of Singapore since 1989, holding posts from Senior Tutor, to Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Assistant Professor and Associate Professor. Apart from NUS, Dr Wong has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA and a Fellow of Singapore-MIT Alliance. More recently, he was with the Computer Science and AI Lab of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) USA during his sabbatical leave from NUS between September 2006 and September 2007. Dr Wong’s chosen field of specialisation is Embedded Systems, where his research work has attracted external various funding from both national and overseas agencies.
Dr. Donald Yeo is a Neuropsychologist working in a hospital conducting clinical cognitive assessments for patients with neurological disorders, such as dementia, stroke, head injury and epilepsy. He works collaboratively with Neurologists, Neurosurgeons, Psychiatrists, Geriatricians, Rehabilitation Physicians and Therapists. His main research interest is in the development of Neuropsychological test instruments for measuring cognitive change in the elderly. He has facilitated several workshops with Healthy Ageing Association and RSVP Singapore. He enjoys teaching and learning about healthy brain ageing and how to empower our active minds in our golden years.
Yoon was the Vice President and General Manager for Agilent Technologies (M) Sdn Bhd, responsible for worldwide transformation of Agilent’s supply chains via the implementation of the Oracle system. He obtained his degree in Electrical Engineering from Monash University, Melbourne in 1973, and has spent 30 years working with Hewlett-Packard and Agilent Technologies in various capacities, 20 of which is in R&D. Over the years, Yoon has acquired a wide spectrum of experience ranging from high technology manufacturing, process development, equipment development, R&D and IT.
As an engineer, Yoon has more than 10 years experience in process, production, product and R&D engineering both in the fields of semiconductor as well as in the test and measurement instrumentation. Yoon spent 20 years as a technical manager, again in the areas of manufacturing, engineering, projects, R&D and IT. Over the years, he has led many product transfer initiatives into Malaysia from other facilities all over the world. Yoo was also responsible for the start up of the R&D organizations for Agilent Malaysia. His experience in this area spans across semiconductors, sub-assemblies and full box level instruments and systems. He was tasked with the responsibilities to put technology roadmaps together that will enable the company to establish strategies and realize winning product portfolios to grow revenues and increase profits.
Over the years, Yoon has demonstrated his passion for talent development and technology management by writing articles about engineers and innovation for the company as well as for the local press. He has made several public lectures on innovation, R&D and commercialization of technology.
In 2004, Yoon received the PKT (Pingat Kepujian Tertinggi) from the Penang State Government for his contribution to the development of R&D in Penang.
Previous Consultancy Projects
| 1. | Consultant for the development of Penang State Government’s Industrial Competitiveness Strategy |
| 2. | Consultant and Director for Penang Collaborative Research Center to incubate technology innovation for local companies. |
| 3. | Consultant for KDU (Kolej Damansara Utama) on engineering curriculum development. |
| 4. | Consultant for federal government working group to frame the National Innovation Policy as part of the 9th Malaysia plan. |
| 5. | Consultant for USM on engineering curriculum development during the start up phase of the university’s engineering faculty. |
Zainal Abidin Hussain is currently a Security Consultant with STET Homeland Security Services (STET HLS), specialising in Security Management, Security Training and Aviation Security.
Zainal served in the Singapore Police Force from 1974 to 2002 and retired in the rank of Senior Station Inspector with the Airport Police Division. In a career that spans more than 28 years, he served in both staff and line capacities. He was appointed as the Aviation Security Special Projects Officer of a special project team to look into issuance of security directions to airline and airport operators, review of the airport security programme and tender exercises for security projects.
As part of an international consulting team engaged by the Singapore Police Force on behalf of the Singapore Government, Zainal was involved in the formulation and development of the framework and blueprint for the Regulated Agent Regime for cargo security at Singapore Changi Airport. The Blueprint is now in force as a regulatory standard in the aviation industry.
Zainal was also part of the international training team providing aviation security training to the Ministry of Communications, Department of Civil Aviation, police, immigration, customs, armed forces, internal security and security service providers in Brunei Darussalam.
In addition, Zainal took charge of the day-to-day operations of the anti-terrorist checkpoint of the JTC Corporation, and supervision and training of its contracted armed and unarmed guards. Zainal was also responsible for carrying out vulnerability and threat assessments/ reviews and putting up of security plans for companies of high economic value from the biomedical and wafer fabrication industries within its specialized parks. Based at Jurong Island Checkpoint, he is also trained as a Port Facility Security Officer.
Zainal holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English with Management.
Head of Operations with STET Homeland Security Services (STET HLS), Zulkifli Bin Rahmat was formerly a senior auxiliary police officer and concurrently the General Manager, AETOS Security Training & Consultancy. Prior to that, Zulkifli was the Head Training of AETOS Security Management before a succeeding appointment of the Chief Instructor of the AETOS Auxiliary Police Force Academy.
In a career spanning more than 15 years, he has accumulated a wealth of experience, skills and knowledge in law and narcotics enforcement, investigation, surveillance, protection of key installation, aviation and maritime security fields in both corporate and government entities.
Zulkifli was the CO, External (Airport) Operations at the now defunct Changi Airport International Services (CIAS) Police Force, where he was directly managing the security operations and personnel deployed at the Changi Airport including Changi Airfreight Centre and Airport Logistics Park. He was also the CO, Maritime Operations overseeing projects for the local port facilities and shipyards in compliance with the International Ships & Port Facilities Security (ISPS) code. Prior to joining AETOS, Zulkifli was a Senior Officer with the Commercial and Industrial Security Corporation (CISCO) Police and received extensive exposure to the key processes in the protection of key installations, security manpower management, cash management and in-transit operations, enforcement support services for government bodies and statutory boards.
Zulkifli is an active Operationally-Ready National Serviceman with the Singapore Police Force who held a previous appointment of Officer Commanding, Police Key Installation Unit Provost (OC, KINS Provost). He is a registered Fire Safety Manager with the Singapore Civil Defence Force.
Zulkifli holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Business & Management Studies from the University of Bradford (UK) and is currently pursuing the Master of Science in Strategic Studies with the Nanyang Technological University.
Born in 1963 in Singapore, Tan Haur has been a driving force in digital imaging art, photography, painting and underwater art making. He graduated from the Australian National University (Master of Visual Arts) with high distinction and major in digital imaging and photography. Tan Haur spearheads a pioneer digital art community program supported by the Singapore Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts (MICA); he has then been actively involved in many of the regional digital fine art activities and research.
Tan Haur was the Creative Project Consultant from 1987 to 2000, and has undertaking consultancy work for digital art and graphics-related projects worldwide. His years as the Creative Project Consultant (Mattel and Lego) saw him supervising assignments covering photography, digital imaging, loyalty programs (Kris Flyer), graphic design, advertising and promotions, exhibition and interior design photography, product design, and corporate branding programs (Epson). He has successfully merged his passion and talent together with his career in the art, digital imaging and creative industries and has proved not just to be a talented artist, but also a valuable member of the digital art community.
Prior to committing himself as a fulltime art advisor and artist, he worked as a chief curator cum manager for epSITE Digital Imaging Academy & Gallery (Singapore-Beijing-Shanghai-Tokyo) from 2000 to 2005. The post allowed Tan Haur to pursue his interests as well as to create an awareness of digital art in the region. Tan Haur spearheads a pioneer digi-art program supported by the Creative Community Singapore since year 2007, he is actively involved in organizing workshops and seminars to teach the public techniques on digital imaging and painting, photograph editing, restoring and archiving. He was the Digital Imaging Art Associate Lecturer of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore from 2007 to 2008. And Tan was also the Academic Director of Raffles Design Institute, Singapore from 2008 to 2009. Tan Haur is the Digital Art Advisor and associate of: MINDS, Singapore Visually Handicapped (SVH), NLB Digital Art Program Singapore, ADAHK Hong Kong, NDP'08 Singapore, Burgmann College Australia, Very Special Art Singapore. He was the Artist in Residence at Burgmann College, Australia in 2006-2007 and NY Arts Beijing (纽约艺术•北京) in DEC 2007.
Tan Haur is a multi-disciplinary artist and his practice includes the development of individual works/exhibitions, curatorial projects and collaborations. He draws inspiration and ideas from a given location, everyday objects and daily life. He immerses himself into different environments, experiencing the differences, and experimenting different mediums and technologies in art creation and interaction, continuously in search of the relationship between Nature, Culture, Art, Media and Technology. Tan practices Zen in daily activities and the creation of art is a journey of self-discovery to understand and get closer to his very being. He likes to work on cross disciplinary projects like integrating fine art and commercial design that challenge conventions and by breaking the norm results in different alternative techniques. Tan Haur’s love for digital art, photography, painting and underwater sketching has motivated him to share this new genre with other enthusiasts around the world. He has traveled to many countries creating art at high altitudes up upon summits as well as deep down in the ocean.
He has received numerous distinctive arts awards and art contribution medals from USA, Australia, Japan, Paris and Singapore, including the Silver Award in Paris PX3 Annual Photography Competition, Visual Arts Presentation Grant Award 2010 from Singapore National Art Council, the International Photography Exhibition Overseas Grant Award 2010 from Singapore International Foundation, Visual Arts Grant Award from Lee Foundation and Arts Fund Singapore in 2010, the Community Art Program Award from Ministry of Information, Communications and Arts, Singapore in 2007, First Prize Art Award from Burgmann Mixed Media Art Competition, Australia in 2006, World Wide Web Award of Excellence, Art Space 2000 International, USA in 2005, the President’s Award (Seiko Epson Japan) and the Public Art Business Excellency Award/ epSITE Digital Imaging Academy and Gallery in 2004.
Soo Earn is a Partner with Deloitte & Touche LLP. He leads Deloitte Southeast Asia M&A Transaction Services practice and Valuation Services practice.
Soo Earn has more than 20 years of experience in the provision of business and financial advisory services. He has worked with corporations, private equity investors and lenders providing a range of services supporting their cross border transactions. He has considerable professional experience in due diligence, valuation, strategic value consulting, corporate governance advisory, franchising & licensing advisory and intellectual asset management advisory. He is also a frequent speaker on topics related to mergers & acquisitions, valuation and intellectual property management.
Active in the community, Soo Earn serves as a Board Member and Audit Committee Chairman of Intellectual Property Office of Singapore, a Board Member and Audit Committee Member of CFA Singapore and a Member on the Board of Advisors of AIESEC Singapore. He also serves as a Committee Member in the Advocacy & Regulations Committee of Singapore Institute of Directors.
Soo Earn is a Fellow member of CPA Australia and ICPAS. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), holds a Bachelor of Accountancy and a Graduate Certificate in Intellectual Property Laws.
Mr Davidson graduated with a BA Hons, from Trent University, Canada. Mr Davidson has 10 years of experience teaching English as a Second Language in Singapore and has taught in many different institutions in Singapore, including Singapore Management University, Temasek Polytechnic’s School of Business, Waseda-Shibuya Senior High School and Singapore Japanese School Changi. He has been teaching at NUS Extension for 4 years.
Mr Davidson specialises in Business Communication Skills and Conversational English.
Michelle is currently a full time senior trainer and executive coach. She leads trainings for personal effectiveness as well as corporate leadership, communication and team building in the Asian region. She is also a very active executive coach. She coaches a range of clients from high potential young managers to C-suite executives.
With 15 years of business and senior management experience in Asia, her effectiveness as a corporate trainer and executive coach calls upon a unique blend of people and technical skills.
As a full time trainer, Michelle works with a wide range of clients throughout North and South Asia to enhance personal effectiveness, team effectiveness and leadership skills.
She trains annually over 1 ,000 people of diverse backgrounds - from senior executives to business owners - to break through their limiting beliefs and barriers to increase effectiveness and preparing the foundation for their future development as leaders.
Michelle also specialises in trainings designed for corporations that focus on effective communication, leadership development and coaching. She is skilled in a range of trainings, which include awareness work, communication skills as well as outdoor physical challenges. As an executive coach, she has coached senior executives in industries as diverse as banking, media buying, oil and gas and palm oil.
Prior to joining TWP, Michelle was a senior executive with Global Sources; a NASDAQ listed business to business, e-commerce company. Her career with Global Sources saw the company through the transition from a traditional print company to Asia's first and largest e-commerce company.
She established and led teams in areas of distribution, customer service, traditional and online marketing, web and IT development. Located in seven countries, she led over 150 people.
Michelle has BA and MAin Modern Chinese History. She is a fluent Mandarin speaker and has resided in Asia for over 20 years. She is passionate about music, scuba diving and working with people.
Paul is an international HR practitioner whose career spans over 25 years across a wide range of industries including Financial Services, Telecommunications, High Technology, Consulting, Training, Information Systems and Information Technology.
He has an excellent track record of leading strategic HR projects and helping organizations to make the successful transition from administrative HR to Strategic HR and position themselves as industry leaders and employers of choice. Paul provides Human Resource consulting and training expertise to organizations in diverse regions of the world, from Canada and the United States to Asia and the Middle East.
He is a Human Resource Management expert who specializes in Talent Management including Performance Evaluation, Talent Sourcing, Talent Assessment, Talent Development, Succession Management, Talent Engagement, Strategy Development including Balanced Scorecard and setting KPI’s/Objectives, Executive Coaching, Leadership Development and Talent Analytics. Paul is currently a faculty member with the American Management Association (AMA) and oversees a wide range of Change Management, Organizational Transformation and Strategic HR Projects.
He holds a Business Administration degree from the University of Ottawa and has been a member of the Executive Development Advisory Committee for some of the world’s top business schools and learning organizations. He has been involved in several major change initiatives during his career and continues to be passionate about developing and implementing strategies and solutions that enable individuals and organizations to strive and be successful in a rapidly changing global work environment.
Vincent has more than 12 years of experience in strategy and transformation engagements. He was an Associate Director in the Business Advisory Services Team in Ernst & Young heading the Strategy Team. Prior to that, he spent many years working as a consultant at both Cap Gemini and Andersen. During that time, he worked in countries such as the US, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore.
Vincent has led business transformations and corporate structuring projects across diverse industries such as government services, telecommunications and media, education, manufacturing services, financial services, property development and consultancy, security services, distribution and retail. His background in strategy and transformation as well as his facilitation skills has made him a key facilitator in many Strategic Planning, Work-planning and Senior Management Workshops/ Retreats. Vincent also spent 2 years in Xiamen, Suzhou and Shanghai heading aAdvantage’s China practice. His consulting focus are in Strategy Formulation and Articulation; Executive-level Engagement and Facilitation; Executive Coaching; Organisation Design; Process Review and Design; Values Design, Cascading and Alignment; Indoor and Outdoor Teambuilding/Retreats.
Chern Han is a Director with aAdvantage Consulting Group. As a consultant/facilitator over the last 16 years, his expertise is in driving behavioural change through team and personal development in support of organisation change effort. Chern Han consults and trains regionally in China, Thailand, Vietnam Malaysia and Singapore.
Chern Han carries with him experience as a facilitator with Pacific Crest Outward Bound School, USA, where he conducted leadership and professional development courses. Chern Han also managed the development and marketing of training programmes with the Outward Bound Singapore.
He also lectures at Singapore Institute of Management on areas
such as leadership, management and human resource development. These programmes include the Bachelor of Business Administration (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) , Diploma of Human Resource Development (SIM) and the Personal Development Programme for Chinese nationals (in Mandarin).
1987
Nanz started her 10-year fashion modeling career in Singapore .
1988
Nanz won 2nd runner-up for “The Look of the Year Elite “ Hong Kong . She was soon awarded a contract to host the 1988
Olympics on Asia Television Limited (ATV) in Hong Kong .
1992
Nanz started her first business , a fashion boutique and she sold off after 11 months , made a profit of $84,000 at 24 years old.
1997
Nanz founded the home-grown brand “ONE.99shop”, which saw a tripling of sales every year for the initial years . Nanz grew a single store into a S$14 million dollar business in three years.
2000
Nanz was named the Overall Winner of the Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Award from the Association of Small & Medium Enterprises (ASME) .
2001
Named International Management Action Award by the Institute of Management (Singapore) .
2003
The onset of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), ONE.99shop was deeply impacted by the weakened economic environment and it fell into receivership and ultimately, liquidation and bankruptcy . With uncommon optimism, she has courageously faced this setback “head-on” and has bounced back with a strong purpose to help others who are also experiencing severe adversity and personal trials.
2006
Nanz ‘s lessons in business : on starting and managing her businesses , managing adversity and bankruptcy , reinventing herself , were collected into her book, One Business, 99 Lessons, which became national best seller and sold over 17,000 copies in Singapore and other parts of Asia.
Nanz became the spokesperson for Swedish Skincare Shijano , hosted a “Nanz Chong” talkshow as a communication media for the brand.
2009
Nanz got out of bankruptcy.
Nanz founded Nanzinc.com a website for Asian entrepreneurs to gather, inspire and support one another .
2010
Nanz spoke at a panel at the inaugural APEC Women Entrepreneur Summit (Japan) founded by Mrs. Hillary Clinton.
Current
Nanz Chong-Komo serves in the following community / social areas :
-As Councilor of North East Community Development Council (NE CDC ) and as vice-chairman of subcommittee ,Social Corporate Responsibility .
-As School Advisory Committee member of Crescent Girls ‘ School
-As advisor and mentor to Young Women Leadership Connection founded by former Parliament Minister Mrs. Lim Hwee Hua http://www.ywlc.org.sg/CouncilofAdvisors.aspx
SPEAKING EVENTS
Nanz shared her experience as keynote /main speaker at these events :
Public Service Division-Prime Minister's Office , Tetra Pak Asia Pte Ltd ,Unilever , Ministry of Finance , Staff , IBM , Supreme Court Singapore, MDIS , CPA/ICPAS , NUS - School of Business ,Singapore Institute of Management , Singhealth and more.
Ms Choi Hyun Jung is a native Korean language teacher and Permanent Resident in Singapore. She has taught international as well as matured students in the immigrant Culture Center in Korea after obtaining the post-graduate diploma in Korean Language Education from Seoul National University in 2011 and the Graduate Certificate for Korean Language Teaching to Foreigners from the Ministry of Culture, Sports & Tourism, Korea.
Besides teaching Korean, she also gained an experience as a Project Manager and Coordinator at an IT company in Korea and Singapore for several years, to plan and develop IT services, maintain system and manage various projects. She prepares all the materials with these experience and skill to make the lesson relevant and interesting to the student. She believes that an informative and entertaining learning environment will be the best for students and it can be achieved by creating a dynamic classroom where students are encouraged to interact with their peers both as an entire class and in smaller groups.
Ms Choi Yun Hoi is a native Korean language teacher. She started teaching Korean language at the Singapore Korean School in 2005 and has taught Korean at Singapore Polytechnic, NUS Extension and the National University of Singapore. She also conducted Korean classes in Bahrain for 18 months.
Yun Hoi obtained her Bachelor degree of Arts in Korean Language & Culture from Kyung Hee Cyber University in Korea as well as a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Education from Sang Myung University in Korea.
Ms Yoo So Jung graduated from Ewha Womans University and got a master degree on Korean literature at Ewha Womans University. She has a certification of Korean as a foreign language (awarded in 2004 from Ewha Womans University). She worked for Seoul National University Human Resource department especially for foreign professors. She has also worked for Korean Department and Korean language & culture research center of Ewha Womans University.
Ms Han Eun Hee is a native Korean teacher who delivers her classes with fun and communicative style. Before she started teaching Korean Language, she accumulated rich working experiences as a professional interpreter and Korean TV/radio programs coordinator and correspondent. She translated various types of government agencies’ presentations and meetings for many years. She has also worked inInternational School of Singapore (ISS) as a Korean counsellor for 4 years and has been trained as an International Baccalaureate curriculum teacher to understand holistic learning teaching style and method to international students.
She graduated from Hong Ik University in Seoul with a Bachelor degree of Arts in English Language and Literature and has an English-speaking interpreter licence from the Korean Tourism Board. She also has certified a Korean Language teacher’s course from Language Education Institute in Seoul National University. Currently, she is teaching in the NUS as well.
She is open-minded and would like to lead her classes in creative and interesting way all the time as she thinks that learning a foreign language should be enjoyable for the learners.
Ms. Jang Ha Ri is a native Korean. She has years of experience in teaching Korean to foreigners and elementary school students in Singapore. She delivers Korean Language class in a communicative style using multimedia and various materials. Ha Ri has a Bachelor degree in Elementary Education and Special Education at Ewha Woman's University in Seoul, Korea and has a Teacher's Licence for Elementary Education issued by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology in Korea. She had taught elementary school students for 3 years in Seoul, Korea. She also completed The Program for Education of Korean as a Foreign Language at Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea and has a certificate of Korean Language Teacher Level 3 which was issued by Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism in Korea.
Ms. Jeong In Kyoung is a native Korean who worked as an executive assistant at Hewlett-Packard Korea since 1996, and worked as a contract administrator at Agilient Technologies Asia Pacific and SAP Asia Pacific and later as a senior order management officer at Apple Computer. She has benn working at the NUS Extension since 2008. Living more than 11 years in Singapore has made her understand Singapore students well. In Kyoung graduated from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies with Bachelor Arts in Hindi and English.
Ms. Kim Chi Hyang has taught Korean since August 2010 in NUS Extension. Her teaching style is based on that of Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language. She focuses on main grammar, expression and vocabulary, as well as the associated activities of speaking, listening, reading and writing. In particular, she drives students to concentrate on developing communicative skill based on Korea’s everyday language life and real culture.
This way, local students can quickly level up their language ability as if they were educated in Korea. Furthermore she places emphasis on the most efficient teaching method and in making continuous improvement to the student's Korean usage ability. She strives to keep student's enthusiasm in learning Korean and in the Korea culture.
She was a lecturer of Korean Language in two of Korean Universities until February 2010. She also holds the certificate of Program for Korean Language Teachers. Her major in Graduate School is Korean Linguistics. She also majored in Korean Language and Literature in undergraduate studies. She received both her M.A and B.A in Hansung University, Seoul, Korea.
Ms. Na Ji Young majored in Korean Language and Literature. She has completed the Korean teaching training course for foreigner in Seoul University. She specialises in marketing and analysis in her early career. She has worked for IT consulting company as an IT-CRM(Customer Relationship Management) consultant in Korea. Ji Young has been teaching Korean in Singapore since 2008. She has a wealth of experience in teaching Korean at the Korean International School as well as in private language schools. In addtion, she has taught companies, especially in the banking field. Ji Young places great emphasis on efficient teaching and is constantly learning about new teaching methods for better delivery.
Ms. Park Jiyoung is a native Korean. She has been teaching Korean language to foreigners for over 10 years in Korea and Singapore. Jiyoung received her Ph.D in Korean language and literature. Jiyoung is equipped with the necessary teaching skills and expertise to build a strong foundation in her students and she has accumulated good know-how over the years to effectively motivate foreigners to study the Korean language.
Ms Yom Ju Jin is a native Korean language teacher and Permanent Resident in Singapore. She has taught international as well as matured students in the Singapore Korean International School and Singapore Polytechnic after obtaining the post-graduate diploma in Korean Language Education from Seoul National University in 2009 and the Graduate Certificate for Korean Language Teaching to Foreigners from the Ministry of Culture, Sports & Tourism, Korea.
Ms Yom is also a part-time tutor in Korean Language Studies at the NUS Centre for Language Studies. Her classes are engaging and interactive as she injects authentic experience in the teaching-and-learning environment.
邓耀兴博士曾著有《企业转亏为盈：护理生病公司康复》（Corporate Turnaround: Nursing a sick company back to health），由Prentice Hall在2002年出版发行英文原版。该书也被翻译成印尼文。其 英文版曾一度成为当时最畅销的书籍之一。在2006年，他又完成了另一本书， 名为《企业健康：转机和转型的101条原则》（Corporate Wellness: 101 Principles in Turnaround and Transformation）。这两本书先后被译成中文。仅在2007-2008两年内，他又先后出版了四本书：《网络转亏为盈：利用网上市场营销促使公司转亏为盈》(Internet Turnaround: The Use of Internet Marketing to Turnaround Companies)、《培训手册：企业转机和转型法》(Training Manual: Corporate Turnaround and Transformation Methodology)、《利用链接提高你的网页在搜索引擎上的排名》(Link Baiting to Improve Your Page Ranking on Search Engines)和《企业转亏为盈：纵观全球》(Corporate Turnaround: Global Perspective)。 至今为止，邓博士共著 25本。
邓博士曾多次就企业转机和转型课题被国家媒体采访。他被包括如亚洲新闻电视台、FM93.8新闻广播电台、《老板》杂 志、《经济通报》、《今日》报、《世界经理人文摘》、《联合早报》、StarBiz、Singapore Edge、《海峡时报》等电视、电 台和刊物报章公认为亚洲的转机总裁。
邓博士拥有29年在亚太区企业转机、策略规划和运作管理的相关工作经验。其中，担任首席执行官的职位长达19年。
邓博士在2000年——2004年曾担任新加坡市场协会（MIS）主席。该协会是一个代表着在新加坡大约5千名个人和企业成员的国家 团体。邓博士在南澳大学荣获经营管理学博士学位，在新加坡国立大学分别荣获工商管理硕士和机械工程学士学位。他目前是两所大学的校友主席.
他也是新加坡专业工程师和英国特许市场营销协会（CIM）、欧洲特许管理协会（CMI）、美国机械工程师协会（IMechE）、 英国电气工程师协会（IEE）的高级会员（Fellow Member）以及新加坡电脑学会（SCS）的资深会员（Senior Member).