Senior Executive Education Fellows
Mr Alex Siow
Mr Alex Siow
Mr Alex Siow is currently Senior Executive Education Fellow in Advanced Computing for Executives, School of Computing, National University of Singapore. Mr Alex was a Professor of Practice at NUS and was the Managing Director, Health & Public Service at Accenture. Alex started his career as a Structural Engineer in the HDB in 1981 and was appointed the Chief Information Officer in 1989. In 2003, Alex joined the private sector and became the Senior Vice-President in StarHub Ltd. He held various portfolios including Head, Business Market, CIO and Head, Enterprise Risk Management. Mr Alex was very active in the IT Community. He was the President of the Singapore Computer Society from 1997 to 2001. He was the President of IT Management Association from 1995 to 1999. He was the first President of the Singapore Chapter of the Project Management Institute and served from 2001 to 2012. He is also currently the Chairman of the Cloud Security Alliance Singapore Chapter since 2019. Mr Alex is currently Chairman of Toffs Technologies Pte Ltd, an non-executive director of Tee International Pte Ltd, a Director of Thye Hua Kwan Moral Charities and a Director of the Ang Mo Kio-Thye Hua Kwan Hospital. He is also Executive Chairman of DART Consulting and Training Pte Ltd and Director of Red Alpha Pte Ltd. He is Managing Director of Alex Siow & Associates Pte Ltd. He is a Senior Advisor to Apar Technologies, Tata Consultancy Services Asia Pacific, and a strategic Advisor to ChiefDX, U3 Infotech, Chainsys, Cloud Kinetics and Kitesense. He currently chairs the National High Performance Computing Strategy Committee and is the Chairman of the Board of Certification for the Institute of Management Consultants (Singapore). Mr Alex published his book “Leading with IT: Lessons from Singapore’s first CIO” in Feb 2021.
Mr Choi Jungkiu
Mr Choi Jungkiu
Mr Choi Jungkiu is the Manager Director and Partner of the Boston Consulting Group. He is a member of the Financial Institutions practice at BCG specialising in strategy, transformation, business development/M&A/PMI, sales force productivity, and operations improvements. He leads marketing for the firm in Southeast Asia. Recently, Jungkiu has been focusing on digital banking/challenger bank build, coalition loyalty, bank tech/digital transformation, corporate governance/conglomerate strategy, and executive coaching/development. He has built a number of digital banking channels and digital challenger banks as well as coalition loyalty programs in Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, and Southeast Asia; and has led numerous bank tech/digital transformations, and built conglomerate digital ecosystems across Greater China and Southeast Asia. Prior to joining BCG, Jungkiu worked as Director of Corporate Strategy and Management Development at NURI Management; Head of Financial Institutions Practice Asia Pacific at Kearney; and Group Head of Strategy/Business Development/Reengineering at Standard Chartered Bank. Jungkiu has a Bachelor of Arts in International Economics from Seoul National University and MBA in Finance from University of California, Berkeley, Walter A. Haas School of Business.
Dr Michael Gorriz
Dr Michael Gorriz
Dr Michael Gorriz is an industry acclaimed technology leader who believes that a Digital Transformation must be based on a solid foundation which embraces a capable workforce, a clear structure and a sustainable architecture. This requires the full dedication of the entire organisation and is a multi-year endeavour. Done successfully you can appreciate a seamless end-to-end customer service with low cost-to-serve. Starting his career as a physicist in the aerospace industry Michael discovered his passion for information technology when he joined the IT department of the car manufacturer DaimlerChrysler in 2000. One of his first duties was the post-merger integration of the finance and procurement systems of the German-American manufacturer. Later he became the CIO of the Mercedes-Benz Car Group and assumed the role of Daimler’s Global Chief Information Officer in 2008. Under his watch the free-floating car-sharing system Car2Go (ShareNow) and the connected car solution Mercedes me connect was created. In 2015 he moved to Singapore and became the Global Chief Information Officer of Standard Chartered Bank. Michael was responsible for the systems development and technology infrastructure and the definition and implementation of the Bank’s digital and innovation agenda. With technology at the heart of the Bank’s growth strategy, Michael’s capabilities, and experience to drive innovation and change in technology was the key of becoming a digital Bank with a human touch. He has won numerous awards – including the Global CIO award of the Indian NASSCOM – and is one of the 40 most important people in IT in the last 40 years in Germany. He is a passionate leader who loves to engage with ambitious engineers to help them to develop their full potential. Dr Gorriz is a physicist and engineer by background and obtained a PhD in Laser Engineering. He is based in Singapore, holds various Board seats and consults companies on their growth path.Executive Education Fellows
Mr Tan Tzann Chang
Mr Tan Tzann Chang
Mr Tan Tzann Chang has over 35 years of leadership and professional experience, spanning the technology, public service and higher education sectors with local, government and multi-national organisations. He was the former Deputy Director of NUS IT Department heading the CITO Office. He has served in varied roles, from general management, sales and customer acquisition, business development, and operations delivery oversight, to facilitating, lecturing and advisory. He managed a client portfolio delivering over $10m of annual revenue while achieving high client satisfaction ratings regularly. Tzann Chang is also an experienced facilitator of over 15 years and constantly innovates in delivering great learning experiences in areas of business, technology and digital product strategy and management as well as IT finance, sourcing and project management. He has conducted over 200 in-person and online courses with over 4,500 local and overseas participants achieving course rating 4.0/5.0. His past advisory engagements included business and technology governance and management, strategic sourcing, service delivery management, business start-up and e-government development. He can be reached at LinkedIn.
Mr Raju Chellam
Mr Raju Chellam
Raju Chellam is a Fellow of ACE (Advanced Computing for Executives) at NUS School of Computing. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the AI E&G BoK (AI Ethics & Governance Body of Knowledge), an initiative by the SCS (Singapore Computer Society) & IMDA (Infocomm Media Development Authority) of Singapore. He was conferred as an SCS Fellow in March 2018. Raju is Hon Chairman of Cloud & Data Standards at ITSC (IT Standards Committee), Hon Vice President of SCS Cloud Chapter, and on the Exco of SCS AI & Robotics Chapter. He writes a regular column on tech in The Edge (Malaysia), Dataquest (India), and occasionally in The Straits Times (Singapore). Raju has been in the IT industry for the past 43 years. He was on the APEC DARE (Data Analytics Raising Employment) International Advisory Panel (2016 to 2023), and on the SWF (Singapore Writers Festival) Advisory Panel (2021 to 2023). Raju was previously Head of Big Data & Cloud Practice – as well as Healthcare & Government Solutions – at Dell South Asia (ASEAN, Indo-China, Mongolia & all South Asian countries except India). Prior to Dell, he was Managing Director of TechTrenders Asia, a boutique advisory that helped companies migrate legacy apps to the cloud. He has previously worked in Hewlett-Packard (APJ Director of Comms), AMI Partners Inc (APAC Vice President) and as the BizIT Editor of The Business Times, Singapore, for a decade.
Mr Mario Favaits
Mr Mario Favaits
Over the past 25 years, Mr Mario Favaits held several sales and operations (P&L) leadership positions at various multinationals across different industries including Enterprise, Automotive, Public Transport, and Software. Currently, he serves as the Executive Director of Services Sales APJ at Crayon, a fast-growing, listed, Oslo-based IT powerhouse. Crayon helps customers to innovate with scalable AI. Prior to joining Crayon, Mario held leadership positions at Alstom, Continental, Siemens, Oracle, and SMRT, Singapore’s largest Public Transport Operator. Between 2014 and 2019, he was a member of SMRT’s executive leadership team. In 2019, Mario joined the AI and IoT startup scene as an advisor and/or investor. Mario is the co-chair of EuroCham’s Digital Economy Committee and is the author of an online AI course for Executives, in collaboration with Deloitte. He holds a Master of Science in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from the University of Brussels, an MBA from the University of Antwerp Management School, and a Master of Laws from the University of Liverpool.
Dr Guo Charng Rang
Dr Guo Charng Rang
Dr Guo Charng Rang served as the founding Programme Director of the National Cybersecurity R&D Lab (NCL) from 2015 – 2021, and an Associate Professor at the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore from 2017 – 2021. NCL is a national lab funded by the National Research Foundation hosted in NUS School of Computing. The objective is to support the Singapore cybersecurity community in R&D and education. To this end, NCL runs a computing cluster and provides cloud services and other higher level services to the community. In particular, NCL develops simulated enterprise network with vulnerabilities that has a wide range of applications, such as usage by education institutes to conduct cybersecurity lessons. The lab was officially launched in Feb 2017 and has received multiple rounds of funding. It has supported a large number of projects from academia, industries and government agencies and achieved full utilization for a number of years. Almost all the universities and a number of polytechnics in Singapore are involved in the NCL initiatives, conducting lessons, performing research, or collaborating in other projects. Dr Guo oversees the development and operation of NCL, while the other two faculty members in NUS SoC, A/Prof Chang Ee-Chien and A/Prof Liang Zhenkai, oversee the research aspects of the lab. Prior to joining NUS, Dr Guo works in DSO National Laboratories and Defence Science and Technology Agency for more than 20 years, specializing in cybersecurity, in particular, in cryptography and trusted system. Dr Guo has a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Mathematics from the National University of Singapore and PhD in Mathematics from the University of Oxford.
Mr Ang Leong Boon
Mr Ang Leong Boon
Mr Ang Leong Boon is currently the Deputy Director and Head of IT Security at NUS Information Technology, responsible for security governance, risk management, security operations, incident response and user awareness across the entire University. He has over 15 years of experience in cybersecurity, with a keen interest in security incident handling and response. During his 10 years in NUS, he has led a number of investigations for major cybersecurity incidents, including an APT attack on local universities in 2017. He has also conducted guest lectures in NUS, provided mentorship for startups with the ICE71 Accelerate Programme and spoken at various security conferences. Leong Boon is an alumnus of NUS, having graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering.
Mr Teo Chin Seng
Mr Teo Chin Seng
Mr Teo Chin Seng is an experience Senior Technology Executive with more than 33 years of experience, working in the Asia Pacific (Singapore), China, Middle East and USA (LA). Chin Seng last appointment was the Senior VP of Global IT in DP World. He was leading the digitalization of DP World through the implementation of a Global Digital platform that serves our 78 terminals in 40 countries. He has been in senior management roles for the last 22 years, leading and transforming organizations through technology. He is a thought leader in the use of technology to transform companies towards greater efficiencies and transforming new business models. His experience spans across Healthcare Industry, Manufacturing, FMCG, distribution Logistics, Free Trade Zones, Customs, Regulatory controls and Maritime Logistics. In the age of digitalization of Business, it is about transforming to deliver business value: - Business Digitalization, Business Transformation, and Process Re-engineering - The product, Process and Service innovation, and - Achieving business values, improving operations’ efficiencies and creating greater delights in customers’ processes. Future and Smart City Research and Development. Research and Development of Technology Solutions of Intelligent Cities through different Social-Psychology Profiles, People Behaviors, Person lifecycle and changing needs and social acceptance of solutions. As a successful practitioner, a thought leader and a technology/ business evangelist, Chin Seng have successful lead and delivers the use of new developments in technology and businesses, to present value, relevance and instills a strong sense of confidence for businesses to execute and implement.
Dr Charles Phua Chao Rong
Dr Charles Phua Chao Rong
Dr Charles Chao Rong Phua is an academic-practitioner of trisector strategy-innovation-entrepreneurship. With 22 years in government and corporate doing various domains (corporate, geopolitical, policy and military) and phases (design, implementation, monitoring/adjustment) of strategy work, he now runs Solaris Strategies Singapore and chairs Solaris Consortium of Management Consultancies with full suite of consulting capabilities. Besides (local and overseas) government and non-profit consulting, his corporate consulting ranged from strategy development for then $916b tech MNC to $1M start-up to sector/industry transformation to organisational development for 12 organisations. He teaches trisector strategy practicums in 4 Singapore and 1 Swiss universities, and is success coach/program leader for Chief Strategy Officer program with Emeritus and National University of Singapore Business School. His first PhD was in public policy (strategic pragmatism as strategy) and EdD (soon) on teaching strategy with postgraduate/degrees (including in progress) in international relations, education, security management, accounting, organisational psychology, systems thinking, law, HRM, marketing, economics/finance, strategy and innovation, amongst others. He learnt strategy-innovation-entrepreneurship, marketing and sustainability from top B schools: Harvard strategy, leadership and management, entrepreneurship and innovation, MIT systems thinking, Stanford design, Wharton strategy and entrepreneurship, INSEAD advanced strategy, Babson entrepreneurship, Kellogg marketing, Berkeley open innovation, LBS and Cambridge sustainability, Oxford strategy and scenarios, and fused them in his consulting and teaching/coaching practice. Dr Charles has won scholarships from NUS (PhD), NTU (EdD), Goldman Sachs (twice), Oxford and Cambridge (partial) and completed fellowships at Brookings Institution, Columbia, Johns Hopkins. He is a Singapore Skillsfuture fellowship awardee and Routledge series editor for strategy, wisdom and skills. He is amongst 100 global professor/author grade Certified Management Consultant-Academic Fellow (International Council of Management Consulting Institutes); previous winners included heads of business schools and programs. He is author of four and two (forthcoming) books covering geopolitical, policy, and corporate strategy. His 3rd and 4th published books are under consideration for two PhDs in military/security and corporate strategy, by publication. His 5th book seeks to integrate strategy in military, corporate, geopolitical and policy domains; his 6th book on teaching strategy from his EdD thesis; both manuscripts under production. He is currently writing his 7th book on corporate sustainability strategy and 8th book on trisector strategy-innovation-entrepreneurship.
Ms Claudia Marcusson
Ms Claudia Marcusson
Ms Claudia Marcusson has over 20 years of financial industry expertise in investment management, insurance and banking having worked in the U.S., U.K., Germany, The Netherlands and Singapore. She worked in various leadership roles at Standard Chartered Bank, ING, NN Group, ABN AMRO, and State Street Bank to name a few. Since August 2022, Claudia is CEO of Germany’s very first crowdfunding platform issuing crypto securities of renewable energy projects. Claudia has been living in Singapore for 7 years where she joined Standard Chartered Bank in 2019 as Strategy & Innovation Lead building out the corporate venture arm and running entrepreneurship & innovation programs for the bank, partners and regulators. In 2021, she became Global Head of Client Experience Center where she led innovative co-creation programs with corporate clients worldwide. Claudia is a licensed instructor and expert in Human-Centred Design & Design Thinking, Lean Start-up, agile methods and a certified SCRUM Master. Since 2018, Claudia is an Adjunct Lecturer on emerging technologies, corporate innovation & entrepreneurship, digital transformation and sustainability at the National University of Singapore, and gives training to corporates and C-suite executives. She is also a guest lecturer at Singapore Management University and Singapore Academy of Law. She enjoys working closely with startups & scale-ups focused on FinTech and Sustainability as a Non-Executive Director, board advisor and mentor. She is an investment advisor to Venture Capital funds in Europe and Singapore and a mentor & advisor to several Accelerators in Singapore, Germany, Korea and India. Claudia holds an LL.M. degree in Chinese Business Law as well as an M.Sc. in Economics and Operations Research.
Mr Zaid Bin Hamzah
Mr Zaid Bin Hamzah
Zaid Hamzah is an AI and data strategist and practitioner specialising in AI in finance and law, AI and data governance and AI in information security. An AI patent holder, he is currently an Executive Education Fellow at the National University of Singapore (NUS) School of Computing’s Advanced Computing for Executives centre where he runs programmes on AI Innovation Management, Intellectual Property Rights in AI Innovation, and Commercialisation of AI Innovation. He has taught legal AI at the Singapore Management University School of Law. Zaid is deeply involved in AI R&D and innovation. His AI patent relating to risk management in a supply chain context was granted by the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore in December 2023. He is currently involved in AI research and innovation in the area of decision intelligence and cybersecurity. Author of 10 books spanning law, technology, intellectual property and AI, Zaid has over 35 years of professional experience. He has previously served as (i) Microsoft's Director for intellectual property and commercial software; (ii) Senior Legal Advisor to Singtel’s joint venture with Warner Bros and Sony Pictures (iii) Chief Regulatory Legal & Compliance Officer at publicly-listed Telekom Malaysia; (iv) Associate, Khattar Wong & Partners (Singapore law firm) and (v) Singapore Government service. Zaid has a law degree from the National University of Singapore and completed his Masters in International Relations at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University on a Fulbright scholarship. Zaid is a member of the Board of Directors, NIE International (which is wholly owned by Nanyang Technological University). Zaid volunteers his professional services to start ups in the area of AI management and intellectual property protection and regularly conducts community programmes on how to get young children ready for a data and AI future.
Mr Robin Teurlings
Mr Robin Teurlings
Mr Robin Teurlings has 20 years of expertise at the intersection of the financial industry and IT in Singapore, The Netherlands, Belgium, the United States and Argentina working with large corporates, SMEs and startups across the globe. Before founding his own company, Robin worked as a management consultant at Accenture and Altran heading large IT projects for MNCs in the insurance and energy sector but also governmental institutions like the Dutch Tax Authority. In 2010 he joined ING Bank where he ran strategic programs across the Benelux. Before moving to Singapore, Robin was responsible for a large EUR 20 m annual budget program to implement system monitoring using data lake solutions and predictive analytics to prevent system-wide outages across 3300 (partially legacy) banking systems. In 2015, Robin started his own company The Startup Buddy which has grown into South East Asia’s largest online Accelerator as a Service. Through this platform, 3500 entrepreneurs learn how to create a sustainable new business from their initial idea and can connect to a network of more than 1500 global investors. Companies like Standard Chartered, AWS and Temasek Polytechnic use the online Accelerator as a Service to scale up their innovation initiatives. In 2022, Robin started to set up the Zero Emissions Fund, South East Asia’s first early-stage VC fund investing in companies that develop products and services that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and through their innovative business models contribute to combating climate change. Robin Teurlings has been an ethical investor for almost 30 years, first in stock listed assets and later on expanded as Angel Investor in IT-related companies. He is currently LP in several VC Funds focusing on blockchain, crypto, metaverse and deep tech companies. Robin has a Master of Science degree in European Public Policy and Public Administration from the University of Twente. He enjoys sharing his knowledge as a lecturer, international speaker and mentor for several startup programs in Asia as well as Entrepreneur in Residence for INSEAD.
Dr Dennis Khoo
Dr Dennis Khoo
Dr Dennis Khoo is an accomplished digital business leader, author and speaker in innovation and leadership. Armed with dual experience in Information Technology and Banking, he has a unique advantage in developing and executing strategies for the transformation of businesses in a digital world. Dennis is author of the bestselling book Driving Digital Transformation in which he describes his experience leading complex digital transformations and the playbook he created (“TaP”) to significantly raise the probability of success of complex digital transformations. Dennis was a senior banker who had previously run billion dollar businesses as head of consumer banking for Standard Chartered Bank and UOB in Singapore. He was responsible for many of the innovations in the consumer banking industry in Singapore, such as e$aver, XtraSaver (Winner of Asian Banker Best Deposit Linked account in 2007), Retail Bonds, Step-up time deposit, Pay-Any-Card (Winner of Asian Banker Best Payment Product in 2011), 15% Dining Cashback everywhere, 2-day Mortgage Service Guarantee, UOB Income Builder, One Account and UOB Mighty App. Dennis has hands-on experience in every product area in consumer banking and was previously CEO-Designate in one of the consortiums bidding for the digital bank wholesale license in Singapore. A digital bank pioneer in ASEAN, Dennis was global head of TMRW Digital Group (UOB’s Millennial digital bank), where he was responsible for the strategy, growth and delivery of the TMRW Digital Bank. The first TMRW Digital Bank went live in Thailand in 2019, and the second in Indonesia in 2020. TMRW won Global Finance Most Innovative Digital Bank in Asia Pacific in 2019. Dennis also led the joint venture initiatives into FinTech like Avatec.ai and VUI Pte Ltd as part of the ecosystem to support the growth of TMRW. Dennis is a WABC (Worldwide Association of Business Coaches) Registered Corporate Coach, a certified Gallup Strengths coach, and accredited in Harrison Assessment Employee Development. Dennis has mentored and coached many successful executives in his long career. Dennis received his Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical and Electronics Engineering) and MBA from the National University of Singapore. He also has a Master in Business Research and PhD from the University of Western Australia. He has attended the Digital Business Leaders Program (DBLP) in Columbia University, New York.
Dr Yong Hsin Ning
Dr Yong Hsin Ning
Dr Yong Hsin Ning is an adventurer. In her 25 years of career, she has experienced the joy (and woes) of being a tax accountant, a management consultant, adult student, an entrepreneur and an educator. She is currently the co-founder of Change Voyage Consulting, a consulting firm dedicated to help companies manage organisational change through change capability building. She has recently started a second venture, The Biz Lab, which is a consulting firm focused on preparing early-stage startups to grow and scale sustainably. Hsin Ning is also an Adjunct faculty at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business in the Singapore Management University (SMU). She teaches a variety of business courses to undergraduate students, entrepreneurs and matured SME business owners seeking their next S curve. Hsin Ning has been recognised for her passion in teaching through multiple awards including the SMU School of Business Top Adjunct Faculty Award (2018-2021). She has recently been nominated for the SMU-X Excellent Teacher Award (2021). Hsin Ning graduated from Nanyang Technological University with a Bachelor of Accountancy. She subsequently pursued her interest in the field of Organisational Behaviour at the University of New South Wales, where she obtained a Masters in Commerce specialising in Organisation and Management Studies. She continued her lifelong learning journey by pursuing a Ph.D. in General Management at SMU where she studied the decision-making anomaly of part-time knowledge workers voluntarily working overtime.
Mr Lim Kuo Siong
Mr Lim Kuo Siong
Mr Lim Kuo Siong is the senior advisor of Singapore Consultancy, co-founder of Tech Talent Assembly (NTUC), board advisor of digital technology boards (insurance, human capital, construction & AI), and partner of an angel investment company.
Kuo Siong served as C-suite leadership positions in area of technology, digitalization, business operations and transformation, managed tech projects portfolio more than US$50 million and business portfolio more than US$10 billion for leading financial institutions, based in Asia and Europe region. Kuo Siong was recognized as a Leading Practitioner (Tech & Innovation) by The Asian Banker, MIS Asia CIO 100, and has completed INSEAD (France) advanced management program and master’s degree from University of Adelaide (Australia). Kuo Siong is a chartered member of British Computer Society.
Mr Ng Tiong Gee
Mr Ng Tiong Gee
Mr Ng Tiong Gee was the Senior Vice President for Technology, of Resorts World Sentosa, which he joined in 2013. He also runs the Engineering and Estate Management divisions of RWS at one point. He was the Chief Information Officer as well as the Chief Human Resource Officer of United Test and Assembly Center Ltd from 2008 to 2013 before he joined Resorts World Sentosa. Prior to that, Tiong Gee was with STATS ChipPAC in 2001 and was its Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Chief Information Officer until 2008. Between 1988 and 1992, he held various key engineering positions at Digital Equipment Singapore, now part of Hewlett-Packard. He then went on to work at Siemens Microelectronics Asia Pacific Pte Ltd (now known as Infineon Technologies Asia Pacific) for over six years where he last served as Director of Information Systems and Services. From 1999 to 2001, he was the Chief Information Officer of Gateway Incorporated, heading the company’s IT activities in Asia Pacific. Tiong Gee is the lead independent director of Pacific Radiance Ltd and is the Chairman of its Nomination Committee and a member of its Remuneration Committee. He was an independent director in GYP Properties from August 2007 to 2022 where he is the Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and a member of the Nominations Committee and Audit Committee. He also sits on the board of Y Ventures as an independent director where is the Chairman of Nominations committee and member of Remuneration and Audit committees. He is currently the Chairman of Yellow Pages Pte Ltd where he is leading the digital transformation of a 50-year-old business. He graduated with a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering with Honours from the National University of Singapore and holds a Master of Business Administration from the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore. He has also attended the Advanced Management Program in Harvard Business School. He lectures in NUS Advanced Computing for Executives and Strategic Technology Management Institute and is also currently an adjunct CIO of IDC. He is the founding President of Tech Talent Assembly formed together with NTUC to address keeping tech talent relevant and employed. At the same time, he is a director of Ren Ci Hospital and its Chairman of their IT steering committee.
Mr Sarat Mohanty
Mr Sarat Mohanty
Sarat Mohanty is a senior global digital business leader, lived and worked out of Australia, Singapore, UK, Germany, Dubai, Tokyo, Hong Kong & India assuming Global & regional responsibility in Asia Pacific, Europe, Africa & Middle East. Sarat’s core competency includes digital transformation in financial Institutions, payments, receivables, supply chain finance, supply chain management & sustainable supply chain financing. Sarat is the Deputy General Manager at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporate (SMBC) in Singapore responsible for driving digital transformation for the commercial & FI clients. Sarat is also an Executive Fellow at ACE, NUS School of Computing focusing on Digital leadership development programmes for C suite executives. Sarat had produced AI in Finance online course along with 2UGetSmarter for ACE, NUS-SoC (https://www.getsmarter.com/products/national-university-of-singapore-ai-in-finance-delivering-business-value-online-short-course). Sarat is a part-time lecturer at NUS School of Computing teaching digital transformation in financial institutions to master’s in digital finance technology students. Sarat was the global head of international trade & supply chain finance customer implementation for Standard Chartered Bank. Sarat had held MD & regional head roles in Greater China & North Asia, ASEAN, Africa & Middle East with Standard Chartered Bank. Sarat was Global head of supply chain business process & system at adidas in Germany, regional head of IT for Black & Decker in England, regional head of IT for Levi’s in Australia, Japan, Philippines, Singapore & head of IT in Levi’s India. Sarat holds Digital Transformation Specialization from MIT-USA, MBA degree in Strategic Management (UK), Postgraduate in IT (Bangalore, India), and bachelor’s degree in finance (India). Sarat is a certified Six Sigma supply chain process expert & certified Project Management Professional. Sarat also specializes in Green Ledger Accounting methodology for green financing. Sarat is an active keynote speaker in reputed industry events, forums, specializing in Digital Disruption, & Blockchain. Sarat is recipient of various industry (BFSI) awards & accolades. Sarat is passionate about Odissi dance, one of the famous Indian classical dances, he actively promotes Odissi dance in Singapore & in Asia Pacific region. Sarat is an active field hockey sports lover.
Ms Stacey Huang
Ms Stacey Huang
Ms Stacey Huang is the Co-founder and Director of Change Voyage Consulting, a consulting firm which provides tailored solutions in the areas of organisational and individual change. She specializes in organizational psychology and applies her specialization to support organisations undergoing business and digital transformations. She has 11 years of experience managing large scale change and culture programs in industries such as Defence, FMCG, Healthcare, Insurance and Energy. Stacey is also the Executive Director for PARIMA, a not-for-profit association for risk managers across Asia Pacific focusing on risk, crisis and emergency response. Stacey has a double degree in Bachelor of Psychology and Bachelor of Business Management from the Singapore Management University (SMU). She has attained 3 years consecutive Dean’s list (2005, 2006, 2007) and graduated with Magna Cum Laude. Stacey also has a Msc. Industrial and Organisational Psychology/ Business Psychology from the University College London (UCL), London.
Mr Jim Lim Shien Min
Mr Jim Lim Shien Min
Mr Jim Lim Shien Min is the founder of 59stVentures, an organisation focusing on leveraging expertise, experiences and connections of senior technology executives to create a positive social impact for society. He is currently the APAC Head of Health Ecosystem with the Zuhlke Group where he is helping the company expand its offerings to healthcare ecosystem players regionally. Prior to this, Jim was leading NCS Healthcare’s business and was involved in a few Covid-related initiatives including Community Care Facilities and public health systems. Before Covid, Jim was the founding CEO for Good Doctor Technology, a joint venture between PingAn Good Doctor from China and Grab. He joined the company as its first employee to set up its businesses in Indonesia and Singapore. Jim is currently an adjunct lecturer at the National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS), Huawei University and the FinTech Academy. He also sits on the board of startup companies in China, Taiwan, Singapore and India. Before his tenure at Good Doctor, Jim served as the Global Senior Director within the Group Chief Transformation Office at Huawei Technologies. In this role, he acted as the Regional Chief Technology Officer for strategic digital transformation projects across the APAC region. His focus encompassed various industries, including Telecommunications and Smart Nation/City initiatives, as well as domains such as Cloud Computing and Big Data. Additionally, Jim contributed to aspects such as Business Modelling and Design Thinking. Prior to joining Huawei, Jim was the CBE (Client Business Executive) at Amdocs where he held full P&L responsibilities spanning sales, delivery and operations. He was with Amdocs for nine years and was previously the Senior Director, Business Strategy and Sales Engineering in APAC, who set up the regional delivery team and was responsible for all accounts presales and strategic business development activities within Amdocs APAC. Jim was Techmahindra Presales and Delivery Group Head for APAC who set up its regional delivery centers and presales teams. Jim also established partnerships with other vendors such as Huawei and Oracle while serving as Country Manager for Greater China. Prior to this role, Jim was a project and JV manager and a senior consultant at Accenture, with solid experiences in large-scale business transformation programmes in SingTel, Telekom Malaysia and Starhub. With over 24 years of consulting, advisory and ICT industry experiences in business, customer and project management, Jim brings his wealth of experience providing strategic, business and technological advice to global clients. Jim holds an MBA (Distinction) from Manchester Business School and a B. Eng (Hons) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Nanyang Technological University. He is also a certified Project Management Professional and a seasoned company spokesman for media and analysts. He is currently the Vice President for Cloud Security Alliance Singapore Chapter, a global mentor for PingAn Technology Innovation Center, an industry mentor for ICT with Young NTUC, a Senior Fellow appointed by SUSS and an Executive Education Fellow at NUS.
Mr Chris Liu
Mr Chris Liu
Mr Chris Liu is a cloud computing and cyber security expert. With the passion of cloud computing and security, he has helped many enterprises in the region to build up a more secure and robust IT infrastructure. Currently he is working at a world leading cloud security company as APJ Director of Transformation Architecture. He is CCIE Emeritus, holding CISSP, Azure Solution Architect Experts and other renowned certifications in the industry. Chris graduated from Telecom ParisTech and Tongji University with double master’s degrees in Computer Science and Telecommunications Engineering. In his free time, Chris loves playing tennis and spending time with his family.
Mr Tan Keok Tay
Mr Tan Keok Tay
Mr Tan Keok Tay is an Associate Director with NUS Information Technology. He is currently leading a digital enablement team to run Digital Enablement Programme in conjunction with the University’s drive to raise the digital dexterity of the staff in NUS. The programme includes tools such as Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Data Visualization, Forms & Flows, Survey, and products from Microsoft 365. He conducts workshops and clinic sessions to enable staff to be more effective and productive with the use of the digital tools. Keok Tay is an alumnus of NUS, having graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer and Information Science, and a Master of Science in Management of Technology.
Mr Uli Hitzel
Mr Uli Hitzel
Uli Hitzel has been working with data engineering, automation, and distributed systems since the early days of the internet. With experience from companies including Dyson, Microsoft, Red Hat, Yahoo! and IBM, he now advises startups and enterprises on technology innovation and AI adoption. In recent years, he has worked on building a digital healthcare platform in times of a pandemic, as well as leading a platform engineering team for an e-commerce unicorn expanding into Asia-Pacific. As the founder of Electric Minds, Uli is looking to combine machine intelligence with human ingenuity to inspire new ways of thinking and help solve some of the most challenging problems we face as a global society today. He has been teaching at National University of Singapore since 2020.
Mr Jon Scheele
Mr Jon Scheele
Mr Jon Scheele provides IT strategy, data analytics, security, interoperability and industry specific consulting and training to management and workgroups at leading companies in the financial services and telecommunications industries. Jon also trains, coaches and mentors to develop high performing teams and identifies how to apply emerging technologies to meet evolving customer needs. A special focus is helping companies build their ability to partner within and beyond their industry using Open APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). Jon has provided several clients’ projects to define an API strategy and roadmap to support their business strategy, build multi-disciplinary teams to identify customer needs, create, publish and govern APIs, and foster developer communities to extend the firm’s core offering to its customers. Amongst others, Jon has implemented initiatives for ANZ Banking Group, Singtel, Telecom Italia, Telefonica Germany and Telstra. Jon holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration, a Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering, and Graduate Diplomas in Applied Finance and Digital Communications.
Dr Guo Lei
Dr Guo Lei
Dr Guo Lei is an active educator and researcher in data science, behavioural study and design thinking, with extensive experience in delivering practice-based learning programmes and applied research projects with successful results. Starting her career in Singapore as a marketing practitioner, Dr Guo worked across manufacturing, entertainment and education industries. She was the Chief Representative in China for a Singapore listed company. She was also responsible for setting up Shanghai Office and promoting executive education programmes for NUS Business School in Greater China market. With the aspiration of bridging the gap between research and practice, Dr Guo pursued her PhD in the UK, where she worked on large-scale research projects with Cambridge University Service Alliance, BAE Systems and China Mobile. Dr Guo returned to Singapore and joined NUS as a faculty member in 2011. She has particular experience in tackling complex challenges through applied research and education. She was the Principal Investigator for a series of research projects to inform better public transport policy decisions. She consults corporate clients on data analytics, user experience design and service innovation. Dr Guo teaches executive programmes of Data Analytics and Design Thinking at NUS. She has a passion for engaging and inspiring working professionals at all levels by applying the theory to real world business applications. Dr Guo holds a PhD in Marketing from University of Exeter, an MBA from University of Adelaide University and a BA in Literature from Beijing Normal University.
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