Jayson Goh
SVP Airport Operations Management, Changi Airport Group

Jayson joined the Changi Airport Group (CAG) in 2013 and currently serves as Senior Vice President, Airport Operations Management, overseeing both the Passenger Experience and Development Operations divisions, as well as the Experience Creation, Horticulture and Facility Management teams. Jayson also chairs CAG’s Innovation Work Group, with oversight over the corporate Innovation Lab that drives mid to long term initiatives to future proof the airport.

Prior to joining CAG, Jayson was Executive Director at the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), helming the Infocomms & Media Industry Division, responsible for the development of the ICT, Digital Media and Electronic Systems sectors in Singapore. He was a keen champion for developing Singapore into a global leader in data management and analytics.

During his 15 years stint at EDB, Jayson also held varoius appointments including Executive Director of Strategic & Corporate Planning, Chief Information Officer, Regional Director, Western United States as well as Center Director, San Francisco. As part of his secondment to the Ministry of Law in 2001, Jayson was involved in setting up the Intellectual Property Policy division, and subsequently returned to EDB to lead the effort to promote Singapore as the intellectual property hub of Asia.

Jayson currently serves as a member of the Advisory Committee for the Center for Enterprise & Communications at Republic Polytechnic. He is also a Steering Committee member of the ST-NTU ADVANCe Corporate Lab.

Robert Findlay
SVP Experience Design, DBS Bank

Rob leads the group wide UX practice at DBS Bank in Singapore, and is the founder of Next Bank. Prior to this, he was Director of Innovation for BlackBerry Asia Pacific. Rob began his career in the creative industry, running his own brand and design company. Transitioning to financial services, Rob led the customer experience for National Australia Bank’s direct banking channels, and led a culture change programme at OCBC. Since 2007 he has authored The Bank Channel, an innovation thought leadership resource.

Khoong Hock Yun
Assistant CEO Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA)

Mr Khoong is the Assistant Chief Executive (Development) and Chief Data Officer of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA).

Mr Khoong joined IDA’s senior management team in 2000 around the time of its founding. He is responsible for the ‘Build’ agenda for IDA, to generate economic growth for Singapore. This includes developing and building the infocomm industry, infocomm manpower and critical national infocomm infrastructure, such as the Nationwide Broadband Network (NBN). Mr Khoong also oversees IDA’s strategic and corporate planning, enablement of industry sectors with infocomm, as well as the mandate to develop the Smart Nation Platform (SNP).

Other transformational initiatives led by Mr Khoong include Wireless@SG, National Authentication Framework, National Cloud Computing Office, Singapore Internet Exchange, an upcoming Data Centre Park and Singapore’s first cloud-based infrastructure implementation for the inaugural Youth Olympic Games in 2010.

Mr Khoong previously served at the Ministry of Defence as Programme Director, developing simulation systems, as well as command, control and communications systems. He brings with him deep industry experience having spent more than 11 years at Mentor Graphics Corporation, where he was Strategic Business Group Director responsible for areas such as R&D, Product Engineering, Consulting Services, and the management of product development organisations in Singapore, Europe and the USA.

A Harvard Business School alumnus, Mr Khoong has Master Degrees in both Engineering and Business Administration. He enjoys playing golf for leisure.

Dr John Whay-Kuang Chia
MBBS (Singapore), MRCP (UK) FAMS (Medical Oncology)

Dr John WK Chia is a Senior Consultant Medical Oncologist at the Department of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Center Singapore, Visiting Consultant, KK Womens and Childrens Hospital, and Adjunct Associate Professor at Duke-NUS. He completed his undergraduate Medical training at NUS in 1999 and obtained his membership at the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh in 2002. Upon finishing his medical oncology board examinations, he trained with Professor Malcom Brenner and Professor Stephen Gottschalk at the Centre for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston from 2009-2010 in the field of cancer vaccines and adoptive T-cell immunotherapy for solid tumors.

In 2011 and 2012, he trained as a post-doctoral fellow with Prof Stan Kaye at The Royal Marsden Hospital London in Gynecology Oncology. His major passion has been to improve cancer therapeutic through clinical trials – and he has developed several phase 1, 2 and 3, clinical trial studies. He holds several scientific research grants and has published in the fields of inflammation, immunotherapy, and gynecological and colon cancers. He is married with 2 active children and in his spare time, enjoys collecting Chinese Contemporary Ink Paintings and Asian Pottery.

Chua Boon Ping
CEO of SPH Media Fund

Boon Ping was appointed CEO of SPH Media Fund in August 2014. He has more than 15 years of venture capital and M&A experience in the technology, media and telecommunications sectors. He is a board member of Smaato (Germany), Chope (Singapore) and Moneysmart (Singapore).

Prior to joining SPH, he was Senior Vice President of EDBI, the corporate investment arm of Singapore’s Economic Development Board, where he headed the Internet and Digital Media investment team. Notable investments included Ooyala (acquired by Telstra) and Tremor Video (NYSE: TRMR).

He holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) and a Master in Business Administration (Banking and Finance) from Nanyang Technological University. He is a CFA charterholder.

Howie Lau
Chief Marketing Officer, StarHub

Howie Lau is responsible for charting StarHub’s brand and marketing strategies across all marketing functions and ensuring overall marketing synergy and brand consistency. Customer value management also falls under his purview. In addition, he oversees StarHub’s Pay TV and Broadband businesses as well as its Content and Local Production teams.

Previously, Mr Lau was Vice President, Corporate Development of Lenovo's Worldwide Finance Organisation, where he oversaw Lenovo's end-to-end Post Merger Management and related Merger & Acquisition matters.

Prior to that, he was Lenovo’s Vice President of Marketing and Communications for the Emerging Markets Group, responsible for the strategy and execution of marketing and communications in the China, Eastern Europe, Hong Kong, India, Korea, Latin America, Middle East, Russia, Taiwan and ASEAN markets.

Mr Lau is currently the President of Singapore Computer Society’s Executive Council, and is also on the management board for NUS Institute of System Science, as well as the advisory committee for Nanyang Polytechnic School of IT and Anderson Junior College.

He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the National University of Singapore, majoring in Promotional Management and Consumer Behaviour.

Carmen Yuen
Senior Executive Director, Vertex Ventures

Ms. Carmen Yuen joined Vertex Ventures Singapore office in 2014. Her focus is in Singapore and Southeast Asia. Carmen has served many years in Singapore’s government-backed venture capital initiatives including EDB Investments and Spring SEEDS Capital where she worked closely with many start-up companies in Singapore.

Prior to joining Vertex, she was with Majuven, a Singapore angel fund. Carmen currently serves on the Board of TickledMedia (dba TheAsianParent.com). Carmen received her BBA from Simon Fraser University.

Tim Greisinger
Managing Director, IBM Singapore

Tim Greisinger was named Managing Director of IBM Singapore in April 2015.

Prior to this, he was the Vice President of Systems of Engagement & Smarter Cities, Asia Pacific, covering Australia & New Zealand, India, ASEAN and Korea. In this role, he led an integrated team of Smarter Cities solution experts, helping both public and private organisations improve, integrate and add intelligence to city systems including transportation, public safety, water, energy, social services, education and urban management. As the Systems of Engagement leader, he drove the overall integration of mobile, social, commerce and security into industry-specific value propositions for our clients. During this period, Tim engaged in many discussions in Singapore to share IBM’s global best practices and experiences with the many groups involved in the Smart Nation initiative.

Tim spent the majority of his 25 year IBM career focused on the Telecommunications, Energy & Utility and Media industries, gaining extensive insights into their global best practices, innovations, solutions, technologies and overall transformational journeys. Tim spent 7 years in IBM’s Software business where he drove IBM's software investments and acquisitions targeted to industry-specific initiatives such as Mobile Service Innovation & Delivery, Media-enabled Services, Smart Grid Management, Insight Driven Marketing and Industry-specific Process Optimization. He developed and launched IBM’s initial Telecommunication, Media and Utilities software industry frameworks.

Tim relocated with his family to Singapore in 2014 after spending an exciting five years in Shanghai, China where he had run IBM’s Smarter Cities, Telecommunications and Energy & Utilities businesses across 150 countries outside North America, Europe and Japan.

Tim earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Wisconsin and a MBA from the Kellogg School of Management in Chicago.

Willson Cuaca
Co-Founder & Managing Partner at East Ventures and CEO at Apps Foundry

Willson Cuaca is co-founder and managing partner of East Ventures (http://east.vc), an early stage investment fund focus on consumer Internet, mobile and SaaS.

East Ventures started investing in Indonesia in year 2010 when no one believes in Indonesia's consumer Internet potential. In 5 years, East Ventures has funded over 80 early stage companies in South East Asia. Most of the companies manage to get subsequent funding round and ride on top of Indonesia middle class consumer growth. East Ventures also made exits from its investment through M&A to local and international companies.

Willson sits on advisory board of Code4Nation.id, a grass root developer movement to help Indonesia government solve problem through various hackathon (http://hackathonmerdeka.id).

He brings his expertise in ecosystem building and product/market-fit to accelerate product delivery and value proposition. Indonesia President Joko Widodo endorses the movement.

Pang Heng Soon
General Manager, Infocomm Investments

Heng Soon has been General Manager of Infocomm Investments Pte Lted (IIPL) since 2008. He is critical in IIPL’s investment-led efforts that target promising ICT companies as well as supporting the development of Singapore’s start-up ecosystem. Prior to joining IIPL, Heng Soon was active in business development in the area of semiconductor manufacturing. He had also spent a number of years in venture investment in Singapore and in the United States.

Heng Soon graduated as a Diplom-Ingenieur in Hamburg, Germany in 1985.