 | | Prof. Jackie Ying, Executive Director, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology Jackie Y. Ying received her Ph.D. from Princeton University, and was a NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Fellow and Humboldt Research Fellow at the Institute for New Materials, Germany. She was Professor of Chemical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is Executive Director of the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), Singapore. Her interdisciplinary research is focused on the synthesis of nanostructured materials for catalytic and biomaterial applications. She has authored over 300 articles, and presented over 330 invited lectures at international conferences. She has over 120 patents issued or pending, and has served on the Advisory Boards of 6 start-up companies and 1 venture capital fund. She serves on the editorial board of 25 journals, and is the Editor-in-Chief of Nano Today.
Prof. Ying’s awards include the American Ceramic Society Purdy Award, David and Lucile Packard Fellowship, Office of Naval Research and National Science Foundation Young Investigator Awards, Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, American Chemical Society Faculty Fellowship Award in Solid-State Chemistry, Technology Review’s Inaugural TR100 Young Innovator Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Colburn Award, World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, Chemical Engineering Science Danckwerts Lectureship, Singapore National Institute of Chemistry-BASF Award in Materials Chemistry, Asian Innovation Silver Award, and International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB) Jubilee Medal. She was elected to the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina, and named one of the “One Hundred Engineers of the Modern Era” by AIChE in its Centennial Celebration. <Top> |
 | | Dr. Gerald Yin, CEO, Advanced Micro-fabrication Equipment Inc Dr. Gerald Yin has served as AMEC’s chairman and CEO since the company was founded in 2004. A semiconductor equipment industry veteran, he previously held product development and executive management roles at Applied Materials, Lam Research and Intel Corp.
Dr. Yin received his BS degree in chemical physics from the University of Science and Technology, China, and his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles. He holds more than 74 U.S. patents. <Top> |
 | | Prof Wong Poh Kam, Director, NUS Entreprenuership Centre Professor Wong Poh Kam is a Professor at the NUS School of Business where he teaches entrepreneurship and innovation strategy. He obtained two BSc.’s., an MSc. and a Ph.D. from MIT. He has published extensively in numerous international refereed journals on technology entrepreneurship and innovation strategy, and has also consulted widely for international agencies such as the World Bank and OECD, various government agencies in Singapore such as A*STAR, EDB and IDA, and many high tech firms in Asia. Prof Wong is also concurrently the Director for NUS Entrepreneurship Centre, where he spearheads the university’s entrepreneurship education and outreach programs and various university technology spin-off support programs including incubator services, seed funding and mentoring. He also directs the centre’s research program on technology entrepreneurship and innovation strategy. He is the founder and co-chairman of StartUp@Singapore, the largest annual business plan competition in Singapore. He was awarded the Public Administration Medal (Bronze) by the Singapore Government in 2005. An entrepreneur who co-founded three companies prior to joining academia, he has been an active angel investor with investment in more than 10 high tech start-ups in Singapore, Silicon Valley, China and India. He is the founding chairman of Business Angel Network (Southeast Asia) and BAF Spectrum Pte Ltd, an angel investment fund co-invested in by the Singapore government through SPRING SEEDS Capital. He is a board member of NUS Technology Holdings and a member of the evaluation panel of the Technology Enterprise Commercialization Scheme (TECS) of SPRING Singapore. His angel investment in semiconductor industry-related start-ups include Invantest (Silicon Valley) and Teralene (China). His recent angel investment exits include TenCube (acquired by McAfee), iXigo (acquired by SAIF), and Globalroam (first company quoted on Singapore’s OTC market). <Top> |
 | | Mr. Vincent Tong, Senior Vice President, Xilinx Inc Vincent Tong serves as senior vice president of worldwide quality and new product introductions, and executive leader for the company’s Asia Pacific region. As executive leader for Xilinx Asia Pacific, Tong’s charter is to expand the company’s presence and accelerate business development in a region that is experiencing phenomenal growth, and is in turn a critical source of Xilinx current and future growth. In his role as Xilinx senior vice president, Tong is responsible for all aspects of quality assurance across Xilinx programmable solutions. His worldwide quality organization is chartered with driving continuous improvement of the company's corporate quality methodology for design, manufacture, training, measurement, and post-sale customer support for Xilinx products, and for reliability engineering of all product manufacturing technologies. Tong also leads a global team to direct all new product introductions to achieve fastest time-to-market at the highest level of quality. Tong oversees the engineering teams responsible for test, package, assembly development, yield improvement and product engineering, in support of all new product introductions and mature products in production. In addition, Tong manages advanced technology partnerships, overseeing all quality control and qualification programs and directing all continuous improvement initiatives with wafer foundries, subcontractors and other key technology suppliers (e.g., substrate suppliers, assembly, DFT and DFM vendors, ATE and semiconductor manufacturing equipment manufacturers). Tong joined Xilinx in 1990 after serving in a variety of development, design, fabrication technology, product and test engineering positions at Monolithic Memories and Advanced Micro Devices. Tong holds a B.S. in engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, and completed the executive development program at Stanford Business School. He holds seven U.S. patents. <Top> |
 | | Mr. Albert Khoo, CEO, Dynamic Hub Albert Khoo is currently the CEO of Dynamic Hub Private Limited.
He has more than 30 years of vast experience in the Electronics and Semiconductor industry, selling industrial equipments and materials.
Albert began his career in PCI ( printed circuits international )as a Store Keeper in charge of the supply chain management and logistics. He worked his way up to a Materials Manager, responsible for Global Sales and Marketing in PCI.
After 14 years of climbing the corporate ladder, Albert decided to venture out on his own to start his very first company – Dynamic Distribution, which attained the rights to become the Sales Representative and Distributor for Western Digital and Maxtor and several components company. In addition he also joint venture with Ampoc taiwan to run distribution for photo resists product. In 2005, he was headhunted to join Mentor Graphics, a world leader in EDA (electronic design automation ) software. He undertook the role of general manager overseeing Asia Pacific region. Albert’s first given task was to reorganize and straighten both the Singapore n india operation.
Albert continues to be actively involved in managing both his businesses in Dynamic Hub and Dynamic Distribution after his 5years’ stint with Mentor Graphics. He loves music, is an ardent Brompton cyclist and an Adventurer. His favorite time of the day is enjoying the bonding time with his 5 grandchildren whenever they are available.
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 | | Mr. Prakash Somosundram, ACE Communications Sub-Committee Chairman, Social Media Director, Yolk A firm believer that Social Media will one day become an integral part of every business, Prakash initiated a social media division in 2008 to add a competitive edge to Yolk as a digital agency.
Prakash has since led his team to execute wildly successful campaigns such as Microsoft’s ‘Buddy Cup’ and ‘Save Social Energy’ as well as CIBA Vision’s ‘The Next Big Thing.
He is also part of the Global Strategy team that focuses on working with partners in the Grey Group network to offer integrated digital communications solutions in the region.
A 12-year veteran of the digital industry, Prakash regularly speaks at industry engagements, public workshops and shares insights to trade publications.
Prakash is a recipient of the 2005 Spirit of Enterprise (SOE) award and a finalist in the 2006 and 2008 Young Indian Entrepreneur of the Year. He is also part of the elite Young Business Leaders, an initiative by the National Youth Council (NYC).
Prakash is widely involved in working with youth. He speaks regularly at schools and is also the Action Community for Entrepreneurship’s Communications Sub-committee Chair.
Prakash is an active contributor to various government agencies including Partner Connection Fund review panel for Ministry for Community Youth and Sports (MCYS) as well as Workforce Development Authority (WDA) Creative Industries workgroup.
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