Occupations in the professional, scientific and technical activities sector require a substantial amount of training and proficiency. People in this industry have extensive amounts of technical know-how in their specialisations.
Examples pertinent to Singapore:
Ahmed Amer is a Senior Product Manager at Rakuten AdTech division, where he leads the expansion of AdTech platforms for external text, display, and shopping Ads integrations that allow Marketers and Merchants to advertise with publishers like Google, Facebook, TikTok, Yahoo! JP, Criteo, SmartNews, and Adroll…
On 7th September 2021, Advisory hosted Discover+: Entrepreneurship, the 41st edition of the Discovery+ series. Speakers on the panel included:
Ng Yi Ming (Moderator) — CEO of Tribe
Jeffery Tiong — Founder & CEO of PatSnap
Johnathan Lim — Director of Global Innovation Network Enterprise Singapore
Karl Mak — Co-Founder & CEO HEPML Group & SGAG
Wilson Wang — Deputy Director of Investments and Business Development in the Industry Liason Office, NUS…
On 5 October 2021, Advisory hosted Discover+: Cloud Computing, the 43rd edition of the Discovery+ series. Speakers on the panel included: Colin Tan (Moderator), General Manager, Technology Sales, IBM Singapore; Chan Cheow Hoe, Government Chief Digital Technology Officer and Deputy Chief Executive, SNDGO and GovTech; Gunasekharan Chellappan, Country Manager, Singapore, Red Hat; and Sam Liew, Managing Partner, Government Strategic Business Group, NCS…
On 8 July 2021, Advisory hosted Experience+: PayPal, where participants benefited from panel discussions, small-group networking with PayPal professionals, as well as an exclusive FinTech introduction led by PayPal experts. During the visit, we were privileged to have experienced professionals from PayPal, including:
Jerry Tso – Senior Director, Head of Singapore Development Center
Andrew Gregovic – Director of Software Engineering
George Chen – Senior Information Security Engineer, Cybersecurity Defence Centre;
Zhang Xuqian – Senior Software Engineer;
Kanika Jain – Software Engineer
Irena Hu – Tech Recruiter and SG University Relations Lead
Our selected participants included students from various education levels and institutions with a common curiosity in PayPal and FinTech, and how to best position themselves for roles in the company and in the industry…
Dr. Matthew Zhao is currently a Food Scientist at Big Idea Ventures with prior experience as a Food Technologist at the Food Innovation Resource Centre in Singapore Polytechnic. He graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree (Honours) in Food Technology, and went on to complete a PhD in the same field. In this article, he shares his experience working at Big Idea Ventures and gives insights on the Food Science and Technology sector…
Josh Lee is a Legal Policy Manager for AI Governance in the Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore. He co-founded LawTech.Asia, Singapore’s foremost publication on legal technology and serves as the chairperson of the Asia-Pacific Legal Innovation and Technology Association (ALITA). In this article, he shares more about legal policymaking, the opportunities that accompany a rise in AI, and how to embrace technology in law…
Christopher Tan is the Global Partner Revenue Acceleration Director of Intel in the Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) regions. Having spent more than 15 years working in Intel, he has also served as the Regional Alliance Manager, Datacenter Platform Marketing Manager, Enterprise Manager and Technology Specialist in the company prior to his current role. In this interview, Christopher shares more about his career and his extensive journey with Intel in a tech-facing world…
Goh Yeh Lin is currently the Head of Digital Plans and Policies at DSO National Laboratories, with prior experience in both the public and private sectors. He graduated from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics…
Dallan Seah is a Manager, Manufacturing Sciences & Technology (MS&T) at Moderna, where he was based in Cambridge, Massachusetts at one point and served as the Lead Tech Transfer and in-charge of scaling up the (Covid-19) mRNA-1273 LNP Vaccine for commercial manufacturing. Before that, he worked at Novartis for 4 years where he took on various roles in MS&T, such as manufacturing support, process troubleshooting, investigation, and process monitoring…
Esther Peh is an External and Regulatory Officer at AT&T and Warner Media, which involves advocacy and representation work in the Asia Pacific. In this article, Esther shares the responsibilities of her role and what it takes for others to join her profession…
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