Grand Finale Judge – Professor Wong Poh Kam

Wong Poh Kam is Professor at the NUS Business School and Senior Director of NUS Entrepreneurship Centre, where he spearheads the university’s experiential entrepreneurship education programs. He obtained two BSc.’s, an MSc. and a Ph.D. from MIT. He has published extensively in leading international refereed journals on entrepreneurship and innovation, and has consulted widely for the World Bank, OECD and ADB, various government agencies in Singapore, and many private corporations in Asia. He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at U.C. Berkeley and a visiting scholar at Stanford University and Oxford University. An active angel investor with investment in over a dozen high tech start-ups in Singapore, Silicon Valley, China and India, he was the founding chairman of the Business Angel Network (Southeast Asia). He received the Public Administration Medal (Silver) Award from the Singapore Government in 2013 for his contribution to education in Singapore, and the “Entrepreneur for the World” Award (Educator Category) from the World Entrepreneurship Forum in 2015. He is currently a board member of the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore (CCCS).