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Title :	"Multi-application Smart Card – A World of Open Opportunities?"
Speakers :	Mr. Goh Say Yeow, GM, Financial & Security Services, Gemplus Technologies Asia Mr. Teo Zee Vee, CEO, I'M Technologies Ltd. Mr. Michael Ng, Managing Director, Way Systems Solutions Pte. Ltd.
Date:	16 August 2005 (Tuesday)
Time:	6.30pm - 7.30pm (Registration starts at 6.00pm)
Venue:	Hon Sui Sen Auditorium, NUS Business School
Driving and Parking:	Enter Kent Ridge Drive by Pasir Panjang Road or Kent Ridge Crescent. The nearest car park is just next to Hon Sui Sen Auditorium. The next nearest car parks are next to Institute of Materials Research & Engineering and NUSS Guild House.

 

About the Speakers

Mr. Goh Say Yeow
General Manager
Financial & Security Services, South East Asia
Gemplus Technologies Asia

Goh Say Yeow, head of the Financial and Security Service Business Unit in South East Asia, is responsible for the overall strategy, development and marketing of the unit’s products and services in the region.
Prior to his current position, Say Yeow served as General Manager for Gemplus’ Taiwan and Hong Kong representative offices, where he was responsible for the operations in both countries. In January 2003, above and beyond his responsibilities as the General Manager for these markets, he was appointed the Field Marketing Director for Financial and Security Service Business Unit.
Say Yeow has been with Gemplus since December 1994 and has held many responsibilities in the company. Before moving to Taiwan and Hong Kong, Say Yeow held the title of Regional Sales Manager and was responsible for the sales operation in Thailand, Philippines and Indo-China.
Prior to Gemplus, he was a senior sales person in an IT company specializing in sales and project management of IT products and solutions.
Say Yeow holds a Degree in Marketing from CIM UK and a Diploma in Electrical and Electronic engineering. He has over 15 years of sales and marketing experiences in both the Information Technology and Smart Card businesses.

Mr. Teo Zee Vee
CEO
I’M Technologies Ltd.

Zee Vee is a typical Singapore boy – thoroughly born and bred in Singapore. He graduated in NUS EE department in 1993.
Faced with the fact that he was not the most academically inclined in his cohort, he decided to venture his career into the field of Sales, not any kind of sales but technical sales where competition for such position was almost nil from non technical graduates.
He had worked in a local SME and two MNCs for a total period of 8 years. His noticeable experiences during this period of time are on how a weak management is formed, how to capture high growth market from behind, how to break a JV, how to manage a focus strategy and how to turn company politics positively.
Zee Vee had 2 important mentors in his professional career life. One thought him how to carve out high level strategies and be able to sell the ideas through to others. The other mentor provided him the insights to top level executives thinking and decision process to better steer the operations in accordance to the high level goals.
At the peak of his career in the MNC, he left and co-founded I’M Technologies Limited in 2000. The company provides smart cards used in mobile telecom networks. The company is HQ in Singapore with offices in 8 other Asian cities. The group currently employs more than 100 staff and more than 50% of them are engage in R&D activities. In 2004, the company is publicly listed in the Singapore Exchange.
Zee Vee’s concept of entrepreneurship is “Own the land first before you plant the fruit trees”.

Michael Ng
Managing Director
Way Systems Solutions Pte. Ltd.

Michael has more than 20 Years in various positions in the IT industry from the Product Design, Production, to the general management position in Singapore Technologies group and Gemplus group (World Largest Smart Card Manufacturing).
He was instrumental in pioneering smart card technologies adoption in Greater China Region bring company turnover reaching 200MUSD. He was principal in the early stage fund and board of directors in several start-up companies before embarking the Way Systems start-up. He was an engineer by training having EE Engineering from the University of Aston in Birmingham, UK; Graduate Diploma from Marketing Institute of Singapore and attended Management program by INSEAD.

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