Dr. Penelope Jane O'Hara
Managing Director, Accenture Analytics, Accenture
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Dr. Penny Jane O'Hara
Managing Director, Accenture Analytics, Accenture
Dr. Penny Jane O'Hara (Penny) is a Managing Director, in Accenture leading Health Analytics in Asia Pacific. She is also responsible for the Accenture Analytics Innovation Centre in Singapore. Penny has more than 30 years of experience working in all aspects of healthcare. She has been a clinician, a CEO of a community health provider, CEO of a health analytics company, and worked within the NPfIT programme in the UK. Penny received a Bachelor of Dental Surgery from King’s College in the University of London & a Master of Business Administration from the University of Auckland (New Zealand)
Ms. Sawfin F. Saw-Buan
Country General Manager, Thakral One Philippines
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Ms. Sawfin F. Saw-Buan
Country General Manager, Thakral One Philippines
Ms Jennifer Lien spends her days working to get fresh research into curious minds. After graduating with a degree in political science and social development studies, she moved to Singapore to explore the new (to her) world of IT. After one happy year researching and writing on technology in Asia, she forayed into the world of academic publishing where she now enjoys working with research outputs in a different manner. She is an active young editor and writer, and regularly contributes to OpenBrief, a Singapore-based creative journal, and Secret {W} Business, a community for female entrepreneurs and innovators.
Dr David R. Hardoon
Associate Director, Business Analytics, Ernst & Young Singapore, Advisory Services
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Dr David R. Hardoon
Associate Director, Business Analytics, Ernst & Young Singapore, Advisory Services
Prof. Arcot Desai Narasimhalu has more than 35 years of innovation and innovation management experience. During this period, he has personally created or directed the creation of several innovations that have been commercialised. He is the Director of the Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship of the Singapore Management University (SMU) and concurrently a Practice Professor of Information Systems at SMU’s School of Information Systems. Desai was previously with Kent Ridge Digital Laboratory as a Senior Director where he was managing ideation, intellectual property, business development, licensing, legal, corporate communications and new initiatives. Kent Ridge Digital Lab created cutting edge technologies that were translated into about twenty start-ups. These start-ups received more than S$100 million in investments from venture capitalists and corporate investors.
Desai has successfully raised several rounds of research and other grants from Singapore government agencies and international agencies. He was instrumental in raising 6.5 million dollars from Singapore’s National Research Foundation. He had previously raised more than S$12 million for different research projects. Desai is an advisor to several start ups outside of SMU and is a member of the International Scientific Board of the Information Retrieval Facility based in Vienna, Austria. He is a member of the editorial boards of several scientific journals and is a member of the Board of Advisors of the International Society for Professional Innovation Management.
Dr Leong Mun Kew
Deputy Director, Institute of Systems Science, NUS
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Dr Leong Mun Kew
Deputy Director, Institute of Systems Science, NUS
Dr. Leong Mun Kew is Deputy Director, ISS and Chief, Strategic IT Management Practice (SITM). SITM covers a broad spectrum of soft and hard skills necessary for the successful management and leadership of IT in practice.
Mun Kew received his PhD from Stanford University. He has more than 25 years of R&D and commercial experience in IT. He was Chair and Editor of the ISO/JTC1/WG2/24800 JPSearch international standard, editor or past editor of the Journal of Information Retrieval, Information Processing and Management Journal, member of the advisory board for the School of IIT at Temasek Polytechnic, the IRAL and AIRS symposium series, and formerly Adjunct Assoc. Prof at the National Institute of Education.
Dr. Carol Hargreaves
Chief of Business Analytics Practice , Institute of Systems Science, NUS
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Dr. Carol Hargreaves
Chief of Business Analytics Practice , Institute of Systems Science, NUS
Dr. Carol Hargreaves is with the National University of Singapore, Institute of Systems Science (NUS-ISS). Her current research, consulting and teaching interests include Predictive Analytics and Customer Analytics. Carol has published several research papers in Inventory Systems and Clinical Trials and has presented some of these papers at International Conferences.
Carol holds a PhD in Statistics from the University of South Africa and a MBA from the University of Wales (Cardiff). She was awarded the Foundation of Research and Development Scholarship in 1988, and Head of the Department of Statistics at the University of Durban-Westville in 1989 and 2000.