Board of Advisors

Mr Ng Kai Wa (Technology)

Mr. Ng Kai Wa is a renowned serial entrepreneur from Singapore. He is the Founder and CEO of Innomedia Pte Ltd, a leading supplier of Broadband IP Telephony solutions that delivers high-quality voice data over IP networks since 1995.

Mr Ng co-founded Creative Technology in 1981 and served as their Chief Technical Officer and Vice Chairman until 1995. He has been an independent director of Creative Technology since 2005. Mr Ng is also the Chairman of Tocco Studios, a startup offering IT solutions in consumer interfaces and travel mobility.

Mr Ng currently sits on the Board of Advisors, School of Information Systems in Singapore Management University (SMU), and is also a board member of SMU’s Institute of Innovation & Entrepreneurship. He also established the “Ng Kai Wa Scholarship” in SMU.

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Ms Judy Lim (Healthcare)

Deeply Passionate about Healthcare and Health Insurance

Ms Lim is a 17 year veteran in the healthcare and health insurance industries. Judy lived and worked in Bangkok, Thailand for 20 years before returning to serve with the Ministry of Health Holdings (MOHH) in Singapore. After her service with MOHH, Judy served with Mobility Saint Honoré (MSH) International, a fully owned subsidiary of the Rothschild family’s SIACI Group.

MSH International is headquartered in Paris, France and is a world leader in the design and management of international healthcare solutions. Judy also lived and worked in Shanghai for two years with MSH International (China). Now based in Singapore, Judy serves as a Director with BDU International, a niche health insurance player from Spain. As CEO of MSH China, Judy worked to further strengthen the local management team, identified potential future leaders, developed and implemented corporate growth strategies to tap on the vast opportunities in China for the expansion of MSH’s Third Party Administration & Health insurance business. Concurrently, Judy also served as Director, Business Development (Asia) for MSH International, where she leveraged on her knowledge of the Asian healthcare landscape to develop niche and untapped markets for MSH.

Using her in-depth knowledge of medical facilities in Asia, Judy worked closely with a diverse portfolio of healthcare providers to serve clients from across the region. Under her tenure with MSH International & MSH China, the company won several awards including the Asian Insurance Review’s Best Service Provider (Asia) Award in 2013, the China HR Development Award for Most Innovative Strategy Award for 2016 and a CSR Award for an Alzheimer’s program with a local charitable foundation in Shanghai in 2016. Prior to joining MSH, Judy was Director of Marketing for MOH Holdings (MOHH), driving the international branding, marketing strategy and referral networks for Singapore’s public tertiary hospitals and specialist centres. With more than a decade of medical travel marketing experience in Asia, Judy was instrumental in marketing Singapore’s public healthcare. Aside from spearheading branding efforts to develop and create awareness of the Singapore public healthcare group brand in the global arena, Judy led the development and deployment of marketing strategies both regionally and internationally, venturing as far as the USA, UK, Russia & China to develop new & lucrative medical travel markets for Singapore’s public healthcare group. Judy also co-organised the First Singapore-Oman Medical Exchange Forum in Muscat. This initial efforts led to six successive Medical Seminars also held in Muscat, for the benefit of jointly sharing advanced medical knowledge between Singapore & Oman, in the various medical specialties. Judy also served as a Director of Innoheart, a med-tech pre-clinical Contract Research Organization providing evaluation and research expertise for bio-medical implants. Before returning to Singapore to join MOHH, Judy spearheaded healthcare marketing programs for the Bangkok Hospital Group and Bumrungrad International Hospital, Thailand’s leading premier hospitals. Judy drove the strategies and hands-on execution of healthcare marketing programmes for the Bangkok Hospital Group and Bumrungrad International Hospital; two leading premier hospitals in Thailand. Judy played a major role in building up the international branding for these hospitals in Indochina, Mongolia and South Asia; partnering with local Providers/Physicians/Payors for medical seminars and national conferences. Judy also played a key role in establishing Representative Offices for both hospitals and led their marketing efforts in the diverse markets of Bangladesh, Cambodia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal and Vietnam. Judy has a proven track record in business development, is an innovative problem solver, corporate strategy thinker, creative marketer and more importantly, a people developer. The greatest differentiator a company has, is not in their products or services or even in what they do but, who they have.

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Professor Harvey Winters

Professor Harvey Winters is Professor Emeritus at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Professor Winters received his Ph.D. degree in 1970, from Columbia University, New York in Chemical Biology and obtained a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Columbia University on micro-fouling of marine surfaces supported by Office of Navy Research (ONR).

His career in studying biofilm formation on reverse osmosis membranes began in 1975 when Professor Winters formed a biofilm research group at Fairleigh Dickinson University which was supported by the Permutit Corporation through a research contract with the Office of Water Research and Technology (OWRT), Department of Interior, United States Government. He studied the mechanism of biofilm formation involving seawater reverse osmosis desalination membranes.

In 1988, Professor Winters research biofilm team at Fairleigh Dickinson University formed a Seawater Reverse Osmosis Desalination Membrane Technology Transfer Center to interact with various industrial companies involved in this technology which was supported by United States Bureau of reclamation.

From 1997-2000, Professor Winters was supported in his research by the Middle East Desalination Research Center (MEDRC), Muscat, Oman. This research group included researchers from University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia) and researchers from Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman. The project funded by MEDRC studied the critical flux involved in organic and biofouling of Reverse Osmosis membranes. As part of his research with MEDRC, he was involved with desalination activities in Israel, Jordan and Palestinian Water Authority

From 2002 through 2015, Professor Winters took a leave of absence from Fairleigh Dickinson University and became Visiting Professor at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in the Singapore Membrane Technology Center and Visiting Professor at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia. This period of time allowed Professor Winters to do biofilm research with several of the best research professors in the world.

He has assisted many governmental water agencies and desalination companies world-wide. His research has focused on fouling of Reverse Osmosis desalination membranes in wastewater and seawater applications and how to minimize its effects on the production of water and energy usage. Professor Winters has consulted for DuPont, GrahamTek Singapore, Singapore Public Utilities Bureau, Virgin Island Water Authority, Turks and Caicos Water Corporation, Consolidated Water Corporation, Hyatt Hotels, Sharjah Water Authority, Water & Power Authority of Abu Dhabi, and Permutit Corporation.

He has over one hundred research publications and conference proceedings and holds one patent in RO desalination, all involved in the area of reverse osmosis membrane fouling. He has presented many papers at international conferences on desalination, describing his research efforts in area of membrane fouling.

Professor Winters is a reviewer for Journal of Membrane Science, Journal of Desalination, Water Research, and IDA Journal and has also served as a Director of the International Desalination Association (IDA).

Professo r Harvey Winters’ google scholar page

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Mr Eu Hong Gay

Hong Gay has had a career spanning five decades in the waste to energy industry, waste water recycling industry and in the development of membrane technology. He has wide experience coming from his work with the Government of Singapore, in government linked companies as a contractor, and has been involved in research and development work with the two top universities in Singapore. He has plant operational experience both while working in the Government sector as well as in the private sector.

In the early days of his career ( 1976 to 1978) , Hong Gay, a government scholar, was one of the few key Engineers selected by the Government of Singapore to be sent for industrial attachment and training in Germany in preparation for the start-up and operations of Singapore’s first large scale municipal waste incineration plants where energy from the waste burnt was recovered for power generation. This was the Ulu Pandan Refuse Incineration Plant which was designed for burning of 1200 tons / day of solid waste whereby 16 MW of power was recovered. The plant was commissioned in 1979 and Hong Gay operated the plant as Senior Operations Engineer until 1982. He holds a First Class Steam Engineers Certificate which allowed him to operate steam boilers and turbines in that plant.

In 1982, Hong Gay was nominated to work on Singapore’s centralised sewage pumping station telemetry project. There as Senior Engineer, he was in charge of all sewage pump stations and maintenance of waste water plants in Spore with operations that were remotely monitored via a telemetry system.

Hong Gay’s two most notable projects are Project Hazel and Project Jewel when he developed the then largest toxic waste incinerator in Singapore ( at 70 tonnes/day ) for treating of petrochemical wastes in the late 1990s on Jurong Island. Simultaneously, he developed Spore’s largest effluent water to process water plant in Singapore which then sold High Grade Industrial Water (HGIW) to various petrochemical plants and refineries on Jurong Island.

The HGIW project was able to produce process water cheaper than PUB’s tariffs and the water was also delivered at a better water quality. This was a runaway success. The PUB took this one step further with treatment to make the recycled water suitable for drinking under the NEWater brand name.

The toxic waste incinerator was based on the fluidised bed process then built by Seghers of Belguim, before this company was acquired by Keppel. This plant is still operating today and burning carbon soot produced from Singapore Syngas.

In 2005, Hong Gay left SembCorp to join GrahamTek and he was then involved in developing the 16 inch RO technology . This technology was pioneered successfully at the Bedok Newater Factory at a capacity of 55,000 m3/day. This is now also a PUB show piece.

In the area of R&D, he lead his previous company in piloting the 16 inch RO in Perth, Australia, Canary Islands, Spain and in Sharjah, UAE.

In his later years, he also worked as a project developer in the development of marine based desalination plants. This development was undertaken with PSA Marine where a 400 m3/d desalination plant was built on board a water boat.

Hong Gay had also consulted with other well-known professors with organisations such as SEWA ( Sharjah Electricity and Water Authority ) in the field of control of RO membrane bio fouling and in the design of membrane based water recycling and sea water desalination plants.

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