Board of Advisors

Mr. LOH Wai Keong

Honorary Advisor

Mr LOH Wai Keong is Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of Greenwillow Capital Management Pte Ltd, a fund and asset management company based in Singapore, which he set up in October 2018 to focus on real estate, private equity and venture capital investments in Asia’s fast-growing emerging markets, with emphasis on smart technologies, smart city projects, and healthcare that promotes sustainable healthy living.

In the preceding years from 2012 to 2018, Mr Loh was a Managing Director in GIC, the premier sovereign wealth fund owned by the Government of Singapore. His last role was GIC’s Managing Director of Enterprise Strategy, primarily responsible for leading GIC’s overall enterprise strategy and global business planning process across the company, integrating the investment and organisation strategies of the group to ensure that business outcomes are aligned with GIC’s strategic objectives.

Before his Enterprise Strategy role, Mr Loh was the Managing Director and Co-Region Head for Asia (Real Estate), responsible for managing GIC’s real estate investments across Asia (Greater China, Japan, Korea, India, South-East Asia and Australia). He led numerous significant acquisitions by GIC in India, Korea and Indonesia. He supervised a diverse team of professionals across GIC’s regional offices located in Shanghai, Tokyo, Seoul, Mumbai and Singapore to manage a multi-billion real estate portfolio in Asia comprising wholly owned physical assets, private equity, public equities, structured debt instruments and joint ventures.

While in GIC, Mr Loh concurrently held the role of Managing Director of Investment Services (Private Markets), overseeing investment processes and operational support to GIC’s global investments in the private markets of real estate, private equity and infrastructure. He was also appointed as GIC’s Chairman for ASEAN Business Group, focused on developing strategic relationships with local partners, as well as coordinating and synergizing GIC’s investments in Southeast Asia markets across all the asset classes of fixed income, public equity, private equity, infrastructure and real estate.

Besides his investment experience in GIC, Mr Loh’s private sector experience also includes real estate investment, project development, asset management and real estate fund management. After retiring from the Singapore government service in 2007, he first joined CapitaLand Group, one of Asia’s leading integrated real estate developer and fund manager based in Singapore. Mr Loh held the position of Country Head (India) with CapitaMalls Asia and managed the CapitaRetail India Development Fund, a private equity fund (approx. US$350M) set up to acquire and develop a portfolio of retail malls in India.

After CapitaLand, Mr Loh became the Chief Executive Officer (South-East Asia) of Ascendas Group, a leading real estate business solutions provider in Asia. Besides assuming the role of Executive Director of Ascendas ASEAN Business Space Fund (approx. US$200M real estate development fund with projects in Vietnam, Malaysia and Philippines), he was also concurrently Executive Vice President (Development and Investment) of Ascendas Group, responsible for managing Ascendas’ regional investment portfolio and development of key projects across Asia, including China, India, Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines and Malaysia.

Besides his private sector experience, Mr Loh has spent more than 20 years in Singapore’s public sector. Starting his career in the Singapore government service, he moved up the ranks as a professional military officer in the Singapore Armed Forces and the Ministry of Defence. He attained the rank of Brigadier General and last held the post of Commander of 3rd Division, the premier combined arms division in the Singapore Army. In his military career, he also held the other senior appointments of Director of Joint Operations in Singapore Armed Forces, Assistant Chief of General Staff (Head of Army Operations), Commander of 2nd Infantry Brigade, and Commanding Officer of 1st Singapore Infantry Battalion.

After retiring from the Singapore Armed Forces, Mr Loh joined the Singapore Government’s Administrative Service and served as Deputy Permanent Secretary (Trade) in the Singapore Ministry of Trade & Industry. Primarily responsible for managing Singapore’s trade policies and economic relations with global partners, Mr Loh supervised and led the Ministry’s trade negotiations team in all of Singapore’s bilateral trade negotiations and Free Trade Agreement talks with the USA, European Union, Gulf Cooperation Council, ASEAN, China, India, Japan, Korea, and Australia.

As the Deputy Secretary (Trade), he also played a leading role in Singapore’s major bilateral trade and economic cooperation projects with other countries, e.g. Suzhou Industrial Park, the iconic G-to-G project between China and Singapore, in which Singapore assisted in the transfer of knowledge, systems and software in building vibrant economic zones and attracting foreign investments to China. He was also involved in the initial conceptualisation of the Tianjin Eco-City project between China and Singapore. Subsequently when he joined Ascendas Group, he was intimately involved the master-planning and development of numerous large scale industrial park projects, science and technology parks, and IT parks in Vietnam, China and India.

During his career in the public and private sectors, Mr Loh served as a Board Director on several of Singapore’s statutory boards and institutions, including the Jurong Town Corporation (JTC), Institute of South-East Asia Studies (ISEAS), Temasek Polytechnic Board of Governors, the Victoria School Advisory Council, as well as several companies in Singapore Technologies Group under Temasek Holdings.

He also actively participated in major national level projects, such as Singapore’s National Scenario Planning project in 2005-2007 to prepare the nation for the challenges of the future. Mr Loh was also the Executive Chairman of Singapore’s National Day Parade Committee in 2005, which planned and executed extensive and large scale national-wide celebrations on the 40th anniversary of Singapore’s independence.

Mr Loh was awarded the Singapore President’s Scholarship as well as Singapore Armed Forces Overseas Scholarship in the Year 1984. He studied in St John’s College, Oxford University (United Kingdom), graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours) in Mathematics in 1987 and subsequently received a Master of Arts from Oxford University in 1993.

From 1998 to 1999, Mr Loh attended the Sloan Fellows Program in Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT in USA), and received a Master of Business Administration from Sloan School, MIT.

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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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