Tan Geok Leng

Dr. Tan is a veteran of the ICT industry with over 30 years of experience. He spent his first 15 years in industry working in R&D at Motorola, consulting at Scientific Generics in Cambridge, England and as the Managing Director of Goldtron Telecommunications, a company that designed and launched Singapore’s first type-approved GSM mobile handset. The next 15 years were spent in Government, initially at the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) as CTO and later in A*STAR, where he headed the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) as its Executive Director. Dr. Tan obtained his Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1990. He attended the Advanced Management Programme (AMP) at Wharton in 2007 and the Executive Programme at the Singularity University in 2011.