Yeo Siew Chye Stephen

Non-Executive & Independent Director at Telechoice International

Mr Yeo was the founding director of S2S Consulting. Mr Yeo began his career in Singapore Ministry of Defence as Director of Systems and Computers. He spearheaded the introduction of ICT in command and control systems during his stint there. He was CEO of National Computer Board, Singapore from 1995 to 1999, where he promoted the development of e-Government and ICT in healthcare, education, trade and economic development. He then moved to the commercial sector for the next 14 years where he served as President and CEO of Singapore Computer Systems Limited, President of EDS International (SE Asia) and Managing Director for SE Asia of British Telecom Global Services.

Mr Yeo consults with companies in the area of leveraging ICT for strategic advantage. He also helps to nurture emerging ICT companies. In the past 20 years, he had served on the boards of companies, statutory boards and educational institutions. He had served as chair of Institute of Systems Science (ISS) of National University of Singapore, Institute of Communications and Information Science (ICIS) of Nanyang Technological University of Singapore (NTU), board member of the NTU Business School, founding chair of the School of IT of Republic Polytechnic (RP) and member of the Board of Governors of RP. He had also served as board member of Telecoms Authority of Singapore, National Library Board, Asia Pacific Jets Pte Ltd, NTUCLink and NTUC LearningHub. He was also deputy chair of National Computer Systems Pte Ltd before it was subsumed into Singapore Telecommunications Limited.

Mr Yeo graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Engineering Science from Oxford University, UK, obtained a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from the National University of Singapore, Singapore and a Master of Business Administration in International Business from the University of Southern California, US.

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  • Non-Executive & Independent Director

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