iGlobe Partners Singapore
Biography
Dr Chong Yoke Sin is the Managing Partner of iGlobe Partners, a venture capitalist firm with interests in early growth companies. She sits on the boards of HUUE Inc, a biological Dye product company, in the Silicon Valley and Anacle Ltd, an Internet of Things company listed on the HK Stock Exchange. Dr Chong ‘s expertise covers the Deep tech, Biotech and Digital Platform investments for the venture capital firm.
Dr Chong is also an Independent non-Executive Board member of Wilmar International Holdings. She is also a Board member of SG Enable and the co-chair of the Enabling Technology Group as well as Chair of the Finance committee. Dr Chong is also a member of the Portfolio Management Committee of A*Star, in addition to being Chair of the Singapore Management University Advisory Council for the School of Computing and Information Sciences.
Currently, Dr Chong is the President of the Singapore Computer Society with 42,000 members and is an advocate for professionalizing IT through continuous skills upgrade for employability. She is also Chair of the SCS Ethics in AI Governing Committee with IMDA and is a contributing author to the SCS Body of Knowledge for Ethics in AI. She is also a member of the National Jobs Council of Singapore.
Yoke Sin was the founding CEO of Integrated Health Information Systems which delivers highly integrated and automated systems for the clinical and patient-administration systems for the entire public healthcare system in Singapore. She spearheaded the re-architecture of clinical and business systems across the hospitals, specialists and primary entities to create integrated electronic health records that facilitated the continuum of care across the public healthcare. She oversaw the attainment of the seamless Health Record across Singapore’s public healthcare clusters. She was admitted to the Hall of Fame by HIMSS in 2016 for her achievements in raising the level of technology in healthcare in Singapore. As the past president of HIMSS Asia Governing council and board member of the US HIMSS organization, she contributed to the IT standards for primary care, analytics and decision support for healthcare in Asia.
Prior to her stint at IHIS, Yoke Sin was the CEO of NCS, a Singapore Systems integrator spun off from the Singapore Government, that specialized in applications and infrastructural solutions for the government, finance and banking industries. She expanded NCS to the Middle East, Hong Kong, China, Australia and Korea. NCS grew its footprint to become the largest systems integrator in Singapore. She was involved with the development of the national e-government Masterplan and SME technology adoption at the national level.
Yoke Sin was the Chief of Enterprise Business at StarHub and grew its AI, Cybersecurity, IOT and digital platform business. She oversaw the formation of Ensign, a cybersecurity company, specialized in cybersecurity forensics, advisory, systems integration and monitoring.
She is a fellow of the Singapore Computer Society, as well as the Health Information Management Systems Society. She is a certified Healthcare Professional (CPHIMS), certified Healthcare CIO (CHCIO) and a certified Project Manager (Senior). She holds a PhD in Chemistry (NUS) and attended the Advanced Management Program of the Harvard Business School.