AMTA TRAINING COUNCIL

Mr Lee Kok Choy was the Singapore Country Manager of Micron Semiconductor Asia Pte Ltd till he retired in 2017.  Prior to the amalgamation of TECH Semiconductor Singapore Pte Ltd into Micron Semiconductor Asia, he was the President of TECH, a joint venture of Texas Instruments, Economic Development Board, Canon and Hewlett Packard.  He has 40 years of working experience in the Semiconductor industry holding different positions in Texas Instruments, TECH and Micron.

He is a graduate of National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng) and Masters of Engineering (M.Eng) majoring in Electronics and Semiconductors.

He is currently Chairman of Board of Governors of Temasek Polytechnic, Council Member of Sport Singapore and President of the Singapore Swimming Association.

Previously, he has served as a board member of Public Utilities Board, Energy Market Authority, Workforce Development Agency, Singapore Institute of Technology, Institute of Microelectronics (prior to formation of A*STAR) and Singapore Sports School.

Professor Louis Phee is the Vice President (Innovation & Entrepreneurship), Dean of College of Engineering and the Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Prior to his deanship, he has served 3 years as Chair of the School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering.

He graduated from NTU with the B.Eng (Hons) and M.Eng degrees in 1996 and 1999 respectively. He obtained his PhD from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy in 2002 on a European Union scholarship.

His research interests include Medical Robotics and Mechatronics in Medicine. He was a recipient of the prestigious National Research Foundation (NRF) Investigator Award.

Professor Phee is the co-founder of 2 NTU start-ups and is an advisor and mentor to entrepreneurial faculty and students. He was awarded the Young Scientist Award (2006), the Outstanding Young Persons of Singapore Award (2007), the Nanyang Outstanding Young Alumni Award (2011), the President’s Technology Award (2012), the Nanyang Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award (2013) and the Nanyang Alumni Achievement Award (2017).

Dr Zeng Xianting is Programme Director of the Advanced Manufacturing Training Academy (AMTA). He is responsible for leading and managing the Programme Office under the directive of AMTA Training Council. He oversees development of business strategic plan for AMTA in consultation with relevant stakeholders, and project execution to achieve AMTA strategic outcomes and objectives and key deliverables (KPIs).

Prior to his role leading AMTA, Xianting established the Knowledge Transfer Office (KTO) in Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech) of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) as the founding director to transfer knowledge and capability to the industry through case studies and hands-on practical training to meet technology and skills gaps. Under his leadership, SIMTech launched a broad portfolio of industrial training programmes to support the industry using a Learn-Practise-Implement model, which benefited about 1800 local companies with more than 8000 PMETs trained.

Besides his role in leading industrial training development, Xianting has been an active research scientist in the field of nanocomposite coating materials and plasma-enhanced PVD thin film processes. He published extensively, with his research outcomes and scientific achievements recognised internationally.

Xianting obtained his PhD degree in Physics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1995, and his MSc and BSc degrees from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China in 1987 and 1982, respectively.

As the Assistant Chief Executive (Manufacturing & Engineering) of Enterprise Singapore, Leng Wan leads various teams to champion growth of Singapore enterprises in various technology-based industries such as advanced manufacturing, offshore renewables, sustainable packaging, health and biomedical sciences, infocomms, amongst others.

Prior to this, Leng Wan spent seven years in the Ministry of Trade and Industry working on policies and initiatives to ensure the competitiveness of the Singapore economy as well as the vibrancy of Singapore as a global city and tourism destination. His teams worked with the Economic Development Board to anchor significant foreign investments in Singapore’s manufacturing sector, as well as with the Singapore Tourism Board and Sentosa Development Corporation to develop iconic tourism projects in Singapore.

Leng Wan has a Masters of Science (Civil Engineering) from the University of California, Berkeley and two decades of experience in public policy in various agencies in the Singapore Government.

Mr Foo Piao Zhou is Group Director of the Training Partners Group at SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG). In this role, he oversees a team that supports development of the Continuing Education & Training (CET) system in Singapore, through managing funding and contractual partnerships with private training partners, institutes of higher learning, and enterprises. He is also currently responsible for the development and implementation of a whole-of-government training grant system used by various government agencies to administer CET grants.

Prior to joining SSG in 2016, Piao Zhou served in the Singapore Workforce Development Agency for over 10 years, and has experience in various aspects of CET including funding policies, industry development, and risk management. His past work included the development and implementation of the training quality and outcomes measurement initiative, the development of SSG’s regulatory framework; and the scale-up of SSG’s programme to drive innovation in the training ecosystem via iN.LEARN.

Julia has served in then Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA), now reconstituted to Workforce Singapore (WSG) since 2003 and she has made pioneering contributions in the areas of workforce development and Continuing Education & Training (CET) through her various stints in WDA. Her experience and key competencies span across a wide spectrum of areas, including the development and implementation of enterprise capability development schemes, productivity initiatives, worker segment initiatives, policy planning, research, trainer certification, quality assurance, industry engagement, sectoral Skills Framework and Singapore Workforce Skills Qualification (WSQ) development and implementation for both services and manufacturing sectors.

Julia currently assumes the role of Assistant Chief Executive, Enterprise Development Group in which she provides strategic steer on sectoral manpower development and spearheading enterprise-centric, job redesign and sectoral data insights and initiatives to support business and workforce transformation across 30 industry sectors in collaboration with sector agencies and tripartite partners. Some key national initiatives include Industry Transformation Maps Jobs and Skills Refresh, Jobs Transformation Maps, Industry 4.0 Human Capital Initiative, Adapt & Grow (A&G), Transform & Grow (T&G), Lean Enterprise Development Scheme (LEDS), SGUnited Jobs and Skills Package, SkillsFuture Mid-Career Support Package and Stabilisation & Support Package for Covid-19 impacted sectors.

Julia holds a First Class Honours Degree in Arts with a Diploma in Education from the Nanyang Technological University / National Institute of Education, as well as a Masters in Educational Management (Honours) from the University of Western Australia. She has also completed the Advanced Management Programme at the Harvard Business School in May 2018. She sits on the Boards of Institute for Human Resource Professionals (IHRP), Singapore Productivity Centre (SGPC) and the Institute of Banking & Finance (IBF).

Andrew Chong has over thirty years of experience in the technology market, in the fields of strategy, leadership, management, skills development, marketing and organisational development.

He currently serves on the Future Economy Council (FEC) Manufacturing Subcommittee co-chaired by the Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry. In the field of training and development he chairs the external review panel for the Polytechnic Quality Assurance Framework and is the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Institute of Technical Education (ITE). He is a Board Member of the Ministry of Manpower’s Workforce Singapore Agency (WSG).

Andrew stepped down as Regional President and Managing Director of Infineon Technologies Asia Pacific in August 2017 but remains active in the semiconductor industry through his Chairmanship of the Singapore Semiconductor Industry Association (SSIA). He also holds Board and advisory roles in several technology start-up companies. He is on the Board of Mapletree Industrial Trust Management Ltd, the Manager for Singapore Exchange listed Mapletree Industrial Trust. He serves on the Boards of NTUC Health Cooperative and the Employment and Employability Institute Pte Ltd.

Andrew received his Bachelor of Electronics Engineering in 1987 and Master of Business Administration in 1993 from the University of Adelaide in South Australia. He was conferred a Medal of Commendation at the 2017 May Day Awards for promoting good industrial relations and initiating workers’ training and skills upgrading programmes and has co-authored a book on the technological and business trends in the automotive market in Asia.