Shirley Wong Managing Partner, TNF Ventures

Shirley Wong is an entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry. She co-founded Frontline Technologies Corporation Ltd in 1994 and it was listed on the Singapore Exchange in March 2001. Under her stewardship, the company has grown from a team of 8 to 5000 workforce spread across 11 countries in Asia Pacific. The performance of the company caught the attention of British Telecom Global Services which subsequently acquired it. The company was renamed as BT Frontline Pte Ltd. Shirley was appointed Managing Director of BT Frontline Pte Ltd to stabilise the acquisition.

Shirley serves in several infocomm industry board and committees, including being the Chairman of Singapore Infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF), board of Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, board of Singapore Science Centre,  Co-Chair of Cyber Security Awareness Alliance, member of  Malaysia Singapore Business Council  and Council member of Temasek Polytechnic IT School Advisory Council.

She is also active in the start-up scene. She has worked with a number of start-ups and is helping them to secure funding, access resources, build market connections and go to markets. She is incredibly passionate about entrepreneurship and is excited to help build the start-up community in Singapore.

As the Managing Partner of TNF, Shirley will be looking out for high potential start-up that has tenacity and capability to make things happen. She will be matching start-ups with the respective investor mentor to ensure that proper guidance and resource is made available for them to be successful.

Michael Seibel CEO, Y Combinator

Michael Seibel was the cofounder and CEO of Justin.tv and Socialcam. Socialcam sold to Autodesk in 2012 and under the leadership of Emmett Shear, Justin.tv became Twitch.tv and sold to Amazon in 2014. Before getting into start-ups, he spent a year as the finance director for a US Senate campaign and in 2005, Michael graduated from Yale University with a BA in political science.

Justin Kan Partner, Y Combinator

Justin Kan is an American Internet entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder of live video platforms Justin.tv and Twitch.tv, as well as the mobile social video application Socialcam. He is a partner at venture capital firm Y Combinator. His attempt to broadcast his entire life at Justin.tv popularized the term "lifecasting". Kan also started a Reddit-style electronic music discovery platform, The Drop. He also contributes to the technology news site TechCrunch and co-founded Kiko Software, the first ajax based online calendar, with Emmett Shear. Kan graduated from Yale University in 2005 with degrees in physics and philosophy.

David Su Founding Managing Partner, Matrix Partners China

David joined as a founding managing partner at Matrix Partners China in 2008 where he heads up Matrix Partners China’s Shanghai office. He is passionate about innovative ideas championed by promising entrepreneurs and strives to be a partner of choice for entrepreneurs in their pursuit of great business ventures. To date, he has invested in leading companies such as Didi Chuxing, Kingnet, Bona Films, and Kanghui Holdings, Reach Surgical, ET Healthcare, Vdaifu in medical area.

Before Matrix, David was a co-founder and General Partner of TDF Capital. Between 2000 and 2008, David focused primarily on TMT and medical technology investments in China. He led TDF’s investments in Baidu.com (NASDAQ: BIDU) and AAC Acoustic (2018.HK), both of which went public in 2005. David understands deeply the operations and sales challenges that entrepreneurs face, as he has spent a significant time in one of the most challenging industries in China in the 1990s, namely selling enterprise software while he was working for Lotus. “It was incredibly challenging, and that was even with a strong product and the backing of the global software company known for its innovation and excellence. The experience taught me to persevere and be open-minded when it comes to tackling key problems.” He explained.

Professor Lui Pao Chuen Advisor, National Research Foundation, ex-Chief Defence Scientist, DSO

Professor Lui Pao Chuen was appointed to the newly created post of Chief Defence Scientist, Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) in 1986. He retired in 2008 after serving 41 years in MINDEF and 22 years of service in the appointment as Chief Defence Scientist. He graduated from the University of Singapore in 1965 with a degree in Science, majoring in Physics. In 1971, he was awarded a postgraduate fellowship by MINDEF. He elected to go to the US Naval Postgraduate School and graduated with a Master degree in Operations Research and Systems Analysis in 1973.

In 1975, he was appointed Special Projects Director .In 1984, he was appointed acting Director, Joint Operations and Plans Directorate of the Ministry of Defence, in additional to his appointment as Director, Special Projects Organisation. In 1986, he was made Senior Director to set up the Defence Material Organization with the amalgamation of the Material Management Organization and the Special Projects Organization. He was also appointed to the newly created post of Chief Defence Scientist.

Prof Lui was on the board of directors of various Government-linked-companies and Government agencies. Currently, he is holding several appointments including the Director of Singapore Technologies Electronics Ltd since 2004, Chairman of Singapore Technologies Dynamics Pte Ltd since 2000, Chairman of Jurong International Holdings Pte Ltd since 2001, Chairman of Sembcorp Design and Construction Pte Ltd since 2006, Chairman, Board of Directors, ATREC Pte Ltd since 2006, Director of Singapore Technologies Kinetic since 2008. He was also a board member of several agencies and institutes including the Tropical Marine Science Institute and CRISP in NUS since 1996, NUS High School Board of Governors since 2006, Executive Committee for Environmental and Water Technologies since 2006 and Public Utilities Board since 2007, member of Governing Board, Centre of Quantum Technologies, NUS since 2007 and member of the Economic Development Board since 2008.