» Executive Council & Committee 2006/07

Tay Kheng Tiong
President

Kheng Tiong has over 23 years of extensive experience in various domains of the ICT industry. Over the last 14 plus years he has assumed various senior management roles. Most recently Kheng Tiong was, Director of ICUS.Net Pte Ltd, a global e-learning company, Managing Director (Asia Pacific) and board member of S.AI.L. Port Asia Pacific, a business incubation organization in the speech, artificial intelligence and language technologies, and Vice President (Asia Pacific) of Gartner, a global ICT market research and consultancy company. Before that he was the CIO of Scotts Holdings, a multi-national corporation with diversified business in Singapore. He is currently the Director, School of Information & Communications Technology and Centre for Professional Development of the Republic Polytechnic.

An ardent believer of life long learning, Kheng Tiong has managed to be constantly in the forefront of information and communications technology. He was a much sought after speaker in ICT seminars, events and forums. He is a member of the IT Advisory Committee of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCCI), a board member of CommerceNet Singapore, an Assessor with SRING Singapore and council member of World Skills Council. Kheng Tiong also sits on the Academic Chapter of the Singapore Computer Society and is the Vice President of itSMF.

Umar Chandran
Vice President

Umar Chandran is a retired Air Traffic Controller from the Air Force. Now the Senior Manager (IT Management) with the CIO Office in Defence Science & Technology Agency, responsible for IT Asset, Budget and Service Management.

Ho Eu Jin
Secretary

Ho Eu Jin has been an active member of the itSMF community for many years.

Ho Eu Jin is no stranger to the ITIL/ITSM community and has many years of working experiences in field of ITIL/ITSM. Eu Jin has led many ITSM roles such as ITSM process owner, ITSM Implementation, Account Delivery Manager, IT Operations, IT Project Manager, and IT Governance throughout his working career in Procter & Gamble Company, Hewlett-Packard Company and currently in UBS Investment Bank.

Eu Jin has spoken on itSMF conference before and he is a certified ITIL Service Manager and Instructor. Eu Jin is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and has recently been accepted into the Institute of Service Management (IOSM). He is also a member of the British Computer Society (BCS).

On the sidetrack, Eujin has graduated from The University of Manchester, United Kingdom in Electrical and Electronic Engineering with 1st class honors. Eujin is an ardent traveler with personal travelogues across 40 countries in the world and the number is still growing each year.

Peter Edwards
Vice Secretary

Peter Edwards is the leader of IBM's IT Optimization services for the ASEAN region. He is based in Singapore and is a Managing Consultant in the Infrastructure Technology Services (ITS) team.

Peter has many years of experience in consulting with customers whilst working in IBM, PWC, HP and a software vendor. He has a specialization in the design and implementation of software applications that support effective management of business environments including ERP packages. During his consulting career he has worked in various industry sectors including Oil & Gas, Telecommunications, Financial Services, Consumer Products, and Public Sector.

Sushil Chaterji
Treasurer

As Director & Principal Consultant of Edutech Enterprises, Sushil has been providing advisory consulting and training services in the S. E. Asian region over the last 8 years. His primary areas of engagement are in IT Governance, IT Operations Excellence and Enterprise Architecture. Sushil and his associates work together to provide learning, facilitation and strategy deployment services to assist organisations in integrating process, knowledge, technology and change approaches for improving business and organisational performance. Sushil is a keen proponent of IT Governance.

Besides being a director on the board of the IS Audit & Control Association (ISACA) Singapore chapter, and a council member of the IT Service Management Forum Singapore (itSMF), he is a member of the Singapore Computer Society (SCS), the IT Managers Association (ITMA), the Singapore Institute of Management (SIM), the Singapore Institute of Directors (SID), and the Institute of Management Consultants (IMC). He holds a Masters degree in Business Management and has professional certification in Enterprise Architecture and also Managing Information Technology from the U.S.

Charles Ling
Ordinary Council Member

Dr Charles Ling is the Vice President of Services Management in the Singapore Exchange (SGX). In his current portfolio, Charles is responsible for driving the adoption of IT service management best practices to ensure smooth running of the IT operation.

Throughout his career, Charles has held various senior appointments, leading in the area of IT service management (ITSM), partner & channel management, business process reengineering (BPR) and IT solutions development in Sun Microsystems, Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology and Accenture. While spearheading the SunTone certification program in the South Asia region, Charles was a council member in the SunTone Architectural Council, advising and setting the certification standard of the SunTone specification. Charles was also an Executive Committee (EXCO) member of the ASP/IDC Chapter in the Singapore Infocomm Technology Federation (SITF).

Charles has been an active speaker in conferences and seminars; and has published his research and industrial work in various international journals, magazines, newsletters and newspapers.

In his academic and research career, Charles has received various awards and scholarships from University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology (UMIST) and government bodies of the United Kingdom. His academic qualifications include Advanced Diploma in Computer Studies, B.Eng (1st Class Hons) Mechanical Engineering and Ph.D in Computer Integrated Manufacturing. He is also a certified professional, in System Analysis and Design, by NCC & BCS (United Kingdom); as well as, in IT Service Management, at the Manager level, by ISEB (United Kingdom).

Venkat Narayanan
Ordinary Council Member