AmCham Women Pioneers Series with Dr. Chong Yoke Sin

The American Chamber of Commerce in Singapore

Established in 1973, The American Chamber of Commerce in Singapore (AmCham Singapore) is the premier business association for international businesses seeking to establish or expand their presence in Southeast Asia.

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Event Details

The AmCham Women Pioneers Series features and celebrates the achievements of transformational women leaders from government, academia, the non-profit industry, and the private sector. A by-invitation only event limited to 25 AmCham member company executives, this Series offers exclusive access to engage with senior women pioneers in an intimate closed- door setting.

This session will feature Dr. Chong Yoke Sin, Managing Partner at iGlobe Partners, a leading Asia-Pacific venture capital firm with interests in Smart Cities, Fintech and BioTech startups and early growth companies. Dr. Chong's expertise covers the Deep Tech, Biotech and Digital Platform investments for the venture capital firm. She was also the founding CEO of Integrated Health Information Systems (IHiS), a subsidiary of Singapore's Ministry of Health Holdings, and was Chief of Enterprise Business at StarHub.

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Speakers

Dr. Chong Yoke Sin

Managing partner at iGlobe Partners

Dr Chong Yoke Sin is the Chairperson of the NCS Distinguished Engineer Industry Panel. Dr Chong
is currently a Managing Partner at iGlobe Partners, a leading Asia-Pacific venture capital firm with
interests in Smart Cities, Fintech and BioTech startups and early growth companies. She sits on the
board of Huue Inc, a biological Dye product company in the Silicon Valley and Anacle Systems 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.

Prior to iGlobe, Dr Chong was the Chief of Enterprise Business at StarHub and grew its AI,
Cybersecurity, IOT and digital platform business.

Dr Chong was the founding CEO of Integrated Health Information Systems (IHiS), a subsidiary of
Singapore’s Ministry of Health Holdings, which delivers highly integrated and automated clinical
and patient-administration systems for the entire Singapore public healthcare system. She led 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 public healthcare and enabled a chartless, paperless, filmless healthcare environment.
HealthHub, the personal health record portal for all residents was also implemented during the
time.

She also led the healthcare IT industry as Chair of the Healthcare Information and Management
Systems Society Asia Pacific Governing Council and was the first Asian Vice Chair on the HIMSS
Board of Managers. 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.

Prior to IHiS, Dr Chong was the CEO of NCS. She was instrumental in its growth as a regional IT
company and was also involved with the development of the national e-government Masterplan
and spearheaded SME technology adoption at the national level.

Dr Chong is Chair of the Board of Advisors for the School of Computing & Information Sciences at
Singapore Management University. She also sits on the boards of Wilmar International Holdings