Our Board of Advisors
Dr. Ngiam Tong Tau
Dr Ngiam Tong Tau was formerly the CEO of the AgriFood and Veterinary Authority of Singapore and currently sits on the board of Temasek Foundation Innovates. He also sits on the Boards of several food and agriculture related companies. Dr Ngiam has special interest and experience in preventive veterinary medicine; veterinary public health; food safety; sustainable Agrotechnology in the peri-urban and urban areas; pig and fish farming and animal waste management and treatment. He currently provides consultancy and technical support services in these areas to several companies in Singapore and China.
Dr Ngiam had been at the helm of agriculture and veterinary developments in Singapore over a span of 21 years from 1984 until 2005. As the Director of Primary Production, Ministry of National Development from 1984 until 1999 and as the Chief Executive Officer and Director General of the AgriFood and Veterinary Authority of Singapore from 1999 until his retirement in August 2005, Dr Ngiam had been responsible for all matters pertaining to food, agriculture and veterinary medicine in Singapore. He was responsible for establishing a Food Safety Program which has kept the food supply safe for Singapore. He also established programs to ensure adequate overseas sources and supply of safe food for the Singapore market. He is recognized as the architect for the development of Agrotechnology Parks as well as Aquaculture in Singapore and for keeping Singapore free from exotic infectious diseases in plants, animals and fish. Dr Ngiam was also an Adjunct Professor at the School of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore from 1993-2005.
For his distinguished service, Dr Ngiam has been awarded several national honours including the Meritorious Service Medal; the Public Administration Medal (Gold); Friend of Labour Award; the National Trade Union Congress Meritorious Service Medal; Honorary Fellow, Singapore Institute of Food Science and Technology and Honorary Member Singapore Veterinary Association.
Dr. Ngiam Tong Tau
Christopher Yeo
Christopher Yeo has worked in the IT industry for 25 years. He entered it after graduating with a computer science and mathematics degree. His experience spans creating new products to creating new companies, including a software company that grew from inception in 1994 into an internationally-acclaimed supply chain execution software solutions provider. This company designed and built large-scale real-time systems deployed globally for Fortune 500 global companies, like Panasonic and FedEx. Chris was actively involved in the programming, while steering the company as Chief Executive. More recently, he was Chief Technology Officer, responsible for putting in place a highly scalable and robust architecture and infrastructure empowering rednano.sg and Rednano LOCATE, Singapore Press Holdings' directory and mobile search application, to provide award-winning services. He is passionate about cloud computing, search and Web 2.0 technologies and is currently designing and architecting real-time applications that live natively in the cloud, and researching the use of GPUs to power massively parallel algorithms in the cloud. An active participant in online social networks, he blogs about topics ranging from technology to photography, and continues to do software coding
Christopher Yeo
Dr. Steve Kardinal Jusuf
Dr. Steve Kardinal Jusuf is an Assistant Professor in Engineering Cluster, Sustainable Infrastructure Engineering (Building Services) Program, Singapore Institute of Technology. He has a PhD in Building Science from the Department of Building, National University of Singapore. He received the World Future Foundation PhD Prize in Environmental and Sustainability Research for his PhD work on air temperature prediction model within urban climatic mapping method (STEVE Tool). His research interests include Urban microclimate; Building Information Modelling (BIM) especially in Facility Management and building energy simulation; Building natural ventilation and passive design; and Green building technology, e.g. green roof, vertical greenery, solar PV. He has worked in a number of research projects with various Singapore government agencies, mainly in the topic of urban microclimate for sustainable urban development.
Dr. Steve Kardinal Jusuf
Dr. Patrick Armengaud
Dr. Patrick Armengaud is a plant and computing scientist at ITK, a knowledge integrator committed to developing easy-to-use, efficient and useful decision-making tools that connect scientific research with production agriculture and allied industries to drive value to the company, its stakeholders and customers. As a Project manager and Agile Product Owner in ITK, he helps develop agronomic decision support tools. Prior to joining ITK, he was a plant physiology consultant in MARS, a research scientist in INRA and a research scientist in the University of Glasgow. Patrick holds a PhD in plant biology from Université de Picardie Jules Verne (Amiens).
Dr. Patrick Armengaud
Dr. Ethan Chong
Dr. Patrick Armengaud is a plant and computing scientist at ITK, a knowledge integrator committed to developing easy-to-use, efficient and useful decision-making tools that connect scientific research with production agriculture and allied industries to drive value to the company, its stakeholders and customers. As a Project manager and Agile Product Owner in ITK, he helps develop agronomic decision support tools. Prior to joining ITK, he was a plant physiology consultant in MARS, a research scientist in INRA and a research scientist in the University of Glasgow. Patrick holds a PhD in plant biology from Université de Picardie Jules Verne (Amiens).
Dr. Ethan Chong
Our Board of Directors
Sven Yeo
Chief Technology Officer, Co-Founder
Sven Yeo is a serial entrepreneur who previously founded/co-founded the companies In Vitro, BioVocate and BioMachines. Previously, he served as the CEO of BioMachines, an Internet-of-Things startup that developed a platform technology specialising in applications for Agriculture and Smart Cities. Under his leadership, the company became profitable and generated revenues exceeding a million within the 2nd year and has grown the team from 4 to above 10 during his tenure. Their clients included research institutes, government agencies and MNCs in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and the US. Sven graduated from NTU with a Bachelor of Biological Sciences and is passionate about entrepreneurship, design and technology.
Sven Yeo
CTO, Co-Founder
Vincent Wei
Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder
Prior to starting Archisen, Vincent Wei co-founded BioMachines, a startup that developed a platform technology specialising in applications for Agriculture and Smart Cities. As the COO of BioMachines, he developed and managed projects that involve sensor instrumentation, sensor integration, wireless communications, pervasive networks, cloud computing, and environmental monitoring. As the CFO, he helped the company generate $2.5M in revenue from 2012 to 2015. Vincent holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from National University of Singapore. Throughout his career, Vincent has developed a wealth of experience in various IOT projects, including the areas of Agriculture, Urban Microclimate, Geotechnical Monitoring, Remote Surveillance, Wireless Sensor Networks, Urban Greenery, Environmental Monitoring and Tree Growth Analysis.
Vincent Wei
CEO, Co-Founder
Hyuk-tae
Director
Hyuk-tae is CEO and Co-founder of Pine Venture Partners, a Registered Fund Management Company under the Monetary Authority of Singapore. He brings 10+ years of experience in finance and start up and has built a successful track record of investing and supporting tech companies from South Korea, China, Singapore and the US that have become global leaders in their industry. He is particularly interested in investing in companies with disruptive technologies and dedicated entrepreneurs that can advance our human societies in a smarter and meaningful way.
He started career at Goldman Sachs Japan and Goldman Sachs Singapore. He received a Bachelor of Commerce from Queen’s University in Canada with exchange program at Guanghua School of Management at Peking University.