Dr. Tan is a veteran in the ICT industry with over 30 years of experience. He spent his first 15 years in the industry working in R&D at Motorola, consulting at Scientific Generics in Cambridge, England, and as the Managing Director of Goldtron Telecommunications, a company that designed and launched Singapore’s first type-approved GSM mobile handset. The next 15 years were spent in Government, initially at the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore as CTO and later in A*STAR, where he headed the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) as its Executive Director. Dr. Tan obtained his PhD from Cambridge University in 1990. He attended the Advanced Management Programme (AMP) at Wharton in 2007 and the Executive Programme at the Singularity University in 2011.