Board of Management

CEO - Francis Quek – BBA MBA FAICD MIEEE MACS MSCS MISACA
A seasoned professional IT guru and well respected in the IT industry in this region, Francis brings a wide range of experience from international conglomerates. He has more than 20 years of working experience across Asia Pacific, including in Australia, Greater China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand.

His extensive experience ranging from full spectrum of IT operation and system development to infrastructure support, communication, eCommerce, Help Desk, IT Security, SOX compliances, COBIT, ITIL, COSO, IT security, PMO, SSC, Outsourcing, SLA, SOA, Vendor management, ISO7799, Six Sigma, 5S, etc

He was previously the Chief Information Technology Officer of COSCO group, the 5th largest SOE in PR China with 6 public listed subsidiaries and more than 65,000 employees. Other positions held previously include;
- Regional IT Director at KPMG Asia Anchor Practice, supporting over 7,500 users in the region, which covers KPMG offices in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing and Macau.
- Asia Pacific IT Director of UPS Supply Chain Solutions and led 103 staff in 14 Asian countries.

CEO's Profiles

CTO- Derek Wong - BBA ~ Major: Business Computer Information System
A seasoned IT advisor proficient in business application development lifecycle, project management, system analysis, architecture design and strategic systems planning including automated management methodologies across mainframe and client-server architectures.

His extensive experience ranging from automating (New York City) education sector financial invoice-to-payment life cycle, EDI, COBOL, CICS, HostBridge, MQ, mainframe and mid range application operation, including Microsoft .NET architecture, SAP, SQL, Oracle 8i database management and system development.
He was a part founder of Future Technology Associates in Jacksonville, Florida, a IT consulting firm specialize in education sector technology, previous position held includes,
- Associate Principal in TIER Technologies. Inc. Reston, Virginia, USA
- Senior Consultant in KPMG/Bearing Point Inc. Tysons Corner, Virginia, USA.
- COBOL and Database Tutor in University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, USA.
Board Of Management

COO – Dr Jephte Sompud – PhD
A leading wildlife conservation scientist in Malaysia that has a strong interest in the development of best practice model, utilizing information technology and professional IT services to enhanced the analytical and data mining scope to help wildlife conservation.

Dr Sompud is also a pioneer in wild elephant research in Malaysia working closely with Malaysia National Park and Wildlife Department and has contributed to 9 episodes of wildlife documentary film titled ‘MERGASTUA’ aired in RTM1 and he has contributed to the following publications.

- Bennett E.L., Nyaoi, A.J. and Sompud, J., 1995. A report on the completion of a study to investigate the effects of hunting on wildlife in Sabah and Sarawak. Wildlife Conservation Society, New York.

- Bennett, E.L., Nyaoi, A.J. and Sompud, J., 1996. Hornbill and Culture: a dilemma. Sarawak Gazette 123: 4-8.

- Bennett E.L., Nyaoi, A.J. and Sompud, J., 1997. Hornbills Buceros spp. and culture in Northern Borneo: can they continue to co-exist? Biological Conservation 82: 41-46.

- Bennett E.L., Nyaoi, A.J. and Sompud, J., 2000. Saving Borneo’s Bacon. In Robinson J. and Bennett E.L. (eds.) Hunting for sustainability in Tropical Forests, 305 – 324. Columbia University Press, New York.

Executive Director (Share Services Outsourcing) - Gavin Wong - BA (Hons)
A devoted IT worker with dedication in the quality of service delivery and customer satisfaction having an in depth knowledge in IT Infrastructure support, Networking, Database Administration and all aspect of desktop support expertise including software development and web solution enabling.

He is also a certified Six Sigma business process and Six Sigma process design expert, experience in the overall improvement of service quality throughput and reduction of technical service delivery blind spot through adoption of world class best practices, IT standards and methodology such as ITIL, COBIT and Prince2.

Head R & D - Dr. Amy Hui Zhang – PhD in Computer Science.
Dr Zhang specialized in the development and research in computer image Processing and Computer Vision manipulation including development of application in Multimedia Computing. She led and contributed to the success development of various advanced graphically applications including the Reconstruction of Human Face Model research with Microsoft Visual Laboratory in Zhejiang University and camera Calibration from Image of Spheres and self calibration and Motion recovery from Silhouettes of Uncalibrated Turntable Motion and has contributed to the following publications:-

1. H. Zhang, G. Zhang and K.-Y.K. Wong, Camera Calibration with Images of Spheres, to appear in Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI07), March, 2007.

2. H. Zhang, G. Zhang and K.-Y.K. Wong, Motion Recovery and Self-calibration from Silhouettes for Turntable Sequences, submitted to Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI06), 2006.

3. G. Zhang H. Zhang, and K.-Y.K. Wong, 1D Camera Geometry and Its Application to Circular Motion Estimation, British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC06), UK, 0906.

4. H. Zhang and K.-Y. K. Wong, Camera Calibration from a Translation + Planar Motion. In Proc. 8th IASTED International Conference on Signal and Image Processing (SIP 2006), pages 195-200, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, Aug. 2006.

5. H. Zhang, G. Zhang and K.-Y.K. Wong, Camera Calibration with Spheres: Linear Approaches, In Proc. International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP05), volume II, pages 1150-1153, Genova, Italy, September 2005.

6. H. Zhang, G. Zhang and K.-Y.K. Wong, Auto-Calibration and Motion Recovery from Silhouettes for Turntable Sequences, In Proc. British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC05), volume I, pages 79-88, Oxford, UK, September 2005.

7. H. Zhang, K.-Y.K. Wong and P.R.S. Mendonca, Reconstruction of Surface of Revolution from Multiple Uncalibrated Views: A Bundle-Adjustment Approach, In Proc. Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV2004), pages 378-383, Jeju Island, Korea, January 2004.

8. R. Liang, C. Chen, Z. Pan and H. Zhang, A Fast Model Reconstruction Algorithm for 3D Unorganized Points, Journal of Image and Graphics (Chinese). 8(1): 63-67, 2003.

9. R. Liang, C. Chen and H. Zhang, An Algorithm for Reconstructing the 3D Model of Realistic Human Faces, Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (Chinese). 16(1):116-121, 2003.

10. R. Liang, C. Chen, Z. Pan and H. Zhang, A New Algorithm for 3D Facial Modal Reconstruction and Its Application in VR, Proceedings of the International Conference on Virtual Reality and its Application in Industry (VRAI02), pages 9-12, Hangzhou, China, April 2002.

11. J. Yang, J. Shi, Z. Jin, H. Zhang, Design and implementation of a large-scale hybrid distributed graphics system, EGPGV, pages 39-49, 2002.

12. H. Zhang, M. Zhang, Z. Pan, Real-time Navigation and Interactive Viewing of Distributed VRML Scenes, Transaction of System Emulation (Chinese), No. 3, 2001.