iKMS Executive Committee

The iKMS Executive Committee is elected for a two-year term at alternate Annual General Meetings of the Society (AGMs). AGMs are usually held in January or February of each year.

The Executive Committee meets approximately six times per year to determine the programmes and activities of the Society and to make expenditure decisions, in line with the expressed wishes of the members at the AGMs. The Executive Committee also forms working sub-committees to work on special projects for the Society.

The President is the Chair of the General Meetings and of the Executive Committee, and represents the Society in its dealings with external parties.

President, Ng Kok Chuan
Kok Chuan is currently the Deputy Directory (Knowledge Manager) at Defence Science & Technology Agency (DSTA). Kok Chuan plays key role in facilitating the development of DSTA as Knowledege Enterprise, and works closely with various business entities to incorporate KM practices within their business processes and KM applications to support continuous learning, collaboration and innovation. He holds Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical Engineering) from NUS, and MSc(Operations Research) from Naval Post-graduate School (NPS), US. He also studied at Advanced Management Program at the Information Resource Management College (IRMC), National Defence University, US.

Vice President, Simon Goh
Simon is presently working as KM Architect in the NCS Pte Ltd. In NCS, he leads the design of the KM program and to enhance both work and social collaboration. Prior to joining NCS, he worked in the KM department of the Singapore Sports Council, where he led its corporate Intranet redesign and assisted in various KM initiatives. His work at HP has brought him both implementation and operational experience in ECM tools. His interest lies with designing good Intranets and enhancing collaboration. He graduated with a Bachelor of Computing from the NUS and a Diploma in IT from NYP. He reflects his experiences at Ambient KM.

Vice President, Mohd Bismillah
Mohammed Bismillah or Bis is widely experienced in implementing both Knowledge Management and Innovation programs within the public service since 2001. He has worked with the Ministry of Law, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Health Promotion Board and is currently with the Singapore Youth Olympic Game Organising Committee (SYOGOC). As a practitioner, his achievements include leading a project team to study innovation and knowledge sharing culture, developing KM framework and roadmap, designing a web-based innovation and collaboration platform and running KM awareness campaigns and activists programme. Bis is passionate in exploring the possibilities of Web 2.0, the cross-dependency of innovation and KM and the people aspect of KM.

Secretary, Noor Faridah
Faridah is a lecturer with the Temasek Informatics & IT School, Temasek Polytechnic. She has ten years of academic experience in various areas including web design, Internet & market research, marketing & public relations and information & knowledge management. Prior to teaching, she has had eleven years of industry experience as an Information Specialist in a Business Information Centre of Singapore’s national trade promotion agency, Singapore Trade Development Board (STDB), now known as IE Singapore. Her KM interests include organisational structure, culture, KM tools and knowledge discovery. She graduated with MSc (Information Studies) from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, BA from National University of Singapore and Graduate Diploma of Social Science in Professional Counselling from Swinburne University of Technology, Australia.

Treasurer, Lim Kwang Kok
Kwang Kok is the Deputy Director of the Knowledge and Quality Management division of the National Library Board of Singapore. His involvement in the various areas of KM has seen him handle projects for government and private sector organisations while working with Ernst & Young and the Dow Jones Consulting Group. Holding a Master in Business Administration, from University of Bradford, his earlier experiences included working in the field of quality improvement for a Japanese multinational in Malaysia. KK (as he likes to be called) has been interested in the area of KM for more than a decade, with lately an interest in taxonomy design and the effects of web technologies on collaboration.

Member, Lee Foon Yee
Foon Yee is a lecturer with the School of Information Technology, Nanyang Polytechnic. Her current teaching areas include knowledge management, electronic commerce, internet application development, XML and web services. She is a graduate from National University of Singapore with a M.Sc in Computer and Information Science. Prior to teaching, she worked on infocomm projects for Ministry of Defence, Telco, bank and publishing house. Her KM interests include strategic management of knowledge, KM tools and knowledge discovery. She has previously served iKMS as an Exco Member, with responsibility for organising the Society’s Evening Talks.

Member, Edgar Tan
Edgar is co-founder of Singapore-based KM research and consulting firm Straits Knowledge. For the past seven years he has worked with several organisations in their KM implementation programmes. He has co-authored numerous reports, case studies, a set of method cards and a guidebook on KM. His interest is towards the people side of KM, ie how influencing an organisation’s culture can improve the outcome of its KM initiatives. He holds a MSc in Training and Performance Management.

Member, Olivier Amprimo
Olivier serves as Associate Director, Digital Resources and Services Division of the National Library Board of Singapore. He was previously a consultant at Headshift, a British social computing consultancy. He had also been working on international network and community management, designing and implementing CRM, reporting and community tools. He gave some lectures around KM at EM Lyon, a European leading Management School and participated in the we are smarter than me initiative as chapter moderator. He graduated a PhD in Management with a focus on the rejuvenation of Management in a knowledge-driven economy. His current interest is in knowledge management (KM), communities of practice (CoP), enterprise social computing (Enterprise 2.0), but also KPIs, behaviors and authority, representation and organization of the collective. He blogs at Veni Vidi Luxi.

Member, Syn Peck Khay
Peck Khay has spent the last 4 years in the Knowledge Management Department at Defence Science & Technology Agency (DSTA). Peck Khay handles KM initiatives in DSTA, working closely with the business owners and end-users to incorporate KM practices into their business processes, to support continuous learning, collaboration and innovation. Prior to this, Peck Khay has more than 10 years of experience in large-scale project management and complex system engineering. She holds a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) and Masters of Science (Computer Science) from National University of Singapore.

Member, Eileen Tan
Eileen Tan is the Regional Manager for Knowledge Management and Communications in British Council. She spearheads the establishment and development of a KM framework and approaches for the East Asia region through the management, maintenance and facilitation of regional networks; supporting them with regional intranet, collaboration sites and other appropriate technologies, tools and skills training.

Leading the regional knowledge champion’s network and marcoms network, Eileen is instrumental in the roll out of the global Internal Collaboration Project using SharePoint to support virtual team building and working to improve communication as well as promote and enable a knowledge sharing culture within the organisation. Currently, she is part of the global BC Digital team working on giving British Council online reputation a total makeover.

Besides KM, Eileen has more than fifteen years of experience working for both government and public-listed companies in the media, public relations, marketing and communications arena in business improvement, content management, change management as well as print and publishing.

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