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 four 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, Edgar Tan Edgar is co-founder of Singapore-based KM research and consulting firm Straits Knowledge. He arrived in KM via human resource development. For the past decade he has worked with numerous organisations on their KM programmes. He has co-authored several 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. Edgar majored in Sociology and has a MSc in Training and Performance Management.
	Vice President, Lim Kwang Kok Kwang Kok is the Deputy Director of the Knowledge, Productivity and Quality 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 and Young and the Dow Jones Consulting Group. Holding a Master in Business Administration, from the University of Bradford, his earlier experiences included working 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.
	Vice President, Rosalind Gan Rosalind is heading the KM unit at the Ministry of Manpower (MOM). She has 5 years of experience in KM and is currently overseeing the implementation of MOM’s KM plans to ensure that the necessary systems, processes and culture are in place to develop a well-connected One-MOM that is able to learn and share information and knowledge effectively.  Her portfolio includes the review of MOM KM strategies and framework, MOM Intranet, Intellectual Property Management, Communities of Practice (CoPs) and promoting a knowledge sharing and collaborative culture. Before entering into the world of KM, Rosalind was an IT professional with 8 years of experience in product marketing, business analysis, project management and implementation, software training and customisation, working for organisations including DSTA (SCO) in the defence technology sector and Gen Re in the reinsurance industry.
	Secretary , Grace Poh Grace Poh is currently with the Knowledge, Productivity and Quality Division in the National Library Board (NLB). Her work at NLB has seen her involvement in numerous KM initiatives within the organisation. Her current portfolio spans across both records management (RM) and KM. She heads the registry function in NLB and is looking into the building of a new records repository for the organisation. Her interests are in RM, enterprise content management and communities of practice.
	Treasurer, 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, Eileen Tan Eileen is the Regional Manager for KM and Communications at the 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.
	Member, 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.
	Member, Goh Wee Siang Wee Siang is the Assistant Director, KM of the Strategic Planning and Training Division in Subordinate Courts. Wee Siang has been involved in nurturing knowledge sharing culture and fostering collaborations in various public-sector agencies. Her interests in KM are in building communities and collaborative behaviours in organisations and recently, in enterprise content management and technological platforms to support collaborations.
	Member, Janaky Grant Dr Janaky Grant is the founder of Grant Connexions and an Organization Development Specialist with experience spanning 20 years as Organization Development Researcher & Consultant. Dr Grant brings a people and process focus to the field of organizational knowledge. Her approach to consulting is practical and fact based strengthened by her research and consulting background within the diverse and multicultural environment of Asia Pacific. Her clients include organisations from various sectors - academic, voluntary, multinational and government. Janaky holds a Doctoral degree in Business Administration from Macquarie University, Australia. Her thesis on ‘Enabling Knowledge Creating Workplaces’ has far reaching implications for talent engagement across organizational and geographic boundaries. She also holds a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and an MBA in Human Resource Management. Janaky has been a speaker at management forums at the Irish Academy of Management Dublin, iKMS Singapore and published articles online as well as management conferences.
	Member, Karuna Ramanathan Karuna Ramanathan has served in the Singapore Armed Forces for more than 25 years, and as a career Naval Officer completed two warship commands. In 2005 he joined the Center for Leadership Development in the Singapore Armed Forces, and currently as itsDeputy Head oversees future development aspects of leadership development. Some of his current projects include the Action Learning Process, Narrative Knowledge for Operational Learning, KM within a lessons-learnt operational environment, Storytelling and Summarisation. He is also studying into teams and their learning development, and is the project director for LEADERnet, which is a web-based KM system.In advanced stages of doctoral research on tacit knowledge transfer, Karuna is also currently adjunct faculty in the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), where he teaches knowledge management at the postgraduate-level. He has presented at numerous conferences both local and abroad, published several papers and book chapters, and is frequently invited to conduct workshops on knowledge management and storytelling.
	Member, Mark Hamilton Mark has initiated, developed and researched a number of Knowledge Management systems and processes. He pioneered the use of wikis, blogs, social networking, and other social tools for KM at the British Council before they were fashionable. He co-lead the British Council’s global Sharepoint pilot project in Singapore. He established and promoted KM principles and practices as part of internal & external training in his former role as course facilitator, trainer and course author at the British Council. He commissioned and managed research projects in KM practices at the British Council. He manages KM staff in Singapore, advises the team responsible for the British Council's most successful digital products on KM solutions and best practice, and leads the British Council’s global taxonomy and metadata project. Mark was co-opted to the iKMS Exco serving half a term. He was then elected as Vice-President serving for a short time during which he lead the iKMS Members' Website project. He has championed the use of the British Council as a venue to hold iKMS events at no cost to iKMS and its members. In his current role on Exco, Mark promotes and manages evening events, and facilitates collaboration between iKMS members and partners to develop opportunities for IKM professionals.
	Member, Roan Julius Indra Roan Julius Indra is an author of Social Collaboration e-book, and a thought leader in this area. He is an expert in designing incentives and exploiting people’s self-interest to enable bottom-up Collaboration, Innovation, and Knowledge Management in communities or in organisations. He has a Master degree in Knowledge Management, from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), and a Bachelor degree in Mathematics with Management Science, from National University of Singapore (NUS).
	Member, Yvonne Wong Yvonne has more than 10 years of working experience mostly in the public sector and in the areas of Enforcement, Human Resource Management and Development, Knowledge Management and Organisation Excellence/ Development. She has experience in leading a KM team and helped IRAS achieved the KM Excellence Awards (Silver) in 2009. She drove several KM initiatives and had managed several KM projects such as KM Strategy Review project, Knowledge and Information Management policy project and Intranet Redesign project. She is currently working in NCS Pte Ltd as a Knowledge Manager and her current key area of focus is collaboration.