Stephen is SkyLab Group’s Chief Operating Officer and concurrently the Managing Director of its wholly owned subsidiary SkyLab Services. He is spearheading SkyLab’s effort in the implementation of large-scale enterprise grade and mission-critical IoT and edge computing solutions across different domains, including smart cities and strategic city management, maritime and logistics, leveraging on SkyLab’s end-to-end capabilities in optimizing the delivery of content, software and machine data globally. 

He has over 20 years of experience in managing large scale international business, city planning, design and technology consultancy, strategic city management, real estate investment and development as well as project management. His other areas of expertise includes strategy, business process re-engineering, business development, management and commercialisation of intellectual properties, public speaking and organisational development. Stephen’s extensive international experience ranges from China, South Asia, South East Asia, Middle East and Africa to Latin America.

Stephen has held numerous leadership positions in large publicly listed and private organisations such as then Surbana International Consultants and Surbana Technologies, Keppel Land International, Keppel Land China Limited and Wing Tai Asia. He started his career in the Housing Development Board and Ministry of National Development of Singapore. Prior to that, Stephen was a Research Scholar at the Data Storage Institute of ASTAR.

Stephen holds a MBA (High Honours) from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, a Master’s and Honour’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Singapore and a Masters of Arts (Contemporary China) from the Nanyang Technological University. Stephen has received numerous scholarships and awards for academic and research excellence.

On the professional front, Stephen is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and Institute of Engineers Singapore (IES) as well as that of the Beta Gamma Sigma Honour Society, and has held international leadership positions in both IEEE and IET. Stephen also sits on the Industry Advisory Board of Kaplan Singapore and is a Career Mentor in NUS’ Global Mentorship Program and Career Counselor with the Workforce Singapore’s Professional Conversion Program.