ABOUT ROBERT BONG

Dr Robert Bong, a former Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of a number of public listed companies, has more than thirty years of corporate leadership and management experience working and living in the USA, Europe, India, China and Asia Pacific countries. His key accomplishments include leading the start-up, operation and restructuring of entrepreneurial, multinational and government-linked organizations, private as well as public listed companies.

Robert founded CRICT in Boston, M.A. in early 2000, CRICT is a highly specialized professional services company providing their clients with hands-on advisory and consultancy services in corporate restructuring, financial turnaround, and technology start-up ventures.  Today, CRICT operates out of Singapore, Beijing, China, and Bangalore, India.  Robert is currently based out of the Beijing office in China and travels to India on alternative months.

He has special interest in technology sector in emerging economies. He provides advisory and consultancy services to multinational corporations from USA, Europe, Australia and India planning to enter China and to local technology start-ups in China and India.  In addition, he works with INSEAD Business School as an Entrepreneur-In-Residence, Harvard Business School as International Executive Mentor and TsingHua University as Coach for doctoral and master students.

Present Appointments:

• Advisor for the Board of ABO Venture LLC;
• Advisor for the Board of DiLu Online Company Limited;
• Advisor for the Board of XID Technologies Pte Ltd;
• Advisor for the Board of Tagit Pte Ltd;
• Advisor, Council Member and Educator for Gerson Lehrman Group Councils;
• Independent Director/Audit Committee Member on the Board of Transmarco Limited;
• Director on the Board of Consistel Pte Ltd;
• Director on the Board of i-TransAct Technologies Sdn Bhd;
• Principal Consultant of CRICT Research & Consulting Group; and

Past Appointments:

• Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Keppel T&T Ltd;
• Chairman on the Board of Radiance Communications Asia (SingTel/Keppel JV);
• Director on the Board of SVOA Public Company Limited, Bangkok Thailand;
• Director on the Board of Computer Generated Solutions Group (CGS), USA,
• Managing Director and Vice President of Nortel Networks;
• EXCO Member of Lanka Bell, Sri Lanka;
• Executive Director of Citri Communications Group; and
• Executive of Xerox Engineering Information System Group

Having spent extensive amount of time in India, Robert participated in the structural transformation of the global software development and IT services industries and the subsequent emergence of the Business Process and IT Outsourcing businesses from India. He is now heavily engaged in the social transformation and globalization of the Chinese economy in China.  Robert comes from a diverse cultural background and is fluent in multiple languages including English and Chinese (Mandarin).