A humble, happy and lucky serial education entrepreneur and an education community evangelist, who had a very unique past career as a Member of Parliament,Singapore; CEO of listed and non-listed entities;Assistant Secretary General of the Singapore National Trade Union Congress and concurrently Director, Skills & Productivity Development,NTUC ;Past and present Board member of about 20 government and non government organisations including Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Polytechnic,Institute of Technical Education, Parliamentary Committee Chairman of Education; Media Development Authority;Singapore Design Council; Housing Development Board;Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore,National Healthcare Group,Accel Frontline, First Class Learning Holdings Ltd,etc 
Educated in Harvard Business School , Loughborough University and Nanyang Technological University;UK Foreign & Commonwealth Scholarship and Esso Sports Scholarships 
Sports & Hobbies: Keen golf and tennis player and a former national hockey player and middle and long distance runner ; a writer and avid reader; designer of the first industrial robot in Singapore in 1986.