John Yong is senior advisor of Singapore Institute of Technology, and senior advisor and board member to several MNC, public, private and social enterprises such as SATA Health (Singapore), Singapore Pool (Singapore), and IDG Consulting (Vietnam). John also serves as a mentor to several fintech start-ups. He is the former Group Director of Infocomm Security Group, Gov’t Chief Information Security Officer, formerly known as Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), currently known as GovTech. John holds a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Salford, United Kingdom.