About the Author

Lin Hong Wong is presently Managing Director of Wingz Capital Pte Ltd, a company in Singapore that he set up to offer management and financial advisory services.

Lin Hong has ten years experience as a senior partner in a leading Asian venture capital firm, two and a half years in the mentoring and incubation of start-ups, nine years as a CEO in high-tech manufacturing firms and eleven years in the Singapore Economic Development Board, promoting the development of the electronics industry. He was previously the Managing Director for Business Development in Temasek Capital (Pte) Ltd from October 2000 to March 2003. (Temasek Capital was the private equity arm of Temasek Holdings, a Singapore government-owned investment firm with a global portfolio of more than US$50 billion.) His responsibility was to set up Temasek's incubation program, which provided funding, support and mentoring services to start-ups and early stage companies. The program was successfully established in Singapore, Chennai and Shenzhen and several investments into start-ups were made in these cities.

Prior to joining Temasek, Lin Hong was the EVP of Transpac Capital Pte Ltd, from 1990 to 2000. Transpac was established in 1986 (then known as Transtech) and grew to become one of the largest venture capital firms in South-East Asia, managing more than US$820 million of funds in 2000, which were invested in a broad range of companies in Asia and USA. Prior to Transpac, Lin Hong was the CEO of U.S. subsidiaries manufacturing disk drives in Singapore, from 1981 to 1990. This included starting up from scratch, Computer Memories Far East Ltd in 1983, which was sold to Micropolis Ltd for about US$30 million in 1986, resulting in a significant capital gain for the owners of Computer Memories.