Lin Hong Wong is presently Managing Director of Wingz Capital Pte Ltd, a company in Singapore that offers management and financial advisory services. Lin Hong is the author of “Venture Capital Fund Management: A Comprehensive Approach to Investment Practices & the Entire Operations of a VC Firm”, published by Aspatore Books (part of Thomson Reuters) in November 2005.

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 (www.sedb.com), 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 (Pte) Ltd was the private equity arm of Temasek Holdings (www.temasekholdings.com.sg), a Singapore government-owned investment firm with a global portfolio of more than US$100 billion in 2007.) 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.

Lin Hong and his management team restarted under Micropolis in 1986 and grew the Singapore operations to achieve an annualized revenue run rate of US$400 million at the time of his departure in 1990. Lin Hong started work in 1970 in the Singapore Economic Development Board, heading the electronics group, where he spent eleven years promoting the development of the electronics industry in Singapore, which is now the largest industrial sector in the economy. 

Lin Hong has a bachelor degree in electrical engineering and a diploma in business administration. He has served on the boards of listed companies (in USA and Singapore), boards of private companies, boards of governors of educational institutes and various government committees. He was awarded a Singapore Public Service Medal in 1992.

After spending three years (from 2003 to 2005) to write "Venture Capital Fund Management", Lin Hong is now offering venture capital and private equity consultancy and management consultancy services under his company, Wingz Capital Pte Ltd. In this capacity, he has completed a few assignments in Beijing, Shanghai, Ho Chi Minh City, Chennai and Singapore.

Other appointments currently held by Lin Hong are as follows:

o  Director & Consultant, HD Medical Group Ltd, Australia (www.hdmedicalgroup.com)

o  Chairman, ITE Holding Pte Ltd, Singapore (www.itees.com.sg)

o  Director, SPRING SEEDS Capital Pte Ltd (www.spring.gov.sg/seeds)

o  Managing Partner, Wingz LLP, Singapore (www.wingzllp.com)

Lin Hong is a member of the EDB Society (www.edbsoc.org) and the Singapore Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (www.svca.org.sg).

(Personal Website: www.lhwong.per.sg)