HEAD – BOARD OF ADVISORS - Professor WEE CHOW HOU

Professor Wee Chow Hou heads the Board of Advisors for MindWave Solutions. He also serves as the Head of Division for Marketing and International Business in the College of Business (Nanyang Business School).Professor Wee graduated from the University of Singapore with a BBA (Hons) in 1974, went on to pursue his MBA in the University of Western Ontario in 1976 and completed his PhD from the same university in 1984. Amongst his many achievements, Professor Wee was also a former Merit, Colombo Plan and Commonwealth Scholar, and winner of the Academy of Marketing Science (USA) PhD Paper Award in 1984 and the 1985 Doctoral Dissertation Award. One of his co-authored cases also won the 1999 Best Case Award in the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada. To date, he has over 230 publications in numerous international, regional and local journals and proceedings; and is the author/senior author of several best-selling books.

Professor Wee is best known for his works in relating Sun Zi Bingfa and other Chinese classics to modern business strategies and practices. His works include “Business Journey to the East: An East-West Perspective on Global-is-Asian”, “Doing Business in China: Insights and Perspectives”, “Sun Zi Bingfa: Selected Insights and Applications to Business”, “Sun Zi Art of War: An Illustrated Translation with Asian Perspectives and Insights” and “Non-Price Determinants of Intention to Purchase Counterfeit Goods: An Exploratory Study”

Currently, Professor Wee is on the editorial board member of various international publications like Thunderbird International Business Review (USA), Global Business and Organizational Excellence (USA), China Business Review (China) and Journal of Management (Taiwan). He has conferred and conducted executive training for more than 250 major organizations spanning across 30 economies/countries, including some Fortune 500 companies. Professor Wee sits on several boards of publicly listed companies in Singapore, and is also a member of various local and international advisory boards.

CHAIRMAN – MR.VINOD MENON

Mr. Vinod Menon is the Chairman of MindWave Solutions and has been one of the founders. As a 15-year veteran of the IT services industry, he has been the brain behind the strategic direction, growth and management of the company. Prior to his current endeavor, he has held important positions at several IT MNCs like Compaq & HP positioned across geographies.

Mr. Menon has a proven track record of setting up motivated and high caliber teams in the IT services industry; establishing development centers from scratch to scale; and building company competencies. Mr. Menon has been awarded 'Outstanding Entrepreneur Award 2011' by APEA, the 'Spirit of Enterprise 2010' by SOE Singapore and selected as a 'Leading Indian Entrepreneur of the year 2010' by the Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce. He is also serving as Vice-Chairman, with SiTF (Singapore Information Technology Federation) – BSC chapter.

Mr. Menon completed his Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Applications from India, with first-class honours. He also holds an Advanced Management Program (AMP) Certification from NTU-Berkeley (Haas Business School, California). Mr. Menon has also obtained EMBA from the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, one of the Top 30 Business Schools worldwide.

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER – MR.LEO HWA CHIANG

As CEO of MindWave Solutions, Mr. Leo is responsible for running all facets of the business. Mr. Leo has a proven executive management track record of more than 15 years of experience in the technology industry. Under his tutelage, MindWave is aiming to achieve the next big leap in its growth journey.

Prior to joining MindWave Solutions, Mr. Leo was the Business Development Director of Singapore IT Federation, responsible for the global business development activities. Previously, he served as the Regional Director and Digital Content Consultant of Korea IT Promotion Agency, where he led the design and implementation of sales and marketing strategies, for the Asia market.

Mr. Leo was also the co-founder and VP Business Development for Trustcopy Pte Ltd., where he led all sales and marketing functions for the company's first release of its groundbreaking secure-printing solution.

He serves as a member of the advisory committee of Singapore Polytechnic, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering.

Mr. Leo earned a first class honours in electrical engineering from University of New South Wales and an MBA from Deakin University. He is also a certified IT Project manager from Singapore Computer Society.

CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER – MS. ADITI NAYAK 

Being the co-founder and appointed Chief Operating Officer of MindWave Solutions, Ms. Aditi Nayak is responsible for the strategic and operational leadership at the company. Besides overseeing the daily operations of MindWave Solutions, Ms.Nayak also heads the Human Resources Function. 

She has over 9 years of experience in the Human Resource field, which began with a couple of corporate and academic internships while she was a Graduate at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago (USA). Soon, she was recruited by the United States Navy as a research scholar for their Navy Personnel Research Studies & Technology (NPRST) which plays an instrumental role in selection, hiring and retention of the Navy Personnel. Later, Ms. Nayak took up an assignment with TD Waterhouse (USA) as a Trainer across various functions like Human Resources & Marketing. She also holds an Advanced Management Program (AMP) Certification from Singapore Management University. She moved to Singapore in May 2004. In May 2005, she co-founded MindWave Solutions and has been instrumental in MindWave Solutions expansion to Malaysia and Australia.

Ms. Nayak is recognized for cultivating a culture of over-achievement at MindWave, enabling “ordinary people to do extraordinary things” via formal mentoring programs, comprehensive attitude and skills development, continuous learning, and a process-centric approach to things. 

COUNTRY HEAD (MALAYSIA) – MR. SOUMEN CHATTERJEE 

Mr. Soumen Chatterjee is the Country Head for Malaysia and holds the responsibility of national sales, operations & management of Malaysia entity of MindWave. He has over 19 years of international experience in the ICT Industry. Mr.Chatterjee is responsible for the business development and marketing efforts of Mindwave Solutions whilst maintaining Mindwave Solutions Operating Standards.

Prior to his tenure in Malaysia, he was in senior Management roles for MNCs like Datacraft, Frontline; various Government and corporate entities, being responsible for overseeing the management and execution of projects throughout Asia. Although, his work has taken him to many countries in the world, his geographical focus has been in Asia. His cultural horizon has grown to include India, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam. His business experience includes planning, negotiation and implementation of ICT systems and services. Mr. Chatterjee has overseen and supported the successful implementations of various ICT infrastructures and large application deployments in various countries. 

He has received his Post Graduate Degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, and holds management degree from NTU, University of Berkeley and Wharton School of Business.

HEAD, CENTER FOR BUSINESS ANALYTICS – MR. HARYYAKSHA GHOSH

Mr. Haryyaksha Ghosh brings in a combination of wide ranging analytics and technology experience having worked with leading organizations like Infosys Technologies Ltd., US Technology and Marketics Technologies. He has worked in the capacity of both Chief Analytics Officer and Assistant Director – Client Services, and has successfully leveraged deep level analytical capability to build large scale delivery teams and manage client relationships. He has been responsible for embedding advanced IT technology at every stage of analytical life cycle via the coupling of analytical prowess with IT enablers for clients in multiple industries. He headed innovation and strategic initiatives in Marketics (A WNS Group Company) for IBM US, EMEA, Japan and ANZ as Assistant Director – Client Services.

Mr. Ghosh has headed analytics delivery for MNC clients in various projects involving CRM Analytics, Web Analytics, Market Research, etc. as Chief Analytics Officer. He has provided analytics consulting support to host of corporate firms in the Media, Retail, CPG, IT, Insurance, e-Commerce, Healthcare, Telecom domains. He holds PGDM from IIM Calcutta, and Integrated M.Sc. from IIT Kharagpur in Physics & Meteorology. Passionate about broad-basing analytical awareness, Mr. Ghosh has trained in-house analytics teams of various MNCs on Business Analytics, and has also conducted workshops in academic institutes.