Singapore Ventures
Wong started the E-Global series, an award recognising intellectual ideas of aspiring and rising young individuals in Singapore. He collaborated with AMPRO, a Malay Muslim professional business organisation; Junior Chamber International, City JC Singapore; Innovators and Entrepreneur Association of Singapore (IdEAS) and other organisations to launch the E-Global Awards.
He partnered with Inderjit Singh, Dr. Khursheed Nizam and other Pakistani investor other Pakistani investor to hold Ecommerce Gateway as a private investment holding company for Pakistan business ventures. He later moved into private equity investment in 2004 after seeing the environmental destruction brought by the tsunami. His earlier acquisitions are all environmental related companies.
He was a partner in the desktop publishing firm Fu Manchu Designs (1991–93); worked in digital imaging and archiving where he authored the business plan and co-founded CD Imaging (1991–95), now known as Fotohub; was a founding partner in Rongsak & Shyan, an architecture visualising company (1994–96) before setting up his own architecture practice of Shyan Associates in end-1996. He headed CommerceTrust Limited, a public company founded by Dr. Toh See Kiat, a former member of parliament in Singapore.
Wong took over the leadership of CommerceNet Singapore in March 2000 as the Chief Executive Officer at the end of dotcom era, where he led its rebranding as 'CNSG', incubating companies that are undergoing transformation prior to seeking a listing on international stock exchanges as well as firms that had failed to secure normal funding from the open market. He also worked in the trust mark certification market in Singapore, rolling out CaseTrust before the internal split in CASE that led to a split between CNSG, Retail Promotion Centre and new CASE management. The split subsequently led to the launch of ConsumerTrust, BusinessTrust and PrivacyTrust in the trust mark market deployment programme. The programme was incorporated under the TrustSg programme. The programme subsequently made it to be part of Asia-Pacific Trustmark Alliance and Global Trustmark Alliance initiatives.
Wong co-founded the CNSG Consulting Group with Lawrence CS Ng, who currently heads the group. The group takes on projects mostly within ASEAN region and China. The consulting group often acts in tandem with CommerceNet's Consulting Partners. Together, changed the consulting group into private equity consultants (PEC) and a financial platform to 'project manage' leveraged buy-outs, corporate raids and reverse take-overs. The group led mergers and acquisitions in ASEAN and assembled the 'Guangdong Portfolios' .
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