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Speaker Profiles Workshop on Transforming Moldova with ICT: Sharing the Singapore Experience December 15 - 16, 2009 LOW AIK LIM, Deputy Director, Enterprise Infocomm, Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore Mr. Low Aik Lim is the Deputy Director of Enterprise Infocomm in IDA. He leads the Infocomm Vertical team that drives initiatives and programs along growth verticals such as Mobility, Shared IT Services and iGovernment. This work entails strengthening partnerships with infocomm MNCs; growing the pool of local infocomm enterprises, and delivering strategic programs that will strengthen the capabilities of the infocomm industry. In these capacities, he identifies the growth needs of infocomm enterprise in their growth lifecycle, and work out the relevant assistance schemes and programs to help these companies. These range from providing government product grants, clustering of companies with complementary capabilities/solutions/products, to partnership with more established infocomm MNCs with wider market outreach in the region to help them regionalize. Other activities include organizing the companies to overseas mission trips and also grouping in trade shows, both here in Singapore as well as overseas. In deepening strategic relationships with the infocomm MNCs, he looks at delivering programs that are mutually beneficial to the MNCs and the Singapore economy. These include managing strategic programs such as Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Overseas Development Program (ODP) and the infocomm Local Industry Upgrading Program (iLIUP). In his career in IDA, he has worked in various positions including work relating to the growth of E-Commerce, the development of an E-Commerce Infrastructure in Singapore and the infocomm industry’s internationalization efforts. Sebastian Foo, Executive Consultant, IDA International Mr. Sebastian Foo is an Executive Consultant at IDA International Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of the Infocommunications Develo