Ngit liong wong biography of william

Wong Ngit Liong (born November 1941) is the Executive Chairman of Venture Corporation which he founded in 1984.^[1] In 2018, Venture Corporation had 15,000 employees.^[2]

Education and early career

Wong holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Malaya, a master's degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master of Business Administration degree from McGill University.^[2] Wong spent the first 12 years of his career with Hewlett-Packard (HP) where he held various management positions at HP headquarters in Palo Alto, California, was actively engaged in the start-up of HP Singapore, and was the founding Director and General Manager of HP Malaysia.^[2]

Honors

Wong was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National University of Singapore from 2004 to 2016.

During his tenure as Chairman, the National University of Singapore was transformed from a