Professor Virginia CHA is a leading educator of Innovation & Entrepreneurship with multiple appointments at Singapore’s leading tertiary education institutions.  She is an Adjunct Professor at NUS Business School in addition to teaching for other faculties and schools at NUS.    Notably, she is a faculty lead for Lean Launchpad@Singapore, a program managed and spearheaded by NUS Enterprise.

In her multi-faceted 40 year-long industry and academic career which spanned multiple countries, Virginia co-founded or was the sole-founder and CEO of multiple venture-funded, hi-tech companies in Singapore and China, with listings on NASDAQ and HKSE.   Virginia is also an active researcher, mentor, and angel investor in Singapore’s entrepreneur ecosystem with 16 start-up companies in her angel investment portfolio with operations in Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, USA, Finland, and the UK.  Virginia is also a Venture Partner and an Investor to iGlobe Partners, a leading Singapore-based global venture fund focused on Seed and Series A deep technology investmentss

Virginia earned her Bachelor of Science in Information Computer Science, University of Hawaii, and her PhD from the National University of Singapore.    She has lived in Hong Kong, Thailand, multiple cities in the U.S. and the P.R.C.  In her spare time, she creates irreverent comic strips on entrepreneurship under www.msbotu.com for fun, and reads wusha novels for philosophical inspirations.  She is a fan of Bruce Lee’s and Louis Cha’s books.