Jefferson Wat
President of SME Global Alliance
Founding Executive Vice President of Hong Kong Crowdfunding Association
Honorary Advisor of Institute of Financial Technologists of Asia
Fellow Certified Professional Economist of Hong Kong Society of Economists
Founding President of Cloud Computing & Big Data Management Association
Founding & Existing Vice Chairman of Information & Software Industry Association
Life Fellow of Hong Kong Computer Society (HKCS)
Coach of Innovation & Entrepreneurship Club of HKCS
Student Finance Joint Committee Member (2001 – 2006)
HK Computer Emergency Response Team (HKCERT) Advisory Committee Member
A 40-year veteran with software development & management experience on large scale information technology systems, who had worked for IBM, Renful Computer, Jardine Logica, Unisys (Sperry), etc. Jefferson has been a technological pioneer in Hong Kong. Renful Chinese Computer was one of the very first Chinese computer vendors in greater China region back in 1983. With some American partners in Hong Kong, he designed & developed a 112-line computerized fax system in 1988. Later, he got a Venture Capital fund to lift the product to a new level. He also started an ISP operation in late 1995, pioneered the development of a Bilingual Search Engine in 1996, and entered the Hong Kong Science & Technology Park in 1997. He secured another venture fund in 1999 to help preparing for the GEM listing on the HK Stock Exchange. After the Internet bubble burst, he got into the Science Park again with a mobile POS using Palm OS in 2000. Since then, Jefferson has been focusing on IT Applications for SME, Retail Solutions, E-Marketing, Open Source, Software Quality, Information Security, and Cloud Computing. Have been a CMMI (USA NASA standard including Software Development Security measures) Software Quality Consultant since 2002, and involved in preparing Legal Expert Report for the court case DCCJ 2307/2007 on software implementation & IT outsourcing service quality issues from the user perspectives. He has more than 50 Innovation & Technology mentees from various universities including HKUST, CUHK, HKU, and so on.
Master of Science, Computer Science, Iowa State University U.S.A. (1982)
Bachelor of Science, Electronics, C.U.H.K. (1977)
