Mr. Wat is a technological pioneer and serial entrepreneur in Hong Kong, with over 40-year software development and management experience on large scale information technology systems, who had worked for IBM, Renful Computer, Jardine Logica, Unisys (Sperry), etc. 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 and 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, Mr. Wat has been focusing on IT Applications for SME, Retail Solutions, E-Marketing, Open Source, Software Quality, Information Security, and Cloud Computing. Mr. Wat has 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 (HK & SZ), HKU, and so on.
