About Us

About Us

GLOBAL ADVISORY BOARD

The advisory board is comprised of an independent group of renowned industry experts who are leaders in their respective fields. They provide strategic and technical advice to the long term operations of Eastcom Systems.

Peter Hum

Peter Hum is the founder and managing director of StrateValue Pte Ltd. With more than 19 years of international business and global telecommunications experience, Peter is truly a pioneer in the Communications Lifecycle Management (CLM) space within Asia Pacific. Being a subject matter expert within CLM, Peter has contributed his vision and thought leadership to the growth of CLM over the past many years and has had the pleasure of providing strategic and operational guidance to senior level executives in some of the largest multinational organisations in the region.

Previously, Peter founded the Asia Pacific operations for Tangoe, the largest CLM vendor in the market. He has also held senior level positions at Eastcom Systems and Eicon Networks (now Dialogic)

Peter has been featured in leading Asian and industry IT publications, and has spoken at major conferences on TEM in Asia.

Peter is an Industry Leadership Council member at CTEMS and is an advisor on Telecom Expense Management (TEM) issues at Guidepoint Global Advisors.

He holds a Bachelor of Commerce with a specialisation in Management Information Systems (MIS) from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

	Deborah Torres Patel Deborah Torres Patel is an internationally acclaimed author, speaker, educator and communication consultant. She has worked in more than 65 countries and is the creator of a unique 5-part communication training program called Expressing You!® Deborah taught at UCLA (Los Angeles), NUS and NTU in Singapore and is currently on the Faculty at Nanyang Polytechnic for the Singapore Institute of Retail Studies (SIRS) and Asia Spa Institute (ASI) teaching brand communication, marketing, copywriting, executive presence, and voice & presentation skills.

	Dr. Rajah Kumar Dr. Rajah Kumar is President of the Malaysian International Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MICCI) and advisor and senior consultant to Philips Healthcare in Asia/Pacific. Dr. Kumar also serves on the board of the Malaysian Industrial Development Authority (MIDA) in addition to being on several workgroups in the Malaysian Economic Planning Unit (EPU). Previously, Dr. Kumar was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Philips Group of Companies in Malaysia from August 2002 until October 2008. Dr. Kumar is often invited to speak on various topics in management by SMU, ASLI, Marcus Evans and many other organizations and business schools in the region. Dr. Kumar is a physicist and electronics engineer with an MBA and a Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA)
	Ravi Subramanian Ravi Subramanian, a business transformation expert and high profile business executive brings more than 25 years in the telco and IT industry to Eastcom’s Global Advisory Board. Most recently, Ravi served as the Practice Head for Services business at Motorola within their Asia Pacific Home & Networks Division. Prior to this, Ravi was the Asia Pacific Director for Solutions & Support Services at VeriFone, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hewlett Packard. Ravi’s ICT career began with the House of Tatas, an iconic Indian conglomerate, where he held several key management roles across the globe. As its Country Head, he was instrumental in leading Tata Consultancy Services’ (TCS) exponential growth in the Japanese market and was instrumental in transforming Tata Technologies from a computer hardware maker to a profitable services-based organization as their General Manager. He received his Mechanical Engineering and post graduate Systems and Operations Management degrees from the University of Bombay. He is widely traveled having lived in the USA, UK, New Zealand, Japan, and India. Ravi is married with two children and is based in Singapore.
	Yap Tuck Keong Yap Tuck Keong, a highly influential and much sought after independent consultant and successful entrepreneur brings more than 25 years of industry IT experience to Eastcom’s Global Advisory Board. Previously, Tuck Keong spent 18 successive years at Maybank in various senior level management roles and several more years heading the shared services and IT organisations at both CSC and Prudential Corporate Asia in Malaysia. Tuck Keong is currently an advisor to several high tech companies in Malaysia.