Professor Virginia Cha is a highly sought-after educator of innovation and entrepreneurship.
She has a joint appointment as Adjunct Professor at the NUS Business School and NUS College
of Design & Engineering. In addition, she also spearheads curriculum design at the Singapore
MIT Alliance for Research and Design (SMART) for their research commercialisation programmes.
In her multi-faceted industry and academic career spanning more than four decades across many
countries, Virginia has been in many different roles in technology, executive management, and
technology commercialisation. She was also the founder or sole founder and CEO of multiple
venture-funded, high-tech companies in Singapore and China, with listings on NASDAQ and HKSE.
Virginia began her Third Transition when a chance meeting with the late Professor Phil Anderson
of INSEAD inspired her to step away from a lifetime business and technology executive career.
It led her to enrol in NUS to pursue a PhD, not as a career transition choice, but as an
intellectual pursuit. She received her PhD five years later in her early fifties and has since
found renewed joy, purpose, and new relationships as an Adjunct Professor in multiple educational
institutions.
She is now spearheading the DSFP for accomplished senior leaders in Asia to navigate their Third
Transition with clarity and confidence.