Management Profiles
EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS
Daniel Wong - CEO & Executive Director
Email: dwong@ami.vic.edu.au
Daniel has extensive banking experience spanning 29
years. His last position was Senior Vice President, Operations
(Planning and Budget) at the OCBC Bank (Overseas Chinese Banking
Corp) in Singapore.
Prior to that Daniel held the position of Assistant General
Manager, Head of the Operations Division at the Keppel TatLee Bank
(a Singapore government-owned bank) overseeing the entire backroom
operation of the bank with a staff strength of about 200. He was
also a member of the Management Committee of the Bank.
For about 15 years, Daniel lectured at the Institute of Banking
and Finance in Singapore, particularly in the area of Trade Finance.
He has had extensive lecturing experience in Singapore, and has
lectured in Indonesia, Malaysia and Myanmar.
Daniel holds a Diploma in Banking and Finance ( Singapore ) and
an MBA from the University of Western Sydney.
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Paul Kelly - Executive
Director & Director of Strategic Projects
Email: pkelly@ami.vic.edu.au
Paul is a graduate of the University of Melbourne. He
has had over 35 years’ experience in higher education, in a variety
of teaching and leadership roles including Associate Professor, Head
of the School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences,
and Head of the School of Engineering at the University of
Ballarat.
Under his leadership the school developed strong links with
industry and developed innovative programmes in computing that
included components of industry certification. While at the
University he developed a strong interest in fostering academic
studies for International students and continues that involvement
with AMI Education. For many years as a graduate of Mathematics he
taught Pure and Applied Mathematics and Dynamic Meteorology at
undergraduate level.
In later years, as computing developed as an industry, he changed
his academic focus to the study and implementation of Information
Technology. Research interests also included the development of
OnLine Learning systems and Object Oriented Programming
Technologies.
Throughout his years as a lecturer he was also active in
Educational and IT consulting.
Following retirement in 2001 he
has continued his interest in education through teaching eCommerce
and Management Consulting units in MBA programmes in China and Hong
Kong. He also acts as an educational consultant in the higher
education area.
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Mark Lo - Executive Director and Director of Marketing
Email: mlo@ami.vic.edu.au
Mark Lo had his first taste of lecturing with
Swinburne’s undergraduate program in 1976. After 2 years, he
returned to industry joining IBM Australia first in Melbourne and
later Sydney. He spent many years consulting with a specialisation
in IT strategic planning and management consulting with companies
such as Arthur Young & Co. and the then Montreal based DMR
Group.
He was Vice President for DMR Asia Pacific responsible for
Practice & Resources before joining Unisys Australia as their
Principal for the Southern Region. He was subsequently the Managing
Principal for Unisys Pacific’s Asian operation based in Singapore
overseeing 600 professionals across 10 countries. He also served as
Vice President, Unisys Corporation, responsible for the company’s
World Wide Work Flow and Imaging program. Based in Blue Bell,
Pennsylvania, Mark’s team supported the US$150m program across 38
countries in Pacific Asia, the Central & South Americas, Asia
Pacific, North America and Europe.
Over the last few years, Mark had served as Vice President –
Professional Services for an international business process
outsourcing organisation based in Hong Kong. Upon his return to
Melbourne, Mark was invited to rejoin DMR Consulting as their
Victorian State Manager before changing his direction back to
education at AMI in 2004.
Mark is a seasoned general manager and is particularly passionate
about training business leaders and managers for the future. His
extensive experience whilst consulting to the Australian industry
and international exposure enable him to share lots of real case
studies with his students.
As a trained counselor, Mark also
serves as student welfare counselor in AMI Education.
Mark is a
graduate of Swinburne University of Technology, a Fellow of the
Australian Institute of Management and an Adjunct Teaching Fellow
for Swinburne’s Master of Information Systems Program.
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HEADS OF DEPARTMENT (Academic)
Peng Ho, an accountant-banker-academic rolled
into one, is the Head of Accounting of AMI. Peng has been teaching
full time Diploma and Advanced Diploma courses in Business,
Accountancy and Banking & Financial services for the last 10
years and has also taught the offshore campus degree programmes of
the University of Canberra and University of Tasmania.
Previously the Head of Banking section of a major polytechnic in
Singapore , Peng managed and also taught the Diploma course in
Banking and Financial Services. He has always received above average
feedback from his students.
Before switching to an academic
career, Peng spent many years as a corporate banker in various major
international banks. These included Hongkong Bank, Svenska
Handelsbanken, a major Swedish bank and Challenge Bank, now the Bank
of Melbourne.
Peng is passionate about teaching, and having worked as an
auditor in a major international public auditing company and as a
corporate banker in various banks it has given him good exposure
that enables him to marry theory with practice in his teaching.
Besides just managing and teaching the course, Peng finds great
joy and satisfaction in helping young people “find themselves” and
to develop their full potential in life. Peng is no stranger to
living overseas alone as a foreign student because he completed his
Bachelor Economics degree with Monash University a while back. Years
later, he completed his Master of Business Administration with the
University of Adelaide.
Ask Peng for a quote and he will tell you, “The joy of teaching
is seeing students transform from caterpillars into
butterflies.”
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