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Speakers Biographies
Submitted by: Singapore
Information Technology Agreement
Dialogue
Singapore
29 March 2012
Akihiro Tanii
Vice Chairman, Trade Policy Committee, Japan Electronics & Information Technology Industries
Association.
Akihiro Tanii is Manager, International Relations Group, Corporate Division for Government & Public
Affairs of Panasonic Corporation. Since 1983, Mr. Tanii has worked in various departments within the
company, including the Corporate Overseas Management Division and the Corporate Publicity Division.
During his tenure with Panasonic, Mr. Tanii earned his Master of International Studies at Sophia
University in Tokyo. Mr. Tanii was Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard
University from 2003 to 2004.
John E. Matheson
Mr. Matheson is Intel’s Director of Legal Policy-Asia Pacific and is based in Singapore where he is
senior manager with Intel Technology Asia Pte Ltd. His current role includes responsibility for Intel’s
legal policy and law reform issues in Asia. Prior to this posting he was Group General Counsel for
Intel with responsibility for managing Intel’s regional legal team and legal operations across Asia
Pacific. He is an intellectual property lawyer by training and holds LL.B and M.Sc.(Hons) degrees from
the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Prior to joining Intel in Hong Kong in 1997 he was a
partner in Deacons, a Hong Kong-based law firm, serving in their Hong Kong and Tokyo offices. Mr.
Matheson is admitted to practice in Hong Kong, England, Australia & New Zealand and formally, as a
licensed foreign attorney in Japan. He has worked and lived in Asia for more than 20 years where his
principal focus areas have been IP and innovation together with ethics and compliance. He was the
recipient of Intel’s inaugural worldwide Excellence Award for significant impact, proactive thinking and
leadership in ethics. He has extensive experience in IP strategy, law reform and anti-counterfeiting
and since 2004 has served as a Vice Chair of the Quality Brands Protection Committee which
represents 200 MNCs with IP interests in China.
Sam Shen
Senior Industry Consultant and Director
IT & Electronics Industry Research Center
Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute (MIC),
Institute for Information Industry (III), Chinese Taipei.
Mr. Shen is responsible for managing MIC's business development and consulting services. He also
acts as Senior Industry Consultant, providing consultation to both governmental agencies and private
enterprises.
Mr. Shen has more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry. He first came to MIC in 1991,
researching software and information service industries. During his twelve years with MIC and other
divisions of III, Mr. Shen lead several major projects helping Chinese Taipei government formulate and
implement its IT industry development policy for the domestic software industry as well as the PC
industry supply chain incentive program. In 2000, he went on to start his own venture capital business,
successfully raising two funds focusing on software and IC design related industries in Chinese Taipei
and Silicon Valley, USA with a total of USD$28 million under management. Mr. Shen rejoined MIC as
Deputy General Director in 2004. Mr. Shen holds a Master of Public Affairs (MPA) degree with
concentration in Public Information System Management from Indiana University, USA.
Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute (MIC)
http://mic.iii.org.tw/english/index.asp
Shaifubahrim b. Mohd Saleh
Shaifubahrim Mohd Saleh has more than 27 years of hands-on strategic and operational management
experience working for 5 multinational companies in Malaysia and the region, as well as providing
consulting to Government and Private Enterprises. He is certified in Change Management by Pritchett
Rummler-Brache to consult in Corporate Growth, Culture Change and Performance Improvement. His
industry experience covers Information Technology, Telecommunications, Insurance, Government,
Defense and Public Utilities. He facilitates executive seminars on leadership and strategy locally and
abroad.
He has been extensively involved in the ICT industry in Malaysia, Middle East and across the Asian
region from managing ICT companies to advising national bodies in ICT policies and implementation.
He was a Board member of the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) Malaysia (1999-2004), Chapter
member of Talents-Ideas-Enterprise (TiE) Council, and was Board member of 3 public listed
companies namely Edaran Berhad, eBCapital Berhad and Redtone International Bhd.
Currently, Shaifu is the President of PIKOM, The National ICT Association of Malaysia, and recently
elected as President of the Malaysian Service Providers Confederation (MSPC). Aged 52, Shaifu holds
a Bachelors of Science (Hons) Degree in Computer and Management from the Universiti Sains
Malaysia. Married with 3 lovely kids, he resides in Petaling Jaya.