As the Global Lead for the justice and public safety (JPS) market segment, Hong-Eng Koh leads Oracle’s global JPS strategy, initiatives, and activities. He serves as Oracle's JPS expert, offering thought leadership on global JPS trends and challenges, best practices, and technological implementations, and he facilitates the development and adoption of solutions for JPS customers, through Oracle's broad range of technology, applications, and hardware products, as well as third-party products. He also supports and enables field teams and partners, helping them serve their JPS customers more effectively and efficiently.
Mr. Koh spent more than nine years with Sun Microsystems before it was acquired by Oracle holding business development and sales leadership roles as well as acting as Global Lead for the JPS market. He was actively involved in many JPS projects globally, including citizens registry/ID; e-passport; border control system; advanced passenger information system; licensing system; command, control, and communications (C3) system; traffic incident management system; national disaster warning system; video surveillance system; electronics surveillance system; automated fingerprint identification system; criminal records system; investigation/case management system; court case management system; prisons management system; and e-police.
Mr. Koh started his career with the Singapore Police Force (SPF) after graduating under an SPF scholarship. He held various appointments including Senior Investigation Officer, Head of Crime Prevention and Community Policing, Police Spokesman, and Divisional Head of Operations and Training. His last appointment was as Head of the Computer Systems Division, where he led the technical implementation of various police operational and administrative systems including SPF's first internet project, one-stop change of address system, investigation management system, automated vehicle screening system, resource activation management system, casualty information system, C3 system, and criminal intelligence system. During his years of service in SPF, he received various awards including the Commissioner's Commendation and High Commendation, Good Service Medal, Long Service Medal, and Good Conduct Medal.
After leaving SPF and before joining Sun, Mr. Koh was in the systems integration business for a few years and was involved in various large government infrastructure and applications projects including government-wide networking and messaging projects and Singapore government projects.
Mr. Koh graduated from the National University of Singapore with an Upper Second-Class Honors degree in Mathematics. He obtained his MBA with Distinction from the University of Leeds (UK) and a Specialist Diploma in e-commerce from the Nanyang Polytechnic (Singapore). He is the Vice President (Corporate) of the Society for the Policing of Cyberspace (POLCYB), an international nonprofit society that promotes global partnerships with international criminal justice and corporate agencies to combat and prevent cyberspace crimes. Mr. Koh is also a member of the National Organ Transplant Ethics Committee, appointed by the Singapore Ministry of Health, and is a visiting researcher at the China Public Security University. He lives in Singapore with his wife and two children.
Senior Director (Global Lead), Justice and Public Safety
Oracle Public Sector