Corporate Profile
Gogreen Holdings Pte. Ltd. (Incorporated October 15, 2008) is Asia's leading zero-emission transportation provider. Besides being the authorized dealer for Segway® products and accessories in Singapore, we also manage and operate 2 popular attractions within Sentosa, namely; Gogreen Segway® Eco Adventure and Gogreen Cycle & Island Explorer, both of which are well-loved by visitors for providing fun, leisure and educational experiences. Our attraction rides provide all guests with unique opportunities to have fun and experience nature beauty without leaving a negative impact on the environment.
For information on Gogreen holdings please visit www.gogreenholdings.com and for more information on our Segway® PT's please visit www.segwaysingapore.sg.
Board of Directors
Sorted in Alphabetical Order- Howard Kim Show Profile
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Howard Kim is the Chairman & Group MD of Jay-Young Company (JYC), a privately held diversified investment and business development company with high-level expertise to provide the necessary capabilities to guide U.S. technology companies to establish and expand their international presence in the Asia-Pacific market.
Mr. Kim has had an illustrious and prosperous career having held various key executive management positions for several high-tech corporations. There, he was responsible for successfully establishing and growing their presence in the Asia-Pacific market. A veteran in the communications industry for more than 20 years, he has left an indelible mark on the companies he's aided in marketing high-tech startups to successfully penetrate into the Asia-Pacific region. This, in turn, has given him the vision to apply his vast expertise with the inception of Jay-Young Company.
Before founding JYC, Mr. Kim led Sycamore Networks in developing its market presence in the Asia-Pacific region, while serving as its Managing Director of Asia-Pacific Operation. Prior to that, Mr. Kim has served as the Vice President and General Manager of Asia-Pacific Operations for Hypercom Network Systems, and as Regional Director of Sales of Asia-Pacific Operations for Cascade Communications (Lucent). He has also served in various sales, marketing and technical positions with some of the leading communications and networking companies, including, StrataCom (Cisco), Ungermann-Bass (UB Networks), Compression Labs, California Microwave, and GTE Corporation (Sprint Communications).
Mr. Kim is a Limited Partner with strategic and financial influence with Storm Ventures, Telesoft Partners and Granite Global Ventures. He is also involved in Private Equity funds focusing on project financing of several leisure and entertainment projects throughout Asia Pacific Region.
Mr. Kim holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University, and an MBA from the University of Phoenix.
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John F. (Jack) McGuire joined the Gogreen Board of Directors in March of 2009. Jack is also a member of the Board of Directors of Cambridge Heart, Inc., a medical device company which provides products that diagnose patients likelihood of future cardiac arrest; the Board of Governors of the American Red Cross Blood Program for Northern New England, which he will Chair beginning in October of 2009; and the Board of Governors of the Twin Pines Housing Trust in Vermont. Additionally, Jack is a member of the Boards of Advisors for LEK Consulting in North America and for Entropy Solutions, Inc., an eco-friendly packaging and temperature management products company. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Business Management at the Tuck School at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and currently consults for a variety of clients worldwide on corporate transformations, corporate strategy, sales and marketing management, and organizational behavior.
Prior to retiring from corporate life in 2007, Jack was the President and CEO of the American Red Cross (ARC) in Washington, DC., responsible for all operations of the organization. Before becoming CEO in 2004, he was the Executive Vice President of the ARC’s Biomedical Services, responsible for the American Red Cross National Blood Program.
In 1997, Jack was named CEO, President and Director of Hemasure, Inc., a small US public company traded on the NASDAQ exchange. He sold Hemasure to Whatman plc. in 2001, and subsequently ran Whatman’s operations in North America.
Earlier in his career, Jack worked in the large corporate world for 20 tears in North America and Europe with E. I. Dupont de Nemours and Co.,Inc., and with Johnson and Johnson (J&J). For Dupont he ran sales, marketing and strategy operations in the medical diagnostics and bioresearch fields. He moved to J&J in 1988 to become Director of Marketing and Sales for Aids and Hepatitis diagnostic products and introduced the first tests to detect Hepatitis C in blood donors. He was named Managing Director of Orthodiagnostic Products in the UK and Nordic countries in 1991, and added the additional responsibility of Managing Director of the Benelux countries in 1993. Jack finished his corporate experience with J&J with assignments as Worldwide Vice President of Marketing and Sales for diagnostic products and as Vice President and General Manager for two separate buiness units in the medical diagnostics area.
A former Captain in th US Marine Corps, Jack has a Bachelor’s degree from Iona College in Chemistry and an MBA from Harvard University.
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Matt McGuire is President of JCAM Advanced Mobility, a company he co-founded with Jackie Chan in early 2006. JCAM focuses on identifying and marketing eco-friendly and efficient, advanced transportation technologies throughout Asia Pacific with primary attention in South Korea, China PRC, Hong Kong, and Singapore. As President, Mr. McGuire is responsible for daily operations and tactics of JCAM as well as identifying new business expansion opportunities and charting the company’s long-term direction. Under his leadership JCAM has grown into a company with diverse and growing business interests, operating in over 7 countries. In addition JCAM has earned Hong Kong Business’s High-Flyers Outstanding Enterprises Award (Modern Alternative Technology) 2006, and generates revenues exceeding HK$20MM.
Mr. McGuire has spent his entire career in the advanced technology field. While studying design, communications, and Japanese language at Northeastern University in Boston, he began his employment at SensAble Technologies Inc., an MIT startup and leading developer of 3D touch-enabled (force feedback) solutions and technologies that improve the way humans interact within and through virtual environments. During this time Mr. McGuire was responsible for providing usability feedback and quality assurance that assisted greatly in the development of the Phantom® Haptic Device and FreeForm®, a digital 3D modeling software that utilized the Phantom to empower designers to actually feel the computer generated models they were developing.
In 2000, Mr. McGuire relocated to Tokyo, Japan to assist in opening SensAble’s APAC regional office and provide regional product sales and specialist support for the Asia Pacific region.
In 2002 Mr. McGuire left Japan for Hong Kong to open and manage SensAble’s second Asian office and to focus on marketing the technology in South East Asia, primarily to Southern Chinese manufacturing facilities. Through his experience in working with these facilities Mr. McGuire realized a common disconnect in communication between designers and manufacturers that often resulted in less than satisfactory production quality, extended production lead times, and excessive costs to both the design firms and manufacturers.
In 2003 Mr. McGuire founded AML, a company that utilized the hardware and software systems he had helped develop and market in Asia. These technologies helped to bridge the gap in communication and understanding between Western designers and Chinese manufacturers. Since 2003 AML has assisted toy companies including MegaBloks® and Schleich GMBH as well as medical educational companies such as Anatstat in successfully developing and producing higher quality parts from China while realizing quicker turnaround times and reduced costs.
Mr. McGuire has a keen interest in innovations that have the capacity to improve society and at every opportunity incorporates them into his personal life. He is committed to continually searching out and developing other socially responsible businesses. He currently lives in Hong Kong with his wife and daughter.
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Michael started his working life as a career Air Force officer for about 9 years specialising in operations and contingency planning, doctrine development and new capability development.
He then spent the ensuing 18 years in primarily the events, publishing and media circles largely in sales and marketing, business development and general management roles. In events management, he played critical roles in some of the largest medical congresses ever held then in Singapore in the fields of ophthalmology, radiology and dentistry, staging some of the earliest Broadway musicals and the first Ringling Bros Walt Disney World on Ice. His years in consumer publishing covered pan-Asian publications in the premier lifestyle, flight, travel and fashion genres. Moving to business publishing, he was Asia COO of a Reed Elsevier unit that published for the fields of electronics, entertainment, travel and manufacturing across all major markets and business information service LEXISNEXIS(tm). Prior to joining SUTL Corporation as their COO for Leisure and Lifestyle, he spent five years consulting for the media industry including the movie and TV content sector.
At SUTL, he looks after all businesses within Asia that covers the marina, quick-service restaurants, wellness, casual dining, family entertainment and leisure sports sectors.
He is married with four children, conversant in English and Mandarin and speaks several Chinese dialects and a smattering of Asian languages.
Michael loves sports and continues to play several regularly.
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