Viktor is an entrepreneur with a successful history of founding, building profitable technology startups and exiting cleanly. His latest venture is in taking research to market through spin-off companies, with an active interest in technology translation, business modelling and funding.
Viktor currently serves as Director, ICT at Nanyang Technological University where he oversees the research commercialization and industry collaboration activities of all ICT, software and New Media technologies. He is also CEO of TechBiz Xccelerator Pte Ltd where he charts the efforts of transforming inventions into deployable products and services. He also most recently assume the role of Director, Business & Operations at the Institute of Media Innovations (IMI) where he oversees the translation and industry engagement activities of the six IMI centres.
Prior to his current position, Viktor served as Deputy CEO of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) for six years where he masterminded the infrastructure and capabilities development of IP in both the public and private sector. Before IPOS, Viktor co-founded, grew and exited a web based content aggregation business. Viktor also spent three years in Silicon Valley as Vice President of Engineering for a data warehouse startup.
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