Meet The Ants
Business team
Executive Director
Stephen Lim
Seasoned entrepreneur with numerous startups and enterprise management experience in different segments of the food industry including bakery manufacturing, FMCG distribution, F&B and franchising in different parts of Asia.
General Manager (Business Development)
Wang Lina
A successful entrepreneur with deep operational experience in hotel management, real estate development and financial investment. She brings her expertise in systematic enterprise management and investments, mergers and acquisition to develop strategic business partnerships that help the company expand market share and achieve steady development and sustainable growth.
China & Regulatory
Dr Jun Meng
Group VP of a leading cell-based technology company, he is a Singaporean with vast experience in China business, tech incubators, tech transfer, investment and government affairs. He closed large deals for Chinese Academy of Science, for tech parks and companies.
Research team
Founder & Strategy
Professor Hanry Yu
A professor in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS, A*STAR and an MIT research centre in Singapore. Serial award-winning technopreneur with >50 patents on cell engineering, on A*STAR 30 innovations & inventions over 3 decades; on board of listco and member of SID.
Research and Development & Fundraising
Dr Sheng Yong Ng
A National Science Scholar with Ph.D. in bioengineering from MIT trained by 2 world-class tissue engineers, he specialises in engineering cell-based fat for meat cut production. He will strengthen our R&D with high quality grants to generate intellectual properties and innovative products.
Co-founder & Outreach
Ong Shujian
A*STAR scholar with NUS research award. He has published in top scientific journals on cell-based meats. He is the inventor of the company’s key patents, a versatile food and biotech researcher, and a favourite of many local and international media.
Cellular Agriculture Specialist
Sze Khen Chin
A science graduate from NUS, participated in R&D team prior to the company formation, and worked for a leading MNC in cell manufacturing. He will transfer his expertise in industrial scale cell manufacturing to manage the cell agriculture infrastructure and SOP.
Product development team
Product Development
Justin Oh
A BSc (Hons) food science and technology NUS graduate, he is passionate about alternative proteins, fermentation, and actively search avenues for food product development. Assisting the product team, he is leading several alternative protein product development projects and ensuring high production quality.