About Prof Keith
Prof. Keith B. Carter teaches businesses and governments about how to drive orderly transformation using disruptive technology to improve business results and enhance the lives of their citizens.
•Award Winning Professor Computer Science and Founding Director – National University of Singapore FinTech Lab
•Member, Bretton Woods Committee, Washington DC
•Board Member, DEC Institute, Zurich, Switzerland
•Adviser, Pi-xcels a Visa Accelerator Company, Singapore
•30 years of business experience: A unique combination of Wall St. Tech, NY Fashion, and University Prof, 2x TEDx Speaker
Delivering Exceptional Results
Education and Work Experience
Selected Videos
TEDx
Smart Nation Ambassadors
KPMG 30 On 2030 FinTech
Culture Change Approach
Selected Courses
Keith's Detailed Bio
Keith is capitalizing on 30 years of business & technology experience as CEO of KDA Capabilities, a firm that does emerging technology capability building and thought leadership with business and academic leaders.
He taught at NUS’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy on AI, Privacy, Cybersecurity. He received the university award for teaching as Associate Professor, National University of Singapore (NUS) School of Computing and was Founding Director, NUS Ripple FinTech Lab and was Founding Co-Director, Crystal Centre a deep-tech research center. He created the NUS FinTech Society, NUS FinTech SG a recognized mid-career conversion program.
Prior to academia, he worked for 12 years at Estee Lauder where he led improvements in procurement, supply chain, competitive intelligence and delivered tangible performance improvements to COGS and ROIC.
Prior to that he was at Accenture (Andersen Consulting) Financial Services Advanced Systems Group working with clients including Goldman Sachs, Solomon Brothers and NYS Government.
He has a bachelors in Electrical Computer Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Masters from Cornell University.
He also is a private pilot and certified in counter terrorism.
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Experiences, Writings and Clients
Academic Experience: Professor for 10 years at NUS Business, Computing and Lee Kuan Yew Public Policy. Established the NUS FinTech lab with the largest corporate donation in School of Computing history. Turned around Exec Edu. from loss making to more than $8mil annual revenue. Created undergraduate, masters and exec ed courses in data analytics, intelligent systems, algo-trading, supply chain, financial systems, and more. Established partnerships and in Asia, Europe and the Americas.
Commercial Experience: At Estee Lauder for 13 years, Keith led supply chain innovation globally, driving cost avoidance as we grew from $1 billion to $3 billion in spend and increased Return on Invested Capital from 7% to more than 25%. Keith chaired the IT Systems Steering Committee, implemented Actionable Intelligence capabilities and delivered $87million in 9 months. Assisted in setting up the Sales and Operations Planning process globally. Standardized performance measurement.
•Keith worked at Accenture’s Financial Services sector on Solomon Brother’s fixed income desk and on Goldman Sach’s equity desk. He worked with NY State Government on the largest data migration and performance project in its time.
Author of Amazon Bestseller "Actionable Intelligence: A guide to delivering Business Results with Big Data, Fast!" Wiley, New York 2014. Reached top 100 books in Amazon and Top 3 books for Competitive Intelligence by Cipher Systems.
Contributing author, "Leading with IT: Lessons from Singapore's First CIO" by Professor Alex Siow published by Wiley 2021.
•Contributor: Deal Street Asia: Genetics on Blockchain, Tealium 24/7 Customer Satisfaction, The Asian Banker 2024 Meeting
•Contributor to: Gartner, IDC, Economist, Business Times, The Asian Banker, Financial Times, KPMG 30 Voices 2030
Global Clients:
ANZ • Citibank • China Construction Bank • Goldman Sachs • Techcombank • JP Morgan • Bank of New York Mellon • UBS • Estee Lauder • Gucci • DSM • P&G • Rio Tinto • SM Retail • Panasonic • Google • WhatsApp(Facebook) • Dept of State Philippines • British Virgin Islands Parliament, • Toyama Gov’t • ASEAN • Keppel Land • Fraser Property • PSA
Nele Cornelis
Executive Director,
EuroCham
On behalf of EuroCham, we would like to express our heartfelt gratitude for your invaluable support and participation in the webinar on 'The Ethics of AI' on 28th of October 2021 and 'Digitalization Post-COVID' 2022.
Your talented skills as a moderator in combination with your expertise on the topic helped us to make this event an overwhelming success. The participants benefited greatly from the whole session, including the insightful sharing by our prominent speakers and panelists during the panel discussion.
It was a pleasure to have you on board and to discover more about trends and practices in the area of AI.
Once more, thank you for supporting this and for your collaboration.
