Prof Robert YAP is the Executive Chairman of YCH Group, Singapore’s leading end-to-end supply chain management company with operations spanning across Asia Pacific. Over the last four decades, Robert has played a pivotal role in the logistics and supply chain management field.

Robert is the Founder and Chairman of leading information technology and supply chain solutions company, Y3 Technologies; Chairman of corporate venture fund, Supply Chain Angels; Founder and Chairman of Supply Chain City® – Asia’s premier supply chain nerve center for supply chain excellence; and Emeritus Chairman of Supply Chain Asia.

Robert contributes as an advisor on numerous local and international platforms. He is the President of the Singapore National Employers Federation, as well as the Singapore Chair of the ASEAN Business Advisory Council and the Singapore Co-Chairman of Malaysia-Singapore Business Council. He also contributes to the Future Economy Council, the Payments Council, the National Wages Council, the National Jobs Council, and the Singapore-Jiangsu Cooperation Council (SJCC) as well as the Joint Implementation Committee overseeing the Government-to-Government project in Chongqing.

A strong believer in knowledge sharing and upskilling the workforce to be future-ready, he sits on the Singapore Computer Society Honorary Advisory Council and École hôtelière de Lausanne Singapore Advisory Board.

For his contribution, he was awarded the Public Service Medal in 2017. Prior, Robert was also named ‘Businessman of the Year’ at the prestigious Singapore Business Awards in 2016, and was conferred the NUS Business School Eminent Business (Senior) Alumni Award in 2014 and the Lifetime Achievement Award (Logistics) by the World Chinese Economic Forum in 2013. He is also the recipient of the prominent Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2007, as well as the overall winner of the year for Singapore, where he went on the represent the nation at the annual Ernest and Young Entrepreneur of the Year™ (WEOY) award.