NTIUACF Initiative - Enterprises

Enterprises as a means for Christian Communities to sustain themselves

Jack Yap, NTICFer Class of 1986

Jack Yap spent 17 years working for Motorola, one of the leading telecommunications equipment providers in the world. Based in Singapore, Jack began his career at Motorola as an R&D engineer and in 1990 started his sales career with Motorola. He has broad experience managing sales staff to meet revenue and profit goals for Motorola in the Government and Enterprise market sectors. Territories covered include Taiwan, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Brunei. His last position with Motorola was Director of Sales for South Asia.

With over 19 years of working experience, Jack has developed major strengths in achieving results, developing win-win relationships with customers and partners, and building high-performance sales teams. His business savvy includes closing deals in excess of US$60M by influencing change based on key business fundamentals, ethical practices and interpersonal and cross cultural skills.

Jack is a graduate from NTU with a degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (Honours) and has an MBA from Hull University. He is married with a 14 year old son and an 11 year old daughter. Jack has a golf handicap of 18.

To have a sustainable business model that has a significant impact on the community.

It is our belief that there are sufficient marketplace experiences in the Alumni that will allow us to evaluate businesses to be replicated as a vehicle for Christian Communities to be self sustaining. Our vision is to develop a number of enterprises that will allow Christians to utilize their God given capabilities to be self sufficient including resources needed for ministry work.

Our goal is to achieve the stage where the focus in on ministry and not on where the funding will come from.

Today many of the alumni are spending their time and energy helping enterprises manage multi-million businesses and generating income that will then be returned to shareholders. There is an opportunity then to leverage upon such experiences and capabilities to develop and manage such enterprises that will generate income to fund ministry work.

We believe this is a sustainable model that will have a significant impact to the community. It is an investment that will build upon the strength of the Alumni where we can really make a difference.

Those who are interested to participate in this initiative are to send a note to Jack Yap at jackyap18@hotmail.com. A meeting will then be called where Jack will share more details of this initiative, what are the possibilities, how you can be involved and what are the next steps.

Phase I
- sieve through the Alumni database to find out what are the existing enterprises that have been set up by members of the alumni
- contact such individuals and share with them the vision
- if there is buy-in, to proceed to understand their current business model and to explore how the Alumni can play a part in moving it forward

Phase II
- explore successful enterprises out there which the Alumni could invest in
- contact such enterprises and work out a model where the Alumni could play a part
- achieve commercial success as well as meet the objectives of this initiative