Management Team
Mr. Brent Brewer
Brent brings more than twenty years of management experience with a proven combination of Marine Corps Officer leadership and enterprise executive management. He has earned a B.S. from the Ohio State University, a Certification from the Naval Post Graduate School in Monterey and an M.B.A. from the University of California, Irvine. Mr. Brewer has a first-class background of successful leadership and challenging management roles that originated as an officer in the United States Marine Corps, where he earned the rank of Major before he elected to join the commercial sector. While in the Marine Corps, Mr. Brewer distinguished himself both as an F/A-18 Aviator, as well as a management professional with over a decade of leading Marines. In the commercial sector, Mr. Brewer has held exemplary leadership roles focused on enhancing the value and profitability of a company through sound decision-making, technology transfer, sales strategies, new business development, and organizational alignment. Mr. Brewer's number of executive management positions range from publicly traded software companies, such as StarBase Corporation and Fujitsu-Glovia to large venture backed early stage companies. Mr. Brewer culminated his over 10 years of in the energy field in forming Brewer Energy Corporation, a renewable energy development company, and subsequently formed Brewer Joshua Tree Wind Farm prior to accepting his position as Chairman/CEO of American Environmental Energy.
Ms. Virginia Cha
Ms. Cha has over 28 years of executive and management experience in directly managing hi-tech commercial organisations in China, Singapore, and the US. She just returned to Singapore to pursue her PhD studies in Innovation at the National University of Singapore after four years of leading her own invested businesses in China. She is chairperson of her own investment holding company with science park development projects in China while spearheading Institute of Systems Science (a NUS post-graduate teaching institute)'s initiatives in management research. She also contributes her time in nurturing technopreneurs. In addition to being an INSEAD's Entrepreneur-in-Resident, she also teaches "New Venture Creation" at Fudan University, as part of an NUS Overseas College programme.
In the years 1997-2003, she successfully led two startup companies in Singapore and China and integrated them into public-listed companies when she was the co-founder/CEO of Singapore-based Star+Globe Technologies Pte Ltd and Executive Vice President for Hong Kong-based CyberCity Holdings and CEO of The 8th Network Corporation, a CyberCity invested firm in Beijing. Star+Globe was a spin-off software technology company from NUS. The company was the first in the world to offer Unicode-based commercial products to process multi-lingual applications and was awarded Singapore's prestigious bi-annual National Innovation Product Award in 1999 for its WinMASS product. CyberCity Holdings was one of the pioneering science park developers in mainland China, having created CyberCity Shenzhen (now known as Vision Century Shenzhen Business Park).
Between years 1995-1997, she held a brief two-year assignment at the Institute of Systems Science where she spearheaded the venture-funded technology spin-off model.
She started her career in 1980 in the U.S. as an assistant systems programmer in the operating systems department at Unisys (then Burroughs Corporation), with appointments in various positions, ending with Director, Advanced Technology reporting to the CTO. During her 15 years at Unisys, she held many management positions across many different product sectors, including operating systems, network communications and transaction processing.