Jenny Chong

Jenny is a Non-Executive Director with Medway NHS Foundation Trust. She also sits on boards and committees of Orthopaedic Research UK, The Design Museum, Imperial College London’s Venture Mentoring Service, the Egypt Exploration Society, and the National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR). She is a champion of female digital talent in the NHS through her work with The Shuri Network. She also acts as an advisor to various start-ups in the FinTech, MedTech and social impact space.
 
Originally from Singapore, after graduating from the London School of Economics, Jenny embarked on a 20-year career in Investment Banking Technology, starting on the Equities trade floor. She has worked across hardware infrastructure, software engineering, program management, big data and AI. Her last corporate role was as Credit Suisse’s Global Head of Electronic Communications Surveillance, building a global regulatory compliance platform that detects potential malicious behaviour; leveraging natural language processing and deep learning to cognitively learn human context; identify patterns to create behavioural models; and detect anomalous signals.

Jenny actively promotes education in STEM, gender equality, diversity and inclusion. She is also a recipient of the Tech Star award at the “Women in Banking and Finance Annual Awards for Achievement”.