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Lee Ng joined MetLife in February 2015 as vice president and chief operating officer of LumenLab, MetLife’s innovation centre in Singapore. She leads the Innovation Management Office of the first-of-its-kind innovation centre in the life insurance industry, with the goal of launching new business models and capabilities for MetLife Asia. Prior to joining MetLife, Ng spent 20 years with various organizations in Silicon Valley – most recently serving as director of venture technology at Siemens, where she spent more than six years incubating innovative technology. Before Siemens, NG worked at Agilent, HP and as a consultant. Ng holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and both masters and Ph.D. degrees in materials engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), with a minor in business.