Where we come from
Ivertiq was founded as a spin-off from a technology group with over 30 years of experience in hardware, software, and systems engineering. That heritage informs how we design for high-assurance environments — with technical discipline and operational rigor, not slideware AI.
The platform, defined
An Optimized Sovereign Full-Stack AI Harness Platform for Regulated Verticals:
- Optimized — best-fit, post-trained language models and inference-compute optimization so useful agent workloads fit on-prem and private-cloud hardware.
- Sovereign — total localization on-prem or private cloud; core regulated corporate data and operational systems do not depend on public LLM APIs.
- Full-Stack — models, knowledge engine, agentic layer, and vertical applications jointly optimized as one system.
- AI Harness — provenance, auditability, and determinism in the control plane, with policy, validation rules, and human gates over the agentic layer.
- Regulated Verticals — environments that require determinism, provenance, auditability, sovereignty, security, and human-in-the-loop inside rigid workflows.
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Our focus
We do not build horizontal office chat. We build for environments where AI outputs can affect quality systems, regulatory filings, forensic evidence, or confidential operational records — and where those six requirements are non-negotiable:
- Determinism — critical gates that are rule-based, testable, and reproducible
- Provenance — source-linked recommendations with pack and model/version context
- Auditability — reconstructible decision and reviewer logs
- Sovereignty — data and models inside customer-approved boundaries
- Security — confidentiality-first architecture without public LLM APIs for core corporate data
- Human-in-the-loop — accountable experts approve before controlled actions
Beachheads today: life sciences (forensic LC-MS review as current proof; CRO and MAH as peer modules) and sovereignty-sensitive enterprise operations on existing ERP.
Mission
Bring sovereign, high-performance AI to the industries where value, trust, and accountability cannot be outsourced.
What we build
The Full-Stack AI Harness and its deployment range (Node, Station, Private Cloud): local models, governed agents, Validation Packs, and vertical applications that produce auditable workflow outcomes under human accountability.
How we work
Design-partner pilots with clear KPIs. Reseller and domain-expert channels where trust already exists. Productization from real regulated deployments — not slideware.
Founders and board
Kai-Wa Ng
Chairman and Co-Founder of Ivertiq
Kai-Wa Ng is Chairman and Co-Founder of Ivertiq. He co-founded Creative Technology Ltd, where he was Chief Technology Officer and Vice Chairman, and was the original architect of Sound Blaster. He later co-founded InnoMedia Pte Ltd. His work has covered product creation, scale, and supply chain, including Video Blaster, Cubic CT, and broadband IP systems. He served as an Independent Director of Creative Technology from 2005 to 2025. He holds an Executive M.B.A. from the National University of Singapore and a Diploma in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from Ngee Ann Polytechnic.
Kheng Nam Lee
Director of Ivertiq
Kheng Nam Lee is a Director of Ivertiq. He is a Venture Partner of Granite Asia, Chairman of VFlowTech, a long-duration battery storage company, and a director of Thunes, a payments company. He was Chairman of Heptagon and led the company through its acquisition by AMS. He previously served as President of Vertex Management Pte Ltd, Executive Director and later Deputy Chairman of Vertex Venture Holdings, and Deputy Director of Planning at Singapore’s Ministry of National Development. His earlier boards include Creative Technology Ltd, Centillium Communications, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd, GRIC Communications, ActivCard, and Gemplus International.
Nan-Sheng Lin, Ph.D.
CEO, Director, and Co-Founder of Ivertiq
Nan-Sheng Lin is CEO, Director, and Co-Founder of Ivertiq. He previously served as Executive Vice President at Digicom Systems and as Chief Scientist and Vice President at Teknekron Communications Systems, working on digital communications and early digital cellular systems. He has served as an overseas expert member of Taiwan’s Strategic Review Board (Executive Yuan) and as a coordinating member of the National Science Council’s Wireless Communications Committee. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University. His doctoral research was in adaptive systems. He is an author and inventor in wireline and wireless communications. At Ivertiq he leads the company’s work on an optimized sovereign Full-Stack AI Harness for regulated verticals.
