Frances Yong

Frances Yong

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Frances Yong - White Byte (MAIA Winner 2025)

Frances Yong

Founder, White Byte (MAIA Winner 2025)
Singapore

Frances Yong is the founder of White Byte, an organisation that promotes digital inclusion and cyber integrity to the community. She often speaks about the importance of building a culture of cyber safety through personal vigilance and community awareness.

Frances is recognised as a Master Trainer in Digital Literacy by the ASEAN Foundation, as part of a wider global initiative supported by Google.org. She has spoken widely about cyber safety to grassroot communities at resident centres and hospitals, as well as to professionals such as ACAMS members and business networking groups.

Prior to founding White Byte, Frances was a group-level risk professional, and a marketing leader in the financial industry. Leveraging the combination of business and risk backgrounds, she takes a balanced approach to risk management. She has developed groupwide culture change strategies and implementation plans in the domain of fraud risk, cyber risk and employee misconduct risk.

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