SUTD BOARD OF TRUSTEES PROFILES MR AMIT MIDHA Chief Executive Officer, Alat Amit Midha is Chief Executive Officer at Alat, responsible for the realisation of the Kingdom’s ambition to build a world-class manufacturing hub in Saudi Arabia that will strategically transform global industries through next generation technologies, innovation and sustainable practices. Amit is a global strategic business leader who has built and transformed businesses in various leadership roles across the globe including China, the US, India, and Singapore. His diverse experience and his focus on business transformation in the technology sector, makes Amit the ideal candidate to lead Alat. Amit was responsible for Dell’s growth in Asia Pacific and Japan, overseeing a multibillion-dollar business spanning more than 40 countries. Amit is passionate about using technology to transform businesses, embracing sustainability and reimagining conventional approaches to business, to deliver better outcomes and make a real difference to the world. In his last role at Dell, Amit served as President, Asia Pacific and Japan and the EVP, Global Digital Cities where he focused on digital city initiatives for public sector entities around the world. The success of Amit’s role was honoured with the prestigious Chinese Magnolia Gold Award in 2013 for contribution to the city of Shanghai. In 2010, he also received both the People’s Choice CEO of the Year award as part of CNBC’s China Business Leader Awards and CEO of the year in IT from Bloomberg. MR QUEK GIM PEW Senior R&D Consultant, Ministry of Defence Besides his role as the Senior R&D Consultant of the Singapore Ministry of Defence (MINDEF), Quek Gim Pew is also Deputy Chairman of the Office for Space Technology and Industry (OSTIn) and board member of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), SMRT Trains Ltd, Technology Center for Offshore and Marine (TCOMS), Singapore, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) and NUS High School. He chairs the National Supercomputing Center Steering Committee and co-chairs the National Quantum Strategy Steering Committee. He also sits on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE), and Management Boards of the Center for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing (CRISP) and Singapore Nuclear Research and Safety Initiative (SNRSI). He is a Fellow of the Academy of Engineering, Singapore, and an Adjunct Professor in the NUS Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In his career, he has held various appointments in the defence technology community including Director of R&D at the Ministry of Defence and the Deputy Chief Executive (Technology) of the Defence Science and Technology Agency Board. He was the Chief Executive Officer of DSO from 2004 to 2016 and the Chief Defence Scientist of MINDEF from 2016 to 2021. Gim Pew was awarded the President’s Science and Technology Medal in 2023, the NUS Outstanding Services Award in 2023, the Public Administration Medal (Gold) in 2007 and the Defence Technology Prize (Individual) in 1992. p. 14 SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN
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