Seah Moon Ming

Seah graduated from National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Engineering, majoring in Electronics Engineering (EE). He then went on to complete a Master of Science (EE) from Naval Postgraduate School, California and graduated with distinction in 1983. He attended the Stanford-NUS Executive Program in 1993. At Harvard University, he attended the Management Development (1996) and Advanced Management Programme (2005).

Early years

An engineer by training, he has risen through the ranks to take on senior leadership positions in various organisations. Seah started his career as a Product Engineer with Texas Instruments before joining the Defence Science Organisation (DSO) as a Research Engineer in 1981. He was transferred to the former Defence Materials Organisation (DMO), MINDEF as the Head of Air System Branch in 1987. Two years later, Seah assumed the position of Head, Radio Engineering Department before his promotion to Assistant Director, Communications to take charge of Defence Communications in 1990.

Singapore Technologies Group (1994–2013)

In 1994, he became General Manager of CET Technologies Pte Ltd (under Singapore Technologies Group) before moving on to become Managing Director and founding President of Singapore Technologies Electronics Limited between July 1997 and August 2009. From 2009 to 2013, he was Deputy CEO and President (Defence) of Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd, where he drove the defense business and oversaw aerospace, electronics, land systems and marine business sectors.

SMRT (2017 - Present)

Seah joined Temasek International, where he as Senior Managing Director, Special Projects (1 March - 30 September 2013) established a new entity to focus on natural gas investments. From 2013 to 2018, he was the founding Group Chief Executive Officer of Pavilion Energy Pte Ltd and Pavilion Gas Pte Ltd.

He was the Chairman of Temasek Polytechnic (from 2006 to 2014), Chairman of Singapore Cooperation Enterprise (from 2012 to 2020), Chairman of International Enterprise Singapore (from 2013 to 2018). and Group Chief Executive Officer of Pavilion Energy Pte Ltd and Pavilion Gas Pte Ltd ( 2016 - 2021)

Seah joined the SMRT board on 1 January 2017 and was appointed as the Chairman of SMRT Corporation and SMRT Trains on 17 July 2017. He stepped down from his role at Pavilion Energy to focus on SMRT in 2018. As Chairman, he is credited with introducing Kaizen, the Japanese philosophy of continuous improvement to SMRT in 2018.