Primary Job Title President, New Enterprises and Ventures Primary Organization 
ST Engineering
Location Singapore, Central Region, Singapore Regions Asia-Pacific (APAC), Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Southeast Asia Gender Male
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Russell Tham was appointed President of New Enterprises & Ventures to spearhead ST Engineering’s expansion into new market adjacencies beyond the group’s current core businesses with a focus on healthcare technologies and the digital economy. He is also responsible for ST Engineering’s open engineering and product development lab, Innosparks.
Prior to joining the ST Engineering Group, he spent more than 20 years in various global and regional roles at Applied Materials, the world’s leader in materials engineering solutions for the semiconductor manufacturing industry. In his last position as President, South East Asia, he oversaw regional business, infrastructure and strategy while concurrently assuming business development responsibilities for new markets and strategic alliances. He played an instrumental role in enabling the company’s multifold expansion that led to global manufacturing capabilities in Singapore and multiple R&D partnerships with Singapore’s public research ecosystem for the global markets. In 2012, he was Head of Global Continuous Improvement where he led the deployment of productivity initiatives within its global manufacturing and supply chain operations
He is a board member of Singapore’s Energy Market Authority (EMA), SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG), Temasek Polytechnic and the National University of Singapore’s Innovation and Enterprise Committee. He is also a member of the Singapore Government’s Future Economy Council that reviews strategies to grow and transform Singapore’s economy.
