Damian Leach

Global, Chief Information Officer at Seaco

Ambassador

Damian was born in the UK and is now proudly Singaporean, has 25+ years of Development, Engineering, Architecture, Transformation, Consultancy and Operations experience in C-Level global roles. In his spare time Damian helps his wife to scale Lush Platters, an F&B startup business in Singapore who recently kicked off a joint venture with the Select Group.

Damian has led Expert Engineering for American Express, cards, travel and banking services. Managed 200+ front-to-back services for Standard Chartered Bank, Retail, Wealth and Corporate and Institutional Banking. He previously held the position of CTO for Silicon Valley SaaS provider Workday and is now the Global CIO for Seaco, which is based in Singapore. Damian is a certified professional in AI Ethics and Governance.

Having supported the startup scene in Singapore for the last 7 years, Damian has been a judge, mentor and coach for the Slingshot startup festival. Damian also supports and advises startups that are born from NTUitive as an EMBA Alumni of NTU.

Thought leadership, critical thinking, and human-centered design and now the use of ML / AI to solve industry challenges allow him to reflect a lot and share his view of the world. Having amassed over 15k followers on Linkedin, he is seen as a positive advocate for change in the Technology space. Often speaking keynotes at industry events, customer roundtables, Damian is not shy to share his perspective with the world be it written, live broadcast or on an event stage.

Damian is currently focused on the cultural change to Agile, building an innovation mindset and delivering AI and ML to automate, and help solve Big Data challenges for the business of shipping, logistics and the container leasing industry. Damian has an EMBA from NTU having conducted his thesis on Voice Biometric authentication, he is a lifelong learner and occasionally lectures EMBA students.