Janet Guat Har Ang

Ms. Janet Guat Har Ang is currently the Chairperson of SISTIC.com and Independent Director at Singapore Press Holdings Limited.

Ms. Ang spent 37 years with IBM Singapore and was a member of the IBM Industry Academy. Her last executive role was as IBM Vice President, Head of Industry Solutions and Smarter Cities & Industry Solutions for Asia Pacific from 2015 to 2019. Prior to that, she was a Managing Director of IBM Singapore from 2001 to 2015. She is a veteran in the technology industry and has lived and worked in Japan and China for over a decade.

Ms. Ang was awarded The Public Service Medal in 2019. She was also awarded the NUS Business School Eminent Alumni Award in 2014, the NUS Distinguished Alumni Service Award in 2015, and the Singapore Computer Society IT Leaders Award – Hall of Fame in 2018.

She serves as Chairman of the NUS Institute of Systems Science, the Caritas Singapore Agape Fund Board of Trustees, SISTIC.com, and the Singapore Polytechnic Board of Governors.

Ms. Ang serves on the Council for Board Diversity as well as the Singapore Business Federation, and is a Senior Advisor of the RGE Group and board member of the Tanoto Foundation. She is a Fellow of the Singapore Computer Society, a Fellow of Singapore Institute of Directors and a Member and Past President of the International Women's Forum (Singapore), and an alumnus of the IBM Industry Academy. She has been appointed as Singapore’s Non-Resident Ambassador (Designate) to the Holy See and Nominated MP of the Parliament of Singapore.

Ms. Ang graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration (Honours) from the National University of Singapore.