Janet Guat Har Ang

Ms. Ang is currently the Chairperson of SISTIC.com Pte Ltd, NUS–ISS, Singapore Polytechnic and the Public Transport Council.

Ms. Ang spent 37 years with IBM Singapore and was a member of the IBM Industry Academy. Her last executive role was an IBM Vice President, Head of Industry Solutions and Smarter Cities & Industry Solutions for Asia Pacific from 2015-2019. Prior to that she was a Managing Director of IBM Singapore from 2001-2003 and again from 2011-2015. She is a veteran in the tech 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 is the Deputy Chairman of the Singapore Business Federation Foundation, and Member of the Board of the Esplanade Company Ltd, and the Home Team Science & Technology Agency (HTX).

She was an Independent Director of SPH Ltd from 2014-2022 and Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of Caritas Singapore Agape Fund from 2019-2022.

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.