Department of Information Systems

Mr Alex Siow is currently the Senior Vice President and Head of IS and Program Office in StarHub Ltd, a position he assumed since 1 January 2008. Prior to this, he was the Head of Corporate Sales from 2005 to 2008, and Vice President of Strategic Relations from 2003 to 2005.

Mr Siow received his tertiary education in Germany under a PSC scholarship where he obtained his Bachelor of Engineering (civil) degree in 1979 from the Stuttgart Institute of Technology. In 1986 he obtained his Master of Science in Engineering with distinction at the Birmingham University, U.K. graduating as top student in his class. In 1991 he completed his Senior Management Programme at INSEAD, Fontainebleu, Paris.

Before joining StarHub, Mr Alex Siow joined the Housing and Development Board in 1980 and served as a Structural Engineer before being appointed as Chief Information Officer in 1991. Under his leadership, the IT department of HDB won several accolades and awards and Mr Siow was conferred the Public Administration Medal (Bronze) in 1993 and (Silver) in 2000.

Mr Siow is also very active in the IT community in Singapore. He was a past President of the Singapore Computer Society (SCS) and Information Technology Management Association (ITMA). As President of the SCS, Mr Siow initiated the Certified IT Project Management Programme. He also chairs the Industry Advisory Committee of the School of Computing, NUS and is a member of the Temasek Polytechnic Informatics and IT School Advisory Committee. He was the past Secretary-General of the Asia ICT Confederation and past Chairman of the e-Learning Chapter of the Singapore IT Federation. For his involvement and leadership in the IT community, Mr. Siow was conferred the IT Leader's Award for Person of the Year in 2002.

Mr Siow is a Board member of CISCO Security Pte Ltd and P.T. CISCOMAS Sekurititama, Jakarta. He is also a board member of e-Cops Pte. Ltd. Currently he is the President of the Project Management Institute, Singapore Chapter.

Mr Siow has published many articles in the Computer Times, Digital Life and other publications and has delivered many papers and presentations on project management, information technology and business value of IT at local and international conferences. He was Adjunct Associate Professor at the Nanyang Business School, NTU and at the NUS Business School. He is currently Adjunct Professor at the School of Computing, NUS.