Mr Derrick Lim
Director, Corporate Services, SIMTech & ARTC
Mr Derrick Lim is currently the Corporate Services Director of the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech) and Advanced Remanufacturing and Technology Centre (ARTC) of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). He is also the Programme Director heading the Cleantech Two (CT2) Space Transformation. From 2020 to 2022, he enabled the SIMTech NTU Valley Block moves to Cleantech Two B (CT2B) by leading the tenders, infrastructure design, outfitting, and equipment relocations.
Prior to his current role, Derrick was the Director of Infrastructure Engineering at Salesforce.com. He managed an intercultural team with members from cross-functions, providing infrastructure design, build, deployment, automation, and level 2 and 3 support in a 24/7 environment globally and ensuring the highest level of customer satisfaction. He travelled extensively when he was in Salesforce, primarily in the United States. His team in Salesforce Singapore contributed to the buildout of the new datacenters in London, Dallas, Phoenix, and Frankfurt. The team has led Salesforce's Infrastructure build and operations since 2013. The number of datacenters and pods the team built in just 2.5 years exceeded what the company had built 15 years before. Derrick has also held various senior management roles in companies like Electronic Data Systems (EDS), Hewlett Packard (HP) and OPUS IT Services.
Derrick has an MBA with merit, a degree in computer science and a professional diploma in management.