Our Management

KEN SOH LEE MENG
Chief Information Officer & CEO for Athena Dynamics Pte Ltd

Mr Ken Soh Lee Meng holds concurrent appointments as Group CIO of BH Global since 3 March 2014 and as the founding CEO of the Athena Dynamics Pte Ltd (“Athena Dynamics “) since 15 July 2014. In Oct 2022, Ken was elected by SGTech to chair its Cyber Security Chapter. SGTech is a 43-year-old tech trade association in Singapore with more than 1,200 enterprise members. Additionally, he has been inducted as a member of the advisory board at Maritime Fairtrade publication as a Maritime Cyber Security Expert in Jun 2023; and appointed by SGTech to co-Chair the Cyber Security Assurance Alliance with the Cyber Security Agency (CSA) of Singapore.

Mr Soh has more than 35 years of working experience in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) industry. Prior to joining BH Global, Mr Soh held various C-level positions in public and private sectors with operational and business leadership responsibilities in ICT Master Planning and Profit & Loss responsibilities. In BH Global, he spearheaded various digital transformation initiatives including data visualization and strengthening of the Group’s ERP platform. Alongside that, Mr Soh also initiated and driven the transformation of BH Global’s Group IT department from a cost center to a profit center, spinning it off as a subsidiary company, Athena Dynamics. The company has since been awarded more than 300 projects in cyber protection of classified and critical info-infrastructures (CIIs) in government, defense, maritime, financial and commercial enterprises.

In recognition for Mr Soh’s leadership in enterprise business and digital transformation, he and athena dynamics have been awarded TTAB 2023 Awards, AiSP Cyber Security Leaders Award 2023, Transformative CIO Award 2022 by Economic Times SEA, ASEAN CIO 50 Award (for 2019 and 2020), ASEAN CIO 75 Award (for 2021) and ASEAN CIO 100 Award (for 2022 and 2023) by the International Data Group (IDG). Additionally, Athena Dynamics also bagged the Business Eminence Award 2022 by Dun & Bradstreet, the Best CISO 2022 Award by AVAR, Start-up Innovation Award 2022 by IDG Foundry, Rising Star Award 2022 by Cybersec Asia etc

Mr Soh has been an avid industry thought leadership speaker and writer. Since the inception of Athena Dynamics in mid-2014, he has contributed more than 250 thought leadership speaking engagements and papers in industry conferences, press and media. He holds a Master of Science in Computer Studies (AI) with distinction award from the University of Essex (UK); and a Master of Business Administration (eMBA) from the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore (NTU), a joint programme between Nanyang Business School of NTU and University of California, Berkeley.