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As Chief Executive Officer of SGInnovate, Dr Lim Jui has overall leadership of the organisation that is committed to building a new economy around Deep Tech startups. At SGInnovate, Dr Lim and his team work closely with Singapore’s universities and research institutes, together with a wide range of partners and co-investors to back entrepreneurial scientists looking to solve global challenges with their research-based solutions. This is done through equity-based investments, access to the Deep Tech ecosystem and talent network, as well as providing business-building support.

While he trained in medicine, Dr Lim spent most of his professional life in the business of science and innovation. He was Director of Investments, Bio*One Capital; Chief Executive Officer of Merlin MD, a medical device company; Executive Director of the Medical Engineering Research and Commercialisation Initiative at the National University of Singapore; and Programme Director of the Singapore-Stanford Biodesign Programme. Before joining SGInnovate, Dr Lim was Chief Executive Officer of NTUitive, the innovation and enterprise company of the Nanyang Technological University.

He currently serves on the boards of directors of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS), IPOS International, the business arm of IPOS, and several startup companies.

Dr Lim received his Bachelor of Arts in Biological Sciences and East Asian Studies and Doctor of Medicine from Columbia University. He then obtained his Master of Medicine in Anaesthesiology and Surgical Intensive Care from the National University of Singapore. He remains a registered medical practitioner today.