Jae Annie Tay

Director - Talent, SGInnovate

Singapore

As a Director with SGInnovate’s Talent team, Jae leads the organisation’s talent management efforts. She oversees both the running of SGInnovate’s flagship talent programmes, as well as its careers & business partnering function, which connects high-calibre talent to promising Deep Tech startups. Additionally, she also shapes the talent team’s global outreach strategy to develop SGInnovate’s global network of partners and position Singapore as a thriving hub of opportunities for Deep Tech talent.

Prior to SGInnovate, Jae spent over two decades as an HR leader in Singapore’s public service, most notably at the Energy Market Authority (EMA), where she led the statutory board’s human resources and organisational development function. There, she implemented notable policies from recruitment and employer branding to performance and talent management to transform the human resources practice into a strategic growth partner for the organisation. For her work at EMA, Jae was recognised as a Leading HR Leader at the Singapore HR Awards in 2014.

Jae graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics.

Outside of work, Jae is passionate about animal welfare and is an advocate for the rehoming and adoption of dogs.