Edward Tay is Director, School of Computing Furnace, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Systems and Analytics at NUS School of Computing, the Asian Institute of Digital Finance, and the Department of Finance at NUS Business School.
He received his Honours degree from the School of Engineering in 1998 and previously served as CEO of Sistema Asia Capital, a top European venture capital firm, and held senior leadership roles at British Telecommunications and IBM. A seasoned venture capitalist with 4 deep tech unicorns and more than 100 investments in AI, the digital economy, and food tech, Prof Tay founded his first startup as a NUS undergraduate and has built more than 300 applications since.
Professor Tay serves as Head of CET & Executive Education at the Asian Institute of Digital Finance and leads in curating fintech courses at AIDF, an institute jointly founded by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the National Research Foundation and NUS. In his teaching and executive education work at NUS & Civil Service College of Singapore, Professor Tay works with founders, board directors, financial institutions and public-sector leaders, with an emphasis on entrepreneurship, fintech & agentic AI policy.
He served in leadership roles including Council Member of the Singapore Accreditation Council, Member of the International Capital Market Association FinTech Advisory Committee, Independent Board Member of Digilife Technologies Limited, Chairman of Infracrowd Capital, Co-Chair of SG Tech EduTech Committee, Vice Chair of SG Tech Singapore Enterprise Chapter, Vice Chair of the Asia Blockchain Association, Chair of the Scrutinizing Committee of the Singapore Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry, and a contributor to the Singapore Standards Council Working Group on Intangible Assets and Intellectual Property Management Skills.
