Mr Irving Tan joined the SATS Board on 16 May 2024 as a Non-Executive and Independent Director and Chairman-Designate. Subsequently, he assumed the role of Chairman of the Board on 19 July 2024 following the conclusion of the 2024 AGM and was re-elected as a Non-Executive and Independent Director on even date. He is currently a member of the Nominating Committee and Remuneration and Human Resource Committee.
Presently, Mr Tan is also an executive director and the chief executive officer ("CEO") of Western Digital Corporation ("WDC"), a company listed on NASDAQ. Prior to his appointment as CEO of WDC on 22 February 2025, he served as WDC’s executive vice president for Global Operations.
Before joining WDC, Mr Tan served as chairman for Asia-Pacific, Japan & China of Cisco Systems (USA) Pte. Ltd. ("Cisco") from 2020 to February 2022, having been with Cisco since 2009. Prior to his chairmanship, he held various senior management positions in strategy, operations and sales in Cisco.
In the period between February 2017 and May 2024, he was an independent non-executive director of Netlink NBN Management Pte. Ltd. (as Trustee-Manager of Netlink NBN Trust) as well as a director of the Singapore Economic Development Board and PSA International Pte. Ltd. respectively. Prior to joining the SATS Board, he served as a director at Stanley Black & Decker, Inc., a company listed on the NYSE.
Mr Tan holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering (Honours) and Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Nanyang Technological University. He also holds an Honorary Doctoral Degree in Engineering from Curtin University.
