Dr He Ruimin is CEO of Entend.ai, a startup that enables users to derive analytical insights and complete process automation tasks using natural language instructions, with clients including hotels, pharmaceutical companies, statutory boards, and start-ups. He is an adjunct Assistant Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and teaches at the Singapore Civil Service College and the Kazakhstan Nazarbayev University.
Between 2015-2018, Dr He was Chief Advisor to the CEO at Grab, where he led their Analytics, Economics, Transport, Growth and Strategy teams. Formerly a Naval Officer in the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN), he commanded two missile corvettes and was Head of the RSN Strategy Office. As a member of the Singapore Administrative Service, he was the Deputy Director in theForeign Economic Policy Department and a Research Economist in the Ministry of Trade and Industry. Dr He received his BSc in Electrical Engineering and PhD in Economics, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under a Singapore President’s Scholarship and Singapore Armed Forces Overseas Scholarship.