Speaker Profile

As Managing Director, Head of Asia Pacific, Serene leads Digital Realty’s Asia Pacific team to continue to broaden the reach of the company’s global data center platform and deliver the value of PlatformDigitalTM, the world’s largest meeting place for companies, technologies and data, to the region.

Serene brings extensive experience in pan-Asia infrastructure real estate and technology investment to Digital Realty. She joined Digital Reality from Kerry Properties, where she was Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer in charge of finance, corporate development, strategy, and operations.  Prior to that role, she was Head of Portfolio Management in Asia for Silverlake Partners, a global technology private equity firm. 

Serene honed her skills in finance, mergers and acquisitions and business transformation in various roles with General Electric over 10 years.  Her last role at GE was CFO of GE Capital Greater China.

Serene graduated from The Nanyang Technological University Singapore with a Bachelor’s degree in Business and has an executive MBA from Kellogg-HKUST.  She is based in Singapore.