Deloitte
Manager in AI & Data
Lim Tern Poh | AI Strategy & Transformation
I turn AI ambition into strategy, adoption, and business growth
Singapore-based Deloitte AI & Data Manager and former AI Singapore leader. I bridge business leaders, technical teams, and East-West market context to move AI from idea to deployment, transformation, and business value.
AI Singapore
Former AI leader
TR 99
AI security guidance
NUS-PKU MBA
Valedictorian
MedTech
Patent and S$50,000 grant
Strategy proof
A profile built on AI strategy, deployment, and public facts
The work spans enterprise AI transformation, national programs, product teams, and startup building.
academic
NUS MBA Valedictorian
Graduated top of class from the NUS MBA and received the Outstanding Graduating Student Prize.
ai-governance
TR 99:2021 AI Security
Contributed to Singapore's TR 99 AI security guidance for assessing and defending against AI security threats.
academic
Mandarin Alumni Gold Medalist
Received the Mandarin Alumni Gold Medal during the NUS MBA journey.
national-ai
AI Readiness Index
Led work on AIRI, Singapore's AI maturity framework for organizations.
Strategy style
What Tern Poh brings to AI strategy
AI strategy and transformation leader who connects executive decisions, AI deployment, trusted governance, and cross-border AI adoption.
AI strategy for enterprise leaders
Lim helps leaders frame AI choices, use cases, operating models, and investment decisions from a business outcome lens.
AI transformation and deployment
His work spans Deloitte AI delivery, AI Singapore adoption programs, AIRI, AI product management, and startup mentoring. He connects business, consulting, and technical teams so AI moves from pilot to use.
Trusted AI governance and model risk
Lim brings AI delivery experience together with TR 99 AI security work, contributed AI transparency research, and AI-human-security writing. He helps leaders frame AI risk, model security, and adoption choices.
Cross-border AI strategy
His NUS-Peking University MBA path, PKU consulting work, and Chinese media commentary give him a clear East-West AI lens.
Career signals
Selected work
These projects show how Tern Poh moves between strategy, deployment, product, and adoption.
AI governance standard
TR 99:2021 AI Security
Singapore Standards Council guidance for assessing and defending against AI security threats.
Adds a concrete AI security and trusted governance signal to his advisory profile.
National AI framework
AI Readiness Index (AIRI)
A framework that helps organizations assess AI maturity and readiness.
Supported clearer AI adoption paths for organizations in Singapore.
MedTech venture
Duke-NUS cervical cancer screening innovation
A screening device concept developed with clinicians during the Health Innovator Programme.
Filed a patent and secured S$50,000 in innovation grant funding.
Cross-border consulting
SegmentFault / ONES.com international GTM strategy
A PKU Guanghua consulting project for SegmentFault, a Chinese developer community from ONES.com.
Led a multicultural team and won Best Presentation Award for an international go-to-market strategy.
Open source AI tools
AI Bricks
AI Singapore open source tools and APIs built from real industry use cases.
Shared at FOSSASIA 2020 to help more teams adopt AI.
AI product leadership
AI product work at Yoozoo and AI2Labs
AI product work across engineering, data, design, and business teams.
Connected AI product decisions to user needs and business goals.
AI thought leadership
Writing and media
Clear views on AI strategy, adoption, AI economics, and China-US AI dynamics.
Technical reference
TR 99:2021 - Artificial intelligence (AI) security
Singapore Standards Council · 2022
Contributed report
AI Transparency & Explainability: A Policy Prototyping Experiment
Open Loop · 2022
Media commentary
DeepSeek: Changing the game, not the leader
ThinkChina · 2025
Speaking and advisory
Talks for leaders turning AI strategy into use
Topics cover AI strategy, agents, readiness, governance, and practical deployment.